Mei Bo (b. 1981)

梅波

Mei Bo, styled Hepu and commonly known by his style name, was born in Sanmen, Zhejiang, in 1981. In 2002, he enrolled in the undergraduate Fine Arts program (Chinese Calligraphy and Painting) at Zhejiang University and was selected for Chu Kochen Honors College in 2003. He graduated in 2007 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. From 2007 to 2013, he worked at Chinese Flower-and-Bird Painting magazine and the Zhejiang Academy of Painting. In 2013, he entered the Graduate School of the Chinese National Academy of Arts to study landscape painting creation and research, graduating in 2016 with a Master of Fine Arts degree. He is currently director of the Hangzhou Tianmu Academy of Painting, a member of the Zhejiang Artists Association, and a member and deputy secretary-general of the Academic Committee of the Zhejiang Young Calligraphers Association.

Exhibitions

November 2024, Breeze and Return—Mei Bo's New Works for the Jiachen Year (Wenxiang Academy, Hangzhou)

January 2020, Mountains Brushed with Light Clouds—Chinese Paintings by Mei Hepu (Sanmen Cultural Exhibition Hall, Zhejiang)

April 2018, Clouds Rising over Lakes and Mountains—Landscape Paintings by Mei Hepu (Yinxuan Art Museum, Hangzhou)

July 2024, A Rendezvous of Lakes and Mountains—2024 Young Artists Exhibition (Henglu Art Museum, Hangzhou)

November 2023, Lineage and Resonance—Inaugural Special Exhibition of the Zhejiang Landscape Painting Research Association (Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou)

October 2023, The Splendid Years—National Invitational Exhibition of Outstanding Young Painters (Fuzhou Painting Academy, Fuzhou)

April 2021, Memories of Jiangnan—Outstanding Young Chinese Painting Exhibition of the Yangtze River Delta (Binlong Art Museum, Suzhou)

December 2019, Chinese National Academy of Arts Educational Achievements Exhibition (National Museum of China, Beijing)

Publications

November 2024, Breeze and Return—Mei Bo's New Works for the Jiachen Year

January 2020, Mountains Brushed with Light Clouds—A Collection of Chinese Paintings by Mei Hepu

Art Works

Fenghu Pass at Mount Qiyun

2019