HAI-OU HOU

Stevensville, Maryland

Hai-Ou Hou was born in Beijing where she received her B.F.A. from Central Institute of Fine Art and Design. She earned her M.F.A. from Towson State University, and taught painting and design at the Fine Art Institute in Wu Han, China. Hai-Ou is a Signature Member in both the American Impressionist Society and the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters’ Association. She is also a member of the Portrait Society of America and the Washington Society of Landscape Painters. Her work is widely represented in commercial galleries and is included in many public and private collections throughout the U.S. and abroad. She has received numerous awards and honors through participation in art events and exhibitions.

The Grand Canyon, devastatingly beautiful and monumental, has long inspired me to paint. The COVID-19 pandemic is devastation on a monumental scale and compels me to paint. This painting contrasts the solid greatness of the one to the fearful apparition of the other; the canyon will remain long after COVID fades away.

Endurance | 16x20, oil