Xie
Shen
Yanfu,Laoyan are his pen names.He was born in Xi’an in 1942
with Longzhong, Hubei Province his ancestral hometown .Young
Xie Shen studied oil painting in the Middle School Attached to
Zhongnan Arts Training School and Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts
with later changing to study Chinese traditional painting. He
was influenced by Mr. Shi Yinglu and increasingly formed a
creative style by painting mountains and waters, people, and
many New Year pictures of baby。
Since
1980, he has held more then 10 exhibitions in the U.S.,
Canada, the U.K., Germany, Japan, Singapore and Chinese
Taiwan. And UNICEF has collected and published his paintings.
Xie is
now standing director of Wuhan Artists Association of China
People's Political Consultative Conference, evaluation
commissioner of professional high-ranking affair of industrial
arts in Hubei province, visiting researcher of Hubei Research
Academy of Art and Design, provincial master of art and
design.
Xie has
been very famous for his New Year pictures of baby. In fact,
his paintings of mountains, waters and people are also very
excellent and unique.
In 1995,he
held exhibition together with his daughter Yanzi in Gaodi
World Art Gallery, Shenzhen.
In 1993,he
visited Singapore and held exhibition together with his
daughter Yanzi in Great Hall of Singapore
In 1992,he
visited Germany and held his solo exhibition in the hall of
Optimus Bank in Duisburg
In 1991,he
held his solo exhibition in Huanghe Towel and Changjiang River
Gallery in Wuhan. and Ronghu Hotel, Guilin.
In 1990,
he held his solo exhibition in Taipei Shangzao Art Center in
Taiwan.
In 1988,he
visited the U.K. and held his solo exhibition in Stafford
Gallery in Manchester.
He also
visited the U.S. and held his touring solo exhibition in New
York International Center of Culture and Art, Washington
International Gallery, Seton Hall University and Harvard
University.
In 1986,he
visited Yokohama, Sapporo and Osaka in Japan for art
communication.
In 1985,he
visited Canada and held his solo exhibition in Edmonton.
In 1981,he
visited Honolulu in the U.S. for art communication and held
his solo exhibition.He also held his solo exhibition in Songwu
Gallery in Kyohaku, Japan.
In 1980,he
visited New York, Washington and Boston in the U.S. for art
communication.
In 1979,he
held his solo exhibition in Sea Gull Gallery in Singapore.
In 1978,he
held his solo exhibition in National Gallery, Singapore.
In
1963, he began to work in Wuhan Academy of Chinese Traditional
Painting
In
1959,he began to study oil painting in Oil Painting Department
in Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts
In 1956, he began to study
in the Middle School Attached to Zhongnan Arts Training
School.
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