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Lai Shaoqi (1915-2000) was a woodcarver, calligrapher, and painter, and founder of the New Huangshan School of Paintings. Born in Puning in Guangdong Province, Lai studied woodcarving, and was a…
Lao Rugen (1941) was a native of Guangzhou, Guangdong Province. Lao is good at propaganda posters, oil paintings and decorative paintings. He used to be the manager of the Guangzhou Art Company, and…
Le Xiaoying (1921-1984) was from Zhenhai, Zhejiang Province. He loved painting since he was a child. When he was studying in middle school, he joined a painting organization and started drawing…
Lei Tan (1939-1999) was born in Guangzhou (Canton). He graduated in 1960 from the Dance Art Department of the Shanghai Theatre Academy, where he had started studies in 1956. In 1971, he joined the…
Lei Wenbin (1948), also known as Lei Wenbing (雷文兵), was a native of Neijiang, Sichuan Province. He graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in 1977, and…
Lei Zhengmin (1933) is from Taiyuan, Shanxi Province. He graduated from the Art School of North China University in 1949 and completed his studies at the Central Art Academy Art Cadre Course in…
Lei Zhuhua (1945), also working under the name Lei Zuhua (雷祖华) was from Anhui. He graduated from the Chongqing Jianshan Middle School in 1965. Lei is known for his oil paintings, gouaches, prints,…
Li Baoliang (1941) was born in Jinxiang County, Shandong Province. Because of the influence of his parents, he liked painting since he was a child. After graduating from junior high school, he was…
Li Bin (1939) was born in Tieling, Liaoning Province. After he started working as a teacher in a primary school in 1966, he painted in his spare time. In 1973, he was tranferred to the cultural…
Li Binggang (1947-2004) was from Xinmin, Liaoning Province. He joined the People's Liberation Army after his graduation in 1968. In 1974, he entered the Liaoning Art Teachers Training College. In…
Li Binghong (1913-1986) was born in Hohgay (Hongji, 鸿基), Vietnam. In 1931, he moved to Hong Kong, where he worked as an art teacher in secondary schools, as store clerk in bookstores, as movie…
Li Deren was born in Yuci, Shanxi Province, in 1946. After his graduation from middle school in 1962, he returned to the countryside, studying art in his spare time. He continued his art studies when…
Li Dongsheng (1951) was born in Jiaohe County, Hebei Province and moved to Tianjin in 1953. He joined the army in 1968 and engaged in art propaganda work in the South China Sea Fleet Airforce. After…
Li Enyuan (1942) was born in Jixi City, Heilongjiang Province. He graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in 1966 and worked successively in the Jinzhou Museum…
Li Fengjun (1952) is a native of Zhenlai, Jilin Province. He has participated in provincial and national art creation classes several times. He has won various prizes with his works, some of which…
Li Fenglan (1933, Huxian, Shaanxi Province) has been fond of traditional paper-cutting since childhood. She started learning painting when she participated in a mass irrigation project in 1958.…
Li Gang (1951) was born in Wuxiang, Shanxi Province. After his graduation from middle school, he went to work in the Jiaxiu Textile Factory. He became an official in the All-China Federation of Trade…
Li Guowei (no details known) is identified as a peasant
Li Heng (1928), from Hunyuan, Shanxi Province, taught himself drawing. After he started working in 1949, he engaged in art production in his spare time. He was attached to the Shanxi Provincial…
Li Hongbao (1939) was born in Tianjin. He studied oil painting at the Tianjin Xinhua Staff University from 1960 to 1964. From 1975 to 1976, he engaged in oil painting creation for one year in the oil…
Li Hongren (1931-2020) was born in Beijing. He graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1955 and taught elsewhere in China. He joined the teaching staff of the Lithography Section of the…
Li Hongxiang (1922), from Xingcheng, Liaoning Province, taught himself drawing. In 1949, he started working in an arts supply store and in 1953, he transferred to the Art Work Office of the…
Li Hongxun (1945) is from Huaibei, Anhui Province. He graduated from the Arts Department of Hefei Normal University under the name of Li Moyu (李墨雨) in 1968 and worked in the Art Department of Hefei…
Li Hua (1907-1994) was from Panyu, Guangdong Province. He graduated in 1925 from the Guangzhou Academy and went to Japan in 1930 for further study. After his return to China in 1933, he taught at the…
Li Huanmin (1930-2016) was from Beijing. After his graduation from the National Beiping Art School in 1947, he was attached to a number of cultural work teams in North China, Tianjin and Beijing.…
Li Huaying (1942) was born in Feicheng, Shandong Province. Ms. Li is good at oil painting.
