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List Of Chinese Women Artists
This is a list of women artists who were born in China or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. A *A Ge (born 1948), print-maker, also known as Deng Mingying * Au Hoi Lam (born 1978), painter B * Bingyi (born 1975), painter *Bu Hua (born 1973), digital artist C *Cai Han (1647-1686), landscape painter * Cai Jin (born 1965), painter *Cai Lanying (1918-2005), paper-cut artist *Cai Weilian (1904–1939), painter *Cao Fei (born 1978), multimedia artist * Cao Miaoqing (14th Century), poet, calligrapher, and musician *Cao Yu (born 1988), visual artist * Cao Zhenxiu (active late 18th Century), poet, painter, calligrapher * Chai Jingyi (17th Century), poet, painter * Queenie Chan (born 1980), comics artist * Chien-Ying Chang (1913-2004), painter, active mainly in Britain *Chang Ch'ung-ho or Zhang Chonghe (1914–2015), Chinese-American poet, painter, calligrapher * CIL Chen (born 1963), artist *Georgette Chen (1906-1993), Chinese-Singaporean modern art painter * Chen Ji ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after India, representing 17.4% of the world population. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and Borders of China, borders fourteen countries by land across an area of nearly , making it the list of countries and dependencies by area, third-largest country by land area. The country is divided into 33 Province-level divisions of China, province-level divisions: 22 provinces of China, provinces, 5 autonomous regions of China, autonomous regions, 4 direct-administered municipalities of China, municipalities, and 2 semi-autonomous special administrative regions. Beijing is the country's capital, while Shanghai is List of cities in China by population, its most populous city by urban area and largest financial center. Considered one of six ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
CIL Chen
Donglan Chen, also known as CIL Chen (, born 1963), is a Chinese former professor, artist, writer, and businesswoman who founded Shenzhen Duo Cai Fang Designing About CIL In 1963, CIL was born in Huhhot of Inner Mongolia. In 1984, she graduated from Inner Mongolia University with a bachelor's degree in English Language and Literature and became a teaching assistant right after graduation. She moved to Shenzhen in 1989 and started a design company in 1996. She emigrated to the US in 2002. In 2008, she moved back to China and started her artistic and writing career. Her literature, painting, and sculpture firmly emphasized oriental culture, actively promoting humanism and focusing on self-cultivation and spiritual progress. Until 2007, CIL had published three full-length novels and two painting albums. Her literary works were printed in the Journal of Literature and Art, and the paintings were issued in ''Art Research'', ''Gallery,'' etc. Her first solo exhibition was sponsored by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Chinyee
Chinyee (1929 – June 2, 2023) was a Chinese-American Abstract Expressionist painter. She emigrated to the United States to study at the College of Mount Saint Vincent and went on to earn her MFA from New York University. In the mid-1960s Chinyee became involved with the United Nations, working in New York City, the Belgian Congo, and multiple other overseas UN missions. Biography Chinyee was born in Nanjing, China in 1929. She had her first solo show at the Mi Chou Gallery in 1965. In 1997 her work was included in the exhibition ''Asian Traditions, Modern Expressions: Asian American Artists and Abstraction, 1945-1970'' at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University. In 2007 the Shanghai Art Museum held a retrospective of her work entitled ''A Lyrical Journey, Chinyee's 50-Year Retrospective''. In 2023 her work was included in the exhibition '' Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-1970'' at the Whitechapel Gallery in London. Chinyee died in New Jerse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Canal Cheong Jagerroos
