Zheng Shengtian

Zheng Shengtian is an artist, scholar, and curator based in Vancouver. Before 1990, he worked at the China Academy of Art as Professor and Chair of the Oil Painting Department. He was a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota and San Diego State University, Secretary of the Annie Wong Art Foundation, and Founding Board Director of Vancouver International Centre for contemporary Asian Art. Currently, he is the Managing Editor of Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, Adjunct Director of the Institute of Asian Art at the Vancouver Art Gallery, and a trustee of Asia Art Archive in America. Zheng has organized and curated numerous exhibitions and events, and has frequently contributed to periodicals and catalogues. In 2013, Zheng Shengtian: Selected Writing on Art was published in four volumes by China Academy Press. In 2011, he was given the Lifetime Achievement Award for curatorial work by the Vancouver Biennale. He received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2013.

鄭勝天身兼藝術家、學者及策展人，現居溫哥華。1990年前，他擔任中國美術學院教授及油畫系主任，並曾是明尼蘇達大學及聖地亞哥州立大學客座教授、梁潔華藝術基金會秘書長及溫哥華當代亞洲藝術國際中心創會理事。他目前擔任《Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art》（典藏國際版）總策劃，兼任温哥華美術館亞洲館總監及亞洲藝術文獻庫（美國）理事。他策劃過眾多的展覽與活動，論著也常在期刊及圖錄中發表。2013年中國美術學院出版社出版了四卷本的《鄭勝天藝文選》。2011年温哥華雙年展向他頒發「終身成就奬」以表揚其策展工作。2013年，鄭勝天獲加拿大 Emily Carr 藝術和設計大學頒授榮譽博士學位。

Don Li-Leger

Don Li-Leger studied art and natural science in the 1970s and throughout that decade also traveled to Asia and India, drawn by the art, gardens and philosophical traditions.

Don’s career as a visual artist spans five decades, the first two of which he spent building a reputation as a realist (nature) artist and print maker. In 1999 he began a series of works that combined abstract elements with geometry, botany, calligraphy and collage which referenced Eastern philosophy and nature.   While this departure came as a surprise to some, it represented no loss of momentum for his success in the art world.  His paintings have been exhibited throughout North America; and etchings, monoprints, and reproductions of his art are widely available throughout the world as fine-art prints and posters.

Most recently, Don’s interest turned to videography and film making.  In support of and collaboration with his close friend Zheng Shengtian (founding board member of Centre A and managing editor of Yishu journal), Don helped to collect and archive material documenting the most well-known contemporary artists of China, as well as contributing to projects in Beijing and New York.    

Don’s interest and enthusiasm for the emergence of Asia on the world stage, and the resulting influences in our local society, provided a strong personal motivation to foster cultural bridges which enrich and deepen these global connections.  

Sadly Don passed away in April 2019, after a brief but intense struggle with glioblastoma.  He is profoundly missed by his family and many friends. 

李丹（Don Li-Leger）早在1970年代就學習藝術和自然科學，並赴亞洲和印度旅行，對當地的藝術，園林和哲學傳統深感興趣。

李丹的視覺藝術創作生涯長達五十年。前二十年他建樹了自己作為壹位寫實（自然）主義藝術家和版畫家的聲望。受到東方哲學和自然的啟發，他從1999年開始了壹系列將抽象元素與幾何、植物圖像、書法和拼貼相結合的作品。雖然這種轉變出乎某些人預料，但並未影響他在藝術界持續的成功。李丹的畫作常在北美各地展出。他的銅版畫、獨幅版畫和印刷精良的復制品更在世界範圍內廣泛發行。

近年來李丹的興趣轉向攝像和電影制作。 為了支持和配合他的好友鄭勝天（溫哥華當代亞洲藝術中心創會理事和Yishu雜誌的總策劃），李丹協助制作和記錄了大量中國當代最知名藝術家的文獻資料。他也參與過壹些北京和紐約的影像項目。

李丹極其關註亞洲在世界舞臺上的崛起，以及對當地社會的影響。為此他熱心致力於促進文化的溝通，豐富和深化了全球之間的聯系。

李丹今年突發膠質母細胞瘤。在與疾病激烈而短暫搏鬥之後，不幸於2019年4月去世。 家人和朋友都對他深為懷念。