Born in Chengdu, Sichuan, in 1983. Graduated with a BA degree and then an MA from Chinese Painting Department, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, in 2006 and 2009 respectively. A student of Xu Lei, a leading contemporary New Ink master, Hao believes that any exploration for contemporariness in ink painting must be grounded in ink painting itself. He insists on painting traditionally on silk and using traditional fine-brush vocabulary to interpret the Chinese philosophical ideas of “void” and “emptiness” in his creation of an immaculate, cryptic and tranquil fantasy world. His frequent use of suggestive signs has turned his water, flower, people and rock into allegories for communicating the immediately close ...