Mr. Zhuang Hongxing, who was born in Nanxun in 1940 and was admitted into the Fine Arts Department of Nanjing Normal College in 1956, is now a famous painter and professor and member of China Artists Association, and his works of art were selected in national art exhibitions and won him silver awards. In August 2018, he held a solo exhibition at the National Art Museum of China and 28 of his artworks including 12 works featuring Nanxun during the period of Minguo (the Republic of China (1912-1949)) were collected by the same museum. Those masterpieces were featured in traveling exhibitions throughout the world, making Mr. Zhuang a well-known painter. He is an outstanding artist of the time who is also a native of Nanxun.

During his childhood, Mr. Zhuang Hongxing lived in Nanxun within the Republican period. The reflection of dark bluish tiles in the water in the moonlight, tawny fences in the hometown in the springtime, old acquaintances under oilcloth umbrellas in the dreams, blurred shadows on mottled whitewashed walls, all this invokes his ever-lasting nostalgia. His homesickness finds itself in his watercolors of small size, transcending specific objects and fading away like ripples in the water.

Graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Nanjing Normal University (formerly known as Nanjing Normal College) in 1961
Took refresher courses at Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris in 2001

Participation in Exhibitions
8th 9th 11th National Exhibition of Fine Arts of China
2nd 3rd 4th 5th 10th National Watercolor Exhibition of China
Centennial Exhibition of Watercolor Art of China
“40 Prestigious Artists of China” Group Exhibition
World Chinese Watercolor Exhibition in Taipei
Work published in “Watercolor History of China”, “Encyclopedia of Chinese contemporary Art”
The Age of Progress: An Academic Exhibition of Chinese Watercolor History
The Exhibition held by the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC) at Athens, Greece
Georgeous Landscape: NAMOC Collection of Artworks on Landscape 1949-2008
Jiangnan: An Exhibition of Academic Creations of Shen Xinggong, Fang Jun and Zhuang Hongxing
Sense of China --- Collections of Artworks from NAMOC co-sponsored by the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), Lithuanian Art Museum and Lithuanian National Gallery

Solo Exhibitions
Impressions: Zhuang Hongxing’s Works Exhibition at the Provincial Gallery of Jiangsu in 1997
Jiangnan of China: Zhuang Hongxing’s Works Exhibition at Yellow Earth Gallery in Paris in 2001
Mulberry Fields: Zhuang Hongxing’s Paintings Exhibition at Nanjing University of the Arts in 2016
Dim in the Dream: Art Exhibition of Zhuang Hongxing’s Watercolor Painting at the National Art Museum of China in 2017

Awards
Silver Medal at the 9th National Exhibition of Fine Arts of China
Received the only Award at the 2nd National Watercolor Exhibition of China
Gold Medal at the 5th Watercolor Exhibition of Jiangsu Province
Silver Medal at the first Li Jianchen Biennale, the most prestigious competition for watercolor paintings in China
Received the only Award at the 2nd National Exhibition for Small Sized Watercolor Paintings
2nd prize in the first Jiangsu Comic Strips Creation Awards
An award from Zeng Xianzi Education Foundation for teachers at national advanced normal universities