This interview with Chen Aikang was filmed in Brooklyn, New York on 31 Oct 2009. 


Biography:

Chen Aikang (b. 1945, Yan’an) is an artist and art teacher, based in Vancouver.

From 1959 to 1964, Chen studied in the Central Academy's High School in Beijing. From 1965 to 1970, she enrolled as an undergraduate in the Oil Painting Department at the Academy’s Hangzhou campus. When university education resumed in China following a break during the Cultural Revolution, Chen returned to her alma mater to teach in the Oil Painting Department. Among her students were many artists now well known, including Huang Yongping, Wang Guangyi and Zhang Peili, to name a few.

Since 1990, Chen has lived and worked in Vancouver where she also teaches art.


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陳愛康，藝術家兼繪畫教師，1945年生於陝西延安。

1959至1964年就讀於中央美術學院附中。1965-—1970年於杭州浙江美術學院（現中國美術學院）油畫系學習。文革後，陳愛康任教於浙江美術學院油畫系，也是77屆油畫班的班主任。八十年代在浙江美術學院讀書、今天已成為著名藝術家的，包括黃永砅、王廣義、張培力等，很多都曾是她的學生。

陳愛康自1990年起移居加拿大，現居溫哥華。