Canal Cheong Jagerroos (; born 1968) is a Chinese contemporary artist. Brought up in an artistic family in Macau, Cheong Jagerroos works primarily in abstract painting and installations. Her works have been exhibited worldwide since the 1980s. While Cheong Jagerroos is best known for her more traditional multi-layered rice-paper abstract paintings, her later works are based on conceptual art. Her art is infused with ancient metaphoric symbols, signs, and contemporary expressions. Her recent large-scale paintings solo exhibitions 'Blue and Red Art project' and 'Floating Island' with (calligraphy) textile were displayed at Salo Art Museum, Jyväskylä Art Museum, Joensuuu Art Museum, Korundi Rovaniemi Art Museum and Xian Art Museum from 2018 to May 2020. She currently splits her time living and working between Helsinki, Shanghai, Nice, Berlin and Tokyo. Personal life Canal Cheong Jagerroos was born in an artistic family and grew up in Macau. Her father was an artist, and her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Cheng Changwen
Cheng Changwen () was a Tang dynasty poet born in Boyang (now part of modern-day Jiangxi). Cheng was both an accomplished poet and calligrapher in the cursive (caoshu) and clerical style ( lishu). Her three surviving compositions include ''Writing to the Regional Inspector of My Feelings While in Prison'', ''Sorrow of the Bronze Bird Terrace'' and ''Sorrow in the Spring Chamber''. All three are included in the ''Complete Collection of Tang Poetry'', which is the largest collection of Tang poetry Tang poetry () refers to poetry written in or around the time of or in the characteristic style of China's Tang dynasty, (June 18, 618 – June 4, 907, including the 690–705 reign of Wu Zetian) and/or follows a certain style, often considered a ..., containing some 49,000 lyric poems by more than twenty-two hundred poets. Cheng was imprisoned without trial at the age of sixteen for reasons not completely clear. Her long narrative poem, ''Writing to the Regional Inspector of My Fee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Chen Yanyin
Chen Yanyin (or Chen Yan Yin 陈妍音) (born 1958) is a Chinese sculptor whose work was featured in the Chinese Fine Arts Chronicle, 2008. Her work was also part of "Between Ego and Society: An Exhibition of Contemporary Female Artists in China" at the Chicago Cultural Center. Biography Chen Yanyin was born 3 October 1958 in Shanghai, China. She attended the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now known as China Academy of Art) and graduated with a degree in fine arts from the sculpture department in 1988. In 2000 she completed a master's degree at the University of Sydney, Australia. Chen had her first solo show, ''Box Series'' in 1994 at the Shanghai Oil Painting and Sculpture Institute and that same year also did her first collaborative show with Geng Jianyi 耿建翌, Shi Yong 施勇, and Yang Zhenzhong 杨振中 called ''The Date 26 November 1994 as a Reason''. She has done many collaborative shows at galleries throughout the world including Bonn Women's Museum; Chasse Kazerne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Chen Xiaocui
Chen Xiaocui, originally known as Chen Zui ( zh, t=陳璻, s=陈璻, p=Chén Zuǐ, labels=no). Her courtesy names are Cuina ( zh, c=翠娜, p=Cuìnà, labels=no) and Xiaocui. Her ' is Cuilou ( zh, t=翠樓, s=翠楼, p=Cuìlóu, labels=no). (25 September 19021 July 1967) was a Chinese poet, writer, and painter who composed classical Chinese poetry, short stories, novels, and plays, translated Western literature, and created traditional Chinese paintings. She was a founder of the Chinese Women's Calligraphy and Painting Association. After the People's Republic of China was founded, Chen became one of the first professors at in 1960 but died by suicide in 1967, a year into the Cultural Revolution. The major collection of her poetry is ''Cuilou Yincao'' (). Biography Early life Chen Xiaocui was born on 25 September 1902. Her family was from Hangzhou. Her grandmother named her Chen Zui () and gave her the courtesy name Cuina (). Her father was Chen Xu (courtesy name Diexian), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Qing Dynasty
The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China and an early modern empire in East Asia. The last imperial dynasty in Chinese history, the Qing dynasty was preceded by the Ming dynasty and succeeded by the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China. At its height of power, the empire stretched from the Sea of Japan in the east to the Pamir Mountains in the west, and from the Mongolian Plateau in the north to the South China Sea in the south. Originally emerging from the Later Jin (1616–1636), Later Jin dynasty founded in 1616 and proclaimed in Shenyang in 1636, the dynasty seized control of the Ming capital Beijing and North China in 1644, traditionally considered the start of the dynasty's rule. The dynasty lasted until the Xinhai Revolution of October 1911 led to the abdication of the last emperor in February 1912. The multi-ethnic Qing dynasty Legacy of the Qing dynasty, assembled the territoria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Chen Shu (painter)
