Ding Liren, born in 1930 in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, is a professor at the College of Design and Art, Shanghai University of Technology, and a guest professor at Guangdong University of Technology. Although Ding never received formal academic training in fine arts, he developed an early and distinct aesthetic approach that deliberately avoids adherence to any single artistic school. Instead, he draws inspiration equally from diverse painting traditions and folk art forms.

His works are held in the collections of major institutions such as the National Art Museum of China, the Central Academy of Fine Arts, the Shanghai Art Museum, and the Cultural Affairs Bureau of Macau. In recent years, Ding Liren has exhibited both in China and internationally, including at the Collection de l'Art Brut in Lausanne (Switzerland), the Power Station of Art in Shanghai, Platform China in Beijing, and the Guangdong Museum of Art.

Wu Weijia, born in 1960 in Nantong, Jiangsu Province, graduated in 1982 from the Oil Painting Department of the Fine Arts School of Nanjing University of the Arts, where he studied under Su Tianci. He currently lives and works in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, teaching at the School of Fine Arts of Nanjing Normal University. He has long been engaged in painting instruction and artistic creation. 

Throughout his artistic career spanning over four decades, Wu Weijia has dedicated himself to painting practices across various media, including oil painting, Chinese painting, and calligraphy, demonstrating exceptional artistic talent and mastery. His works are housed in the collections of several major art institutions, such as the National Centre for the Performing Arts, the Jiangsu Art Museum, and the Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts.Wu Weijia (b.1960), was born in Nantong, Jiangsu Province, and currently lives and works in Nanjing, China. For over 40 years, his artistic creation has spanned Chinese and Western art forms, achieving excellence in oil painting, watercolor, Chinese painting, calligraphy, and seal - carving. Throughout his artistic career, his style has been diverse yet consistently unique. This style stems from his deep - seated drive for artistic innovation and exploration, combined with his ability to express genuine artistic pleasure. In 1995, Wu Weijia visited the US and Canada with a delegation and exhibited his works there. Over the years, he has been a active presence in the art world, holding solo and group exhibitions in various places such as Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Jinan, Zibo, Taiwan, and Macau. His works are collected by many important art institutions, including the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Jiangsu Province Art Museum, Nanjing University of the Arts Gallery, and Tianning Zen Temple.

Ji Dachun was born in 1968 in Nantong, Jiangsu, China. He graduated from Central Academy of Fine Arts, Oil Painting Department, Beijing, China in 1993. As one of the most representative Chinese contemporary artists, Ji Dachun is widely noticed for his distinctive personal style. His paintings are witty, humorous, ethereal and tranquil, and full of romantic poetry and Zen. In particular, his choice and persistence in easel painting, in an environment where installations, images, pictures, and multimedia methods are becoming more popular, it highlights its unique expressive charm and profound significance.

After having produced many of his now-widely recognized figurative paintings from his early career, Ji Dachun (b. 1968) begins to gravitate towards acrylic, a medium that is comparatively lighter and less saturated than oil paint.  Initially he was obsessed with the viscous pictorial effect of acrylic, and later on there were his serial explorations of the themes of “Black” and “White”. Throughout this entire process, he has experimented with Payne’s gray—which he considered an unstable pigment color—in terms of how it presents different shades of transparencies, textures, and tonal layers on the canvas.  He experimented so as to grasp the relationship between the subject of paint, the residue, and the image.  Through this project, Ji Dachun endeavors to grasp his own position within the coordination of (art) history and reality and comes up with his own rationales to experiment with—or deconstruct—paint in a perhaps attempt to approximate the boundaries of finite things.

Ji has held solo exhibitions at LudwigMuseum (Koblenz,Germany), MACRO Museo d‘Arte Contemporanea Roma (Rome, Italy), Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China), Kunstmuseum Bern (Bern, Switzerland), Posco Museum (Seoul, South Korea) and other art institutions. His works have been exhibited in the 56th Venice Biennial, 2012 Gwangju Biennale Special Exhibition, The First Triennial of Chinese Arts, 2001 Chengdu Biennale, 2000 Shanghai Biennale, the 1st China Oil Painting Biennale and the 2nd 2ed Annual China Oil Painting Exhibition.

Wang Yabin was born in Henan Province in 1974 and graduated from the Art Department of Henan Normal University in 1994. Currently lives and works in Zhengzhou, Henan Province and Huangshan, Anhui Province.

As a leading figure in Chinese contemporary painting, Wang Yabin specializes in using western painting techniques to display eastern landscapes and figures. He says, "It is my artistic choice to draw on the forms and languages of Western art with Eastern aesthetic thought and Chinese culture as the core".

His paintings have always presented a rich look and coherent threads, starting from a keen inner experience, incorporating complex thoughts and emotions into the language of painting. Each stage of his works is unique, and he completes the transformation of his artistic language amidst different experiences and perceptions, with varied themes that keep advancing in the midst of extension.