出生台灣新竹尖石鄉泰雅族梅花部落的安力．給怒(1958-)，漢名賴安淋，1986年文化大學美術系畢業，1992年取得紐約視覺藝術研究所創作碩士學位(M.F.A.)，是台灣原住民藝術家中少數擁有完整學院美術訓練的藝術家。

　　安力．給怒不只是一位藝術創作者，還是一位專職的原住民牧師；因此，藝術創作對他而言，不只是個人生命的問題，也是整個族群社會安定與存續的問題。透過藝術創作，他試圖為族群的傳統信仰與當代社會秩序，尋找到一套既符合基督信仰，又合乎傳統文化思維邏輯的型式與圖像語彙。他如此信仰，也如此創作，更如此傳揚道理。

　　本展彙集安力．給怒近30年來最重要的創作成果，以及專為此次展出創作的新作，分成「心樹」、「新靈」兩大單元，呈顯這位泰雅族原住民牧師藝術家多重身份的思維、探討、創作與建構，對台灣當代藝術的發展與走向，也包括原住民藝術的發展，是一次極好的反思與借鑑。

　　Anli Genu (1958-), whose Chinese name is Anli Lai, was born in the Meihua Village of Atayal tribe in Jiansih Township, Hsinchu County. He graduated from the Department of Fine Arts, Chinese Culture University in 1986 and obtained his master of fine arts (M.F.A.) from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 1992.

　　He is one of the few indigenous artists in Taiwan who have received complete academic training in art. In addition to being an artist, Anli Genu is also a full-time indigenous pastor. For him, artistic creation is more than about issues of his personal life but also about issues concerning the stability and sustainable development of the whole tribal society. Through art, he attempts to find a system of artistic rhetoric composed of forms, patterns, and images that conform to both Christian beliefs and traditional tribal cultures to represent both the tribal tradition and modern social order. He creates his art with religious beliefs and preaches his religion through artistic creation.

　　This exhibition is a collection of the most important works by Anli Genu over the past nearly three decades and his latest works created especially for this exhibition. It consists of two major sections: “Heart Tree” and “Spiritual Rebirth”, demonstrating different facets of the thinking, exploration, artistic creation, and art construction of this indigenous artist and pastor. This exhibition also provides a very good opportunity for us to reflect upon and ponder the development and future direction of contemporary art, including indigenous art, in Taiwan.