On October 21, 2016, the "Jing Song-Tang Zheming Chinese Painting Exhibition" hosted by Long Museum, curated by Liu Yiqian and Wang Wei, curated by Xiong Yijing, will be grandly opened at Long Museum (West Bund). This exhibition is Tang Zheming's first large-scale solo exhibition in mainland China. At that time, the audience will have the opportunity to appreciate his study of painting over the years.

Tang Zheming was born in Shanghai in 1970. In 2005, he graduated from the China Academy of Art with a doctorate degree in Art History. He once worked in Shanghai Painting and Calligraphy Publishing House, serving as deputy editor-in-chief and deputy editor-in-review, and is now teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts of Shanghai University. Tang Zheming spans many fields, has unique insights in art history, creation of traditional Chinese painting, art market research and other fields, and has made high achievements in various fields. He can be called a rare all-round painter in the art world today. As a professional historian, he has long devoted himself to the research of ancient Chinese painting history and painting theory, and is well-known for his appreciation of art criticism. From his early work "Diversified Enlightenment" to the recent "Chinese Painting of the South of the Yangtze River", people are awed by his unique historical essays.

As a painter, Tang Zheming has been engaged in landscape painting for 30 years, and has made considerable achievements in painting with a high degree of practical spirit. Tang Zheming was fascinated by the majestic and all-encompassing landscape paintings of the Song Dynasty, especially the Northern Song Dynasty. He is famous for landscape paintings, and he is good at figures, flowers and birds, pommel horses, etc. This is mainly due to his macroscopic view of the history of painting and his superb ink expression ability. His landscape paintings got rid of the barriers of gradually stylized landscape paintings since the Ming and Qing dynasties. In addition, his landscape paintings reproduce the form of "architectural painting" that has been almost lost, and combine the theme of classical painting with modern new ideas, so that his landscape paintings in the "classic" also reflect the "modernity" of the times.

There are more than 80 works exhibited in this exhibition, all of which are the masterpieces of Tang Zheming’s creation in the past ten years. It includes paintings of palaces, figures, birds and other species which enable visitors to truly appreciate a comprehensive field of painting. Through the exhibition, the visitors will have a in-depth understanding of the effort that Tang Zheming put into the revitalization of traditional Chinese painting, and experience his serious and rigorous academic attitude towards traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy.

Tang Zheming is an insightful, pursuing, and persistent painter. He once described himself: "I would like to do my best to inherit the classics and make new branches through the hard work". In today's chaotic art world, Tang Zheming has a firm belief, a sober attitude, and a spirit of perseverance, which is truly commendable.