Prof. Wu Yong Liang was born in 1973 in Zhejiang, China. He was a professor of painting at the China Academy of Fine Arts in Zhejiang, China and subsequently received China's highest honor for art.

Prof. Wu's work has exhibited in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, Canada, the United States, France and Germany, and his works are on permanent display at the State Museum of China, the Luxing Memorial Museum, the Shanghai Fine Arts Museum and the Chinese Fine Arts Museum. Individual collectors for his works include John Pope Paul II, Japanese Emperor Hirohito and Empress Michiko, and the late Singapore Minister Mentor, Lee Kwan Yew.