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Zifen Qian is a Modern Romanticism artist who combines eastern and western cultures in his paintings. He established a concept of Global Culture with diversity of post modernism creations. He graduated from Shanghai Normal University and Portland State University with MFA a highest terminal degree of visual arts. He has taught art in Pacific Northwest College of Art and Portland State University, and to be invited as Adjunct Professor of Art & Design College of Shanghai Institute of Technology, and as Art Research Specialist of Shanghai Culture & Artwork Research Institute. He has been elected as President of Northwest Chinese Artists Association in the United States. His paintings have been selected into official Shanghai Fine Arts Exhibition and Across East China National Oil Painting Exhibition in his early ages. He had numerous solo and group exhibitions in New York, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, Paris, London and other cities of the world. He has created a great number of paintings to be published through greeting card publishing company with over hundred million copies sold around the world in the past two decades. Oregon Senate and House of Representatives, museums, universities, large corporations and private collectors have acquired his original paintings. Oil painting  has been selected for the cover of an American national history book. He was exclusively invited as an illustrator of a celebrity's book . His artistic life has been introduced by many important US and Chinese medias such as  and . His profile has been listed in , 7 times in American editions  and 12 times in American editions . His book  is available online and in most major book stores of the United States, Europe and Asia.

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当代浪漫主义画家. 上世紀八十年代作品入选上海美展和华东六省一市油画巡回展，九十年代到本世紀一十年代在纽约，芝加哥，西亚图，波特兰，巴黎，伦敦等城市举办或参加过几十次个人及团体画展. 油画或水墨画作品被美囯俄勒冈州參议院和众议院，波特兰州立大学等公共单位及私人收藏家收藏. 油画《同路人》被选为美囯囯家历史教科书封面. 三百多幅绘画在美国出版并于过去二十年间超过一亿张印有这些绘画之卡片流向美州，欧州，奥州，亚州，非州等十六囯. 出版《錢自奮美术作品集》. 生平及艺术创作被美中主要媒体如《华盛顿邮报》和《人民日报》等介绍. 生平被編入《世界华人艺术家成就博览大典》. 七次被载入美国名人录 Who’s Who in America和连续十二年被载入美国年度世界名人录 Who’s Who in the World.

毕业于上海师范大学艺术係，留学美国波特兰州立大学艺术学院获同等于博士的终极美术硕士学位MFA和艺术教育学博士课程论文优秀成绩. 先后教授美术于美国西北太平洋艺术学院和波特兰州立大学艺术学院, 并应聘为上海应用技术大学艺术与设计学院客座教授和上海文化艺术品研究院研究员. 曾当选为美囯西北地区中囯美术家协会主席. 作为中囯改革开放后的第一代跨世紀跨文化美术家，其油画融中西方文化于一体並在创作中确立其作品中的后现代主义全球文化概念，其水墨画在表达当代精神的同时继承了中囯传统笔墨和文人画情怀.