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Qu Lei-Lei was born in 1951 and brought up as a devoted revolutionary. He was educated in traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy from Private Master Tan Wan-Cun in Bejing, China from 1958 to 1964. He studied anatomy at the Beijing Medical University from 1977 to 1978. From 1986 to 1988 he studied painting and drawing at the Central School of Art and Design in London.
Qu Lei-Lei was art director at China Central TV from 1982 to 1985, art tutor at the V&A Museum London from 1992 to 1996 as well as visiting tutor at the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford and lecturer at the SOAS/Christies Institute in London.
He has lectured extensively on various aspects of Chinese painting, the most recent being “Contemporary Chinese Painting” SOAS/ Sothebys Institute, London and Chinese Landscape Painting and Contemporary Chinese Painting in 1998
His recent exhibitions include: September 1997 – One man exhibition: Chinese contemporary Gallery, New Burlington Place, London; July 1998 5000 + 10 Bilbao, Spain; July 1998 Chinese contemporary Art, Mountbron, France; August 1998 Summer Exhibition, The Redfern Gallery, London. Qu Lei-Lei’s works are in collections in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Barclays Bank and other, and has been exhibited widely all over the world.