Han Dai-Yu

Han Dai-Yu received his BFA and MFA from the China Academy of Art. Combining Western and traditional Chinese art and culture, he developed and instituted a Chinese Comprehensive Art program for the Academy. From 2001-02, Dai-Yu prevailed as an Artist-in-Residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. He spent 2002-06 in the United States as a visiting scholar and artist and has taught drawing and painting for over ten years. Since 2006, Dai-Yu taught at Loyola Marymount University as a full time faculty and now he is an Associate Professor of the art and art history department.

Dai-Yu’s volumes on drawing and painting have been published by the China National Academy Press and Taipei International Cultural Publishing House. His most recent textbooks, Drawing Code (East meets West), was published by University Readers in 2009, Ignite the Soul (The Art of Figure Drawing), was published by Cognella Academic Publishing in 2013. He has exhibited internationally at the Shanghai Art Museum and Museum of Chinese Painting Institute in Shanghai, the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, and the LA Contemporary Art Gallery in Los Angeles. Dai-Yu has recently been invited to exhibit with SCOPE Miami and numerous Contemporary Art Fairs.