Zeng Xiaojun 曾小俊

Zeng Xiaojun was born in Beijing in 1954 and graduated from the Central Art and Craft Academy of Beijing. He is one of the pre-eminent ink painters of his generation with a long history of scholarship in traditional Chinese landscape painting which in the last 10 years he has converted into Modernist experiments with the traditional medium of brush and ink.

His work now utilizes traditional techniques to portray a desolate, insulated, airless world of nature – subjects like rocks and trees that were favorites of his classical predecessors but which now, because of the disintegration of the old China and her nature, have atrophied.

His works have been collected by numerous museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston where he also taught.