Xu Mangyao is a famous contemporary Chinese oil painter. Born in 1945, Shanghainese, ancestral home of Chongfu Town, Dong City, Zhejiang Province. In 1978, he was admitted to the postgraduate class of the Oil Painting Department of the China Academy of Art (formerly zhejiang academy of fine arts) (the first batch of art graduate students after the Cultural Revolution), where he studied under Professor Wang Dewei, Wu Guoting and Quan Shanshi. He is currently a professor and dean of the School of Fine Arts of Shanghai Normal University. He has held solo exhibitions and group exhibitions in France, the United States, Britain, Belgium and other countries, As well as Hong Kong, Macao and China, and some of his works have been collected by museums and collectors.
