中国中央美院画家戚弘(QiHong)

　　腾--天之御作品在法国艺术中心成功展出

　　2012年5月22--26

　　戚弘(QiHong) ，1963年出生于中国辽宁。1987年毕业于沈阳鲁迅美术学院，研修于中国中央美院。他擅长于中国水墨画、油画、壁画，造诣极深，笔法入神。戚弘(QiHong)尤擅长画马 ，1998年起以西北文化为背景，主要开始以骏马为题材的艺术创作，逐渐他的水墨画形成一种独到的风格，作品取徐悲鸿的简练准确、交叉错落，又向更多马的形态、阔笔画出马的气魄和力度，整体气势勇往直前、所向披靡，给人以气势美和气韵美，视觉冲击力极强。1999年出版《画家戚弘(QiHong)作品集》。2000年大型古典永乐宫等壁画被日本和台湾收藏家收藏。2003年起创办营口市奇虹美术高级中学。二十多年来从事美术创作和美术教育事业，创作的作品长期展览于国外。2010年旅居新加坡，是新加坡南洋艺术馆画家，他在扎实的美术基础之上打破傳統的框框，創出自己独特的艺术风格。2011年创作的神马系列作品首次在新加坡醉花林隆重展出，其中作品《龙马精神》、《一马当先》被高度赞誉，分别被印尼、马来西亚、新加坡的收藏家珍藏。2012年被中国“山西永乐宫壁画艺术博物馆”特聘为博物馆艺术总监。2012年特聘为泰国曼谷画院艺术顾问。2012年出版《腾--天之御》一、二系列作品集和《腾--天之御》小品集。2012年《腾—天之御》系列作品，应新加坡法国文化艺术中心邀请举办个展。2012年新加坡美术总会特聘戚弘(QiHong)为新加坡青少年美术教育促进部主任。2012年应新加坡华族文化节总工委会邀请参加新中艺术家书法暨绘画百米长卷创作。2013年1月27日应邀参加亚洲艺术博览会2013，作品《腾--天之御》成功展出。

　　Biography of Qi Hong

　　Qi Hong was born in 1963, Liaoning Province, China. He graduated from the Shenyang Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts and pursued further studies in the China Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1987. He is highly skilled in Chinese ink, oil and mural paintings; and specialized in painting horses in Chinese ink from 1998, with initial influence from famous horse painter Xu Beihong. He published “A Collection of Paintings by Qi Hong” in 1999. His large-scale classical mural paintings based on the murals of the Yongle Temple in Shanxi Province, were collected by Japanese and Taiwanese collectors in 2000. He founded the Qi Hong Higher Art School in Yingkou City in 2003. He moved to Singapore in 2010 and became the representative artist of the newly formed Nanyang Culture Gallery, which enable him greater artistic breakthroughs. His new series of horses were introduced and specially acquired by collectors from Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore at the 166th anniversary celebration and inauguration of the new Singapore Chui Huay Lim Club building in 2011. He was appointed the artistic director of the Yongle Temple Museum in Shanxi Province, China; and artistic advisor to Bangkok Painting Academy. His collection of horse paintings “Galloping in the Skyline” were published by Singapore Eastern Arts House and invited to hold a solo exhibition of the collection at the SOCIETE GENERALE Gallery - Alliance Française de Singapour in 2012. He was appointed as head of Youth Promotion Section of the Federation of Art Societies (Singapore) in 2012. He was invited to participate in a Singapore-China artists’ collaborative 100m long scroll painting in the Singapore Chinese Cultural Festival 2012.