Chan Chi

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...

B.A. from Shenyang Conservatory of Music
M.A. from Lunxun Academy of Fine Art (LAFA )

1989，Back of Nude， Oil Painting Art from China – International Art Show, Selected Group Show, International Trade Centre, Singapore.

1990, Selected Works of Oil Paintings, White Mountain and Black Water Exhibition, Selected Group Show, sponsored by Ministry of Culture of Singapore, Singapore. [3].

1990, Nudes and Still Life-Oil Paintings of Chen Qi, Solo Exhibition, Sponsored by Hongxiang Art Centre of Singapore and Ministry of Culture of China, Singapore

1990, Oil Paintings of Chen Qi, Solo Exhibition, Sponsored by Dragon Gate Art Gallery, Singapore

1990, Oil Paintings of Chen Qi, Solo Exhibition, Sponsored by Dragon Gate Art Gallery, Singapore

1994, Solo Exhibition of Chen Qi, Solo Exhibition, Sponsored by Singapore Art Gallery, Papua

1996，Chen Qi's Portrait Art Painting, Solo Exhibition, Sponsored by Dragon Gate Gallery, Switzerland

1997-2006, Plein Air Paintings of Chen Qi, Solo Exhibition, Deutschland Cruise Liner, Germany

2007, Chen Qi's Ink Paintings, Solo, Sponsored by ARE Groups, Singapore

2011 May, Lovely Child —Ink Paintings of Chen Qi, Solo Exhibition, Sponsored by Artist Association of Gansu, Gansu, China

2011 July, Amphibism Exploration - Chen Qi's Ink Paintings of Amphibism Movement, So...