Chinese Calligraphy

Yi-Zhi Huang

My work has been featured in many Chinese calligraphy exhibits in mainland China, Taiwan and the U.S., and I have lectured widely on the subject at universities, museums, schools, and public libraries in New Jersey and in other places. I wrote several articles on the history and aesthetics of Chinese calligraphy and has been a member of the Shanghai Calligrapher Association of China starting from 1983.

I hope to contribute to the restoration of the tradition of Chinese calligraphy not just as a basic form of fine art, but most importantly, as a cultural carrier.

More information about me (as a calligrapher), my calligraphy works and Chinese calligraphy

• My CV as a Chinese calligrapher: English version, Chinese version.
• Power point slide show of selected calligraphy works of mine.
• Power point slide show of my presentation at Zimmerli Art Museum on Chinese calligraphy.
• Power point slide show of my online lecture "The evolution of official scirpt (lishu)" at Queens Public Library at Flusing.
• A video about me as a Chinese calligrapher, including introduction, demonstration (recorded by Rutgers Centers for Global Advancement and International Affairs) and selected calligraphy works.
• Video and PDF file of the slides of my online lecture "Mathematics and art," Fourth lecture, Going into the classics---North American Calligraphy Culture Online Lecture Series, North American Chinese Calligraphers Association and Dragon Summit Foundation, June 12, 2012.
• Han Mo, an online Chinese calligraphy magazine edited by some friends of mine and myself.

Solo Exhibitions

• Title Professors' Oriental Abstract World (jointly with painter Zhiyuan Cong)
  • Place The Art Library, Rutgers University.
  • Dates December 10, 2010 - June 30, 2011.
  • Reception 6:00 pm on December 10, 2010.

• Title Chinese Calligraphy, An Oriental Abstract Art
  • Place The Art Gallery, Busch Campus Center, Rutgers University
  • Dates October 26 -- November 8, 2003
  • Reception 12:30 pm on October 30, 2003.
  • Some Pictures
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    • Picture 2
      
    • Picture 3

• Title Chinese Calligraphy
  • Place Monroe Township Library
  • Dates September 1 -- October 1, 2002
  • Lecture 3:00 pm on October 1, 2002.
  • Some pictures
    • Exhibition
      
    • Demonstration

• Title Traditional and Modern (an online exhibition)
  • Place The online Chinese Magazine Civil Wind.
  • Dates December, 1997.

Selected Exhibitions Participated

• Calligraphy Exhibition of Shanghai Elementary and Middle School Students, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, 1976.

• Shanghai Calligraphy Exhibition, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, 1981.

• Fudan University Calligraphy Exhibition, Fudan University, Shanghai, 1983.

• Calligraphy Exhibition of Shamghai University Students, Shanghai Workers Cultural Palace, 1984.

• Exhibition of Works of Members of Changlang Calligraphy Association (from China), Mason Gross School of Arts, Rutgers University, 1990.

• Chinese Calligraphy Exhibition, Art Gallery, Taipei, 1990.

• China-Japan Calligraphy Exhibition, Lu Xun Memorial Museum, Shanghai, 2004.

• Zen Pieces Calligraphy Exhibition, Amerasia Bank Gallery, New York, 2012.

• Large Character Calligraphy Exhibition, Songjiang Guangfulin Cultural Exchange Center, Shanghai, 2013.

• "Emotional Connection to Shanghai"---Exhibition of Calligraphy Works of Famous Calligraphers, Shanghai Library, Shanghai, 2014.

• 2014 Large Character Calligraphy International Competition and Exhibition of Invited Well-Known Calligraphers, The Sixteenth China Shanghai International Arts Festival, Shanghai Library, Shanghai, 2014.

• 2014 Chinese Calligraphy International Exhibition, Peony Ballroom, Queens Crossing in Flushing, New York, 2014.

• Exhibition of Works of Invited Well-Known Calligraphers in Memory of Sun Yat-Sen on His 150 Birthday, Exhibition Hall of Shanghai Federation of literary and art circles, Shanghai, 2016.

• Exhibition of Selected Works from Exhibition of Works of Invited Well-Known Calligraphers in Memory of Sun Yat-Sen on His 150 Birthday, Rong Bao Zhai Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2016.

Selected Published Works

• Selected Works of Shanghai Elementary and Middle School Students, 1977.

• Calligraphy Magazine, 1985.

• Calligraphy Education, 1990.

• Duowei Times, 2002.

• The China Press, 2003.

• Collected Works of Large Character Calligraphy Exhibition, 2013.

• Collection of "Emotional Connection to Shanghai"---Exhibition of Calligraphy Works of Famous Calligraphers, 2014.

