About
Fanping Kong was born in Shenyang, Liaoning, China in 1956. While he was in elementary school in the 1960s, normal education stopped due to the "Cultural Revolution". At that time, the country was in a state of chaos of revolutionary rebellion, and factories and schools were suspended. Because of the cult of personality that prevailed, portraits of the leader were plastered on the streets of every city. The experience of watching the drawing portraits of leaders on the street ignited the inspiration for Fanping’s love of art.
After graduating from high school, Fanping went to the countryside to work on a farm, as planned by the state regulations. In 1976, he joined the regional professional theatre troupe to engage in stage art design and set drawing. Later, he worked as a designer in a provincial exhibition hall.
In 1978, he was admitted to the oil painting department of the famous Luxun Academy of Fine Arts in China. He stayed to teach there after four years of study and began his art teaching and art creation.
From 1985 to 1987, he was selected by the Chinese Ministry of Culture and Education to study Arabic miniature painting at the Algeria Higher Academy of Fine Arts. In 1987, the Chinese Embassy and the Ministry of Culture of Algeria held the "Kong Fanping Painting Exhibition" in Algiers, the capital of Algeria. The exhibition was a great success. As a result of multiple news media and interview reports, it has had a strong and wide-ranging impact in Algeria, several oil paintings were collected by the National Ministry of Culture and Art Committee of Algeria. During this period, many his oil paintings depicting the Saharan culture were selected for the "Algiers International Art Exhibition".
Since 1983, Kong Fanping's oil paintings have been selected for the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth “National Art Works Exhibition", Second and Fourth “China Sports Art Works Exhibition", "China Modern Art Exhibition", "East Asia Friendship Art Exhibition", "Northeast Asia Third World Art Exhibition" and dozens of important exhibitions of domestic and foreign art majors. In 2000, he held a solo exhibition at the Art Museum of Luxun Academy of Fine Arts in China. Some of these works won awards in exhibitions and are collected by the National Art Museum of China and foreign art institutions and individuals. Fanping is a member of the China Artists Association, and a professor at the Luxun Academy of Fine Arts. He currently lives in Seattle, Unitied States.
Selected Exbitions
1980s
1980 "Evening at the Forest Farm" - Liaoning Youth Art Exhibition, Shenyang, China
1981 "Lu Xun and Xiao Hong" - Liaoning Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition, Shenyang, China
1983 "Little Herdsman" - Liaoning Small Oil Painting Exhibition (Collected by China Art Museum), Beijing, China
1984 "Joy" - The 6th National Art Exhibition, Shenyang, China
1986 "President Chadli Portrait" - Algiers City Art Committee Collection, Algiers, Algeria
1986 "Dusk" & "Shamuya" - The First International Exhibition of Plastic Arts, Algiers, Algeria
1987 "Kong Fanping Solo Painting Exhibition" - 50 Paintings Including Oil, Miniature, and Sketches, Algiers, Algeria
1988 "Winding Wool" - Liaoning Art Exhibition, Shenyang, China
1989 "Saharan Style" - The 7th National Art Exhibition, Shenzhen, China
1989 "Still Life" - China Modern Oil Painting Exhibition, Singapore
1990s
1990 "Portrait of Aji" - China’s First Oil Painting Excellence Exhibition, Hangzhou, China
1990 "Silent Twilight" - Golden Autumn Oil Painting Grand Exhibition, Hong Kong
1990 "Wrestle" - The 2nd China Sports Art Exhibition, Beijing, China
1991 "Warm Sunshine" - 70th Anniversary of the Communist Party of China National Art Exhibition, Beijing, China
1991 "Warm Sunshine" - Liaoning Art Exhibition (Second Prize), Shenyang, China
1993 "Battle of Qingchuan River" - Korea Memorial Panorama Painting, Dandong, China
1994 "Flowers" - The First China Still Life Oil Painting Exhibition, Beijing, China
1994 "Ulan and Grandmother" - The 8th National Art Exhibition, Shenyang, China
1994 "Landscape & Flowers" - Luxun Academy of Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition, Shenyang, China
1995 "Saharan" - Liaoning Famous Artists Portrait Exhibition (Third Prize), Shenyang, China
1996 "Prayer Dreams" - Northeast China Three Provinces Oil Painting Exhibition (Grand Prize), Shenyang, China
1997 "Flowers & Still Life" - The 2nd China Still Life Oil Painting Exhibition, Beijing, China
1997 "Snowy Youth" - The 4th China Sports Art Exhibition, Shanghai, China
1997 "Yellow Flowers" - China-Korea Professors' Art Exchange Exhibition, Shenyang, China
1998 "Eternal" & "Guide" - East Asia Friendship Art Exhibition, Japan
1999 "Tibetan Child" - The 9th National Art Exhibition, Shanghai, China
1999 "Farmer’s Courtyard" - Northeast Asia & Third-World Art Exhibition, Korea
1999 "Guide" & "Tibetan Child" - ’99 Qingdao International Art Exhibition, Qingdao, China
1999 "Farmhouse" - 50th Anniversary of Tibet Ethnic Reform Hope Project Painting & Calligraphy Exhibition, Beijing, China
2000s
2000 "Kong Fanping Solo Exhibition" - 60+ Paintings in Oil, Sketches, Miniatures, and Gouache, Shenyang, China
2000 "Still Life Flowers" - 3rd China-Korea Professors' Art Exchange Exhibition, Seoul, Korea
2002 "Landscape" (2 works) - China-Korea Professors' Art Exchange Exhibition, Seoul, Korea
2003 "Tibetan Child and Dog" - Liaoning 3rd Oil Painting Exhibition, Shenyang, China
2003 "Tibetan Child and Dog" - Liaoning Art Exhibition (Gold Prize), Shenyang, China
2005 "Church in Russian Winter" & "Fishing Boat" - The 1st West Lake International Art Exhibition, Hangzhou, China
2006 "Saharan Style" - 50th Anniversary of Liaoning Artists Association Exhibition (Bronze Prize), Shenyang, China
2006 "Red Beach" - Liaoning Painters' Excellent Works Exhibition (Outstanding Award), Shenyang, China
2006 "African Style" - Liaoning Watercolor Society Biennale (Academic Nomination Award), Shenyang, China
2006 "Falling Colors" - 2006 Liaoning Watercolor Society Biennial Exhibition, Shenyang, China
2007 "Northern Village" & "Landscape" - 2nd West Lake International Art Exhibition, Hangzhou, China
2007 "Sunset" & "Wooden Boat" - 3rd West Lake International Art Exhibition, Hangzhou, China
2009 "Russian Winter" & "Southern Landscape" - International Art Forum Exchange Exhibition, Hangzhou, China
2010 & Beyond
2011 "Plateau Style" - Liaoning Outstanding Art Exhibition in Beijing (Outstanding Award), Beijing, China
2011 "American Landscape" & "San Francisco Wharf" - 4th West Lake International Art Exhibition, Hangzhou, China
2014 "People’s World" - Liaoning Outstanding Art Exhibition (Bronze Prize), Shenyang, China
2015 "Serene Aegean" & "Winter in Vyborg" - "Breaking the Cocoon & Transforming" First Shenyang Small Oil Painting Exhibition, Shenyang, China
