Zhang WenXin, born in 1928, is a native of Tianjin. He was an artist at the Beijing Fine Art Academy.
Zhang Wen Xin is a Master Signature Member of the Oil Painters of America (OPA) and a member of the China Fine Artist Association. He has been a member of OPA since 1993 and has been the recipient of cash awards for excellence every year from 1994 through 2000.He graduated from the Department of the North China University in 1949. He also studied physics at the Beijing University.

For many years, he resided in Albuquerque, New Mexico but has since returned to Beijing, China.

A self-described "people painter", Zhang Wen Xin knows firsthand the sacrifices and indignities wrought by social strife and political upheaval as well as the suffering that people often endure.

He remembers well how Japanese troops invaded Tienjing and Beijing in 1937, and the food shortages that forced his family to move to Manchuria. He remembers the fighting between Japanese and Russian forces in 1945 and the Communists' victory over the Nationalists in 1949, the same year he graduated from Northern China University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in oil painting.

A profile in Southwest Art, noted Wen Xin was almost forced to abandon his art on three separate occasions because of the political unrest in his native country. "Yet each time he took it up again, without assurance that he could support himself and his family," the article noted.

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