Professor Hao will present some key elements of nature and urban landscapes of traditional Chinese paintings and the Chinese painting history embedded in them. He will also speak about the characteristics of Chinese ink painting and Chinese water ink painting shown on several urban landscape paintings he has recently worked on; he titled it “Water Ink Metropolis.”

Hao Chen is an associate professor at the Renmin University School of Arts Painting Department and serves as director of the Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Department. He holds a Ph.D. in Aesthetics from the Philosophy Department of Renmin University. He has served as a visiting scholar and painter in residence at the University of Denver School of Art, and currently he is serving as Chinese Associate Director for CIUM. His works have been collected by the National Museum of China, Yale University, and Harvard University. He is the author of “Research on Urban Ink Painting,” “Sentiments on the Yan Garden Ink-Painting,” and other publications.