Occupation: Painter, Educator Media: Modern Brush Painting, Calligraphy, Acrylic/Oil and Watercolor. Born Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, July 3, 1961; United States citizen.
Education Guangzhou Acad Fine Arts, China, BFA, 83. California Coll Arts, Oakland/San Francisco, MFA, 88. Cen Acad Fine Arts, Beijing, PhD-ABD, 2005.
Teaching Positions Vis Assistant Prof, brush painting, San Francisco State Univ, California, 96-2001; Assoc Prof, painting, drawing & brush painting, Univ Mo-Columbia, 2001-.
Business and Professional Positions Chair, Department of Art, Univ Mo-Columbia, 2007-.
Commissioned Works Paintings, Tokyo Westin, Japan, 94, Epcot Center, Disney World, Florida, 98; mural and paintings, Westin Surabaya, Indonesia, 96; granite medallion, City of San Francisco, 99; murals, U Missouri, Columbia, 2005; Cathay Bank, Los Angeles, 2008.
Public Works Stanford Mus Art, Palo Alto, California; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Minneapolis Institute for the Arts, Minnesota; Macao Mus Art; Guangdong Mus Art, China.
Exhibitions Solo exhibs, Rosicrucian Egyptian Mus, San Jose, 86, Luis De Camoes Mus, Macao, 86, Guangzhou Fine Arts Mus, Guangzhou, China, 88, Chinese Cult Center, San Francisco, 91, Cult Inst Macao, 98; Group exhibs, Art of China, Shanghai Museum of Fine Arts, China, 97; Shining Stars: Four Cult Visionaries of Contemporary Painting, Pacific Heritage Mus, San Francisco, 98; Contemporary Paintings from Collection of Macao Art Museum, Zhuhai Mus, Guangdong, China, 2000; George E Ohr Nat Art Challenge, The Ohr-O'Keefe Mus of Art, Biloxi, MS, USA, 2002; Englewood Arts Nat Juried Art Show, Mus of Outdoor Arts, Englewood, CO, 2003, Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, Ill, 2003, St Louis Univ Mus, Missouri, 2003; Int Contemporary Ink Painting, Changliu Art Museum, Taoyuan, Taiwan, 05; Question, Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford, California, 2004; Media 1 Art Biennial, Medial Mus, London, 2005; Han Zi Reinvented: The Rhythm of Chinese Script, California State U, Fullerton, 2006; Taipei Internat Ink Painting Biennial, Nat Taipei U Tech, 2006; Univ of California, Berkeley, 2007; Int Modern Brush Painting, Chinese Cult Center of San Francisco, 2007; Culture Conflict? No Thanks! Raab Galerie, Beijing, China.
Bibliography Betsy Crabtree (author), A conversation with Chinese painter Lampo Leong, San Francisco Arts Monthly, 2/92; Manni Liu & Jung Park (auths), Bridging the old and the new Worlds, Asian Art News, Hong Kong, 9/97; Pat Berger (author), intro, The Common Ground of Light and Gravity: Lampo Leong's Contemplation Forces, Chicago: Art Media Resources, Ltd, 98; Edmund Moy (author), Chinese Calligraphy Meets Modern Computer Technology, Asian Week, San Francisco, 2000; Pamela Marquis (author) Artist Profile, Lampo Leong, Creating A New Visual Language, Columbia Home, Columbia, MO, 2/2002, pp14-18; Jenna Kaegel (author), Global Expressions, Columbia Daily Tribune, 2002; Margey Fischer (author), From Oppression to Expression, Vox Mag, publisher by Columbia Missourian, Columbia, Missouri, Vol 7, Issue No 52, 1/2005, pp. 2 & 7; Kevin Allton (author), The Wild Calligraphy of Lampo Leong, Sublimation: Calligraphy by Lampo Leong, Creative Macau, Inst European Studies Macau, Macau Cultural Center, 2006.
Publications Author, Lam-Po Leong's Paintings, Mus Macao Luis De Camoes, 86; illustrator, Brushstrokes-Styles and Techniques of Chinese Painting, Asian Art Museum San Francisco, 93; author, The Common Ground of Light & Gravity, Chicago: Art Media Resources, Ltd, 98; author, Lampo Leong: Contemplation Forces, Inst Cult De Macau, 98; author, Learning the Art of Chinese Brush Painting: The Landscape, Nature in Art, Chinese Brush Painting, San Francisco, California, Asian Art Museum, 2001, pp 11-17; author, The Deconstruction & Reformation of Genes, The Artistic Trend of Modern Chinese Ink & Washington Works in the Late 20th Century, Modern Ink & Washington Painting Series IV, 2001; author, Recoding the Roots: Genetic Reformation & Culture Synthesis in the Era of Globalization, Yishu Jour Contemporary Chinese Art, 2004.
Honors and Awards Gold Medal, XV Exposicao Coltctiva dos Artistas de Macau, Leal Senado de Macau, Macao, 98; Third Prize, Girardot Nat Juried Exhib, Arts Coun Southeast Missouri, Cape Girardeau, 2003; Best of Show, 42d Ann Juried Exhib, Sumi-e Soc America, J Harrison Smith Fine Art Gallery, Clearwater, Florida 2005; Ten Best, Arte-Libertacao da Criatividade:Exposicao Annual De Artes Visuais De Macau, 2007.
Memberships Nat Oil & Acrylic Painters Soc, Osage Beach, Missouri; World Association Chinese Artists; Nat Mod Meticulous Painting Soc, Beijing, China; Nat Sumi-e Soc America, Virginia Beach.
Research Area Current research is in comparative study of painting and calligraphy, especially the spiritual expression of the Sublime.
