Song Nan Zhang is a Canadian-Chinese artist, illustrator and author of children's books. [1] (Zhang is his family name)
Zhang was born in Shanghai in 1942. He has undergraduate (1964) and postgraduate degrees (1980) from the Central Institute of Fine Arts (Beijing), and attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1984–85).
After graduating from the Central Institute of Fine Arts, Zhang became a staff member there: art professor (1980–88), deputy director (1985–87), and dean of the mural department (1985–88). Zhang moved to Canada in 1988.
Zhang's paintings have been exhibited at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; throughout China; Hong Kong; Tokyo; Paris; and Seoul.
As author-illustrator
Works by Zhang have been translated into Spanish, Vietnamese, and Chinese.
As illustrator
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