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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. B * Bingyi (born 1975), painter * Bu Hua (born 1973), digital artist C * Chai Jingyi (17th-century), poet, painter * Chevalier li (born 1961), painter, installation, Chinese born French artist * Cai Jin (born 1965), painter *Chang Ch'ung-ho or Zhang Chonghe (1914–2015), Chinese-American poet, painter, calligrapher *Cao Fei (born 1978), multimedia artist * Cao Yu (artist) (born 1988), visual artist * Chen Ke (born 1978), painter * Chen Peiqiu (born 1922), best-selling woman painter alive * Chen Shu (1660–1736), Qing dynasty painter * Irene Chou (1924–2011), calligrapher and painter * Chow Chung-cheng (1908–1996), finger painter, writer * Chen, Movana (born 1975), paper knitting artist F * Fu Daokun (fl. 1626), painter G * A Ge (born 1948), print-maker * Guan Daogao (1262–1319?), calligrapher, poet and painter *Guan Daosheng (1262–1319), "the most famous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land, the most of any country in the world, tied with Russia. Covering an area of approximately , it is the world's third largest country by total land area. The country consists of 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four municipalities, and two Special Administrative Regions (Hong Kong and Macau). The national capital is Beijing, and the most populous city and financial center is Shanghai. Modern Chinese trace their origins to a cradle of civilization in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. The semi-legendary Xia dynasty in the 21st century BCE and the well-attested Shang and Zhou dynasties developed a bureaucratic political system to serve hereditary monarchies, or dyna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Ge
A Ge (Simplified Chinese: 阿鸽; Hanyu Pinyin: Ā Gē) (born 1948), also known as Deng Mingying (邓明英), is a Chinese woodcut print artist from Liangshan in Sichuan Province and is a member of the Yi people ethnic minority. Life Per government policy towards ethnic minorities, A Ge was recruited at age twelve to attend the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute and was encouraged to create art to publicize Yi minority culture and help development. In 1964 she graduated from the national minority class at the Sichuan branch of the China Artists Association. She is married to Xu Kuang. Career A Ge is a Grade 1 National Artist, a member of the China Artists Association and the Chinese Engravers Association, and is chairman of the Sichuan Artists Association, and the vice chairman of the Sichuan federation of literary and art circles, the director of the Shenzhou printmaking museum, and the vice President of the printmaking institute of the Chinese national academy of painting. Her w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luo Wei (artist)
Luo Wei (; born in 1989) is a Chinese visual artist working in performance, photography, painting, theatre, audio and installation art. She often combines media to produce her art and bases it on science and biology. Luo's methods in her creative practice also include working collaboratively and a focus on academic research. She is often the subject of her own art. Biography Luo Wei was born in Guangzhou, China, in 1989. She graduated from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art High School in 2008, and received a BFA degree in oil-painting from the China Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2012. Luo now lives and works in Beijing. Artworks Luo's art is based on observing and intervening in the world and juxtaposes subjectivity and objectivity. In oil painting to installation art, she takes inspiration from traditional Chinese ink painting. CP - Crystal Planet Crystal Planet is the field created by microscopic (2014-). In its online form, she shares it with people from all over the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beili Liu
Beili Liu (; born 1974) is a Chinese-born US-based visual artist who makes large-scale, process-driven sculptural environments that examine themes of migration, cultural memory, materiality, labor, social and environmental concerns. Through unconventional use of commonplace materials and elements such as thread, needle, scissors, feather, salt, wax, and cement, Liu extrapolates complex cultural narratives through a hybrid work form that merges site-responsive installation, sculpture, public art, and performance. Liu lives and works in Austin, Texas. Liu is the Leslie Waggener Professor in the Fine Arts and is a University of Texas System Regents' Outstanding Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Early life Beili Liu was born in a farming village in the Northeast province of Jilin, China to parents who were among the 16 million sent-down youth during China's Cultural Revolution. After ten years of exile and re-education in the countryside, her parents relocat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liao Jingwen
Liao Jingwen (; April 1923 – 16 June 2015) was assistant to and third wife of artist Xu Beihong. After his death in 1953, she served as head of the Xu Beihong Memorial Museum and the curator of his extensive art collection. Early life Liao was born in 1923 to a family of intellectuals in Liuyang, though their ancestral home was Changsha, Hunan. After leaving high school, she traveled to Guilin, where she saw an advertisement for an administrator at the China Academy of Art at its wartime base in Chongqing. Liao took the position in 1943, whilst also enrolling in the arts and sciences institute of Jinling Women's College that had also set-up a campus in Chengdu. During this time, she worked for several famous artists, including Xu Beihong. Career Liao met Xu Beihong in 1942, Liao worked as Xu's assistant and soon became Xu's mistress. The two married in 1946, after Xu divorced his wife Jiang Biwei, Liao born a son in the same year, and a daughter in later years. After Xu's d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li Shuang (artist)
Li Shuang (李爽, born 1957 in Beijing), is a contemporary Chinese artist. Li Shuang's works testify to her painful personal and artistic journey. She grew up in Beijing during the Cultural Revolution within a family of intellectuals. Her early childhood artistic development was influenced by her grandfather, a dealer in Chinese antiques, books, and art. During the Chinese political reformation and opening up in the late ninetieth, “Li Shuang” was a household name in the art industry in France and other European countries. On a superficial level, the romantic story between Li and her husband might account for the reopening of art in isolated China due to Cultural Revolution. More specifically, Western media described “Li Shuang Incident” as the precursor and advocator of the emerging Chinese modern behavior art. Life Li Shuang was born in Beijing in 1957. Both of her parents graduated from Peking University, Beijing University. During her childhood, she was majorly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaffa Lam
