Azure Kang

As a Wuhan-based artist, I have work on traditional Chinese painting for over two decades. Several years before, I was influenced by American Abstract Expressionism and broke away from conventional pattern. Inspired by the gestural paintings of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Joan Mitchell, I am exploring the possibility of mixing Abstract Expressionism with traditional Chinese painting.



Working in galleries and art institutions before 2009, now an abstract painting artist.


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I am Azure.
I am a contemporary abstract artist whose creative life unfolds between the tactile fibers of traditional Xuan paper and the luminous glow of the digital screen. To the world, these two mediums may represent the past and the future; to me, they are two inseparable dimensions of my soul—different ways of touching time and chasing light.
My artistic journey began with a deep, meditative immersion into traditional Eastern ink painting. For years, I have been captivated by the breathing texture of rice paper, the deliberate watermarks left behind as wet ink dries, and the calligraphic lines that flow intuitively from my brush, echoing the fragile geometry of flora and micro-ecosystems. For me, holding the brush is a sp...

China Central Academy of Fine Arts – 2007
Theory of Painting
Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China – 1998
The Department of Traditional Chinese Painting
Southwest University, Chongqing, China - 1993
College of Fine Arts
Yangtze Normal University, Fuling, China - 1990
School of Arts