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Chan Chi or Chen Qi, is a modern artist with fame in oil and ink paintings. Chan Chi is a contemporary oil and ink painting artist, who is credited for cofounding the Amphibian-Art movement with his fellow artist during 1990s. Chan Chi’s painting method inherited the techniques of the Old Masters, like Rembrandt, Jacques-Louis David. His vision of color drew inspiration from the Impressionism artists, like Vincent von Gogh and Manet, but he also was strongly influenced by modern masters like Henri Matisse, and Picasso. Since 1989, Chan Chi’s works have been collected by museums and private collectors in China, Taiwan, Japan, Malaysia, Germany and United States. Today, Chan Chi is active as a painter, curator and art instructor. In 1956, Cheney Qi was born in a family of Chinese senior cadres. His ancestral family is linked to the Manchu Dynasty. The year Chan Chi was born, China was under the Communist Rule, and it was during the midst of Great Leap Forward movement. Millions of people died, due to shortage of food. He grew up in the chaos of the Great Culture Revolution, as he was expelled from home, and sent to the rural area with his father. After Mao’s death, as the ending of the Great Culture Revolution, Chan Chi became one of the first students who could attend the re-opened universities in China. In 1980, He graduated from LAFA (Luxun Academy of Fine Art), with a Master of Arts. During 1980s, Chan Chi had been an art teacher in university for nearly 10 years. In the late 1989, Chan Chi was invited to attend a group exhibition in Singapore, and one of his oil paintings, Back of Nude, was claimed as one of the best nude painting in China, by then Chairman of Singapore Art Associations, art critic 陈世集. His works had been received favorable notices in publication such as Lianhe Zaoabo(联合早报), Straight Time（海峡时报） In the early 1990, Chan Chi held many solo exhibitions across Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan and Japan. Around 1995, Chan Chi cofounded the Amphibian-Art movement with his fellow artist. After 2010, Chan Chi expanded Amphibian-Art technique, and applied it to the traditional Chinese ink paintings.