What does Chen Chong mean?

Chen Chong was born in a famous family in Zhejiang, and studied in China from 1979. Participated in Zhejiang 85 New Space Art Exhibition, Zhejiang Art Exhibition and National Art Exhibition for many times. Chen Chong 1986 studied in Australia, 1988 moved from Australia to New Zealand. Graduated from the College of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, New Zealand, majoring in visual arts. From 1992 to 1998, Chen Chong has traveled to more than 40 countries in the world, visited art galleries and museums, and held lectures and artistic exchanges in many world-famous art colleges.

In artistic creation, Chen Chong has been devoted to exploring the relationship between oriental elements and western idealistic artistic spirit, emphasizing the multicultural values of New Zealand, and depicting the idealistic spiritual world of westerners with aesthetic expressionism, thus showing the social beliefs, religious beliefs and contemporary thoughts and feelings of New Zealand, a country with diverse values. His works have been widely concerned and studied by mainstream art critics in the western art world.

In New Zealand, Chen Chong is the only painter who entered mainstream western galleries as an artist from China, and has held solo exhibitions in the United States, Britain, Australia and New Zealand since 1998, making him one of the top artists with the highest collection rate in New Zealand. His works are widely collected by art galleries, museums, the Parliament Building of New Zealand, government buildings and other public institutions, famous commercial organizations and western collectors. As a representative of New Zealand's contemporary aesthetic expressionism, Chen Chong's works have been included in New Zealand's contemporary art history and school textbooks. At the same time, Chen Chong published various solo albums and poems.