Naijun Zhang
Assistant Professor of Painting
BFA, Nanjing Arts Institute, Nanjing China;
MFA West Virginia University
Born in China, Naijun Zhang received a B.F.A. in Oil Painting from Nanjing Arts Institute, Nanjing, China in 1988 and a M.F.A. in Painting from West Virginia University in 2000. He has had solo shows at OK Harris Works of Art in New York and Michael Berger Gallery in Pittsburgh, PA. He has been included in numerous group exhibitions both in the United States and China, notably at Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts in Tallahassee, Florida, Huntington Museum of Art in Huntington, West Virginia, Museum in the Community in Hurricane, West Virginia, First Street Gallery in New York, Shanghai Exhibition Center in Shanghai, China, and Jiangsu Provincial Museum of Art in Nanjing, China. Naijun Zhang has been reviewed in Art Papers Magazine. Recently he has been selected as one of 2008 National Juried Competition finalists at First Street Gallery by Juror Gregory Amenoff, Chair of Visual Arts Department at Columbia University. Naijun Zhang joined painting faculty at WVU in 1999 and currently serves as Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Painting Program. He has established faculty led study abroad courses in China and offered painting study and travel programs in China.