Jia Lu- Bio               (back to top)

By combining classical oil painting and contemporary aesthetics, JIA LU has created a style that calls to us. Her sources of inspiration are international. Her work has philosophical depth. Her imagery evokes mystery.

BORN IN CHINA IN 1954, Jia Lu grew up in a family of artists. She came to an early appreciation of the beauty and power of the human figure through her parents, who were both professional artists. She worked as a nurse, a film and television actor, a naval officer, an art editor for a magazine and as a professional basketball trainee before enrolling in the Central Academy of Art and Design to begin her professional training as an artist.

JIA LU was already an accomplished figure painter in Chinese media when she left China for Canada in 1983. But it was while working as a research assistant in the Faculty of Visual Arts at York University that Jia Lu was first exposed to Western psychological approaches to the human figure. She subsequently taught art at Lambton College in Sarnia, Ontario, and privately in Calgary, Alberta.

Ms. Lu now lives and works in Los Angeles. She has also worked as chief designer for the Tang Garden Museum in Tokyo, and as consulting designer for a stage production in a joint venture between Pierre Cardin and the Chinese Ministry of Textiles in Beijing. Her design work includes traditional Buddhist mural painting, stage costume and jewelry.

JIA LU has participated in 35 group exhibitions and 20 solo exhibitions in Canada, the United States, Japan and China.