Jaffa Lam (born 1973) is a Chinese visual artist. She is known for her mixed-media sculptures and site-specific works that inquire into Hong Kong culture and history. Lam often uses recycled materials such as found fabric or wood from construction sites. She began focusing on community engagement and socially responsible art at the time of the SARS outbreak in Hong Kong in 2003. And since then, she has created many community-driven projects in Hong Kong and abroad. In 2006, she received the Asian Cultural Council's Desiree and Hans Michael Jebsen Fellowship. Her works have been acquired by public institutions, including Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong Heritage Museum, and Chinese University of Hong Kong. Lam is also known as an educator. She is currently Academic Head at the Hong Kong Art School. Early life She was born in 1973 in Fujian, People's Republic of China. She migrated to Hong Kong in 1985 (at 12 years old) and continued her study there. She received a Bachelor of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kan Xuan
Kan Xuan () (born in 1972 in Xuancheng, Anhui) is a Chinese contemporary visual artist, known for her experimental video artworks, though some of her work incorporates painting, photography, and performance art. She is considered as one of the most important female video artists of China, and has been active since the late 1990s. Early life Kan was born in Xuancheng, Anhui Province. She studied from 1993 to 1997 at the China Academy of Art, in Hangzhou, where she was part of the evolution of video art from its inception in China. Two of her teachers were Geng Jianyi and Zhang Peili. During this time she became friends with video artists already renowned at the time, such as Zhang Peili. She moved to Shanghai after graduating from the China Academy of Art and then moved to Beijing in 1998. To maintain a living, Kan Xuan also did many other jobs such as sculpture assistant, and also worked at a movie production company. It was there she learned how to use the computer, video mak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aowen Jin
Aowen Jin is a Chinese-born British artist and social commentator. Early life Aowen Jin was born in Luoyang, Henan in China. She moved to the United Kingdom as a student when she was 18, and initially studied Law & Economics at Durham University. After rediscovering a passion for art she switched to studying Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London. During her degree she was commissioned to produce painting works for British Prime Minister Tony Blair and for Queen Elizabeth II's 80th Birthday, and was named by both '' Dazed & Confused'' magazine and ''The Times Magazine'' as one of the UK's top emerging artists. Aowen was part of Goldsmith's graduate exhibition at Free Range Shows in 2006, titled "Textile Collective". Sound Fountain In 2013, Jin was commissioned by Goldsmiths, University of London to produce an artwork for the first official visit of British Chancellor George Osborne and London Mayor Boris Johnson to Beijing. For the commission she produced a live "Sound Fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
He Zhihong
He Zhihong 何炙鴻 (born March 20, 1970) is a Chinese-French illustrator of children's books. She was born in China and started to paint as a child with her father, who was a painter. She graduated from Beijing Academy of Fine Arts, where she studied traditional Chinese painting. She paints on both silk and rice paper. He Zhihong now lives in Paris and has several books published in France. ''Contes des peuples de Chine'' received the Nuit du Livre award for the best children’s book. List of works * ''Contes de Chine : L'origine des grandes fêtes'', Seuil Jeunesse, 2014 * ''Que fais-tu bébé ?, ''Seuil Jeunesse, 2014 * ''Voilà le loup'', Chan Ok, 2013 * ''Nian le terrible'', Seuil Jeunesse, 2012 * ''Mes images de Chine'', Seuil Jeunesse, 2011 * (with Guillaume Olive) ''My First Book of Chinese Calligraphy'', Tuttle Publishing, 2010 * ''La Grande Muraille de Chine'', Casterman, 2009 * ''Poèmes de Chine'', Seuil, 2009 * ''La fille du pays des neiges'', Sorbier, 2007 * ''P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
He Xiangning
He Xiangning (; 27 June 1878 – 1 September 1972) was a Chinese revolutionary, feminist, politician, painter, and poet. Together with her husband Liao Zhongkai, she was one of the earliest members of Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary movement Tongmenghui. As Minister for Women's Affairs in Sun's Nationalist government in Guangzhou (Canton), she advocated equal rights for women and organized China's first rally for International Women's Day in 1924. After her husband's assassination in 1925 and Chiang Kai-shek's persecution of the Communists in 1927, she stayed away from party politics for two decades, but actively worked to organize resistance against the Japanese invasion of China. In 1948, she cofounded the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang. She served in many high-ranking positions after the foundation of the People's Republic of China, including Vice Chairwoman of the CPPCC (1954–64), Vice Chairwoman of the National People's Congress (1959–72), Chairwoman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Han Yajuan
Han Yajuan (born 1980), also spelled Han Ya Juan () is a Chinese contemporary artist (中国当代艺术, Zhongguo Dangdai Yishu). She currently lives and works in Beijing. Han Yajuan ranks seventh on the all-time list of artists who have grossed the most money at auction before their 30th birthday. Early life and education She was born in Qingdao, China, and studied art at the China Academy of Art. After the graduation, in 2004, she worked in College of Visual Art. In 2008 Yajuan obtained a master's degree at the Oil Painting Department of the China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing. Han Yajuan ranks seventh on the all-time list of artists who have grossed the most money at auction before their 30th birthday. Career She had her first solo exhibition at China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, China, in 1999. After that she took part in a number of exhibitions in China and abroad. Artwork Yajuan belongs to the new Chinese painting movement. Her works have clear and occasionally ironi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
