Zhang Suyu (1920, Shanghai) graduated from the Guangxi Normal Art College in 1940. In subsequent years, Zhang taught art in secondary schools, designed book covers for the Shanghai New China…
Artists
Zhang Tongyun (1928) was born in Kunming, Yunnan Province. Ms. Zhang graduated in 1954 from the Drawing Department of the Central Art Academy, and was sent to work as a teacher in the South-Central…
Zhang Wanchen (1945) hails from Xinjin, Liaoning Province. After his graduation from the Fine Arts Training School of the Liaoning Normal University in 1968, he was assigned to work in the Xinjin…
Zhang Weizhi (1943) hails from Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. In 1967, he graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of the Central Art Academy, before he went to teach at the Shanxi Provincial Opera…
Zhang Wenrui (1930) was born in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province. After graduating from the Chinese Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1963, he worked in Sichuan and is currently…
Zhang Wenxin (1928, Tianjin) graduated in 1948 with an arts degree from North China University. In 1949-1951, he studied physics in Peking University. Upon graduation, he worked as a creative cadre…
Zhang Wenyu (1933) was from Changping, Beijing. He enlisted in the army in 1949, doing art publicity work in the Art Troupe. Later, he transferred to the Cultural Department of the Political…
Zhang Wenyuan (1942) is from Emei, Sichuan Province. He joined the People's Liberation Army in 1960. In 1973, he was transferred to the art section of the Political Department of the Chengdu Military…
Zhang Wu (1956) was born in Taihe County, Anhui Province. He is a calligraphy and painting artist, as well as a teacher.
Zhang Xiaofei (1941) was from Wuxian County, Jiangsu Province. He has successively served as director of the creative office of the Suzhou Taohuawu Woodcut New Year Picture Society, senior arts and…
Zhang Xiaoming (1957) was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. He graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the China Academy of Art in 1984 and stayed there to teach. In 1985, he participated in…
Zhang Xiliang (1939) was born in Fuyu County, Jilin Province. He graduated from Jilin Changchun Normal School in 1958. In 1961, he went to the Heilongjiang Reclamation Area to engage in middle school…
Zhang Xin'guo (1926) is from Anping, Hebei Province. Zhang joined the People's Liberation Army in 1947 and created art in his spare time. In 1950, he attended the Central Art Academy. He transferred…
Zhang Xiushi (1938) was a native of Liaozhong, Liaoning Province. Zhang graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts. He used to be the head of the art editing…
Zhang Xiwu (1927) was born in Hewen, Hebei Province. He was taught at home and joined the revolution in 1944, engaging in propaganda work. In 1953, he joined the Tianjin Art Work Offfice and became…
Zhang Xueyin (1937) was born in Ru'nan, Henan Province. In 1955, she graduated from the Kaifeng Normal Art College in Henan Province. Two years later, she entered the Xi'an Art Training School, and…
Zhang Yan (1943, Huangxian County, Shandong) graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of the Central Art Academy in 1967. She was sent to work with the Hunan Writers Association, where she was…
Zhang Yang (1931-1996) was from Beijing. In 1958, he graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of the Central Art Academy and went to the Inner Mongolia Normal College to teach in its Fine Arts…
Zhang Yanling (1932) was a native of Shanghai. In 1948, he studied at the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts and graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts in 1958. He…
Zhang Yaoda (1934), alias Shan Ge (单戈), was born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province. In 1955, he graduated from the Fine Arts Department of the East China Art College. He worked as the art designer of…
Zhang Yihao (1939) was born Shengzhou, Zhejiang Province. He loved painting when young and often copied the card drawings in cigarette boxes. After graduating from high school, he was admitted to…
Zhang Yong (1942) was born in Tongcheng, Anhui Province. In 1965, he graduated from the Chinese and Figurative Painting Department of the Hubei Art Academy. He has worked as art editor for the Hubei…
Zhang Yongdian (1948) was born in Tianjin. He graduated from the Tianjin Art Academy.
Zhang Yongxin (1940) was born in Haicheng, Liaoning Province. In 1964, he graduated from the Block Print Department of the Lu Xun Art Academy. He now is attached to the Anshan Mass Art Center.
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Zhang Yuejian (1924-2003) was from Pujiang, Zhejiang Province. In 1950, he graduated from the Hangzhou National Art Training School. He worked as a designer for the Shanghai People's Fine Arts…
Zhang Yulin (1947-2006) was born in Nantong, Jiangsu Province. Zhang was self-taught in painting and good at Chinese figure painting and comic strips. Over the years, he has created a large number of…
Zhang Yuqing (1909-1993) was from Cixi, Zhejiang Province. In 1925, he started studying sketching at the Shanghai World Publishers. Later, he also illustrated books and made designs. He became a…
Zhang Zemin (1943) is from Yangqu, Shanxi Province. After his graduation from the Art School of the Shanxi Provincial Art Academy in 1965, he engaged for a long time in artistic activities. In 1982,…
Zhang Zengmu (1943) was a native of Anguo, Hebei Province. He graduated from the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in 1968, and has been working as an editor in a publishing house since 1969. He is…
Zhang Zebi (1926) was born in Qingdao, Shandong Province. In 1942, she entered the National Painting Section of the Beiping Art Training School, and she continued her studies in the Art Department of…
Zhang Zhaonian (1946) hails from Tianjin. After his graduation from the Tianjin Industrial Arts Institute in 1968, he started work in the Design Institute of his alma mater. He took up advanced…
Zhang Zhenhua (1942) is from Harbin, Heilongjiang Province. She graduated from the Lu Xun Academy in 1968, and subsequently designed film posters. In 1981, she transferred to the Liaoning Fine Arts…
Zhang Zhenshi (1914-1992) was born in Liaoyang, Liaoning Province. He graduated from the Western Painting Department of the Jinghua Art Academy in 1936. He has been a teacher in the National Beiping…
Zhang Zhenzhao (1923-2013) was born in Pingdu, Shandong Province. He worked in the art department of Qingdao City for 30 years. He is one of the ten elders in Qingdao's calligraphy and painting art…
Zhang Zhichao (1923) was from Zhuji County, Zhejiang Province. He graduated from the Art Department of the National Central University in 1949. Later, he entered the Oil Painting Seminar of the…
Zhang Zhimin (1929-2011, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province) graduated from the Drawing Department of the East China Art School in 1954. In the years following, Zhang worked as an art editor for the Shanghai…
Zhang Zhiqian (1954) is of Manzu ethnicity. He liked painting since childhood and is good in landscape painting. His works are mostly set against the background of majestic mountains and rivers.
