(English) Xiao Xu was born in Chongqing in 1983 and graduated from the department of traditional Chinese painting at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. Xiao Xu represents a generation of young artists predisposed to explore the solitude and fantasy explored in the scholarly tradition in Chinese painting.

(English) Collector, dealer, and scholar of the Chinese aesthetic and its expression in works of art, the Master of the Water pine and Stone retreat has only recently devoted himself seriously to ink painting.

(English) Arnold Chang was born in New York city in 1954. He holds a unique place in contemporary ink painting. american born, Chang is an outspoken and articulate connoisseur of traditional Chinese painting and an unapologetic traditionalist in his own expressive and distinctive landscapes.

(English) Meng Zhao was born in Anhui in 1967. As a child growing up in Anhui, the ceramic sculptor Meng Zhao had no toys and would go to the river to create shapes with water and sand. Now forty-four he continues to play with water and earth as the material and object of his art.

(English) Zeng Xiaojun was born in Beijing in 1954. Perhaps no contemporary Chinese ink painter better embodies and emulates the model of the Ming scholar artist more than Zeng Xiaojun. Connoisseur, authority on classical Chinese furniture, collector of scholar’s rocks and all things wood, and furniture maker himself, Zeng is a contemporary exponent of painting old trees, a tradition distinct from landscape painting.