About Artist

Artist's JourneyKailin Zhao

  • 1961   Born in Bengbu at December, AnHui province of China
  • 1991 graduated from the school of Central Academy of Fine Art,  Beijing . China
  • 1992-1994 signed contract with Kurt Svenccons gallery and held personal oil painting exhibitions with galleries in Stockholm, Sweden.Currently immigrate to California U.S He is the U.S Portrait Society membership
  • 1992  June, The theme of “From the East” held the first personal oil painting exhibition at Stockholm . Sweden
  • 1993  “Zhao Kai Lin’s New Realism oil painting” exhibition at Stockholm . Sweden
  • 1994  “Zhao Kai Lin’s Realism Oil Painting across Northern Europe Region”exhibition at Stockholm, Sweden Also, the exhibitions received most positive comments from professional art collectors.
  • 1994   The oil painting “Lake” entered the “Asian Art Exhibition,” and received the 2nd winner at Tokyo, Japan
  • 1995    entered the “Asian Art Show”, Hong Kong
  • 1995  The oil painting “The Song of May”, Christie’s Hong Kong Spring Auction.
  • 1995   October, “Xiaoxiao at Studio”, “The Girl with Fan”, International Art Fair. Beijing .China
  • 1997   invited by “America Western Coast and Eastern Culture” Foundation, with an
  • international culture relationship, held an exhibition by the Foundation Art at Los Angeles. U.S.
  • 1998  “Out of china”  Kail Studio artwork exhibition   Odon Wagner Gallery.Toronto . Canada
  • 1998-1999   held several exhibitions at Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Singapore.
  • 1999   portrait of oil painting entered the “Art Chicago” U.S
  • 2000  The “New Journey beyond the Silk Road” Exhibition held for Kail studio
  • Artists group, Utopia Gallery,     Cairns . Australia
  • 2000   Oil Painting entered the “Art Toronto”.  Toronto. Canada
  • 2001   International Art Fair at London,   London. UK
  • 2001   International Art Celebration    Naples .Italy
  • 2002   “Portrait of Asian Artist” exhibition     Seville .Spain
  • 2002   “The Kail Studio Artists Group Show”,   Perth and London   U K
  • 2003   ” Art London ” 2003,  London . U K
  • 2004  The Kail studio artist group held the exhibition at gallery 27 , London. U K
  • 2005   ” Art Miami”  Miami . U S
  • 2006   “Los Angeles Art Show,  Los Angeles . U S
  • 2006   “Zhao Kai Lin’s Realism Oil Painting” exhibition at Contemporary Chinese
  • Fine Art Gallery   Laguna Beach , California . U S
  • 2007   “Art London ” London, U K
  • 2007  Received the invitation by “Love without Boundaries” Foundation to create an oil painting portrait
  • 2008   “Los Angeles Art Show”  Los Angeles . U S
  • 2009   ” Art Miami ”  Miami US
  • 2010   “The Arts 2010 Art Space Exhibition” Eli Klein fine art New York
  • 2010   “Shanghai Art Fair International Contemporary ” Shanghai China
  • 2010   “Art London”, London, U.K
  • 2010   “Art Miami”, Miami U.S
  • 2010   “Out Of China” Three artists group exhibitions,   Odon Wagner Gallery   Toronto . Canada
  • 2011   “Royal Academy of Art” exhibition   London U.K
  • 2011   “Art Asia”  December   Miami  U.S
  • 2012  ” Lapada Art and Antique Art Fair”  2012   September  London U.K
  • 2012   “Masterpiece”  June London U.K
  • 2012   “Art Hamptons” July  Bridgehampton NY  U.S
  • 2012   “Art Asia”  December   Miami  U.S
  • 2013   AHAF HK 2013 – The 9th Asia Hotel Art Fair Feb 22 – 24th, 2013
  • 2013   Art Monaco 2013, 25 – 28th of April at Grimaldi Forum, Monaco
  • 2013   Lapada Art and Antique Art Fair 2013, September London U.K
  • 2013   “Art Miami”, Dec, 2013,  Miami U.S
  • 2014   ” LA ART SHOW “,  Jan 14 – 18th, 2014
  • 2014   American International Fine Art Fair ( AIFAF) Feb 4 – 9th, Palm Beach, FL  U.S
  • 2014   “Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antique Show”   Feb 14 – 19th, Palm Beach, FL U.S
  • 2014   “Chicago Art Show” April, IL  U.S
  • 2014   “Asia Contemporary Art Show in Hong Kong”   May 15th – 18th, HK
  • 2014   “Baltimore Art Show” August, Baltimore
  • 2014   “Asia Art Fair” (AAF) September, New York
  • 2014   Lapada Art and Antique Fair 2014 September London U.K
  • 2014   “Fine Art Asia” October, Hong Kong
  • 2014   “Art Miami”, Dec 2014, Miami FL U.S
  • 2015    “Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antique Show”   Feb Palm Beach, FL U.S
  • 2015    Naples Art Antique Show Feb, Florida U.S
  • 2015    Olympia Art Antique Jewelry Show, London U.K
  • 2015    Lapada Art and Antique Fair 2015 September London U.K
  • 2015    Boston Fine Art Show, U.S
  • 2016    “Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antique Show”   Feb Palm Beach, FL U.S
  • 2016    Naples Art Antique, Jewlery Show Feb, Florida U.S
  • 2016    Aspen Antiques, Jewelry & Fine Art Fair , July at Colorado
  • 2016    Lapada Art and Antique Fair  September London U.K
  • 2016    Palm Beach Jewelry Antique & Design Show, FL
  • 2017    Lapada Art and Antique Fair  September London U.K
  • 2018    Naples Art Antique, Jewlery Show Feb, Florida U.S
  • 2018    Lapada Art and Antique Fair  September London U.K
  • 2019    Naples Art Antique, Jewlery Show Feb, Florida U.S
  • 2019    Chicago Art Show April, IL  U.S
  • 2020   LA Art Show January, Los Angeles, CA  U.S
  • 2021   Royal Academy of Arts, exhibition U.K