Zhang Ziyi (1935) was born in Pingxiang, Jiangxi Province. In 1953, she graduated from the Central Art Academy, and in 1955, she was seconded to the Xi'an chapter of the Chinese Artist Association.…
Zhao Bingquan (1946), also known as Baishui (白水), was born in Gaizhou City, Liaoning Province. He joined the army in 1965 and had to train for 3 months, but he was transferred to work on an…
Zhao Chiting (1945) is from Guangzhou (Canton), Guangdong Province. He was trained at the Canton Art Academy. In 1970, he joined the People's Liberation Army, and created art in his spare time. Later…
Zhao Guangtao (1927, Qijiang, Sichuan Province) joined the People's Liberation Army in 1949. Later, he was attached to the Art Office of the Political Section of the Nanjing Military Region.
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Zhao Guide (1937, Beijing) works in the editorial office of the Hebei Fine Arts Publishing House. He is of Manzu ethnicity.Zhao excels in Chinese painting, paintings of horses, and New Year pictures.
Zhao Guojing (1950, Jingxian, Hebei Province) was among those young urbanites who were sent "up to the mountains and down to the villages" (上山下乡, shangshan xiaxiang). He joined a military rural…
Zhao Hongben (1915-2000) was born in Shanghai. Starting in the early 1930s, he was active both as a publisher and as a designer of more than 120 comic strips. From 1950 onward, he was engaged in…
Zhao Huasheng (1939-2023) was from Changchun, Jilin Province. In 1964, he graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of the Lu Xun Academy. He now is a member of the Liaoning Painting Academy.…
Zhao Jian (1924) was born in Jiangdu, Jiangsu Province, and joined the New Fourth Army in 1940. He has worked with the Shanghai People's Fine Art Publishing House, the Shanghai Educational Publishing…
Zhao Jingdong (1930) was born in Tianjin. He graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1953 and served as editor of the Beijing Popular Reading Material Publishing House and deputy editor of…
Zhao Kunhan (no details known), a Huxian peasant painter, is identified as a member of the Lianfeng Brigade, Suburban Commune (城郊公社连丰大队), Huxian County, Shaanxi Province.
Zhao Lian'ai (1956) graduated in October 1979 with the art class of Zhangbei Normal University in Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province. He studied fine arts at Handan Education College in 1988, graduated…
Zhao Min (1930-2002) was from Haicheng, Liaoning Province. He took art classes at the Jinbaishan Art School in Wafangdian, Liaoning Province, from 1947-1949. In the period 1950-1966, Zhao was art…
Zhao Panbin (1921-2012) was born in Anguo, Hebei Province. He joined the Eight Route Army, the predecessor of the People's Liberation Army, in 1938, and created art while engaged in combat. In 1942,…
Zhao Shangyi (1939) was born in Chongqing, Sichuan Province. From 1956 to 1963, he studied at the high school affiliated to the Southwest Art College (now Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts). Since then,…
Zhao Shuqin (1936) hails from Chaoyang, Guangdong Province. In 1961, he graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Canton Art Academy. After joining the People's Liberation Army, he became an…
Zhao Siwen (1940) was born in Minle County, Gansu Province, into a family of calligraphers and painters. He was influenced by his father's calligraphy and painting art at an early age and began to…
Zhao Songsheng (1940-1996) was from Kusong, Sichuan Province. After his graduation as a professional Chinese painter from the Fine Arts Department of the Yunnan Art Academy in 1965, he was assigned…
Zhao Wangyun (1906-1977), also known as Xin Guo (新国), was born in Shulu, Zhili (present-day Xinji, Hebei Province). n 1925, he entered the Beiping Jinghua Art College to study. In 1928, he taught at…
Zhao Weiliang (1944) was born in Shanghai. He moved to the United States in 1996 and resides in La Jolla, California.
Zhao Wenfa (1933) was from Potou, Hebei Province. He graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of the Xi'an Art Academy in 1958. In the following years, he taught at the department he graduated…
Zhao Wenwei (1924-deceased) was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. In his youth, he labored in Shanghai and joined the revolution in 1945; he also started studying designing pictorial stories. In…
Zhao Wenyuan (1946) is from Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province. In 1964, he joined the People's Liberation Army. From 1969 to 1987, he entered the Department of Traditional Chinese Painting of the Zhejiang…
Zhao Xinfang (1927) was born in Anxin, Hebei Province. He joined the revolution in 1940. In 1951, he started teaching at the Hebei Art School, and three years later, he joined the Hebei Provincial…
Zhao Yannian (1924-2014) was born in Huzhou, Zhejiang Province. In 1938, he entered the Shanghai Fine Arts Training Institute, where he studied both Western and Chinese art. He graduated from the…
Zhao Youhua (1943) was born in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province. Good at Chinese paintings, propaganda posters and New Year pictures. He graduated from the High School Affiliated to Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts…
