16 Notable alumni of
China Central Academy of Fine Arts
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The China Central Academy of Fine Arts is 1627th in the world, 365th in Asia, and 33rd in China by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 16 notable alumni from the China Central Academy of Fine Arts sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Xu Bing
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- printmakergraphic artistinstallation artistsculptoruniversity teacher
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Xu Bing is a Chinese artist who served as vice-president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He is known for his printmaking skills and installation art, as well as his creative artistic use of language, words, and text and how they have affected our understanding of the world. He is an A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. He was awarded the MacArthur Fellows Program in 1999 and the Fukuoka Prize in 2003.
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Wu Guanzhong
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- painter
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Wu Guanzhong was a contemporary Chinese painter widely recognized as a founder of modern Chinese painting. He is considered to be one of the greatest contemporary Chinese painters. Wu's artworks display both Western and Eastern influences, such as the Western style of Fauvism and the Eastern style of Chinese calligraphy. Wu painted various aspects of China, including its architecture, plants, animals, people, as well as many of its landscapes and waterscapes, in a style reminiscent of the impressionist painters of the early 1900s. He was also a writer on contemporary Chinese art.
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Liu Bolin
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- photographersculptorvideo artist
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Liu Bolin is a contemporary artist born in China's Shandong province, who specialises in self-portraits where he is disguised to match his surroundings. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Shandong College of Arts in 1995 and his Master of Fine Arts from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 2001. His work has been exhibited in museums around the world. Also known as "the invisible man", Liu's most popular works are from his "Hiding in the City" series, photographic works that began as performance art in 2005 in response to the artists' village in which he worked in Beijing being demolished in preparation for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
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Wu Ershan
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- film directorscreenwriter
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Wuershan is a Chinese film director of Mongol descent, who was born in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia on June 10, 1972.
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Zhang Huan
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- photographertheatrical directorartistscenographerpainter
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Zhang Huan is a Chinese artist based in Shanghai and New York City. He began his career as a painter and then transitioned to performance art before making a comeback to painting. He is primarily known for his performance work, but also makes photographs and sculpture.
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Zuoxiao Zuzhou
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- songwriterguitaristviolinistsinger
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Zuoxiao Zuzhou, is a Chinese musician and artist.
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Chen Man
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- photographerfashion photographer
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Chen Man is a Chinese visual artist. Her medium includes photography, graphic design, cinematography, and digital art.
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Hung Liu
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- photographervisual artistpainteruniversity teacher
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Hung Liu was a Chinese-born American contemporary artist. She was predominantly a painter, but also worked with mixed-media and site-specific installation and was also one of the first artists from China to establish a career in the United States.
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Beohar Rammanohar Sinha
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- painter
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Beohar Rammanohar Sinha was an Indian artist who is very well known for his illustrations in the original final manuscript of Constitution of India, including the complete Preamble-page, which was brought to fruition in 1949 as one of the most beautiful Constitutions in the world in addition to being the most comprehensive one. He is also known as a cultural ambassador of India who disseminated Indian art in the Far East, and brought Oriental Art to India. His works are housed in numerous prestigious public and private collections throughout the world and his murals still adorn the walls and gigantic dome of Jabalpur's historic Shaheed-Smarak or Martyrs'-Memorial Auditorium even after more than half a century, though now demanding conservation.
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Hou Hanru
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- artistcuratorpainterart criticexhibition curator
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Hou Hanru is a Chinese-born art curator and art critic. He is based in San Francisco, Paris and Rome. He was artistic director of the National Museum MAXXI in Rome, Italy, from 2013 to 2023.
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Wu Zuoren
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- painterpolitician
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Wu Zuoren was a Chinese painter. A native of Jing County, Anhui, he was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. He practiced both traditional Chinese ink painting and European oil painting.
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Shanye Huang
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- 1958-.. (age 67)
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- painter
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Shanye Huang is a Chinese-born American professional artist. He currently resides in Washington DC metropolitan area. He is most known for his bold, vibrant, colorful imagery bridges the Zhuang folkloric heritage of his native Guangxi, China with Western surrealism and color field traditions as well as the disciplined skills of Chinese academic painting.
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Li Songsong
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- painter
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Li Songsong is a Chinese artist working in Beijing.
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Luo Gongliu
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- painter
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Luo Gongliu was a Chinese painter and printmaker. He was born in the town of Youshan in Guangdong province. He began his career as a woodcut artist and later took up oil painting. He was a member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and depicted the Chinese Communist Revolution in his art. His works are held in the collection of the British Museum, the Met Museum, and the CAFA Art Museum.
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Xing Danwen
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- photographer
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Xing Danwen is a contemporary Chinese artist and photographer. She is known for the images she made during and after her MFA at the School of Visual Arts in New York, exploring ideas of dislocation as well as the form and psyche of contemporary living.
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Wang Chunchen
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- art criticart historianexhibition curator
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Wang Chunchen is a Chinese curator, critic, and art historian. He has been described as "one of China's most distinguished curators, art critics and historians".