PublishedKailin Zhao

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PublishedAbout Artist

American Chinese artist Kailin Zhao was born in 1961 in Bengbu, Anhui province, China, and had exhibited remarkable artistic talent since a young age. In 1991 Kailin graduated from the prestigious Beijing Central Art Academy, the oil painting class. His life experience in the East and the West, his adaptation and absorption of the innovative concept of the Western art, has afforded him a special place among the traditional realism artists.Most recently his abstract expressionism series employs mesmerizing imagery and visual spiritual message, and displays his complete innovative interpretation of the traditional easel art. As how he integrates the Eastern Philosophy and the Western Innovation in his personal life, Kaili moves fluidly between these two worlds in his artistic practice

Kailin’s realism oil paintings return to the unembellished and the natural, and convey the real feelings from the bottom of the heart. His colors are exquisite and delicate, centered around the grey, but fused with infinite subtle changes. Moving away from the staid classical realism, Kailin observes the inner world of his objects to the miniscule, and weighs carefully every detail, every color block, his expressions are nuanced and full of feelings. The ordinary people at first glance come to life under his brush, with poignant vividness. This richness comes from the perfect concoction of the artist’s penetrating understanding of the human nature, his deep love for the realistic world, the imprint of his life experience, and the wealth of his cultural origin in China.

30 years’ of creative work in classical realism has garnered Kailin world renown, but he never rests on his Laurels. He continues to explore the novel philosophicalconcept in modern practice related to the development and innovation of the contemporary art, attempts to capture the subtle conflict of the soul, or the exchange between the feeling and rational world, and explore the continuous dialogue and integration between man and the wide world. In his most recent abstract expressionism works, he attempts to capture every nuanced movement of the original power of human mind, using the subtle yet rich layered colors to convey the passage of time. In Kailin’s art, the real and the surreal scenes disrupt people’s habitual tendency for visual solidity, and the abstract colors unfold a world of the fresh and the sublime.