Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is extremely pleased to announce that Yayun Zhang has been named as the Gallery’s new featured artist and she will now be promoted by the gallery for the next 14 days in the gallery’s Artist Showcase.
Yayun Zhang is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning artist based in China. She was selected as 1 of the top twelve finalists in the gallery’s 32nd Solo Art Exhibition Series. The placement in this competition qualified her work to be showcased in this feature.
Her Artist Showcase feature will be promoted to hundreds of major news outlets. In addition, the gallery will also be featuring and promoting her artwork in the gallery’s various social media networks for further exposure.
Below are Yayun’s Artist Biography, Artist Statement and 5 of her oil paintings submitted to this competition.
Zhang Yayun began learning painting at an early age and later graduated from the Oil Painting Advanced Studies Class at the China Academy of Art. After stepping down from her leadership position in teaching, she re-entered the field of oil painting, where her modest achievements have inspired her creativity.
The Shandong Boshan Zhengjue Temple Calligraphy and Painting Academy has collected three of her works. During the national "fight against the epidemic," her oil painting on wood Chinese Peonies in Bloom won the highest award at the 2020 National Artists' Indoor Sketching and Creation Micro-Exhibition, which only offered "Selection" and "Excellent" awards.
Her oil paintings have been exhibited in the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League (CYLC) Welcomes the 20th National Congress · CYLC Directly Affiliated Institutions Calligraphy, Painting and Photography Exhibition and represented the CYLC in the Central Government Departments · Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China Calligraphy, Painting and Photography Exhibition.
Her works have also been published in national journals such as China Collections and Culture Monthly, and have been included in the Ministry of Culture and Tourism Art Digital Resource Library and launched on the "National Culture and Tourism Digital Resource Library."
In recent years, Zhang Yayun's oil paintings have appeared on the international stage: her painting Harmonious Four Auspicious Animals received the "Special Recognition Award" at the 15th International Animal Art Competition (USA); Rolling Blessings and Longevity won an award at the Canada 2025 Still Life Art Online Competition; her still life Autumn Love won an award at the Canada 2025 International Still Life Art Online Competition; and her figure painting Childlike Innocence won third place at the "8th Women Artists Art Competition (USA)."
Zhang Yayun is a member of Sketching China and Sketching China Women's Painting Association, and has participated in many of their exhibitions. In this family, she has many mentors and helpful friends, from whom she has benefited greatly.
The lotus symbolizes nobility, integrity, holiness, auspiciousness, and other fine qualities in Chinese culture, and also implies blessings for a happy life. Its characteristic of growing out of the mud yet remaining unstained gives people trapped in hardship and confusion hope for the future.
During the "raging pandemic" in 2020, I hoped that people could break through the "mud of the raging pandemic" and return to an auspicious and beautiful time, so I picked up my brush to paint the hope in my heart. When people overcame the "pandemic," I created works such as Bloom, Autumn Lotus Elegance, and Dream Lotus, forming the Lotus Series.
In Autumn Lotus Elegance, I not only depict the lotus still blooming in the autumn wind but also show the lotus's calmness in facing the coming harsh winter of life through the withered petals and the initial formation of its fruit (seed pods). They symbolize my yearning for a holy, auspicious, and beautiful life.
To learn more about Yayun Zhang and to see more of her oil artwork, she can be reached via Email.
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