Li Huiquan (1954) was born in Jianyang, Sichuan Province. He graduated from the Department of Fine Arts of Sichuan Education College and formerly worked at Jianyang Film Company. He now is the fine…
Li Jianghong (1940) is from Yuanping, Shanxi Province. After his graduation from Shanxi Normal College in 1960, he taught in the Jinbei Art School and worked in the Yanbei Cultural Office. He now has…
Li Jingfang (1935) was born in Gejiu City, Yunnan Province. He was a professor at the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts. Some of his works were collected by the British Museum and the National Art Museum…
Li Jiyuan (1925) was born in Wenshui, Shanxi Province. In his career, he has been art editor of the Taiyuan Daily (太原日报, Taiyuan ribao) and the Taiyuan Illustrated (太原画报, Taiyuan huabao). Li is…
Li Jun (1931-2019) was born in Anqiu, Shandong Province. He graduated from the Industrial Arts Department of Beijing Normal University in 1953. In 1962, he graduated from the Oil Painting Department…
Li Keran (1907-1989) was born in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province. His artistic education started in 1929 when he entered the Research Section of the Hangzhou State Xihu Art College. He learned oil painting…
Li Kong'an (1934) was born in Bangtang Village, Leizhou, Guangdong Province. He graduated from Leizhou Normal University, Guangdong Province. In 1962, he studied in the Printmaking Department of the…
Li Kuchan (1899-1983) was from Gaotang, Shandong Province. Before he entered the Western Painting Department of the National Beiping Art School in 1922, studying under Qi Baishi, Li studied…
Li Lang (1932, Lindian, Heilongjiang Province) graduated from the Drawing Department of the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in 1956. He has worked as an editor for Heilongjiang Illustrated (黑龙江画报,…
Li Li (1934), also known as Li Li 李里, was from Hongdong, Shanxi Province. Ms. Li is known for her printmaking. In 1954, she graduated from the Fine Arts Department of the Southwest Art Institute. She…
Li Linxiang was born in Heilongjiang in 1966. He graduated from the Department of Fine Arts of Northeast Normal University and is now living in Shanghai
Li Liuhai (1944) was born in Baofeng, Henan Province. He studied in the Xinjiang Art Institute and the People's Liberation Army Art Institute. He used to be the president of the Painting Association…
Li Mubai (1913-1991) was born in Haining, Zhejiang Province. In 1928, he settled in Shanghai and joined the Zhiying Studio, where his cooperation with Jin Xuechen started. The two soon became…
Li Naizhou was born in Chongqing in 1945. He graduated from the Fushun Coal Mining University before taking up art. From 1982-1984, he took a refresher course in the Chinese Painting Department of…
Li Pingfan (1922-2011) was from Tianjin. As a child, he would spend a lot of time in the Western Art Section of the Tianjin Municipal Art Museum. Later, he studied Japanese woodblock techniques, and…
Although his family hailed from Shanxi, Li Qi (1928-2009) was born in Beijing. In 1937, he joined an opera troupe in Yan'an and received further artistic training. In 1950, he joined the Central…
Li Quanwu (1957) is from Huanggang, Hubei Province. He graduated from the Fine Arts Division of the Hubei University of Arts in 1981 and studied in the Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy…
Li Qun (1912-2012, also known as Liqun) was born in Lingshi, Shanxi Province. He entered the Hangzhou National Art School in 1931 or 1932, and participated in the founding of the League of Left-wing…
Li Ronglong (1937) was born in Baodi County, Hebei Province. In 1954, he studied at the Art Middle School affiliated to the Northeast Art Academy and received an education in painting, which laid a…
Li Rui (1929) is from Lufeng, Guangdong Province. As a child, his father taught him drawing. From 1943 on, he sold his paintings all over the region. In the period 1949-1952, he established an art…
Li Ruinian (1910-1985) was born in Tianjin. He graduated from the National Art Academy in Peiping in 1933 and went for further study to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels and on to the the…
Li Shan (1943) is from Haizhou, Jiangsu Province. In 1963 he graduated from the middle art school attached to the Sichuan Art Academy. He is now attached as an artist to the Sichuan Experimental…
Li Shan (1926-2019) was born in Qingdao, Shandong Province. After his graduation from the Chinese Painting Department of the Zhejiang Fine Arts Academy in 1958, he worked in the offices of the…
Li Shinan (1940, Shanghai) is a self-taught artist who moved to Xi'an in the 1950s. In 1978, he transferred to the Xi'an Municipal Industrial Art Research Institute, where he researched traditional…
Li Shiyuan (1938) is a native of Wendeng, Shandong Province. He graduated from Dandong Normal University. He serves as Deputy Research Librarian of the Yuanbao Cultural Center in Dandong City,…
Li Shubang is a Beijing-based designer.
