Artists
Ting Shaoguang 丁绍光
Ding Shaoguang is a representative of the futurist philosophical school, an advocate and leader of active art, and a well-recognized artist of neo-romanticism and harmony. He is one of the founders of the Yunnan School of Painting, and a master of modern heavy-color painting. He has become the most influential Chinese artist in today’s art world. He has been selected as the representative painter by the United Nations for three consecutive years. Ding Shaoguang has become a symbol of Chinese artistic charm internationally, a typical representative of Chinese cultural confidence, and the most influential Chinese artist in today’s art world. Ding Shaoguang was the first chairman of the American World Artists Federation, and is currently an honorary and visiting professor of more than ten universities at home and abroad. He is currently the tenured chairman of the Overseas Chinese Artists Association, the honorary chairman of the Painting and Calligraphy Art Committee of the Chinese Cultural Research Association. For a long time, Ding Shaoguang has generously supported the cause of the United Nations, and has won many honors and certificates such as “Honorary Mayor”, “Honorary Citizen” and “Outstanding Artist”. In April 30, 1999, the mayor of San Francisco had announced the date for the annual “Ding Shaoguang’s Day”.
Wang Xizhi 王羲之
Wang Xizhi (303-361) was a calligrapher from Linyi, Langya at the time of We-Jin dynasty. Wang Xizhi learned regular calligraphy from Fa Zhong Yao, learned cursive calligraphy from Zhang Zhi, and also learned from Li Si, Cai Yong, etc. His calligraphy is round dignified and beatiful. The authentic works of Wang Xizhi are rare, and all we see are copies. The Xingkai “Lanting Preface” written by him is the most representative.
Cao Jun 曹俊
Cao Jun is an American Chinese artist living in the United States. He is currently the co-chair of the Academic Committee of the Nassau County Museum of Art in New York, a member of the Organizing Committee of International Contemporary Art Fair in East Hampton of New York, and the director of the DeTao Visual Language Institute at the Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts. He is also a visiting professor at Nanjing University of the Arts, Renmin University of China, and Communication University of China.
Chen Lyusheng 陈履生
Chen Lyusheng, a famous art historian and art critic, painter and doctoral tutor. He was the deputy director of the National Museum of China. Now he is director at University of Science and Technology of China, Director of the Museum, President of the Chinese Society of Chinese Painting, Director of Institute of the 20th Century China Art Research Institute of Jilin Art Institute long. He is also a visiting professor at many universities including Nanjing University of the Arts, Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, City University of Macau, and Taiwan Normal University, etc.
Ren Rong 任戎
Ren Rong was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China. He graduated from Nanjing University of the Arts in 1986. In 1992, He graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf, Germany. Ministry of Culture of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, awarded him the Art Scholarship in 1993. In 1996, entrusted by the Kunst museum Bonn, Germany, Ren Rong organized a contemporary Chinese art exhibition 《China!》. In 2013 he founded《Kunstraum Villa Friede in Bonnin. He has had many personal exhibitions in Germany, the Czech Republic, Canada, Singapore, China, Taipei, Hong Kong, etc. Ren Rong also participated in many important group exhibitions. Currently, he lives and works in Bonn, Germany, and Beijing, China.
Lily YE 叶丽
Dr. Lily Gaia YE, earned a Doctor of Arts degree from the Nanjing University of the Arts and studied at Stanford University. She founded the Greater American Institute of Art, served as the president, and first proposed the concept of the New North American School of Painting in the metaverse era and promoted the construction of its theoretical system. She used to teach at the Portland Art Museum and chaired the Arts Council of Oregon Commission on Asian Pacific Affairs. Lily’s artwork has combined the Western oil paintings and classic Chinese paintings with her unique techniques and visual language, interpreting and eulogizing her love for life and nature. Her paintings have been selected to showcase in major international art exhibitions in dozens of countries, such as the 2015 Italian Expo Art Exhibitions and the 2017 French Grand Palais Art Fortune Salon Exhibition. Governments, organizations, and private collectors have acquired her paintings; her profile has been listed in the “Global Directory of Who is Who” in the United States.
