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Pu Shi is 70 years old and resides in Tokyo. He inherited his family’s artistic tradition and developed a love of calligraphy, painting and seal carving from childhood. For more than forty years, his work has been exhibited at museums and galleries across the United States, Japan, South Korea, Russia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China, and several collections of his work have been published.

His current roles include Academician at the Minjian Central Painting Academy; Vice President of the World Chinese and Overseas Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Academy; member of the Beijing Hushe Painting Society; Vice President of the Tokyo Calligraphy and Painting Academy; and Art Advisor to the Ginza Guzhen Art Museum.

Core identity: Lifetime member of the Chinese Mural Society; Deputy Secretary-General of the Mural Committee of the Architectural Society of China; member of the inaugural advanced research class of the Chinese Mural Society at the Central Academy of Fine Arts.

Mentorship: Studied under Hou Yimin and Li Huaji.

Since 2018, he has declined all external engagements to devote himself to painting in his studio, completing a body of outstanding work.

Carrying forward the art of Baisha

Zhao Zhonglin is a Naxi painter whose practice includes copying the historic Baisha murals of Lijiang. His copies dating from 1981 onwards were included in the national touring exhibition of Baisha mural studies supported by the China National Arts Fund.

He was also listed as a Baisha mural artist for the Wuhan presentation of the Ameize International Art Exhibition in 2025.