Chen Jian 

Chen Jian, born in Shanghai in 1961, is now a professional painter. He has graduated from Shanghai Light Industry College and East China Normal University, majoring in fine arts. He followed Xu Mangyao, Chen Yimin, Chen Peirong, Su Chunsheng, Zhang Yinghong, Huang Azhong and other famous teachers when he was pursuing his higher education. From 1983 to 2007, he successively taught as a university teacher at Shanghai Institute of Arts and Design, Shanghai College of Light Industry, Shanghai University of Applied Sciences and Shanghai University of Engineering Science.
Since 1979, he has participated in a number of art exhibitions throughout the country, mainly in East China and Shanghai. He Served as a director of Shanghai Lacquer Painting Association. His works are collected by Shanghai Art Museum and Shanghai Telecommunications Bureau. The watercolor and oil paintings are mostly collected by people in China, Japan, the United States, and Canada.
During his work as a university teacher, he has authored many professional books. Among them, "Sketch" and "Gouache and Watercolor" were issued nationwide for art professional textbooks in multiple colleges and universities in China. They have been republished many times in a row, and the reprinting time stretched about ten years.
The sea of art is vast, and the color pen is the boat.