Qing-Min Meng

Qing-Min Meng is the Li-Ching Assistant Professor of Art at Wellesley College where he teaches studio courses in Chinese Painting and Basic Drawing. Before joining the Wellesley art faculty in 1996, he taught at Shanghai Teachers University in China and at Southwest Texas State University at San Marcos.

Professor Meng received his Diploma of Art from Shanghai School of Fine Art and his B.A. in Art from Shanghai Teachers University. In 1998, he received his Master of Fine Arts from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Professor Meng's work reflects his dual training and expertise in both the traditional Chinese art forms and the diverse styles of western art. He has exhibited widely in the United States and abroad. Among the venues to show his work are the Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami FL; the Gloria Art Museum in Austin, TX; 80 Washington Square East at New York University; the Asian American Arts Center in New York City; the Public Exhibition Space, in Osaka, Japan; and the Liu Hai Su Art Museum in Shanghai.

Meng has won many awards, including a Mid-America Arts Alliance National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Painting and Works on Paper; an Art Matters Fellowship; a CAVA Fellowship; and an NEA New Forms Regional Initiatives Grant. His paintings have been reviewed in many publications and are represented in a range of public and private collections, including Federal Reserve Art Collection, and Peoplesą Bank of Bridgewater, CT.

His work has been reviewed in the New York Times, the Dallas Morning News and Museum & Arts Magazine, and is currently represented by Conduit Gallery in Dallas, TX, and Kandell Gallery in Wellfleet, MA.

Profile last updated: 11/01

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