Artist 藝術家 : Lampo Leong 梁藍波

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Lampo Leong 梁藍波

Lampo Leong is an internationally renowned painter, calligrapher and multimedia artist, who received his BFA in brush painting from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in China in 1983, an MFA in painting with High Distinction from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco/Oakland in 1988, and is now a Ph.D.-ABD in Art Theory at the prestigious Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. Leong is currently a tenured Associate Professor of Art and the Art Department Chair at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has also influenced thousands of students through more than 100 lectures across the United States, China and Taiwan at institutions such as the University of California at Berkeley, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Stanford University, the University of Minnesota at Twin Cities, Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, San Antonio College in Texas, Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in China, National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei, and Tainan National University of the Arts in Taiwan. Leong has served as juror for many art competitions, including public art projects for San Francisco Art Commission, Visual Arts Panel for Missouri Arts Council, Missouri State Fair Art Exhibition, Art Saint Louis juried exhibition, Figuratively Speaking juried exhibition, and the Best of America national juried exhibition.

In his latest series, Contemplation · Forces, Lampo Leong has created a new visual language that incorporates the rhythm of cursive Chinese calligraphy with an approach to color reminiscent of the symphonic effects achieved by Abstract Expressionism. Departing from its literal meaning, and set against meditative hues or fiery colors, calligraphy is shattered and layered to generate depth and dynamic tension. Energies shift and explode to create serenity in an electric manner. Light emanates from darkness, symbolizing spiritual rebirth. Leong's works celebrate the dynamic energies that give birth to new life, new planets, and new stars.

Professor Leong's work has been featured in more than 55 solo and 250 group exhibitions in museums and galleries worldwide in national and international juried/curated exhibitions. He has also collaborated with dancers, musicians and composers such as Lily Cai, Chanticleer, Gang Situ, Yi Chen and Thomas McKenney for multimedia performances and digital film premiered in San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the St. Louis International Film Festival. His painting and calligraphy are widely collected by museums and corporations internationally, including The Cantor Center for the Visual Art at Stanford University, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Saint Louis University Museum of Art, Macao Museum of Art in Macao, and Guangdong Museum of Art in China; as well as Disney World in Florida, The Westin Surabaya in Indonesia and The Tokyo Westin in Japan.

Commissioned by the San Francisco Arts Commission, Leong's 26-foot-diameter granite inset calligraphic medallion is permanently installed in a city park. His artistic contributions have earned him more than 35 awards and much recognition internationally, such as Gold Medal at the XV Exposicao Coltctiva dos Artistas de Macau, Best of Show at the 42nd Sumi-e Society of America Anniversary Juried Exhibition, Third Place Award, Girardot National Juried Exhibition, Bronze Medal, 20th Century Asian Pacific Art Competition, and most recently, Faculty Award from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is included in over 74 biographical references, for example, Who's Who in American, Who's Who in American Art, Marquis’ Who's Who in the World, International Directory of Distinguished Leadership, UK’s One Thousand Great Intellectuals, The International Who's Who, India’s Asian/American Who's Who, Malaysia’s Asia – Men & Women of Achievement, China’s Lexicon of Notable Chinese and The World Famous Chinese Artists Almanac. His art and teaching achievements have been featured in more than 800 reviews and publications in newspapers, magazines, books, websites, and on television internationally, including a PBS documentary. He has been recognized in the US Congressional Record, and in 1999, the Mayor of San Francisco, Willie Brown, proclaimed November 19th to be Lampo Leong Day. Most recently, in 2007, Professor Leong is the recipient of the 40th Annual Faculty-Alumni Award by the University of Missouri-Columbia.


梁藍波，美國著名藝術家和美術教授，擅長油畫、國畫、書法及多媒體製作。現任美國著名研究性大學——哥侖比亞密蘇里大學美術系終身教授，研究生導師，美術系系主任。梁教授生於中國廣州(一九六一年)，八三年畢業於廣州美術學院中國畫系，八八年於美國著名的加州美術學院獲油畫系碩士學位兼“桂冠畢業生”榮譽稱號，零六年為北京中央美術學院書法與繪畫比較研究準博士。他曾在柏克萊加州大學、史旦福大學、明尼蘇達大學、舊金山亞洲藝術博物館、全美藝術院校協會年會及中國、臺灣等地的大學作過上百次講演。歷任舊金山市政府藝術委員會、密蘇里州藝術委員會、全美油畫家協會「美國傑出作品•全國美展」、密蘇里州博覽會及聖露易斯藝術「大自然的能量」等眾多展覽的評委。

其作品曾在世界各地畫廊、博物館舉辦個人畫展五十五次，計有：美國柏克萊加州大學、聖路易斯大學藝術博物館、密蘇里州博物館、硅谷埃及博物館、西伊利諾大學博物館、廣州博物館、香港世界畫廊和澳門賈梅士博物院等；並入選中國「第七屆全國美展」、「中國藝術大展•當代中國畫展」和美國史丹福大學藝術博物館「疑問」、美國太平洋博物館「超越與瞻前•四位傑出美國畫家」、紐約依申•科恩畫廊「語言與非語言」等世界各國二百五十多個重要聯展。僅近五年，其作品就入選美國一百多個重要展覽，其中有：美國內布拉斯加州奧馬哈市時代畫廊「第四屆國際現代藝術展」、肯薩斯州匹茲堡州立大學「第四屆國際美術展」、路易斯安那州馬舒博物館「第二十九屆全國美展」、史東尼布魯克紐約大學「東亞書法國際邀請展」、路易斯安那州立大學「紙本藝術」、美國德州水彩畫協會「第二十五屆國際水彩畫大展」、唯珍尼亞州得力斯堡藝術中心「劃時代•全國畫展」、北卡羅里達州費亞提唯州立大學「2002藝術動向•全國畫展」、密蘇里州哥侖比亞學院「紙上藝術•全國美展」、加州州立大學「漢字的重構」等；以及「第一屆台北國際當代水墨雙年展」和在台灣長流美術館首展的「國際現代水墨大展」等，該展在台灣、中國和美國的十多個美術館巡迴展出。其包括多媒體制作DVD、裝置藝術及結合中國狂草書法的抽象油畫系列《聚合大系》的個人作品展覽亦正在美國各州及世界各地巡迴展出。

梁藍波教授的作品曾三十五次獲獎，被世界各地的報章、雜誌和電視介紹過八百次以上，包括中國的《美術》、《世界美術》、《中國畫》、《畫廊》、《藝術界》、加拿大的《典藏》(台灣國際版)、香港的《亞州藝術新聞》和美國的《藝術周刊》、《啟示》等雜誌。並曾以中英文發表學術論文二十多篇。其一百四十平方米的狂草書法「物華天寶、人傑地靈」被美國政府以花崗岩永久鑲嵌於舊金山公園，他的作品被舊金山亞州藝術博物館、史丹福大學藝術博物館、明尼阿普拉斯藝術博物館、聖路易斯大學藝術博物館、廣東美術館、澳門藝術博物館等世界十多個博物館和上百個公共機構所珍藏。其成就被列入世界八十多種名人辭典，如美國的《世界名人錄》、英國劍橋的《國際傳記辭典》、中國北京的《中華人物辭海•當代大文化卷》、印度的《國際名人錄》及馬來西亞的《亞太成功人仕》等。其藝術與教學成就曾被載入美國白宮《國會記錄》。為表彰他的藝術貢獻與成就，2007年哥侖比亞密蘇里大學授予其「優秀教授獎」、1999年美國舊金山市政府由布朗市長公告將11月19日定為「梁藍波日」。

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