# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chen-danqing
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:47:05.681Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chen-danqing"
name: "Chen Danqing"
slug: "chen-danqing"
description: "Chen Danqing is a Chinese-American artist, writer, and art critic. He started as a self-taught painter and later obtain a master degree from China Central Academy of Fine Arts. He gained nation wide recognition during the 1980s for his realist paintings of the Tibetans. He moved to the US in 1982 and spent 18 years there as a professional painter. He returned to China in 2000 and lectured at Tsinghua University before resigning in 2004. He published several essay collections and hosted documentary series Local Perspective introducing art to the general public."
tagline: "Chinese-American artist, writer, and art critic"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/oEpgXshX9nsiG0Y875MUnV4mpjd.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "artists"
profileType:
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  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1953-08-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.086124401913876
  historical:           18.541012
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm3965938"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump