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Wu Maoxiang (1932) was born in Wenxian, Henan Province. He received no formal art training, but created works of art ever since he started working in primary schools, vocational schools and editorial…
Wu Mifeng (1920-2004) was from Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. Ms. Wu's father taught her as a child and in 1937, she entered the Senior High School attached to the National Hangzhou Art School. She…
Wu Min (1931-2003) was from Pinghu, Zhejiang Province. In 1949, he joined the People's Liberation Army, and worked as an artist in a number of units, including the Cultural Section of the Political…
Wu Qizhong (1944, Xinhui, Guangdong Province) graduated from the middle school attached to the Guangzhou Art Academy in 1963. Later, he became the art editor of the Guangdong Illustrated (广东画报,…
Wu Ruilong was born in Shanghai in 1948. In October 1972, the then 24-year-old Wu boarded the educated youth train amid the sound of gongs and drums and went north from Shanghai. A few days later, he…
Wu Shanggong (1940) is from Yuanping, Shanxi Province. After his graduation from the Art Training School of Shanxi University in 1965, he joined the team that was restoring the wall paintings in the…
Wu Shaoyun (no dates known), a native of Wuxian, Jiangsu Province, was a painter of calendar posters (月份牌) during the Republic of China. Together with Lu Zezhi, Zhang Yuqing, and Xin Liliang,…
Peasant painter from Pi county (丕县, Jiangsu Province), active ca. 1958.  
Wu Shihua (1938) was born in Jiangxi Province. He majored in painting at the Art Department of Jiangxi Normal University in the 1950s. After graduation, he engaged in art education at the university…
Wu Shouming (1938) was born in Luanxian, Hebei Province. After he graduated from the Teaching Department of the Tianjin Hebei Art Academy in 1961, he worked as an editor for Hebei Fine Arts (Hebei…
Wu Weiming (1958), also known as Vai Meng Ung, was born in Macau. In his early years, he studied drawing and watercolor. He won a scholarship to study at the ARCO Art Institute in Lisbon, and…
Wu Xianchun (1928) is from Chun'an, Zhejiang Province. He started his studies in 1950 at the National Art School in Hangzhou and graduated in 1954 from the Applied Arts Department of the Central Art…
Wu Xiangfeng (1944), born in Jianhu, Jiangsu Province, graduated from the Hubei Academy of Fine Arts in 1985. Since 1991, his oil paintings have been continuously selected for national art…
Wu Xingqing (1933-2005, Taizhou, Jiangsu Province) graduated from the Drawing Department of the Huadong (East China) Branch of the Central Art Academy in 1954. That same year, she went to work as a…
Wu Yinxian (1900–1994) was born in Shuyang, Jiangsu province. In 1920, he entered Shanghai College of Fine Arts and learnt western painting. During this period, he taught himself photography while…
Wu Yumei (1940) was born in Songjiang, Shanghai. Initially, she received no formal art training, but in the summer of 1960, she took lessons at the Shanghai Chinese Painting Academy, where she now…
Wu Yun (1922-1977) was from Shanghai. He started out as a post and telecommunications worker. In 1938, he published a cartoon praising the 19th Route Army's resistance against Japan. In 1940, he went…
Wu Yunhua was born in Liaoyang, Liaoning Province, in 1944. He graduated in 1963 as a packaging specialist from the Industrial Arts Department of the Lu Xun Art Academy. Subsequently he was…
Wu Zhenquan (1935) was born in Taishan, Guangdong Province. He graduated from the Hubei University of Arts in 1961 and stayed on as a teacher. In 1965, he was an artist in the oil painting office of…
Wu Zhenxiang (1935) hails from Changsha, Hunan Province. In 1953, he joined the Chinese People's Liberation Army, where he served as a radar operator and propagandist. He started to create art in his…
Wu Zhichang (no details known) was active as a painter in the period of the Republic of China. He graduated from the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts in the 1920s, and studied Western painting under the…
Wu Zhongping (1954) was born in Wuhe County, Anhui Province. He graduated from Anhui Normal University in 1979, majoring in fine arts. From 1984 to 1987, he studied for a master's degree in the Art…
Wu Ziqiang (1943, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province) graduated from the middle school attached to the Zhejiang Fine Art Academy in 1963, and in 1970 graduated from the industrial design faculty of the same…
Wu Zuoren (1908-1997) was born in Jingxian County, Anhui Province. He started his studies at the Department of Fine Arts of the Shanghai University of Arts in 1927. The prominent Chinese painter Xu…

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