1954

Born in Beijing, she first learned the technique of drawing from her mother, Shao Jingkun, who is an oil painter. She joined the army at the age of sixteen, and during her six years of service she was able to continue to paint and exhibit.

1976

At the age of twenty-two, she entered the Beijing Painting Academy as a professional painter

1979-1980

As a member of the taboo-breaking Star Star group, she participated in its exhibitions in China and in many exhibitions in the U.S.A. and Japan.  One of the exhibited works, Last Song of the Grand Historian, is painted on both sides of the paper to build up dense, opaque layers, similar to the surfaces of the Modern Heavy Color painters.  The deeply emotional feeling of the artist is conveyed through her Expressionist devices of composition, stroke, color, and texture.

1984-1985

Her paintings shown in the exhibition, Contemporary Chinese Painting, which toured the U.S.A.

Collection

China National Art Gallery

Hong Kong Museum of Art

Private collections in China and abroad