Yang Lin'gui (1941) is from Jiangsu Province. He graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Central Art Academy in 1966. In 1973, he was active in the People's Liberation Army, where he designed art for ballet performances. He transferred to the PLA Art Academy in 1979, where he still teaches today.
Yang excels in oil painting. He collaborated with Hou Yimin and Deng Shu.