Li Shuji (1943) is from Dalian, Liaoning Province. He started his artistic training in 1963 at the Lu Xun Art Academy, from which he graduated in 1968. He was assigned to work in the Liaoning…
Li Shusen was born in Tianjin in 1943. His early works were mainly Western paintings. During the 1970s and 1980s, he created a large number of oil paintings, gouache paintings, and New Year paintings…
Li Shuyun (1944) was born in Changle, Fujian Province. In 1972, he joined the People's Liberation Army, where he created (propaganda) art in his spare time. After 1984, he became arts editor with the…
Li Tianxin (1924-2008) was born in Zhenhai, Zhejiang Province. Born into a family of senior intellectuals, he went to Shanghai Daxia University (now East China Normal University) to study in the…
Li Wanchun (1942) was a native of Chengdu, Sichuan Province. In 1965, he graduated from the Painting Department of the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts with a major in Chinese painting. He worked in the…
Li Weinong was born in 1936 in Yuhang, Zhejiang Province. He graduated from the High School Affiliated to the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts in 1961. He was a senior lecturer and vice president of the…
Li Wenlong (1939) was born in Hejin, Shanxi Province. He started his carreer as an art teacher at a normal college. Later, in the early 1960s, he was transferred to the Linfen area (Shanxi Province…
Li Wenxin (1927-2006) hailed from Shuangliu, Sichuan Province. In 1941, he started his arts training at the Southwest Art School. He became a research fellow in the Fine Arts Department of the…
Li Xiangyang (1953, Shanghai) joined the People's Liberation Army in 1973; while in the Art Troupe of the Jinan Air Force, he engaged in stage design. In 1981, he transferred to the Art Creation…
Li Xiguang (1943) was born in Ye County, Shandong Province. In 1965, he graduated from the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang. He was a designer at the Heilongjiang Exhibition Hall; and deputy…
Li Xingtao (1943, Kaiping, Guangdong Province) graduated from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 1968. A member of the Chinese Artists Association and president of the Guangdong Studio of Painting…
Li Xiongcai (1910-2001) was a native of Zhaoqing, Guangdong Province. He was a contemporary Chinese painter, art educator, and outstanding representative of the Lingnan School of Painting. He was…
Li Xiu (1943) is from Shibing, Yunnan Province. Ms. Li belongs to the Yi nationality. In 1968, she graduated from the Fine Arts Section of the Guangxi Art Academy. From 1970-1980, Ms. Li worked as an…
Li Xiushi (1933/36) is from Jinzhou, Liaoning Province. After his graduation from Jinzhou Normal College in 1954, he became an art teacher in a middle school. He entered the Oil Painting Department…
Li Yang (1963) was born in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province. From 1981 to 1985, he studied at the Chinese Painting Department of the Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts. After graduation, he stayed in the school to…
Li Yansheng was born in Beijing in 1943. During the early 1970s, he worked for a long time at the Shanxi West Mountain Mineral Bureau. Only in 1980, he graduated from a class of post-graduates for…
Li Yebing (1931), also known as Li Shiren (李世任), was from Shimen Village, Jingxing County, Hebei Province (Shimen Village was originally under the jurisdiction of Pingding County, Shanxi Province).…

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