Zhang Diping (1942) was from Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province. She graduated from the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts with a bachelor’s degree in Chinese painting in 1965. She is currently a painter at the Shanghai Chinese Painting Academy, a national first-level artist, a member of the Chinese Artists Association, a librarian at the Shanghai Museum of Literature and History, and Shanghai Deputy Director of the Siyuan Painting and Calligraphy Art Institute of Jiaotong University.

Her works have been included in the collections of museums, memorials, sports academies, hotels, etc.