Tao Haixin 陶海心
Tao Haixin is the chairman of the International Calligraphy Association. He has a bachelor’s degree in Polymer Chemistry and a master’s degree in Technology Economics from Tsinghua University. His painting was selected to display at the National Art Exhibition in China in 1977. US Library of Congress collected his calligraphy of the Declaration of Independence in 2009. The calligraphy Charter of the United Nations began the worldwide exhibition of that work in San Francisco in 2015. Two of his oracle-bone paintings were invited to exhibit at Leonardo Da Vinci Museum in Italy in 2017.
Zhang Jingcheng 张京成
Zhang Jingcheng, born in Beijing, China, studied Chinese painting under the grandmasters Professor Li Kuchan and Professor Zhou Sicong. He moved to the United States in the 1990s and now lives in Los Angeles to continue painting and art education. He is a professor of art design at the American Jewellery Institute and the Secretary-General of the Sino-American Heritage Association, president of the Los Angeles Artists Association, vice president of the Greater Los Angeles Association for the Promotion of Chinese Unification, vice president of the Los Angeles Academy of Fine Arts, and vice president of the Chinese Academy of Art..
Hanmo 韩墨
Hanmo was born in 1971 in Shandong, China, now a resident in the USA. He was one of the founding scholars and representative artists of modern color & ink painting theory. He is a professor of contemporary color & ink painting studio at Tsinghua University. He is also a member of the Chinese Artists Association, the executive chairman of the American Modern Color & Ink Research Institute, the senior consultant of the Federation of American Chinese. Hanmo’s works have been used in the National University textbook of Chinese Painting, edited by the Ministry of Education. UCLA has twice held a special symposium on color & ink painting by Hanmo. He was specially invited to participate in the Los Angeles Art Show. In recent years, Hanmo has been in the USA, focusing on modern color & ink painting and promoting international recognition of this form of art.
Zhou PingGuang 周平珖
Zhou PingGuang, China’s national senior artist, was born in Chongqing in 1955. His father, Zhou Qihe is an outstanding Sichuan opera performing artist and collector of calligraphy and painting. He studied under Mr. Zhao Yunyu, a disciple of Zhang Daqian, Professor Xiao Jianchu of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, and Mr. Zhang Caiqin. In 1998, he lived in Los Angeles as an “Outstanding Artist.” He is currently the executive vice president of the American Chinese Painting Society and the vice president of the California Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Academy. As early as the 1970s and 1980s, Zhou Pingjiu integrated ink splashing, color splashing, freehand brushwork, and meticulous brushwork into one, and his painting style is unique. He successively published numerous personal collections of calligraphy and painting. Collectors widely collect his works at home and abroad, and he has become one of the most influential Chinese painters in the United States.
Arthur Ku 古铣贤
Arthur Ku’s innovative ink paintings critically draw on the creative spirit of Chinese tradition and Western art. For the image and verse of ink writing has a unique thinking and exploration, formed a free and think, strong but fresh, full of humanities painting language. His publications include The Essence in Arthur Ku’s Literati Painting, 8 personal collections. He is also the honorary President of the Chinese Art Society in San Francisco, Honorary President of Chinese Painting Society (USA) and Chinese of China In Art Research Institute..
Kirk Zhang 张可可
The Mongolian painter Kirk Zhang was born in Beijing, now residing in the US. He studied under the famous painter Wang Ren and Qi Liangzhi. He learned Qipai painting in the freely expressive style. After moving to the US, he taught himself Chinese painting of human figures, sketched dozens of characters combining Western and Eastern techniques, creating his unique style. In 2012 the first World Chinese and Overseas Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition selected his work “Sun Yat-sen” to exhibit in the Chinese Museum. He won the excellence award in the 2nd China Light Paidon Cup National Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition in 2015. In 2019 ‘Portrait of Chennault’ is in the U.S.-China Aviation Heritage Foundation collection。
Li Tie 李铁
Li Tie, born in Beijing, China. immigrant to USA in 1987. graduated from the school of art and art history in San Diego State University with a MFA degree. he likes to play with multi-mediums in art, although drawing and painting are his favorites. his work is mostly focus on personal memories and interpretations about Eastern and Western cultures. currently he lives in Portland , Oregon. he is the chair of Oregon Chinese Artists Association(OCAA) and the chair of the west coast branch of International Calligraphy & Painting Artists Association (ICPAA).
