Ku Fu-sheng

{{Short description|Taiwanese painter and graphic artist (1935–2017)}}

Ku Fu-sheng ({{Lang-zh|t=顧福生}}, {{Lang-zh|p=Gu Fusheng}}) (1935-2017) was a Shanghai-born Taiwanese-American painter.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fushengku.com/about|title=ABOUT THE ARTIST|website=fushengku}}

The son of General Ku Chu-tung, he fled with his family to 1948. Graduating from National Taiwan Normal University in 1958, he became associated with the Fifth Moon group. In his later career he studied in Paris and New York and lived in various cities of the United States. His work is best known for his queer-themed oil paintings,{{Cite web|url=https://www.storm.mg/lifestyle/80593|title=白先勇專文：人的變奏──談顧福生的畫-風傳媒|date=February 4, 2016|website=www.storm.mg}} which in 2017 were included in a retrospective of LGBT art at the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei.{{Cite web|url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2017/09/28/2003679282|title=Art from the spectrum - Taipei Times|date=September 28, 2017|website=www.taipeitimes.com}} {{Cite web|url=https://www.eslitegallery.com/en/product/fu-sheng-kusthe-room-at-the-top-of-the-stairs/|title=Fu-sheng KU%sThe Room At The Top Of The Stairs – Eslitegallery}} In 2021, a solo retrospective was mounted at Eslite Gallery. He was Sanmao's painting teacher and a close friend of the author Pai Hsien-yung. {{Cite web|url=https://eslitegallery.viewingrooms.com/en/viewing-room/5-fu-sheng-ku/|title=Fu-sheng KU 1935-2017|website=Eslite Gallery Viewing Room}}