Zhang Hongmei
Born in 1973, she graduated in 1996 at the faculty of textile design at the Shangdong Academy of Fine Arts; in 2001, she obtained a second degree in textile design at the University of Qinghua, where she attended a Master's to qualify in teaching.
She taught art from 1996 to 1998 at the Shangdong Trade-Union Administrative Institute as an adjunct professor.
From 2000 to 2001, she taught textile design at the Institute of Education for the people with disabilities.
Since 2000, she has collaborated with the most important Italian, English and Chinese textile design companies.
In 2000, she began her painting carrer with exhibitions and collaborations in the United States, central and southern America and Europe.
Her work has developed through research dedicated to abstraction, but is still connected to certain historic references deriving from Chinese realism.