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Lily Lihting Li Kostrzewa (Born March 23, 1965) is a contemporary artist who specializing in the eastern and western cross-cultural painting. Lily, a Taiwan-born artist, studied at National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei. After twenty-five years in Taiwan, she moved to United States. Her formal education includes MFA degree in Modern painting, MA degree in Computer Graphics from United States, BFA degree in Chinese Art and Art Education teaching certificate from Taiwan. Her style of painting is lush, imaginative and cultural with simple brushstrokes exhibiting complicate layers of colors. Lily now lives and paints in Michigan, her artwork has been exhibited in Ukraine, Jordan, Taiwan, Austria, Canada, Greece, Italy and many states in the USA.

Lily’s paintings have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions internationally, including those at the Michigan Women's Historical Museum, Saginaw Art Museum, Michigan, Odessa Art Museum, Ukraine, 4 art Gallery, Chicago, Historical Museum of Infantry, Rome, Italy; DeVos Place of ArtPrize in Grand Rapids, Michigan; The Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, Michigan; UNESCO Art Gallery, Athens, Greece, Lansing Art Gallery, Michigan, International Art Expo New York City, Ben Navaee Gallery, Toronto, Canada, Hibiscus Children’s Center, Palm Beach, Florida, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, California and Hsin-chu Culture Center, Taiwan.

Lily has created paintings and design for private and public settings for many individuals, businesses and organizations, including the Pier 1 Imports headquarters, Ft. Worth, Texas, Spectrum Juvenile Inc. Chicago and Hwalien Harbor State Park, Taiwan. Through a lifetime of learning in different art media, she utilizes many techniques from both the eastern and western art to enrich her painting. She also has a deep concern for humanity and true love for nature. Through her senses she creates art to express life's journey as well as the beauty of nature. Her color is expressive from the influence of study in German Expressionism, and her ink-like brush strokes on her painting is deep rooted in her Chinese culture and the years of training in Chinese Art. Her pictures can be found at www.LilyKostrzewa.com