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.

Shan Hong | Chinese Artist

Shan Hong is a Chinese watercolor artist born in Qingdao in 1973, trained at the China Academy of Art before earning a bachelor’s degree at Qingdao University and a master’s in painting and new media in Vienna. He now teaches watercolor at Qingdao University’s Academy of Fine Arts, belongs to watercolor societies across China, Europe…
Yifan (Ivan) | Chinese Artist

Yifan, who works under the name Ivan, is a freelance illustrator and concept artist based in Hangzhou, China, known for digital paintings that closely mimic the texture of watercolor and traditional brushwork. His portfolio spans cityscapes, still life, seascapes, fantasy and portraiture, and his work on ArtStation has built him a following of viewers who…
Jin Fengshi | Chinese Artist

Jin Fengshi is a Chinese born painter, born in 1959 in Jilin Province, who trained at Yanbian University, the Central Academy of Fine Arts and Hongik University before becoming a professor at Renmin University of China. Known for loose, confident portraits painted alla prima, he gained wider attention through competitions like the Bold Brush Painting…
Yuehua He | Chinese Artist

Yuehua He is a Chinese American realist painter born in Beijing in 1959, trained at what is now the Tsinghua University Academy of Fine Arts before working as a movie poster painter and museum curator in China. He immigrated to the United States in 2000 to paint full time, and has since won awards from…
Guan Zeju | Chinese Artist

Guan Zeju is a Chinese oil painter born in 1941 in Guangdong Province, recognized early as a child prodigy in art. He trained at the Academy of Fine Arts of Guangzhou and became a member of the Union of Artists of China, later working as a senior artist there. Now based in the United States,…
Richard Tiejun Chao | Chinese Artist

Richard Tiejun Chao is a Chinese-born watercolor artist, born in 1972, who studied at Xi’an Fine Arts Academy and later earned a master’s degree from Xi’an Jiaotong University. After years working as an art teacher, cartoonist and graphic designer, he settled in Sydney in 2013 and turned his focus fully to watercolor. His work has…
Huihan Liu | Chinese Artist

Huihan Liu is a Chinese-American painter, born in Guangzhou in 1952, who trained at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art before earning his MFA in San Francisco. Working in a style he calls impressionistic realism, he has painted Tibetan and Native American subjects, drawing on their costumes and culture, and has won honors including a…
Rick Huang | Chinese Artist

Rick Huang is a Chinese watercolor artist from Nanning, holding a master’s degree from Guangxi Arts University and serving as vice chairman of the International Watercolor Society of China. He has won numerous national and international awards, including five top prizes at International Watercolor Exhibitions, and edits the publication Chinese Watercolor Painting. He has traveled…
Zeng Chuanxing | Chinese Artist

Zeng Chuanxing is a Chinese realist painter, born in 1974 in Sichuan Province, who studied oil painting at Central Nationalities University in Beijing. His best known series, Paper Brides, portrays women in delicate paper wedding gowns to comment on the fragility of marriage and female identity in modern Chinese culture. A member of the China…
Zhiwei Tu | Chinese Artist

Zhiwei Tu is a Chinese-American painter, born in 1951 in Northern Guangdong Province, who grew up herding sheep before earning a fine arts degree from the Guangzhou Institute in 1975. He moved to the United States in 1987 to study at Drake University and went on to become the first Chinese chairman of the National…
Mian Situ | Chinese Artist

Mian Situ is a Chinese-American painter, trained at the Guangzhou Institute of Fine Art in his native Guangdong, known for deep-toned impressionistic scenes of rural Chinese village life alongside portraits and American Western landscapes. In 2003 he won three major honors at the Masters of the American West show, including the Thomas Moran Memorial Award,…
Liu Yi | Chinese Artist

Liu Yi is a Chinese watercolor artist, born in 1958 in Shanghai, now a professor at the University of Painting and Design there. Known as a water whisperer for his mastery of wet technique, he captures rainy, misty garden scenes from his hometown along with a well known series of ballerina paintings. A member of…