Artists
Ji Qinghe (1939) is from Dongguang, Hebei Province. He joined the People's Liberation Army in 1955 and studied at the Beijing Artillery School. Upon his graduation in 1958, he was sent to work in the…
Jia Keli (1913-1981) was from Luannan, Hebei Province. He headed the art group of the Cultural Work Corps of the People's Liberation Army Region before he became head of the Qinhuangdao Municipal…
Jia Shumin (1937), from Xingtai, Hebei Province, started his carreer in 1952 as an art teacher in the Xingtai Junior High School.
Jia is known for his cartoons and New Year pictures.
Jia Xingtong (1937) was born in Shuangliu County, near Chengdu, Sichuan Province. He graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in 1963. He was assigned to the Chengdu…
Jian Chongmin (1947, Shunde, Guangdong Province) studied at the Art Middle School attached to the Sichuan Art Academy. After his graduation in 1967, he worked for an acrobatics troupe. From 1978 on,…
Jian Chongzhi (1949-2023) was from Shunde, Guangdong Province. He graduated from the Affiliated Middle School of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 1979. He served as an art cadre in the Nanping…
Jiang Baoxing (1932-1994) hailed from Shandong Province. As a youngster, he joined the People's Liberation Army. After sustaining an injury during the Civil War, he studied painting at the Central…
Jiang Bibo (1939, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province) graduated from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in 1962, and then stayed on to teach at the school. She was the dean of the painting department.
She has…
Jiang Changyi was born in Xiangxiang, Hunan Province, in 1943. He entered the Nanjing Art Academy secondary school in 1959, and continued his art training in the same academy in the period 1962-1966…
Jiang Chengnan (1944) was born in Beijing. He entered the Fine Arts Department of the Beijing Art Academy in 1962, but transferred to the Chinese Painting Department of the Central Art Academy in…
Jiang Chenqian (1943-2012) was born in Dehui, Jilin Province. After his graduation from the Central Academy of Industrial Art in 1969, he worked in the Art Creation Group of the Political Department…
Jiang Fan (1924-2009) was from Changshu, Jiangsu Province. In 1949, he became editor of the art supplement of the Southern Jiangsu Daily (苏南日报). He taught at the East China (Shanghai) Branch of the…
Jiang Feng (1910-1982) was born in Shanghai; his original name was Zhou Xi. A woodblock artist who participated in Shanghai in the founding of Lu Xun's Creative Print Movementi n 1931, Jiang was…
Jiang Jianzhang (1925) was born in Yexian, Shandong Province. In 1948, he became editor of the Friendship Pictorial (友谊画报), published by the Dalian Sino-Soviet Friendship Association. After his…
Jiang Kun (1940) was a native of Shaoyang, Hunan Province. He has created large-scale works of art for the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall in Beijing, the Hunan…
Jiang Li (1959) was from Jiangsu. In 1982, she graduated with a bachelor's degree from the Department of Decorative Arts (formerly the Department of Special Arts) of the Central Academy of Art and…
Jiang Mi (1912-1989) was born in Zhenhai, Zhejiang Province. In 1930, he started making woodcuts, selling them for a living from 1933 on. After the start of the anti-Japanese War, he moved from…
Jiang Nanchun (1925-2008) was from Xinghua, Jiangsu Province. In 1950, he entered the Shanghai Cartoon Strip Creation and Research Unit, and in 1951, he joined the Mass Art Publishing House as an art…
Jiang Shupu (1942) was from Yantai, Shandong Province. He graduated from the Shandong Art College in 1962.
Jiang Tailu (1941) was born in Qiyang, Hunan Province. After his graduation from middle school, he worked in the cultural center of Qiyang county. In 1987, he became art editor of the Qiyang Daily (…
Jiang Tiefeng (1938) is from Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. After his graduation from the Central Art Academy in 1964, he worked in the Kunming Municipal Industrial Art Company, and taught at the Yunnan…
Jiang Xianhui (1943) was born in Hui'an, Fujian Province. He graduated from Quanzhou Peiyuan Middle School in 1960 and from Fuzhou Normal University in 1965. From 1965-1970, he worked in the Shanghai…
Jiang Yan (1919-1958) was from Wuhan, Hubei Province. Ms. Jiang started creating artistic work from an early age on, and enrolled in a number of schools and academies, including the Beiping Art…
Jiang Zhaohe (1904-1986) was born in Luzhou, Sichuan Province. At an early age, he became interested in art, in particular in traditional drawing. Forced by circumstances he moved to Shanghai in 1920…
Jiang Zhenli (1940) was born in Guiping, Guangxi Province. In 1960, he joined the Fine Arts Department of the Guangxi Academy of Arts. In 1964, he graduated from the Guangxi Academy of Arts with a…
Jin Chen (1945) is a native of Nanchang, Jiangxi Province. In 1966, he graduated from the Nanchang Arts and Crafts School. He is currently the vice president of the Nanchang Painting Academy and the…
Jin Futang (1937) was born in Shanghai. He started his studies in the arts in 1950, and graduated in 1960 from the Oil Painting Department of the Beijing Normal Art University. His first position was…
Jin Gao (1933-2006) was from Beijing. Ms. Jin studied under Xu Beihong and graduated from the Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1952. The next year, she was transferred to…
Jin Guangyu (1941) hails from Shanghai. In 1964, he graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of the Zhejiang Art Academy. He now works in the Shanghai Painting Academy.
Jin is specialized in…
Jin Hongwei (1950), also known as Jing Lin (景林), is from Jilin Province. He graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Northeast Normal University in 1982. Later, he worked as the art editor of the…
Jin Jifa (1943), also known as Jin Ji (金己), is from Shanghai. He graduated in 1965 from the Oil Painting Department of the Shanghai Art Academy. Jin, an associate professor in the Oil Painting…
Jin Lang (1915-1999) was born in Zhenhai, Zhejiang Province. He started studying Chinese painting in 1932 and later studied applied art. In 1938, he enrolled in the Art Department of the Lu Xun Art…
Jin Meisheng (1902-1989) was a native from Shanghai. From 1920 onward, he painted calendar posters exclusively for the Commercial Press in Shanghai. In 1930, he established his own studio. Together…
Jin Ming (1931), from Zhenhai, Zhejiang Province, is an autodidact. All his life, he has been employed by the Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House.
His poster featuring the martyr and model…
Jin Peigeng is the son of Jin Meisheng.
Jin Qingjin (1959) is from Yuncheng, Shandong Province. After he joined the People's Liberation Army in 1974, he started his artistic career. He went to the Arts Department of the Shandong Normal…
Jin Shangyi (1934) hails from Jiaozuo, Henan Province. He completed his training at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1953. In 1955, he studied oil painting under the Soviet master Konstantin…
Jin Xianglong (1956) was born in Nanhui, Shanghai. His art education started in 1974, when he entered the Mass Art class of the Nanhui cultural centre. In 1976, he joined the People's Liberation Army…
Jin Xuechen (1904-1996) was born in Jiading, near Shanghai. From an early age on, he showed a talent for painting. In 1922, he joined the painting department of the Commercial Press in Shanghai. In…
Jin Yan (1968) is a Shanghai native, currently living in Shanghai. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Shanghai University in 1992 with a bachelor's degree. In the same year, he entered…
Jin Zhaofang (1904-1969) was from Xiuning, Anhui Province. At the age of 14, he worked as an apprentice in the Shanghai Meifeng Printing Factory and as a draftsman in Shanghai Shengsheng Art Company…
Jin Zuzhang (1932) was born in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province. After his graduation from the East China branch of the Central Art Academy in 1954, he immediately started to work in the Arts Office of the…
