Lampo Leong was born in Guangzhou in 1961, received his PhD in Art Theory and Practice from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, MFA in painting with High Distinction from the California College of the Arts, and BFA in ink painting from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Leong currently works as a professor of Art at the University of Missouri-Columbia and a former Art Department Chair. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and Central China Normal University. Leong’s works can be found in the collection of Stanford University, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Museu de Arte de Macau, the Guangdong Museum of Art, the Written Art Foundation in Germany, etc. Selected solo exhibitions included: 1988, Lampo Leong: Brush Paintings, Guangzhou Fine Arts Museum; 2000 Lampo Leong: Contemplation • Forces, DP Fong Galleries, California; 2006 Sublimation: Calligraphy by Lampo Leong, Macao; 2010 Lampo Leong: Spirit of the Universe, University of California, California; 2014 Lampo Leong: Accumulation • Expansion, Art & Julia’s Gallery, Taipei