• Collected Works of 2014 Large Character Calligraphy International Competition and Exhibition of Invited Well-Known Calligraphers, 2014.

• 2014 New York International Chinese Calligraphy Exhibition, 2014.

Selected Lectures and/or Demonstration on Calligraphy

• Mason Gross School of Arts, Rutgers University, 1990.

• Union Chinese School, New Jersey, 1990.

• Liberty High School, New York City, 1993.

• Monroe Township Library, New Jersey, 2002.

• Newark Museum, New Jersey, 2004.

• The Art Library, Rutgers University, New Jersey, 2010.

• Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Jersey, 2014.
  
  • Email announcement
  • Web page at the museum
  • Web page at Rutgers University
  • Power point show

TV program and video on calligraphy

• Blank Canvas, Ebru TV, November, 2009.

• #RUHowTo Write in Chinese Calligraphy, Rutgers Centers for Global Advancement and International Affairs, February, 2017.

Articles on Calligraphy

• Cixiao Cun and several authors, calligraphers and seal carvers in Shanghai (in Chinese), Hanmo 1 (2012).

• Internet and calligraphy (in Chinese), jointly with Weinian Luo and Xinde Shen, Hanmo 3 (2012).

• The charming of abstraction: calligraphy, music and mathematics (in Chinese), Mathematical Culture 6 (2015).

• Preface, Collection of the Painting and Calligraphy Works of Lai Ping Ng, Literary & Art Exchange Association Asia, 2016.

Membership, service and honor

• Member, Shanghai Calligrapher Association, 1983 to present.

• Co-Editor-in-Chief, Han Mo, an online magazine devoted to Chinese calligraphy and the related cultural aspects.

• Calligraphy student Dr. Lewei Shang received twice the Folk Art Apprenticeships from New Jersey State Council on the Arts from 2012 to 2014, with me as the master, 2012 to 2014.

Students of Calligraphy

• Dr. Lewei Shang, New Jersey. Besides receiving twice the Folk Art Apprenticeships from New Jersey State Council on the Arts, he also did calligraphy demonstration at Johnson & Johnson's Asian Heritage Month and exhibited his works on Chinese characters at East Brunswick Library and other places.

• Lai Ping Ng, Hong Kong. In 2015, she won the Special Award (the highest prize) in Global Traditional Chinese Calligraphy Competition organized by Calligraphy Association of the Republic of China, and Tamkang University and directed by Ministry of Culture, Rublic of China. Her calligraphy works were exhibited in many exhibitions in Hong Kong. In 2016, "'A Decade in Ink and Brush Works'---Exhibition of the Painting and Calligraphy Works of Lai Ping Ng" was held in Hong Kong City Hall.

Selected calligraphy Works

• Erudite in culture and knowledge (This is for the East Asia Library at Rutgers University. Here is a picture of the entrance of the East Asia Library.)

• Western Suburban Grand Mansion (I did this for a luxury housing complex in the western suburban area of Shanghai. Here is a picture of the front gate of the complex. The building behind the gate is the club house.)

• On the memorial to my grandfather Bao-Yue Huang (I did this for Shanghai Fushou Memorial Park where there is a special memorial to my grandfather. A corner of the bottom part of the memorial can be seen in the upper-right corner of the picture above. Here is a picture of the memorial. The names of my grandfather, my grandmother and my father carved on the stone in the left were also my calligraphy work. Here is a more detailed picture of the text and calligrahy on this stone in the left. My home in Shanghai is now the last stop in a touring line called "Line A of Jingan Celebrity Residence Cultural Touring". Here are some pictures: Picture 1 (I am mentioned in this introduction to my grandfather), Picture 2, Picture 3, Picture 4, Picture 5 and Picture 6.)

• A man of virtue and wisdom will enjoy a long life (I did this calligraphy work for Joseph J. Kohn to present it to Lu Qikeng for his 80th Birthday. For more explanations, see this page. The picture and the website are presented by Yum-Tong Siu.)

• Poem by Li Shang-Yin (Tang Dynasty) (This work was exhibited in both exhibits above and was published in The China Press.)

• The green mountain remembers the old days, time goes by like songs (I did this for the cover of a book published in memory of a distant relative of mine.)

• May breeze (This was for a concert named ``May Breeze'' in 1995.)

• Mo Gen Yao (The original work was for a well-known exiled Chinese novelist. The work here was created from the picture of the original work using graphic softwares.)

• Hua Guang (This is the logo of Hua Guang Cultural association. It was created from an original calligraphy work using graphic softwares.)

• Shen Du (Self-examination) (Shen Du is a very important concept in Confucianism.)

• A poem by Wang Wei (Tang dynasty) (This work was exhibited in Mason Gross Art School of Rutgers University in 1989.)