Chen Shu ( zh, t=陳書, s=陈书, p=Chén Shū; 1660–1735) was a female Chinese painter during the early Qing dynasty. She was born in Xiuzhou District, Xiuzhou (now Jiaxing) and was also known by the courtesy name Nanlou and her literary names "Shangyuan Dizi" and "Nanlou Laoren". She is considered the first female painter of Qing dynasty as well as the inaugurator of Xiushui School painting style. Apart from her artistic works, she was also known as the mother of Qing statesman and poet Qian Chenqun (:zh:钱陈群). After the early death of her husband, Chen raised her son by herself. When the latter became a prominent statesman in the court of the Qianlong Emperor, he introduced the emperor to his mother's paintings. Through this avenue she became favored by Qianlong, and many of her works were featured in the imperial collection (today in both the Forbidden City, Palace Museum in Beijing and the National Palace Museum in Taipei). Chen painted figures, landscapes, and flower ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Chen Peiqiu
Chen Peiqiu (29 December 1922 – 26 June 2020) was a Chinese calligrapher and ''guohua'' painter, often acclaimed as the foremost Chinese woman painter. She and her husband Xie Zhiliu were one of the most famous couples in Chinese visual arts. The government of Shanghai opened a museum in Nanhui New City dedicated to them. Biography Chen Peiqiu was born in 1922 in Nanyang, Henan Province. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, she took refuge with her family in Kunming, Yunnan Province. In childhood she was influenced by her mother, who was an artist, but Chen was more interested in engineering, as she thought it would be more beneficial to the society. Although she was accepted by the engineering department of National Southwestern Associated University, her family opposed her choice and forced her to transfer to the economics department. She ended up not attending the university. During World War II, Kunming was a major hub for refugees from all over China. Chen attended an art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Movana Chen
Movana Chen (; born 1974) is a multidisciplinary, Hong Kong–based, female artist, and curator. Her works combine elements of fashion, performance, and sculpture. She is known for her practice of knitting shredded and printed pages into wearable pieces and her artworks have been presented in exhibitions and events in Hong Kong, Beijing, Seoul, London and Paris. Early life and education Chen was born in 1974 in Chaozhou, China. She moved to Shenzhen with her family in the mid-1980s and then later to Hong Kong. In the run-up to the handover in 1997, Chen and her family moved to Singapore, where she started pursuing her interest in art and developed an interest in fashion design. She pursued fashion design at the London College of Fashion for a year and later returned to Hong Kong, where she studied accountancy. In 2005, she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Hong Kong. In 2007, she received certification in Exhibition Studies an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Chen Man
Chen Man (; born 1980) is a Chinese visual artist. Her medium includes photography, graphic design, cinematography, and digital art. She also produces covers for fashion magazines and collaborates with major brands worldwide. Biography Born in Beijing in 1980, Chen Man grew up after the Cultural Revolution and was part of the generation of the Chinese one-child policy. Chen attended the Central Academy of Fine Arts and graduated in 2005, where she studied graphic design. At the age of 23, she published her self-styled photography as covers for Chinese art magazine VISION, bringing her immediate prominence for the first time as a student. Her early style includes extensive use of digital tools such as Photoshop and 3D Max to create an extravagant visual experience. Man is also known for her hyper-realistic pop portraits like her 2012 "Whatever the Weather" covers. The series features an unsigned model and Tibetan teenagers from the Tibetan High School, an ethnic college. Man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
