Biography Tang Wei Min was born in 1971 in Yong Zhou, Hunan Province. In 1991, Tang graduated from the Art Deparment of Hunan Standard College, where he majored in Oil Painting. Since that time, he is working as a professional oil painter. In 2001, Wei Min was accepted into a graduate study program of Oil Panting in Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. In the same year, his painting "Girl with fan" was sponsored by the school for the prestigious scholarship named after "Charles B.Wang”. The painting received second place at the exhibition organized for this scholarship and Wei Min received the scholarship. This work , now in private collection, also was selected for the May 2001 issuse of "Chinese Oil Pantitng". His other work "Summer dream" was displayed in the tryout of "China Oil Portray" exibition. Yet another Tang's work, "Peeping" was shown at the Present-day Oil Painting Exibition in the Hunan Province. In 2003, The Beijing Museum of Fine Art exhibited and purchased his painting. Tang is a practicing Zen Buddhist and his work full of symbols of Buddhism. Currently Tang lives in a monastery near his home town, in order to be spiritually clean for painting of art, and to be surrounded by the objects he depicts in his art – world of the ancient China. Tang considers the art of painting as his way to bring harmony, balance and beauty to the world. * Wei Min – is first name, Tang – family name. In China they first write family name, then first name. Curriculum Vitae Finalist of the International Portrait Competition (Canada, 2006). Winner (2nd place) of the International Child Portrait Competition (USA, 2006). Winner of the Charles B. Wang competition (China, 2001).