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Biography



Hua Nian, originally from China, taught photo-journalism in Jinan University, Guangzhou, prior to her move to the USA. She later earned a master’s degree in Art Education from Pittsburg State University, Kansas, in 1996, and is an active exhibiting artist and art instructor in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. Her artwork is widely collected throughout the US.


Her paintings appear in international and national art exhibitions, winning awards at local, state, and national shows. She and her artworks have been featured in American Artist Magazine, the Chicago Sun-Times, Dialogue: An Art Journal, and in numerous local and Chinese newspapers and magazines, as well as cover art for books, music CDs, and posters produced by Stanford University, University of Illinois and others.

She is happily married to Stephen Taylor, a composer; they have two adult children working in bee and bird science.