Chen Chi

Chen Chi was born in Wuxi, China, in 1912. He first began exhibiting his work at the annual art exhibitions in Shanghai in 1940. In 1966, he received the National Arts Club Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement. Chi's works have been shown extensively throughout the United States, and he was the first living Chinese artist to be honored with a one-man retrospective of his oeuvre at Versailles, in conjunction with the First World Cultural Summit in June 2000.