Zhao Xiaodong was born in Sichuan province in 1971. He entered the department of oil painting of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in 1993, and served as a teacher in Sichuan Normal University in 1997, in Chongqing University in 2002. Main Exhibitions: ‘Contemporary Chinese Sketch Exhibition’, Beijing, 1997; ‘Gate to the New Century: Chinese Youth Oil Painting Exhibition’, Beijing, Shenzhen, Chongqing, Shanghai, 1997; ‘Contemporary Chinese Landscape Painting Exhibition’, Beijing and Shanghai, 1998; ‘The 9th National Fine Arts Exhibition’, Chongqing, 1999; ‘The 3rd National Oil Painting Exhibition’, Chongqing, 2003; won the first prize of ‘Shanghai Youth Fine Art Competition’, 2005, etc.