"I enjoy painting in a realistic manner. I also love to make landscape paintings by studying the infinite transformations in nature and its sparkling colors. However, what interests me more is to depict figures of my contemporary fellows, their lives and their inner feelings. I think I am able to understand some modern western artistic languages such as three dimensional spaces, superimposed structures and apply their techniques to deal with Chinese subjects which sometimes leads to some origional and unexpected effects. By busing these, I intend to create visual effects to arouse in the viewer the association of such various human emotions as happiness, joy, and fantasy."

Hu Zhen Yu was born October 1939 in Zhejiang Ningbo, China. In July 1964, he graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou, China. In July of 1980 he graduated with a Masters of Art, and he has been teaching in the Academy ever since. He is a Professor and recently retired as Director of the Department to come to America.

From 1984 to 1986 he was a Visiting Artist at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Gent, Belgium. During his visit, he traveled and painted in Austria, England, France, Holland, Luxembourg, Spain, Switzerland, United Soviet Socialist Republic, and West Germany.

Hu has served as: the Director of the Oil Painting Department and Vice Chairman of the Oil Painting Association of Zhejiang, Member of the Chinese Artist Association, and a Member of the Standing Committee of the China Oil Painting Association. Professor Hu's teaching has made a deep lasting impression on his students.

In 1993, Hu was designated as the "Special Contributing Expert" at the State Council of China and in 1994 he received the "Excellent Expert" at the Ministry of Culture of China. From 1988 to 1995 his works have received numerous awards in Exhibitions of Art in China and Zhejiang. In 1987 and 1988 he published two books: "Selected Oil Paintings of Hu Zhen Yu" and "Foreign Sculptural Art."

As one of China's most distinguished modern artists, he has recently exhibited in Europe, America, Japan, Singapore, and Hong Kong, and his work is collected by museums and private collectors in each of these countries. He also has a reputation as an accomplished scholar of Fine Arts both in America and abroad.