Jeremiah Watson

Jeremiah Watson is an international student from America. From 2010 to 2018, he successively obtained a master's degree and a doctorate degree from China Academy of Art under the guidance of Professor Wang Shu.Now he is an international architect, design consultant and artist. Jeremiah is keen on promoting the harmony between man and nature and the expression of construction and materials thro

Ida Blazicko

The sculptor and public artist Ida Blazicko was born in Zagreb, Croatia in 1985. She studied in the Department of Public Art, China Academy of Art, from 2009 to 2012 and got her PhD under the guidance of Professor Yang Qirui.Now she is a member of Croatian Association of Artists. She went to Indiana University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA for study. She has a PhD in the field of bionics in Sculpture,

Luis Cantillo

Luis Cantillo is a Colombian visual artist and curator. He has bachelor's degrees from College of Fine Arts, Columbia National University and from Central Saint Martins, London, UK and master’s degree from School of Visual Arts, New York, USA.In 2011, he got the Chinese government scholarship and learned from Professor Qiu Zhijie in School of Intermedia Art, China Academy of Art. He won the 20

Arturo Mayorga Zuñiga

'Hello, everyone, I'm Arturo Mayorga Zuñiga. I'm Mexican and my tutor is Chen Yuan from China Academy of Art. Living in China and learning in the Academy have shaped my career and creative mind. ''The master's courses taught by the teachers and various activities organized by the International College all left me wonderful memories. In the four years' study in China Aca

Nieser Roswitha

Nieser Roswitha is an international student from Austria. In 1993, she came to Hangzhou, China and became obsessed with Chinese ink and wash painting. She majored in ink and wash landscape painting in the Department of Chinese Painting, China Academy of Art. With the support of Chinese government scholarship, she finished her undergraduate courses and later on, completed her master's and

Isabelle Baticle

Isabelle Baticle is an international student from France. In 1992, she entered the calligraphy class for international students in Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now China Academy of Art) and in1997, she graduated as a calligraphy major from the Department of Chinese Painting, China Academy of Art.In 1999, she returned to France and engaged in painting and calligraphy teaching and exhibitions. She

Assadour Markarov

Born in Bulgaria, Assadour Markarov is an artist, curator and art educator. He gave lectures in Japan, Britain, Ireland, Finland, etc. When he studied in China Academy of Art, his PhD advisor was Professor Shi Hui. Now Assadour Markarov is a professor in the Department of Sculpture, Varbanov Fiber Art Research Centre, Fiber and Space Arts Studio, China Academy of Art. In 1987, Assadour studie

Soonyi Oh

Soonyi Oh was born in Korea in 1966. After graduating from Eastern Painting at Dankook University, she enrolled in the Department of Chinese Painting (in the field of landscape painting), China Academy of Art, in 1994 to pursue her master’s and doctor’s degrees. Under the guidance of Professor Zhuo Hejun and Professor Ren Daobin, she was among the first PhD graduates in creative practice and

Toshiharu Kawachi

Toshiharu (Kunpei) Kawachi is the vice president of Daito Bunka University, Japan and a member of the Xiling Seal Art Society. In 1981, he passed the examination for international students organized by the Ministry of Culture of Japan and became a student with Chinese government scholarship.From September, 1981 to August, 1983, he spent two years studying calligraphy and seal engraving in the Depa

Phyllis Bennett

In the mid-1980s, attracted by the vigorous charm of traditional Chinese ink and wash art, Ms. Phyllis Bennett, an art teacher from California, USA, with her eyes of wisdom and love, led a delegation for the first time and came all the way to China Academy of Art in Hangzhou to study traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting for a month. When she returned home, she opened a traditional Chi