Birth Date： 1955
Birth Place： Beijing
Education： He graduated from the Department of Oil Painting, Central Academy of Fine Arts
Work place： Central Academy of Fine Arts

Solo Exhibitions：

“Cao Jigang Art Exhibition”, 1992, NAMOC, Beijing, China
“China Image, Cao Jigang Stage Retrospective”, 2008, NAMOC, Beijing, China

Group Exhibitions：

“Parallelism and Reply, Artist Communication Exhibition Between China and United States”, 2007, NAMOC, Beijing, China
“Pingyuan Way, Central Academy of Fine Arts Exhibition”, 2008, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
“Images Transformation—Contemporary Restatement of the Traditional Thinking”, 2009, NAMOC, Beijing, China

    “Borrowing” and “appropriation” are important concepts in modern and contemporary art, much like the concept of “drawing on the wisdom of the ancients” in traditional Chinese art. Such appropriations of China’s traditional landscape paintings for use in a contemporary context is not done for the sake of “reform”, but only to express oneself artistically: maintaining a distance from reality, and observing with a cold objective eye.