Shao Yong
Shao Yong was born in Shanxi, China in 1973. In 1997, he graduated from Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts, majoring in Chinese painting. He became an independent artist in Beijing in 2002. In 2008, Shao began his landscape series and abstract ink paintings. He held the exhibition “Shao Yong- Blue and White Ink Painting” in several cities in China. In 2017, Shao was appointed as the president of Chinese Contemporary Ink Painting Research Institute of Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts.