Artist Statement
I believe people possess a need to satisfy their emotions. The eye can evoke a multitude of feelings to calm these needs. In fact, we can say that our feelings and aspirations often start by inadvertently viewing something because of this, are source from nature and elegant scenes from daily life.
It is my greatest pleasure to admire the ever-changing beauty of nature and to observe the movement and expression of the human figure. It is these gifts which spark my motivation and stimulate aesthetic thoughts.
I believe that all the images, colors, dots and lines as well as surfaces and brushstrokes in a painting should follow the painting's theme. People are inspired by changing scenes in their lives. And each scene prompts a different theme. The value of an artwork depends on its mood, its beautiful images and mind nourishing unity.
If people can feel the beauty and peace in nature along with the cultural harmony in my paintings, and if I can console some impetuous minds, then this is the type of painting I wish to draw.
Biography
Ning Zhao is a visual artist, a member of the Society of Canadian Artists, the Color and Form Society, the Mississauga Art Gallery, Visual Arts Mississauga and Oil Painters of America. He has worked and taught in the Art Research Institute, Hubei Art College and Nanjing Art College of China.
In
recent years, Ning Zhao has been working to use traditional Chinese
aesthetic understanding to create North American landscape paintings and
figurative oil paintings.
He has received numerous awards, and his work is treasured by art
enthusiast in not only Canada and China, but Australia, Japan, and North
America, as well.
Click here to see Ning's Photos
BORN:
China
EDUCATION:
1973-1979
Research Institute of Arts and handicrafts, Nanjing, China
1979-1983
Arts Department of Southern Yantze University, Wuxi, China
WORK:
1973-1979
Art worker and student, Research Institute of Arts and Handicrafts,
Nanjing, China
1983-1985
Instructor, Hubei College of Art and Design, Wuhan, China
1985-1999
Arts Designer, Packaging Import & Export Company of China,
Nanjing, China
1995-1999
Instructor, Nanjing College of Art, Nanjing, China
1999-present.
Professional Artist, Creation and teaching from own art studio,
Mississauga, Canada
2001-present.
Instructor, Fo Guang Shan Temple Devotee College, Mississauga,
Canada
MEDIA:
Oil, Colour Ink, Gouache
COLLECTIONS:
Memorial
Hall of Premier Zhou Enlai, Nanjing, China (1998)
Private
Collection--China, Japan, America, Australia, and Canada
PROFESSIONAL
ASSOCIATIONS:
Member of: Society of Canadian Artists, Colour and Form Society,
Visual
Arts Mississauga, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Oil Painters of America.
JURIED
AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2008 The 30th Annual Burlington Art Auction, Burlington Art Center, Canada, invited through open call
2007
Audubon Artists 65th Annual Exhibit, Historic Salmagundi
Art Club, New York, USA
2007 SCA, 50th Anniversary Juried Exhibition, Leighton Art Center, Calgary Alberta, Canada
Award of Excellence 3rd
2007 The 28th Annual Burlington Art Auction, Burlington Art Center, Canada
2006
SCA, The 39th National Open Juried Exhibition, Papermill
Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2006 SCA, Elected Member's Smallworks Exhibition, Parry Sound Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2006 CFS, Bienial Exhibition, Paper Mill Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Landscape Award
2006 SCA, Spring Elected Members Juried Exhibition, Art Gallery of Northumberland, Cobourg, Canada
2006 OPA,The 15 th Annual National Juried Exhibition of Traditional Oil, Dana Gallery, Missoula America
2005
CFS, The 53th
Annual Juried Exhibition, Etobicoke Civic Enter Art Gallery, Canada,
2005
SCA, The 38th National Open Juried Exhibition, Papermill
Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2005
PHC, The 32th Annual Juried Exhibition, Art Gallery of
Peel, Brampton, Canada
2004
VAM, The 27th Annual Juried Exhibition, Art Gallery of
Mississauga, Canada
2004 CFS, The 52th Annual Juried Exhibition, Etobicoke Civic Enter Art Gallery, Canada
2004
Delta Meadowvale Art Exhibition, Mississauga, Canada,
Honorable mention Award
2004
CFS, Juried Exhibition, The Paper Mill Gallery, Canada
2004
OAC, The 05th Annual Juried Exhibition, Oakville
Municipal Building, Canada
2004
Delta hotel Semi Annual juried Art Exhibition, Juror, Canada
2003
VAM,
The 26th Annual Juried Exhibition, Art Gallery of Mississauga,
Canada,
People’s Choice Award
2003
CAFS, The 51th Annual Juried Exhibition, Etobicoke Civic
Enter Art Gallery, Canada
2003
OAC, The 04th Annual Juried Exhibition, Oakville
Municipal Building, Canada,
People’s Choice Award
2002
VAM, The 25th Annual Juried Exhibition, Art Gallery of
Mississauga, Canada
Honorable mention Award and People’s Choice Award
2002
Arts Etobicoke Juried Art Show, Etobicoke Civic Center Art Gallery,
Canada
2002
Art Exhibition Fundraiser, Delta hotel and Conference Centre,
Mississauga, Canada
2001
VAM, The 24th Annual Juried Exhibition, Art Gallery of
Mississauga, Canada,
Awarded Fine Art 3rd Prize
2001
PHC, The 28th Annual Juried Exhibition, Art Gallery of
Peel, Brampton, Canada
2000
VAM, The 23th Annual Juried Exhibition, Art Gallery of
Mississauga, Canada
Honorable Mention Award and People’s Choice Award
SOLO
PERSON SHOWS:
2005
Visual Arts Mississauga, Mississauga, Canada
2004
Springbank Visual Arts Centre, Mississauga, Canada
2003
Springbank Visual Arts Centre, Mississauga, Canada
2003
International Buddhist Progress Society of Toronto, Canada
2001
Springbank Visual Arts Centre, Mississauga, Canada
PUBLISHED:
2007 October 6-7 The Mississauga News, Canada
2006 January 14, Fairchild Television, Canada
2005 December 28, The Mississauga News, Canada
2005 July 27, The Mississauga News, Canada
2005 March 25, North America Weekly Times, Canada
2004 February 19, Sing Tao Daily, Canada
2004 February 18, World Daily, Canada
2003 Spring/Summer, BrushUp, Canada
2003 Enero 17-23, El Mundo Latino News
2003 February 12, The Mississauga News, Canada
2003 February Week, The Mississauga News, Canada
2003 February, MingPao News, Canada
2003 January 18, World Daily, Canada
2002 Oil work "Queen Street", collected in the <Mississauga: The First 10,000 years>, edited by Frank Determine,
published by Mississauga Heritage Foundation, Canada
2001 December 05, The Mississauga News, Canada
2001 December 04, Sing Tao Daily, Canada
2000 December 25, The Mississauga News, Canada
1995 <Works of Ning Zhao>, published by the Archize Establishment of JiangSu Artistic materials, China