Organizing Structure of "Happy Chinese New Year: Fantastic Art China"
Sponsor：Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of China
Organizer: China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CCAFA)
Co-organizer: US-China Association
Planning and execution party:
National Institute of Arts and Cultural Policy of the China Central Academy of Fine Arts Municipal
Visual Culture Research Center of the China Central Academy of Fine Arts
Fan Di’an, former curator of the National Art Museum of China, now holds the presidency of CCAFA, and is also the vice-chairman of the Chinese Artists Association, the vice-chairman of the Literary & Artistic Critics' Association of China, the director of the National Gallery Professional Committee, the director of the China Oil Painting Society and a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He pursues research in Chinese Art of the 20th century, Criticism and exhibition planning of contemporary art, and the study of Art Museums. During his tenure as curator of the National Art Museum, he proposed the “citizen-oriented” philosophy, and has greatly improved the level of expertise regarding the reinforcement academic research and exhibition planning, expansion of public cultural services and expansion of the national art collection. He has introduced fine arts from different countries, planned numerous large fine arts exhibitions reflecting the themes of the age, and has also developed international art exchanges.
Chief Planner: Yu Ding
President of the School of Art Management and Education (proposed) of the China Central Academy of Fine Arts
Director of the National Institute of Arts and Cultural Policy of the China Central Academy of Fine Arts
In addition to being the President of the School of Art Management and Education (proposed) of the China Central Academy of Fine Arts（CCAFA）, Director of the National Institute of Arts and Cultural Policy of China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Yu Ding is also the founder, professor and doctoral advisor of the School of Art Management of CCAFA. After his graduation from the Dept. of Art History of CCAFA in 1989, he was assigned to work at his alma mater as editor of the magazine Fine Arts of the World, and in the year 2000, he achieved his Ph.D. from CCAFA. From the beginning of the new century, he has been focused on research and the implementation of discipline in art management. He has participated in the establishment of the first management discipline for visual arts, and has also set up the “Chinese art management education society”, and acts as vice-chairman as well as sectary-general. In 2008, he wrote in collaboration with Prof. Joan Jeffry, the Department Chairperson of Art Management at Columbia University and the former president of AAAE, and published Respect for Art: Visual Arts Administration and Management in China and the United States. The English version has been published in Europe and the United States. As a renowned art exhibition planner, he has been focused on the promotion of Chinese arts abroad. The 2007 Chinese Ink Painting Exhibition held in the Royal Palace of Thailand at Bangkok is a project planned by him. Having served two terms as the planner for the Special Exhibition of the Public Service Day of the UN, he designed the Focus on Chinese Ink Painting• Into the UN, and Focus on Chinese Ink Painting•Into Spain in 2009 and 2011 respectively, earning high appraisal from Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Deputy Secretary General ShaZukang. In 2012, he was an organizer of the Year of Chinese Culture in Germany: the Great Way Prevails: Exhibition of Public Chinese Contemporary Art.
Chief Designer: Huang Jiancheng
Deputy Director of the Environmental Art Committee of the Chinese Artists Association
Vice-president of the Institute of Urban Design of CCAFA
Huang Jiancheng, born in Changsha, Hunan province, acquired his Master’s degree in the Arts from the Decoration & Design discipline at the Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts. He then worked as a professor at the Print Making Dept. and the Design School at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Currently, he is serving as the vice-president, professor and Master’s Advisor at the Institute of Urban Design of CCAFA, as well as the Chief Designer at the BJSD Space Design Agency. He is also the deputy director of the Environmental Art Committee of the Chinese Artists’ Association, a member of the China National Instructive Committee of Industrial Design Education, and the chairman of the IAI Asian Pacific Academic Committee of the Designer Alliance. His work, exhibited at national and international Art Exhibitions and Design Exhibitions more than ten times, have won several prizes and have been collected by the China National Art Museum and many other agencies. In 2005, he was assigned to be the Chief Designer and Art Director of the Aichi Expo in Japan. In 2010, he worked for the Shanghai Expo as the Design Director of the China Pavilion.