Chinese Artist

China’s art history runs deep, from classical ink painting and calligraphy to a contemporary art scene that has become one of the most talked about in the world. This section gathers painters, sculptors, and photographers from China, some working within long standing traditions, others pushing into bold, modern, and sometimes politically charged territory. You will find brush and ink work sitting alongside oil painting, digital art, and installation pieces. What connects these artists is a shared cultural backdrop, even as their individual styles and subjects can look completely different. Explore this section to see China’s art scene in its full range.

Liu Bolin | Chinese Artist

Spot Liu Bolin if you can. Follow the Beijing artist from a demolished studio to photographs where he vanishes into walls, flags and supermarket shelves.
Z.L. Feng | Chinese Artist

Z.L. Feng is a Chinese American watercolorist and professor known for portraits of Tibetans, Native Americans, and rural Southern families. He paints past pretty faces to find real character, earning hundreds of awards along the way.
Victor Wang | Chinese Artist

Victor Wang is a Chinese American painter whose portraits carry the weight of memory, migration, and a childhood shaped by the Cultural Revolution. He returns often to sunflowers, once a symbol of obedience in his youth, now a personal emblem, and he has spent decades teaching classical oil technique in St. Louis.
Zhaoming Wu | Chinese Artist

Zhaoming Wu grew up in Guangzhou during the Cultural Revolution, copying comic books at home before a chance meeting led him to formal art training. He now paints women draped in cloth using loose, alla prima brushwork, often hiding traces of Chinese calligraphy in the folds of a gown.
Luo Li Rong | Chinese Artist

Luo Li Rong is a Chinese sculptor born in Hunan in 1980 who trained at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing before settling in Europe. She casts life size bronze figures of women in motion, blending Chinese tradition with Renaissance and Baroque technique, and now runs her own foundry in Bologna, Italy.
Stephen Pan | Chinese Artist

Stephen Pan is a painter from Shanghai who blends traditional Chinese aesthetics with a modern, vibrant use of color and texture. His paintings move between serene landscapes and city life, carrying real emotional weight in every brushstroke.
Jian Wu | Chinese Artist

Jian Wu is a Chinese American painter known for realistic oil paintings and figure drawing, who moved to the United States in 1993 to study at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. He has taught painting for more than 25 years and is a signature member of the Oil Painters of America.
Yuqi Wang | Chinese Artist

Yuqi Wang is a Chinese American portrait painter born in China in 1958 who taught himself to draw during the Cultural Revolution as a way to protect his dignity. Now based in Brooklyn, his portraits are held by the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery and the China National Gallery, and he has won the Grand Prize…
Jia Li | Chinese Artist

Jia Li is a Chinese artist known for delicate watercolor portraits of figures suspended underwater, where shifting light creates soft, dreamlike distortion. Her fluid technique gives each painting a quiet, poetic stillness that blends realism with atmosphere.
Johnson Tsang | Chinese Artist

Johnson Tsang is a sculptor from Hong Kong who works in ceramics and stainless steel, best known for pieces that freeze splashes of liquid into strange, dreamlike shapes. His Yuanyang series is held by the Hong Kong Museum of Art, and he became the first Chinese artist to win top honors at both the Korea…
Liu Yunsheng | Chinese Artist

Liu Yunsheng is a Chinese watercolor painter born in Shanghai in the 1950s, known for hyperrealistic portraits of Tibetan people so detailed that viewers often mistake them for photographs. He has traveled repeatedly into remote Tibetan regions, sometimes covering nearly ten thousand kilometers on a single trip, to paint his subjects with dignity and depth.
Linghui Wang | Chinese Artist

Linghui Wang is a Chinese American oil painter born in Fushun, who trained at the prestigious Luxun College of Art before teaching and exhibiting in China. After moving to the United States, recognized as an Alien of Extraordinary Ability, she turned fully to oil painting and has since earned awards and exhibitions with groups including…