Chen Danqing

Biography

Chen Danqing is a Chinese-American artist, writer, and art critic born on August 11, 1953, in Shanghai, China. He gained widespread recognition for his realist paintings of Tibetans in the 1980s and spent 18 years in the US as a professional painter before returning to China. Chen has lectured at Tsinghua University and published essay collections, introducing art to the general public through documentary series like "Local Perspective".