Chen YiFei (1946-2005) was born in Ningbo, Zhejiang province. Chen graduated from Shanghai Fine Art School in 1965 and in the same year entered Shanghai Oil Painting&Sculpture Institute to work on oil paintings. In 1980, he went to study in the United States, and later started to work on oil paintings in New York. He returned to China in 1992 and set up his own "YIFei Studio," thus entering the nascent cultural industry in China with his concept of "Big Vision, Great Art Chen died of illness in 2005 in Shanghai.