Born in Shanxi Province, P. R. China, Mr. Kui Yao graduated from the
Central Academy of Arts and Design in Beijing in 1962, majoring in murals-
Two years later, he was commissioned to design and create for the
Exhibition Hall in
Guilin
City a large-scale mural of mosaic porcelain entitled Song of Guilin
Mountains and Rivers. In 1979, Mr. Yao was invited to join the prestigious
Association of the Chinese Artists. During the next 10 years, he held the
positions of Director of Creative Department and of Associate
Editor-in-chief in People's Publishing House of Fine Arts of China. In the
same period. he also published his own album of Kui Yao's Paintings and
was the managing editor of the art series: A Classified Collection of the
Chinese Paintings.
Mr. Yao immigrated to
Canada
in 1990, first living in
Montreal.
He won prizes for his paintings in Collection of Overseas Chinese Artists
published in Beijing in 1998. He also received Global Chinese
Cultural Heritage Prize in
Taipei
in the same year. His works have been on display and collected in art
galleries and art shows in many parts of the world, including Japan, the
United States, England, Denmark. Canada, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan. In
2000, his new album. Yao Kui's New Paintings Abroad^ was published. He
moved to Vancouver in 2002 and was elected to be a member of the board of
directors of the Chinese Canadian Artists Federation in
Vancouver.
He is currently working on new paintings depicting and expressing his
impressions of the beautiful
Vancouver
and lower mainland.
Mr. Yao does not stick exclusively to the traditional techniques- He has
developed his own style, a special artistic conception based on both
traditional and modern forms of expressions. He represents the world
around him with an uncultivated simplicity. He excels in displaying the
beauty of mountains and waters with lyrical freshness and peaceful joy of
life.
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