Ma Lin is a Member of the National Artists\' Association and is Associate Professor of Fine Art at He Bei University. Ma Lin graduated from the Sculpture Dept, He Bei Arts and Craft School in 1992, Oil Painting and Creativity Research at the Central Art Academy in 1993 and Advanced Oil Painting at the same Academy in 2003. His works have received numerous awards, including those obtained at: "3rd Water Color Painting Expo of Hei Bei Province", 1988; first award in "National Art Works Expo Contributing the 70th Birthday of the National League", 1991; "National Oil Painting Art Expo", 1992; Academic Award at the "National Oil Painting Biennale", 1993; Certificate of Excellence, awarded by the National Oil Painting Committee in the "The 6th Oil Painting Creative Class' Collection from National Art Academy" and the "National Art Expo in honor of the 80th Birthday of National League", Beijing, 2001. Exhibitions include: "The 2nd National Oil Painting Expo (Beijing, 1994)"; "Chinese Contemporary Oil Painting Expo (Japan, 1994)"; "The 8th National Art Expo", 1995; "New Community-Eight from Bao Ding Expo", 1998; "National Contemporary Landscape and Oil Painting Expo (Beijing,1999)"; "New Works from Creativity Class Expo from Central Art Academy",2003; "Oil Painting Advanced Skill Class Graduation Expo from Central Art Academy", 2004. His works are broadly published by national and international art magazines and are collected widely.