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.
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Sun Jiangang 孙建刚 | Chinese Artist
Sun Jiangang is a Chinese artist, born in 1972 in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, working across oil, watercolor and pen drawing. A member of the China Artists Association and a signature member of the American Watercolor Society, he also serves on the brushwork and oil painting committees of the Hong Kong International Painting Court. His work…
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Qiang Huang | Chinese Artist
Qiang Huang is a Chinese-American painter, born and raised in Beijing, who earned a PhD in physics after moving to the United States in 1985 before turning seriously to painting. He studied with artists including David Leffel, Sherrie McGraw and Zhaoming Wu, and is now a Signature Member of the Oil Painters of America known…
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Yan Yaya | Chinese Artist
Yan Yaya is a Chinese oil painter, born in Xi’an in 1964, celebrated for vivid, emotionally powerful portraits of children from Tibet, Mongolia and the Pamir Mountains. She has visited the Pamir Plateau more than 20 times since 1983, once pausing her painting career for three years to travel and gather inspiration, work she later…
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Yue Min Jun | Chinese Artist
Yue Minjun is a contemporary Chinese artist born in 1962 in Heilongjiang Province, best known for his paintings and sculptures of himself frozen in an exaggerated, almost manic laugh. Working from an artists’ village in Beijing since 1990, he has expanded the image into printmaking and large-scale sculpture, including “A-maze-ing Laughter,” his permanent bronze installation…
