Profile: Ping Xu

About Ping Xu : Ping Xu was born and raised in Shanghai. He began his professional career in Shanghai advertising industry since 1988. He began his teaching career in the U.S. in 2005. Ping’s expertise includes identity design, poster design, and advertising. His research interest is to create visual concepts through practical experiment and contemporary media and deliver ideas that inspire, inform, or captivate consumers and target audiences. Ping has received thirteen American Advertising Awards from 2007 to 2019, and has published ten works of graphic design and illustration in Volume-IX, Volume-VII, and Volume-XI of the International Contemporary Artists book. In 2018, Ping Xu curated the Cross Connections 2018 International Exhibition of Design & Illustration in UTRGV which showcased 96 international faculty and students from University of Texas Arlington; China Central Academy of Fine Arts; Shanghai University; LUCA School of Arts; School of The Art Institute of Chicago; and Russia National Design Institute. The purpose of this exhibit is to give a cosmopolitan view of the most exciting new work in graphic media. All participating institutions exhibited the 96 works about 2 weeks in their respective campuses.