Suronggui Wu

Mongolian ethnicity. Born in 1964 in Hohhot.

PhD in Art; Professor and Master’s Supervisor; Professor at the School of Fine Arts, Inner Mongolia Arts University.

Council Member of the Inner Mongolia Artists Association; Council Member of the Inner Mongolia Chinese Painting Society; Jury Expert for the National Art Fund; Master’s Thesis Review Expert for the Ministry of Education; Expert for the Evaluation of Intangible Cultural Heritage Projects of Inner Mongolia; Member of the Academic Committee of the Inner Mongolia Art Museum.

His major works Auspicious Bodhisattva, New Yurt in Summer, and Auspicious Clouds over the Ovoo won First Prize, Third Prize, and an Excellence Award respectively at the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Fine Art Exhibition.

Chalut Street Scene in the Suburbs of Paris won Third Prize at the 1st Inner Mongolia Small-Format Oil Painting Exhibition in 2008.

In 2010, he led a project under the Inner Mongolia Major Historical and Cultural Theme Art Creation Program titled Enthronement of the State Preceptor Phagpa. The work was collected by the Inner Mongolia Art Museum, and he has since led and participated in multiple other provincial and ministerial-level projects.

He has published more than 20 professional papers in national core journals such as Art Research, Fine Arts, Meiyuan, and China Mongolian Studies, and has released a personal art album Wu Suronggui: Line Drawings as well as a monograph Color Scheme Atlas — Harmonious Colors.

He has held over 20 solo exhibitions in Japan. His works are collected by professional institutions, galleries, and private collectors in the United States, France, Italy, Germany, Japan, Australia, the Netherlands, Mongolia, South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.