18 Notable alumni of China Academy of Art

Updated: June 06, 2026 EliteDegrees

China Academy of Art is 3570st in the world, 1st in North America, and 290st in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 18 notable alumni from China Academy of Art sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with China Academy of Art won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.

Yang Fudong

1. Yang Fudong

1971-. (aged 55)
photographer printmaker filmmaker visual artist painter
Yang Fudong is a Chinese contemporary artist. In the early 1990s, he began to work with film. He began creating films and videos using 35 mm film. Currently Yang directs films, creates photographs, and creates video installations.
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Ying Miao

2. Ying Miao

1985-. (aged 41)
artist
Miao Ying is a contemporary artist and writer who is based in New York City and Shanghai, best known for her research based projects addressing her Stockholm Syndrome relationship with the Chinese internet such as The Blind Spot (2007), Chinternet Plus (2016), and online culture inside the Great Firewall. Her works inhabit multiple forms including paintings, websites, installations, machine learning...
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Luo Gongliu

3. Luo Gongliu

1916-2004 (aged 88)
painter
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...
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Eva Lüdi Kong

4. Eva Lüdi Kong

1968-. (aged 58)
Chinese–German translator sinologist translator
Eva Lüdi Kong is a Swiss sinologist, translator, and cultural mediator.
Zhang Peili

5. Zhang Peili

1957-. (aged 69)
new media artist artist curator video artist contemporary artist
Zhang Peili is a Chinese contemporary artist. Considered the father of video art in China he works mainly with installation and video.
Huang Rong-can

6. Huang Rong-can

1920-1952 (aged 32)
artist
Huang Rong-can was a Chinese artist and printmaker. Born in Chongqing, he worked as a teacher and trained in art before moving to Taiwan in 1945. There, he continued teaching, and attracted attention for his modernist and politically radical woodcuts, particularly The Horrifying Inspection (恐怖的檢查), an iconic depiction of the 228 Incident. His work's leftist subject matter drew the ire...
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Li Keran

7. Li Keran

1907-1989 (aged 82)
painter artist
Li Keran, art name Sanqi, was a contemporary Chinese guohua painter and art educator. Considered one of the most important Chinese artists in the latter half of the 20th century, he was also an influential professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts where he taught a generation of Chinese artists. Although trained in Western oil painting, he was known...
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Beohar Rammanohar Sinha

8. Beohar Rammanohar Sinha

1929-2007 (aged 78)
painter
Beohar Rammanohar Sinha was an Indian artist who is very well known for illuminating 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...
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Wang Guangyi

9. Wang Guangyi

1957-. (aged 69)
painter sculptor
Wang Guangyi is a Chinese artist. He is known as a leader of the new art movement that started in China after 1989, and for his Great Criticism series of paintings, which combine socialist imagery, particularly from the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), and Western consumer brand logos. Wang is typically considered a Political Pop artist. He states that his goal as...
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Huang Binhong

10. Huang Binhong

1865-1955 (aged 90)
painter landscape painter art historian teacher journalist
Huang Binhong was a Chinese literati painter and art historian born in Jinhua, Zhejiang province. His ancestral home was She County, Anhui province. He was the grandson of artist Huang Fengliu. He would later be associated with Shanghai and finally Hangzhou. He is considered one of the last innovators in the literati style of painting and is noted for his...
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Pan Tianshou

11. Pan Tianshou

1897-1971 (aged 74)
historian painter
Pan Tianshou was a Chinese painter and art educator.
Fang Ganmin

12. Fang Ganmin

1906-1984 (aged 78)
painter
Fang Ganmin was a Chinese French-trained painter, sculptor and educator, who was educated in Paris and spent most of his adult life in China. Regarded as one of the pioneers of Chinese oil painting, Fang was born in the Wenling county, Zhejiang province. He began studying painting in 1924 and went to Paris in 1925, enrolling in the École nationale...
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Ai Qing

13. Ai Qing

1910-1996 (aged 86)
writer painter poet journalist
Ai Qing, born Jiang Zhenghan (Chinese: 蒋正涵; pinyin: Jiǎng Zhènghán) and styled Jiang Haicheng (Chinese: 蒋海澄; pinyin: Jiǎng Hǎichéng), was a 20th-century Chinese poet. He was known under his pen names Linbi (Chinese: 林壁; pinyin: Línbì), Ke'a (Chinese: 克阿; pinyin: Kè'ā) and Ejia (Chinese: 莪伽; pinyin: Éjiā).
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Wu Guanzhong

14. Wu Guanzhong

1919-2010 (aged 91)
painter
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,...
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Lin Fengmian

15. Lin Fengmian

1900-1991 (aged 91)
university teacher painter journalist
Lin Fengmian, originally Lin Fengming (林凤鸣), was a Chinese painter and is considered a pioneer of modern Chinese painting for blending Chinese and Western styles, he was one of the earliest Chinese painters to study in Europe. He was also an important innovator in the area of Chinese art education. He was one of the pioneers of Chinese modern art,...
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Gao Xixi

16. Gao Xixi

1962-. (aged 64)
television producer director television director
Gao Xixi is a Chinese television director and producer, famous for directing a number of commercially successful Chinese television series.
Chu Teh-Chun

17. Chu Teh-Chun

1920-2014 (aged 94)
painter
Chu Teh-Chun or Zhu Dequn was a Chinese-French abstract painter acclaimed for his pioneering style integrating traditional Chinese painting techniques with Western abstract art. Chu Teh-Chun enrolled in the National School of Fine Arts (now China Academy of Art), where he studied under French-trained Fang Ganmin and Wu Dayu. He was the first ethnic Chinese member of the Académie des...
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Wang Shu

18. Wang Shu

1963-. (aged 63)
university teacher pedagogue architect
Wang Shu is a Chinese architect based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. He is the dean of the School of Architecture of the China Academy of Art. With his practice partner and wife Lu Wenyu, he founded the firm Amateur Architecture Studio. In 2012, Wang became the first Chinese citizen to win the Pritzker Prize, the world's top prize in architecture....
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