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Born in Guangzhou, China. Zhong-Ru comes from an artistic family. Started to draw at age 5, his gift was recognized in his early school years. He won several prizes from Junior Art Exhibition/Competitions of the city. From 1975-1985, he kept showing his works at different juried art exhibitions in all levels - municipal, provincial and national in China, he won First Prize in 1980 and Excellence Award in 1983. In 1980 he became a member of the Chinese Artists Association, Guangdong Branch. |
| After intensive studies in Drawing and Painting at the Guangzhou Fine Arts Institute in 1983, he went on to study at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco, USA in 1986. From there he obtained his MFA in 1988. He then reunited with his family in Canada in 1989, and started his career as a professional artist. Since he moved to Canada, he embraced the spirit of the prairie immediately. The fresh air and sunshine, the open space and living sky, the landscape and wildlife, the people's past and present life, the natural feelings of many kinds are revealing vividly in his paintings - they are odes to the harmony between Nature and Mankind. His art exhibitions have been held in California, and in the prairie provinces of Canada. |
| In 1995, he won the Best of Show in Saskatchewan Wildlife Art Program. In 2001, he won First Prize in the Lloydminster Art Exhibition/Competition in Alberta, Canada. From 1991 to 2002, he completed 11 mural commissions, including a huge life-size figurative one for the Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton( 1997 ). In 2003, he received the Award for Excellence, Top 100 in the Arts for the Parks International Competition, USA and a Certificate of Recognition from the Conference of Portrait Society of America, Washington DC. In 2005, he was invited by the Chinese Culture Promotion Society of Guangdong and two other art gallery/museums to have an art exhibition with his brother Zhong-Yang held in their hometown province. The exhibition called "One Heart, Two Countries" had toured 3 cities in China for 2 months. At the same time, his art book was published by a renowned publishing house in China, which belongs to the Series of Contemporary Chinese Master Oil Painters. In November 2006, he was awarded an Honorable Mention in the Art Renewal Center's International 2006 ARC Salon. |