THiNG.FUND - Team

Founder

William Pucs

Born into a family of artists, William has nearly instinctive sharpness about art. What is more interesting is his geek spirit, prompting him to challenge the world constantly. Over the past two decades of communicating with the world, he has chosen to reinterpret the world from an artistic and cultural perspective. As a researcher of avant-garde art, he pays more attention to combining the decentralization spirit with art. THiNG.FUND was born because of it.

Chief Art Consultant

Professor Xiao Feng

Renowned oil painter and art educator.
A veteran artist with more than 60 years of experience and ex-president of the China Academy of Art.

He is currently a consultant to the China Artists Association, Vice Chairman of the Zhejiang Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Chairman of the Zhejiang Provincial Artists Association, Vice Chairman of the China Oil Painting Society, Vice Chairman of the China Art Education Promotion Association, a member of the Art Education Committee of the State Education Commission, and President of Art News of China.

Art consultant

Professor Zhang Dingzhao

Well-known oil painter and art educator.
Former deputy president of Shanghai Film Art Academy, Member of the China Artists Association, Director of Shanghai Artists Association and Member of the Oil Painting Art Committee of the China Artists Association.

He has taught at the China Academy of Art, the Art Education Department of East China Normal University, Shanghai Film Art Academy, Villanova University and other well-known universities in and out of China.

Representative works: his 1964 oil painting Growing up in battle was collected by the National Art Museum of China, and was selected into the "20th Century Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition" as a representative of the Chinese realism oil paintings in the 20th century.

Art consultant

Professor Qin Dahu

Professor at the Oil Painting Department of China Academy of Art, Member of China Artists Association, Director of China Oil Painters Association and Executive director of Zhejiang Provincial Artists Association.

Representative works: Growing up in battle, The Veteran, Sister Tian Xi etc. are collected by the National Art Museum of China.
Representative works include The Twelve Chinese Zodiac Signs, The Fairy of Yongle, The Glorious Course, Xu Yu and so on.

Art consultant

Professor Bai Renhai

Famous oil painter and art educator.

Member of the Chinese Artists Association, Professor at the China Academy of Art, and Former vice president of China Academy of Art.

Representative works: the oil paintings View from a Distance and Ancient Town were exhibited at the Jakarta Convention Center in Indonesia, and collected by the Indonesians. His oil paintings Yihai Qing and Four Bandits were selected into the "China Academy of Art Exhibition" and "Sun Yat-sen and Overseas Chinese" International Art Touring Exhibition respectively.

Art consultant

Professor Fu Wei'an

Famous sculptor and art educator.
He used to teach at the China Academy of Art.

Representative works: Deer Herd (co-creator), Pelican, Bear (co-creator) were selected into the China National Urban Sculpture Design Exhibition; Xi Shi was selected into the first National Urban Sculpture Exhibition in China; Forever Happy and Healthy was selected into the 2nd National Urban Sculpture Art Exhibition in China; Genius Shooter was selected into the first National Sports Art Exhibition in China; Homeland was selected into the 7th National Art Exhibition in China, taking home the bronze medal; Skinny bone Bronze sound was selected into the 3rd National Sports Art Exhibition in China and collected by the Chinese Olympic Committee; Winning The Heart of the Nation was selected into the National Art Exhibition in commemoration of July 1st in China; and The Envoy of Phoenix City, etc.

Art consultant

Professor Zhou Ruiwen

Famous oil painter; Member of the China Artists Association, Level-1 artist and President of Zhejiang Contemporary Oil Painting Academy.
He is a visiting professor at the Adult Education College of China Academy of Art, China Celadon College and Zhejiang Sci-Tech University. He is a member of the Art Committee of Zhejiang Oil Painters Association, former deputy editor-in-chief of the China Art Weekly, vice chairman of the Hangzhou Artists Association, and the Executive Vice-chairman of the Zhejiang International Artists Association.

Representative works: Sea Journey to the East by Monk Jianzhen, Sinuous Water Alley, Fishing Basket, Snow Stops in the Yangtze River Delta, etc. His work Mountain Journey in Autumn won the Gold Award of Zhejiang District in the 2004 Consternation Awards held by the Ministry of Culture of China. He has participated in the China Art Fair and the Shanghai, Guangzhou and Hangzhou Art Fairs many times, and has held solo oil painting exhibitions in Hangzhou, Macau, Tokyo, Fujinomiya and other places.

Art consultant

Professor Liu Yici

A proud disciple of Mr. Lu Yanshao, the famous master of Chinese landscape painting.
She has long been engaged in teaching Chinese painting techniques and the history of Chinese and foreign fine arts. SHe is good at flower and bird painting and landscape painting.

She has taught at East China Normal University, Shanghai Railway University (now Tong Ji University), Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Teachers’ Training Center, and the Shanghai Film Art Academy.

Representative works: Chinese painting Clear Water Flowing over Rocks in a Pine Forest in a Moon-lit Night was submitted to the World Painting and Calligraphy Association Art Exhibition in the 1990s and won the International Excellence Award.

Art consultant

Professor He Hongzhou

Professor at the Oil Painting Department of the School of Painting and Art of the China Academy of Art, Masters’ Supervisor, and Dean of the School of Painting Art.

Member of the First National Major Theme Art Creation Committee of China Artists Association.

Representative works: Green Apple won the gold medal of China's first oil painting exhibition. Li Nu won the Excellence Award of China Oil Painting Exhibition and the Yongfang Award of China Academy of Art. It participated in a contemporary oil painting art exhibition celebrating Hong Kong's return to China and was selected into the 9th National Art Exhibition and won awards.

Art consultant

Professor Kong Guoqiao

Professor of the Printmaking Department of the China Academy of Art, Doctoral supervisor, Deputy dean of the School of Painting Art, Director of the Institute of Contemporary Printmaking, Chairman of the Zhejiang Printmaking Association, Member of the Presidium of the Zhejiang Provincial Artists Association, Member of the Printmaking Art Committee of the Chinese Artists Association and Member of the First National Major Theme Art Creation Committee of China Artists Association.

Representative work: What You Do Not Want to Talk About or Are Talking About Elegantly won the Excellence Award of China's 16th National Printmaking Exhibition. Oral History was nominated for awards at the 10th National Art Exhibition of China.

Art consultant

Professor Feng Zhiguo

Professor of the China Academy of Art, Director of the Oil Painting Department of the School of Painting Art of CAA, Host of the First Studio of CAA, and Masters’ supervisor, Member of China Artists Association, Member of China Oil Painting Society, Member of China Freehand Oil Painting Academy and Vice Chairman of Zhejiang Oil Painters Association.

Representative works: Finite Life — Young Sculptor Xia Xuebing, Finite Life— Young Art Historian, Sitting Quietly with Ren Weichang, Deceased are collected by the National Art Museum of China.

Art consultant

Professor Liu Qiyi

Famous oil painter. Professor of the School of Fine Arts of East China Normal University, Masters’ tutor, Member of the Chinese Artists Association, Director of the Oil Painting and Sculpture Department of Shanghai Huangpu Painting Academy, Visiting professor of Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts and Tianhua College of Shanghai Normal University and Special writer for Encyclopedia Britannica.

He is the author of A Brief History of Cubist Painting, A Guide to the Sketching Skills of Human Heads, Sketches and Concepts of Western Modern and Contemporary Artists and Oil Painting Landscape Sketching and Creation.

Our team