Yaş:

37

City/ District:

İstanbul / Beyoğlu

E-mail:

leichuanyi@hotmail.com

Chuanyi LEI who was born in 1987 to a Chinese Hui Muslim family in Beijing, graduated from the Department of Historical Architecture at the Faculty of Archeology and Museology at Peking University in 2010. Between 2010-2014, he worked as a project manager at the Cultural Heritage Rescue and Research Institute at Tsinghua University National Heritage Center. In 2018, he completed his master's degree on miniature at FSM Foundation University, Institute of Fine Arts, Department of Traditional Turkish Arts. In 2019, he started a proficiency in art program in the same department. He still teaches Traditional Chinese Arts at Yeditepe University Confucius Institute. The artist who took lessons from Prof. Sun Jusheng and Lee Shi-lin who is the founder of the Chinese Islamic Miniature School and one of the leading painters in China and started traditional Chinese painting by following the footsteps of his father Ali Leigong, continues his works in the field of Sumi-e technique and Flower-Animal paintings. The artist who is working in the fields of Turkish Islamic Arts and Asian Art History, has published articles in various magazines and journals around the world and gave many conferences since 2009. Until today, he held 2 personal exhibitions, participated in 1 biennial and 6 group exhibitions. He continues his works in Istanbul and Beijing.