MAO SONGYING

Mao Songying (also known as Cong Ying), originally from Qinzhou, Guangxi, and now based in Shenzhen, is a Chinese painter known for combining traditional Eastern aesthetics with contemporary artistic expression.

Educated at the Affiliated School of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and later trained in both Chinese painting and oil painting at the Academy, he has spent more than fifty years developing a unique artistic language that bridges ink art and oil painting.

His works have been exhibited in China and internationally, including in Beijing, Hong Kong, Japan, Canada, and the United States. Among his most iconic subjects are lychees — symbols of prosperity and Southern Chinese culture — which he transforms into poetic images filled with warmth, memory, and vitality.

In 2025, Mao Songying became an official member of the Allied Artists of America in the United States. In the same year, his work The Fishmongers was selected for the association’s Biennial Online Associate Show.

Selected Exhibitions & Awards

• 1982 — Selected for the First National Mining Industry Workers Art Exhibition at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing; received Third Prize.
• 2013 — Exhibited more than 20 oil paintings at the Shenzhen International Cultural Fair and was later invited to exhibit in the United States.
• 2016 — A lychee painting was collected by the Royal Academy of Music in the United Kingdom; another work was presented by the Shenzhen Municipal Government to the City of Sydney as an official cultural gift.
• 2023 — Two landscape oil paintings were selected for the exhibition Beyond Language: Chinese Art in Japan.
• 2024 — Cicadas and Ripe Lychees won Second Prize at the NAAC International Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition in Canada.
• 2025 —  The Fishmongers was selected for the Biennial Online Associate Show of the Allied Artists of America.  2025-2026

• 2026 —  Allied Artists of America 2026 Associate Online Show May 15, 2026 – May 15, 2028.