About the artist "Haiyan"
Haiyan Wang
Entering The Luxun Academy of Fine Art at the age of 16, Haiyan was the youngest student in history of the prestigious fine art college. In the year of 1984, She graduated and became the youngest professional painter in the Province Institute of the Fine Arts of Heilongjiang, China. Haiyan Wang has attracted worldwide attention as an outstanding artist in her Sole Exhibition of Portraits for the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women held in China Art Gallery, Beijing 1995.
Her artistic activities in China have been reported by more than 165 news agencies including CNN Cable TV in the United States, China Central TV, Chinese press in Australia, England, Europe Times, and World Women Daily, etc.
Having published numerous artworks in more than sixty major newspapers and
magazines in different countries of the world, Haiyan has also been internationally known as one of the few initiators of the Grand Exhibition of Modern Arts, China’s
first exhibition of modern arts, in China Art Gallery, Beijing 1989.
Came to the United States in September of 1995, Haiyan quickly established her
reputation among thousands of the local people. Her Portraits off the Legendary,
deeply rooted into the soil of American pop culture, have won warm welcomes from people all over the country. Beiing aired by local TV stations in New York and
Massachusetts, her artworks also appear on local newspapers and magazines often.
Her sole exhibition, America Rising, held in New York in December 2001 and aired by New York 1 Cable TV, received appreciations and supports from many people in different countries of the world.