Born in Shanghai, China, Xuhong Shang received his B.F.A degree in Painting and Drawing from Shanghai Teacher’s University in 1984. In 1986 he moved to the U.S.A. where he received his M.A. degree in Painting and Drawing from Illinois State University in Normal in 1989, and his M.F.A degree in Painting from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia in 1992. For the past fifteen years he has exhibited his work in New York City, Chicago, Atlanta, Miami, Philadelphia, Vienna, Tel Aviv, Barcelona, Kumamoto, Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai. He has exhibited at such venues as Sotheby's; Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta; Southern Florida Art Center, Miami; Kumamoto Fine Arts Museum, Japan; Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago; and Plum Blossoms Galleries. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts/Southern Art Federation Regional Visual Arts Fellowship (1995) and Art Matters Fellowship (1993). Articles have been published on his work in Asian Art News, Sculpture and Art Papers magazines, as well as in such newspapers as The Atlanta Constitution, and World Journal. His art work has been included in books and catalogs such as New American Paintings (Vol.16); International Young Art 2000, Sotheby’s; Euro Art 2000, BCN Art Directe's of Barcelona, Spain; and Mapping The Self, Telfair Museum of Art. A book/catalog titled Representation/Reality - Xuhong Shang was published by Plum Blossoms International Ltd. in the spring of 2001. Shang has taught at Shanghai Teachers University; The Tyler School of Art; The Savannah College of Art and Design; Kansas State University; and, currently, Southern Illinois University Carbondale. In addition to his teaching, he has given 30 workshops and lectures in a variety of institutions over the past ten years.