Yang Tao, born in 1970, is from Xuanzhou, Anhui. Bachelor, Master and Doctor graduated from China Academy of Fine Arts, Central Academy of Fine Arts and China Academy of Fine Arts respectively, engaged in the creation and research of calligraphy and seal cutting.
Calligrapher Yang Tao
Worked in China Academy of Fine Arts of the Ministry of Culture.
Associate Research Fellow, China Calligraphy Institute; Professor of graduate school and tutor of master students;
Member of the 10th and 11th All-China Youth Federation; Deputy Secretary-General of all-china youth federation Culture and Art Circle;
Member of the Youth Federation of Central State Organs; Standing Committee of the Youth Federation of the Ministry of Culture;
Director of the China Calligraphy and Seal Cutting Committee of the Youth Federation of the Ministry of Culture and Deputy Director of the Fine Arts Working Committee;
Visiting Professor of Central Academy of Fine Arts;
Member of China Calligraphers Association;
Member of Xiling Printing Society;
Member of Beijing Printing Society;
Deputy Secretary-General of China Love Torch Fund;
Judge of the National Model Star Competition;
Director of China Juvenile Delinquency Research Association and Deputy Secretary-General of Social Education and Social Care Working Committee.
His works have participated in dozens of major exhibitions at home and abroad and won awards. He has published Pictology and Seal Cutting (Fujian Fine Arts Publishing House, 2002), A Brief History of Calligraphy in China (Higher Education Publishing House, 2003, co-authored), Twenty Young and Middle-aged Calligraphers in China-Yang Tao (China Calligraphy and Painting Expo, 2008) and Yang Tao's Calligraphy Collection (Hebei Education Publishing House, 2004).