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Jia Lu
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 Born in China 1954, Jia Lu grew up in a family of artists.
She came to an early appreciation of the beauty and power
of the human figure growing up with her parents, who were
both professional artists. She worked as a nurse, a film
and television actor, a naval officer, an art editor for a
magazine and as a professional basketball trainee before
enrolling in the Central Academy of Art and Design to begin
her professional training as an artist.
Jia Lu was already an accomplished figure painter in
Chinese media when she left China for Canada in 1983. But
it was while working as a research assistant in the Faculty
of Visual Arts at York University that Jia Lu was first
exposed to Western psychological approaches to the human
figure. She subsequently taught art at Lambton College in
Sarnia, Ontario, and privately in Calgary, Alberta. Ms. Lu
now lives and works in Los Angeles.
Jia Lu has also worked as chief designer for the Tang
Garden Museum in Tokyo, and as consulting designer for a
stage production in a joint venture between Pierre Cardin
and the Chinese Ministry of Textiles in Beijing. Her design
work includes traditional Buddhist mural painting, stage
costume and jewelry. She has participated in 15 group
exhibitions and 12 solo exhibitions in Canada, the United
States, Japan and China.
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