Painter
Member of Flag since:
2019
Leah’s Bio:
I have been involved in art since I was seven years old.
I was 1 of only 5 people enrolled in the Special Art Training Group of my grade school. I competed in the Sichuan province Youth Art Exhibition and won the award in my first art show. Although I have not regarded painting as my main business for a long time, I have never stopped painting since my childhood.
While pursuing other careers, I studied art at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in China, the Academy of Fine Arts of Shanghai Normal University, and Fontbonne University in the United States. I also took one-on-one lessons from well-known painters.
In 2015, I left China to relocate to the United States and began to participate in exhibitions.
I am a member of The Portrait Society of America Association and the American Watercolor Society.
I just moved in Sarasota in 2018. In the coming years, I hope to get involved in local Florida art institutions, to get to know more artists, participate in more art activities.
Artist Statement:
For me, painting is not just about visual representation but rather is fundamentally a way of communicating and inspiring thoughts and ideas. My art is similar to a living creature, always growing, always evolving to reflect developments in my own state of inner consciousness.
Selected Exhibitions
2015 Artsfest– Manchester, St louis. MO
2016 4 Bridges Arts Festival (4BAF) Chattanooga, TN
2016 One of a Kind Spring Show Chicago, IL
2018 Arts in Montclair Banner Montclair, NJ
2018 Queeny park art fair St louis, MO
2020, March 19th – June 30th, UNCHARTED,
Juried exhibition, , Art Center Sarasota, FL
2020, March 28th – June 25th, FLAG Exhibition,
Foosaner Art Museum, FL
2020, May 28th – June 30th, ART & VISION,
Art center Sarasota, FL
2020, September 3th-October 2th, COMMON GROUND,
Art center Sarasota,FL
2021, January 15th -February 28th , FLAG 71st Annual Symposium and Exhibition, Dunedin Fine Art Center, FL