Liu Chien-Kuang was born in 1988 in Kaoshiung in Taiwan, and educated at Taiwan's National University of Art. All his life Kuang has been interested in design as his father designs furniture and, as a child, he helped his father to build models in wood and paper; materials that he has also used in his art glass. Kuang's passion for glass started in his teens when he worked at a glassworks in Taiwan. Since graduating in Taiwan he has continued his studies in Japan, Denmark, Sweden and China, working with other artists and designers, and developing his knowledge of art glass. It was while he was studying at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts' glass academy on the island of Bornholm that Kuang decided to seek a future as a glass artist and designer. In the spring of 2019 Liu Chien-Kuang graduated with an MA from Konstfack in Stockholm. He started working at Gustavsberg. Kuang makes all his glass himself and acquired a reputation at an early age for having mastered some of the most advanced techniques of glassmaking.