Baoyun Yan (also known as Yidianyu) is a distinguished contemporary oil painter born in 1975 in Inner Mongolia, China. With a foundation in fine arts from Inner Mongolia Normal University and a Master’s degree from Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, he studied under the acclaimed Professor Yu Xiaodong. His work gracefully merges traditional Chinese sensibilities with Western oil painting techniques.
Baoyun has participated in numerous influential exhibitions, both in China and abroad. His painting “Chasing the Scholar” was selected for the 2nd Beijing Oil Painting Society Exhibition in 2012, while “Lingering Study” was featured in the “Youth Aspiration” exhibition at Today Art Museum in 2014. In 2016, he was invited by the United Nations to attend the 60th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women in New York as part of an art delegation.
His work “Thinking of Yao” won an excellence award at the First Beijing Academy of Painting and Calligraphy Oil Painting Exhibition, and “A Thousand Paper Cranes” was selected for the National Minority Art Exhibition. In 2017, his piece “Youth in Bloom” received First Prize in the Realism Category at the 2017 American Art Awards. His painting “Female Nude” has been collected by the China National Art Museum.

Selected Achievements:
2012: Chasing the Scholar – 2nd Beijing Oil Painting Society Exhibition
2014: Lingering Study – “Youth Aspiration” Exhibition, Today Art Museum
2016: Invited to UN Women’s Conference in New York as part of Chinese art delegation
2017: Youth in Bloom – First Prize, Realism, American Art Awards
Collections: National Art Museum of China, private and institutional collectors