Guo Chunming was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu province in 1963. He graduated from the Nanjing Art Institute in 1988 and went to work at the Nanjing Publishing House as an editor. He is a member of the Jiangsu Artists' Association and the Council of Oil Painting Studies of the Nanjing Artists' Association. Guo Chunming has had exhibitions in Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Canada and the United States. He has won numerous awards for his paintings, including the Prize of Excellence awarded at the 5th Oil Painting Exhibition of Jiangsu province in 2005. Guo Chunming's most recent publication was "The Collected Works of Guo Chunming." In 2008, a retrospective exhibition of Guo Chunming's paintings will be circulated in China.