Zhang Tongwei

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Zhang Tongwei

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Zhang Tongwei is from Jinan, Shandong, China. She is the Director of the Changdao Art Academy, President of the World Pastel Artists Association, Secretary-General of the Sino-American Friendship and Peace Cultural Artists Association, and Director of the American Confucius Cultural Arts Research Institute. An educator and designer of the Chinese Zodiac stamp series, she was raised in an artistic family and influenced by her father, a photographer, showing exceptional artistic talent from childhood. In the early 1990s, she studied in the United States and graduated with a Master’s degree in Visual Arts from Long Island University, excelling in oil landscape painting. She has conducted extensive research on pastel art: her still life and portrait works have won over forty major prizes in international art competitions. Her published works, including the "Series of Pastel Painting Techniques" and "Zhang Tongwei's Four Art Collections," establish her as a leading figure in contemporary pastel art. Her masterpiece "Cabbage" won the Gold Award from the 2016 Audubon Artists Association of America. She has been crowned champion five consecutive times at the renowned New York New Snow Artists Association. To promote world peace, she painted portraits and wrote letters to 171 heads of state, all of whom responded with encouraging letters and signed photographs. Art experts have hailed her as the "Eastern Rosa Bonheur," and her artworks are widely collected and highly acclaimed. She is one of the most influential and well-known contemporary artists among overseas Chinese painters, with an average artwork value exceeding one million US dollars. She has successfully held more than fifty "World Calligraphy and Painting for Peace Exhibitions" worldwide and received over sixty international awards. She organized the World Peace Calligraphy and Painting Tour Exhibition at the United Nations, becoming the first Chinese female painter to do so. In the American art world, she is honored with the epithet: "East has Zhang Tongwei, West has Ding Shao Guang." In 2010 and 2014, six of her paintings were auctioned in Hong Kong, reaching a highest price of HK$16.88 million. In July 2014, she was invited and commended for painting a portrait of President Obama. Every year, her designed commemorative envelopes, postcards, and stamps featuring the Chinese Zodiac are widely praised and collected. She is also the first Chinese female artist whose works depicting Peking Opera—the essence of Chinese traditional culture—have been printed on U.S. postage stamps, helping the world understand China, this ancient civilization with a long history. "The World Is Beautiful Because of You": In 2017, eight of her artworks were selected by the U.S. Postal Service from among tens of thousands of global artists and specially issued as a limited-edition stamp album. On New Year’s Day 2018, twenty of her recent masterpieces were printed into deluxe stamp albums in four different languages and distributed globally by the United States, France, the Netherlands, and Belgium. The commemorative envelope and postcard she designed for President Xi Jinping’s visit to the United States became wildly popular in America. In 2015, she created the portrait titled "Deep Affection" during President Xi Jinping and Madame Peng Liyuan’s visit to the U.S., which she gifted to China’s national leaders and was subsequently commended. She is also the first Chinese artist to personally establish the "Zhang Tongwei Art Museum" in Long Island, New York, USA. Nearly 600 of her artworks will be open to the public! She will hold a personal exhibition at the Louvre Museum in France. Three U.S. Presidents—Clinton, Obama and his wife, and current President Trump—have collected her portrait artworks, earning her the rightful title of "Empress of Head of State Portraits." For over a decade, she has freely and voluntarily taught painting to more than 5,000 students in the U.S., receiving consistent praise from society and communities as an "American Living Lei Feng."

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