Zhaoming Wu

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"Reminiscence" is characteristic of Wu's work, in both style and subject. It features a woman, face turned from the viewer, wrapped in cloth. The colors are warm and the brushstrokes visible.

Zhaoming Wu is a Chinese-born painter. Born in 1955, Wu grew up in Guangzhou City, China. and he received his BFA from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art China and his MFA from the Academy of Art University, San Francisco. ^[1]

1 Personal life
2 Work
3 External links
4 References

[edit] Personal life

Zhaoming Wu grew up during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. When the government closed schools when he was age eight, Zhaoming Wu had to leave school. He spent his days copying comic books and studying Chinese brush painting from a book. Wu's mother, a doctor, recognized his talent and asked a patient, a professor at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art, to train her son.^[2] Wu was twelve at the time.

Long active as both an artist and a teacher, Wu served as a professor of painting at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art. He currently teaches painting at the Academy of Art University. His work has been featured in many publications, including a book entitled Zhaoming Wu's Drawings, and Interntional Artist magazine (April/May 2003), as well as Art of the West magazine (September/October 2004).

Wu lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

[edit] Work

Since 1983, Zhaoming Wu's work has been exhibited in Asia, Europe, the United States and other countries around the world. He has won numerous awards, including the Merit Award at the 6th National Art Exhibition, Beijing, China; the Gustafson Fund Award; the National Oil and Acrylic Painter's Society (US) Award; 1st place in the 9th Biennial National Figure Painting and Drawing Exhibition; Second Prize Winner in International Artist magazine's Challenge No. 4 (Aug/Sept 2001); and the Daler-Rowney Award from the Oil Painters of America.^[1]