
Keyang WuWu Keyang (pen name: Three Dimensional Half, nickname: Endlessness) was born on October 14, 1973, a native of Zhao'an, Fujian Province. He graduated from the Oil Painting Major, College of Art, Xiamen University. Currently, he serves as a Member of the Chinese Religious Studies Association, Visiting Professor of Jimei University, Vice President of Beijing Master Danqing Painting and Calligraphy Academy, and Senior Academician of the Chinese Buddhist Painting and Calligraphy Academy.
He grew up in the Southern Fujian region with a profound traditional cultural heritage. From an early age, he was immersed in the atmosphere of excellent traditional culture, deeply influenced and inspired.
Since 2009, Wu Keyang has traveled to Europe for study tours for many consecutive years, visiting major museums, art galleries and other artistic palaces in Europe. This study tour has had a profound impact on his oil painting art. Domestically, he has traveled extensively to cultural sacred sites such as the Three Mountains and Five Great Peaks and the Four Great Grottoes, visited many virtuous scholars, and lived and ate with practitioners in the mountains for several years, feeling the connection between nature and life. During this period, Wu Keyang never stopped painting, integrating every perceived moment into his works. To date, he has created more than 200 oil paintings in 18 series and nearly a thousand pen sketches.
Wu Keyang's early works were known for their classical style. Under the dual influence of traditional Buddhist art and the localization of modern oil painting, the "sculpture - casting painting school" emerged. His creative journey reflects a complete path from technical exploration to philosophical speculation, and finally to spiritual transcendence. The artist has gone through three artistic exploration stages: from figuration to form-breaking to formlessness, which reflects the evolution of techniques and styles, and mirrors the progressive sublimation of Eastern philosophy from specific techniques to abstract spirit. Representative works of the figurative stage include Golden Shakyamuni and Silver Cundi Bodhisattva, while representative works of the form-breaking stage include Chan Practitioner·Concentration. The Formless Stage (Hyper-Imagery Stage): Based on his cognition and speculation on the universe, nature, humanity, all living things, as well as the time and space of past, present and future, Wu Keyang perceives and deconstructs the world, and presents this perception and deconstruction through painting art. Representative works of this stage include Being from Nonbeing, Falling and A.i.. His works convey Eastern philosophical thoughts, express Eastern artistic philosophy, and represent the sublimation of his creation after several life-and-death experiences, pursuing the presentation of "here and now". Thus, classic series such as "Spirituality", "Stream of Consciousness" and "Hyper-Imagery" were born.
In July 2013, Mr. Wu Keyang held his first art exhibition at Nanputuo Temple in Xiamen, China, and his second solo exhibition at Xiamen University in August of the same year. Subsequently, he held special solo exhibitions in Beijing, Chengdu, Leshan, Yancheng and other places, and established personal art studios there.
In 2016, some of his representative works such as Blue·Holy Spirit, Mind Intent and Chan Practitioner·Concentration Response were included in the Collection of Postage Stamps of Famous Contemporary Chinese Oil Painters by China Post Group Corporation.
In September 2023, Mr. Wu Keyang launched an international tour exhibition. The first stop was a one-month solo exhibition themed "Bad, Dwelling, Spirit, Path" at Palazzo Pisani Salone in Venice, Italy. He is the first Chinese artist to hold a solo exhibition here in a century. His creations integrate the connotation of excellent Chinese culture that combines Chinese and Western elements, and with his unique artistic style, centered on the "Oriental Spiritual Painting" super-imagery series, he has received great attention and praise from the European art and art criticism circles.
In June 2024, curated by Massimo Mattioli, editor-in-chief of Italy's authoritative art journal Art Life, and Professor Massimo Mazzone, artist of the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, his second international solo exhibition themed "The Present and Transcendence - The Dimension of the East" opened at Garibaldi Gallery in Milan, Italy. The exhibition works integrate Eastern philosophical thoughts with Western artistic techniques, presenting the mystery and depth of the universe and insights into the origin of life, demonstrating his innovation and exploration as a contemporary artist. The exhibition attracted art lovers and collectors from all over the world, triggering enthusiastic attention and continuous follow-up reports from more than 70 media at home and abroad. Many authoritative figures in the art world and other celebrities witnessed this touching exhibition that takes Eastern artistic charm as the medium.
In 2024, Europe's authoritative art publishing house Electa launched a personal album WU KEYANG for Wu Keyang. Founded in 1945 and affiliated to the Mondadori Group, Electa is the official cooperative publisher of three major museums including the British Museum, with professional influence and academic accumulation. The launch of a personal album for a Chinese artist this time is a high recognition of Wu Keyang by the international academic community.
In October 2024, Mr. Wu Keyang's oil paintings such as The Bodhi Tree Never Was, Realm of Spirit: Ascending Stages and Deluded Dreams were strictly reviewed and approved by the postal department, China Philatelic Art Network, and the National Gift Artist Stamp Production Organizing Committee, and published in the large-scale Chinese documentary collection limited edition stamp album My Motherland and Me.
In June 2025, Wu Keyang's book The Line: Contemporary lmagery Sketch Collection (Volume 1 and Volume 2) was officially published by Hubei Fine Arts Publishing House. His "Hyper-Imagery" style breaks through the dual opposition between traditional realism and abstraction, providing a new path for the spiritual expression of sketch.
In July 2025, Wu Keyang's third international solo exhibition "Beyond the Form, Within the Cosmos" opened at Palazzo Bellini in Florence, Italy. Curated jointly by Switzerland's Hestia Gallery and Stefano Bigalli, cultural consultant of the Republic of San Marino, this Renaissance sacred site, which houses original works by Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, endows the exhibition with profound artistic heritage. Centered on "Beyond Form", the exhibition unfolds a super-imaginary painting realm in the collision of Eastern philosophy and Western techniques, continuing the artist's in-depth inquiry into the essence of art and the core of life. With his unique creative language, many works have been included in the collection of the Bellini family with a 600-year collection history and Switzerland's Hestia Gallery, marking that his artistic creation has entered a new stage of expression and international communication.
Wu Keyang's Hyper-Imagery artistic style focuses on cosmic energy and the origin of life. By emphasizing the expression of energy, it transcends the constraints of external forms and rationality, pursues a transcendent dimensional expression, explores the essence of life and spirit in depth, and reveals the power of life and the rhythm of the universe. It achieves the in-depth transformation of "energy - spirit - vision", endowing the works with both the underlying logic of cosmic operation and the individual's perception of life, thus forming a perceptible and resonant spiritual artistic form.

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