Chang Qing was born in 1965 in Chengdu, Sichuan province and began painting at the early age of four. He graduated from the high school of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in 1984 and from the Department of Oil Painting of the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, in 1989. His work has been included in many major international exhibitions including the Shanghai First Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition, 1987, the Seventh National Art Exhibition, Beijing, 1989, the First Annual Exhibition of Chinese Oil Painting, Hong Kong, 1992, and New Realistic Oil Painting by Chinese Masters at the Liu Haisu Museum, Shanghai, 2001, and a prestigious one man exhibition at the Shanghai Art Museum, 2002. Chang Qing is currently an instructor in the Oil Painting Department of the China National Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou.