Bio

Lin Ming Gang was born in Fuzhou in 1952 and moved to Hong Kong in 1978. He graduated from Hong Kong Academy of Fine Arts in 1984. Since 1990, he resided in Paris and further his study in Ecoles Nationale Surperieure des Baux-Arts de Paris, for two years. He then spent two year in Louvre to learn the art of those great artists. He was appointed the member of la maison des artistes in 1993. Now he is a professional painter and an art critic.

Lin’s works are greatly influenced by classicism and Impressionism. He is a painter with ‘Paris style’ and his works are said to be ‘the art of human nature’ as his paintings can deeply reveal the reality of human nature. Lin’s works had entered “ Salon d’automne ‘’for five times and “ Salon des Artistes Francais Association’’for four times. He had held thirty solo art exhibitions in Hong Kong and China , and also participated more than one hundred times in joint exhibitions. In 2003, he assisted Shanghai Ang-Ting Art Museum in collecting art works from Chinese artists and showed their works in Shanghai Art Museum. In 2004, he first time organized a large-scale art exhibition China Wind and it received a great response in Paris. In 2005, he held the exhibition Flash and Eternity — Lin Ming Gang’s Art Exhibitor in Hong Kong University.

Lin is also a critic and writer. His works have been published in China, France, Germany, Hong Kong and Taiwan. He has been interviewed by French international Broadcast Station for 14 times. Lin is now the member of French Artist Association, the Chairman of Hong Kong Oil-painting Research Society.