Arthur Kao 高木森
Arthur Kao, born in Taiwan in 1942, started to learn traditional ink painting at the age of 15. He entered National Taiwan University in 1963 to study foreign languages and continued painting. After graduation from the University, Arthur Kao worked in the National Palace Museum. He went to the University of Kansas in 1970 to study Art History and received a Ph.D. there. He has taught art history in many universities and retired from San Jose State University in 2011. He has published many art history books and produced paintings of different styles.
Howard Yifi 黄一非
Howard Yifi Huang, a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang, is an American Chinese professional oil painter, ceramic artist, and experimental artist in the United States. He attended American Cerritos College, studying Fine Art, Oil Painting, and Ceramic Art. He created 5+3 art basic training method. He also completed more than 500 art experiments. He is a member of OPA and the vice president of AAA.on.
Zhuang Jinghui 庄景辉
Zhuang Jinghui is a famous American artist, president of Zhang Daqian Art Research Association in the United States, researcher of Zhang Daqian Research Center in Sichuan, Senior consultant of Beverly Arts in the United States, David’s Art Academy in the United States, visiting professor of many fine arts academies in China, executive vice president of Chinese Painting Society in The United States, and director of “Zhuang Jinghui Art Museum” in China. It is one of the few overseas Chinese artists who have a private art museum in China.
Situ Jin 司徒锦
Situ Jin completed six years of art study in the Oil Painting Department of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 1981, and obtained a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in art. and then taught in the same academy for six years. He studied in the United States in 1987, moved to Canada a year later for 10 years, and immigrated to the United States in 1998.
Zhou Ning 周宁
Zhou Ning, Dean of Nanjing Institute of Visual Arts, is an outstanding contemporary Chinese photographer. In 1999, he founded the first photography university in China— the Southern University of Photography. His works have participated in many international first-line art exhibitions such as AIPAD in New York, ACP in Atlanta, PHOTO LA in Los Angeles, and Palm Springs International Art Fair. “Zhou Ning Gallery” has been opened globally, including the United States and China, with Zhou Ning Photography Museum built in Los Angeles.
Sun Changyin 孙昌茵
Sun Changyin is a famous Chinese-Canadian painter. He graduated from the oil painting postgraduate class at the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University. He is currently the vice chairman of the Canadian Chinese Art Association, the chairman of the Canadian Contemporary Art Alliance, and the former dean of the Toronto Academy of Fine Arts. The three-part oil painting “A Century of Chinese Workers’ Blood and Tears Road” was collected by the museum and nominated for the first day cover of stamps printed by the State Post Bureau: In 2013, he created a mural for the Chinese Embassy in Toronto, Canada, and was awarded the Outstanding Contribution Award every five years by the Immigration Bureau of the Canadian Government..
Zhang Peichun 张培椿
Zhang Peichun, an American Chinese painter and a glass artist, graduated from San Francisco Art University with a master’s degree in art. He is now the president of the Chinese Art Society in San Francisco. He dedicated more than 20 years to designing and producing art glass, applying exquisite painting technology and unique design. Many galleries and museums have purchased his glassworks. In 2010 his works were used as the official gift for the Shanghai World Expo. Peichun’s artistic style employs traditional ink wash techniques with a bright eye for intense and muted colors. His works are unique and thought-provoking.
Wang Yue 王岳
Wang Yue was born in Beijing in 1959. He studied Chinese painting under Teacher Puzuo and moved on to Tianjin Arts and Crafts School to study sketch and oil painting (1975-1978). After that, he entered Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, majoring in Graphic Design, and received a bachelor’s fine art degree (1981-1985). Wang Yue was later admitted to Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts as a graduate student, majoring in modern art design, and received a Master’s degree (1993-1994). He moved to the USA and settled in Los Angeles in 1995. He is currently the Vice President of the America Arts Research Institute and a professional painter.