Choi Chor-Foo is well-known in both the East and the West as a famous oil painting artist. He has worked as an artist for 40 years now, and has internationally held one-man shows and group shows some 70 times. He is currently chairman of the Chinese-American Artists Association and the New York chapter of Spring Wind, a Hong Kong art association. He also serves as a consultant for the Chinese Calligraphy Arts Society of New York.

Choi Chor-Foo, also known as Choi Jia-Je, was born in Wuchao, Guangxi in the People's Republic of China in 1942. Beginning in 1959, he studied at the Fine Arts Institute of Guangzhou, where he developed a solid foundation in sketching and color theory which has allowed for his later diversity. In 1978, he arrived in the United States, where he made his fame with landscapes in oil and watercolor paintings. His work was acclaimed as passionately realistic and powerfully expressive, and prepared a place for him in mainstream Western art. His oil painting have gone to auctions more than 20 times in famed international houses such as Sotheby's and Christie's, a well as in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and China.

When he was young, Choi Chor-Foo became a member of the Wuchao chapter of China's Association for the Advancement of Painting. In the 1960s his work was selected for the National Art Museum in Beijing and for the One Hundred Years of Chinese Paintings exhibition in the Palace Museum in Xunyung. In the 1970s he went to Hong Kong and was introduced by Lee Go-min, the famous artist of the Lienam school, to the great Chinese master Young Sing Sam as a teacher. Later, Choi Chor-Foo studied under Ting Yen Yung to learn more about traditional Chinese painting techniques. Afterwards, Choi Chor-Foo took part in the 13th and 14th annual Asian Modern Arts Exhibition in Tokyo and was given an honorary masters degree by the Asian Art Education Association.

Choi Chor-Foo has held many one-man shows of Chinese paintings, including in Hong Kong City Hall, the art museum of New York's St. John University and the New York-China Tsung-Hua Art Gallery. Recently, he held lectures and taught lessons on Chinese painting at the Hannun Museum in Connecticut.

Choi Chor-Foo's art work has appeared in a number of publications, including the World Art Encyclopedia, the Artists of Chinese Origin in North America Directory, the Calligraphy and Painting Collection of Eminent Chinese the World Over, and the Art and Artists of Twentieth Century China, as well as many other books.
(Translated by Charles Choi.)