Rong Liang

Rong Liang was born in Guangzhou, China (formerly known as Canton; Cantonese dialect/Cantonese food), a city of between 9-10 million people, about 85 miles northwest of Hong Kong. 

She began her formal art studies in 1979 around the age of 15 at the Guangzhou Arts and Crafts.  From there, she studied at the Guangzhou Academy of fine Arts beginning in 1984 and taught in the Oil Painting Department there in 1988.  Late that year, she entered the Central Institute of Fine Arts in Beijing, which is the most celebrated Fine Arts school in China, studying both oil painting and sculpture.  In 1989, however, she had to leave after participating in the freedom demonstrators that were smashed in Beijing by the Chinese government and the People’s Liberation Army at the Tiananmen Square Massacre of June 4, 1989.

Since then, she has taught privately in Boston and San Francisco.  After moving to Indiana in the summer of 2006, she’s had works displayed at the Swanson Reed Gallery in Louisville, Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Louisville Jewish Art Center, the Howard Steamboat Museum in Jeffersonville, the Women’s Club of Louisville, the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, the Louisville Slugger Museum, and the Louisville Visual Art Association.  She has also sold works at the Saint James’ Art Fair, Madison Chautauqua, and Mellwood (Louisville) September Art Fair, among others.