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From Beijing Inside-Out Museum profile: Pang Tao was born in 1934 in Shanghai. When the Cultural Revolution ended in 1976, she was in her middle age. With the onset of ideological liberation and creative freedom at this time, Pang Tao embarked on an active period of artistic practice. Her initial education of art had come from her family. Her father, Pang Xunqin, and her mother, Qiu Di, were both active artists in the modern art movements in China around the 1930s. In 1949, Pang Tao started her study at the National Hangzhou School of Art and two years later, transferred herself to the Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts till she finished the graduate school in 1955. After that, she stayed at the academy as a teacher. From Pearl Lam Gallery, Hong Kong, Intro to solo exhibition "Revelation" (2019): . . . Although Pang was one of the earliest artists in modern China to explore abstract painting, she has been largely ignored by Chinese modern and contemporary art history. This show aims to illuminate Pang’s original artistic experimentations in the historical context of Chinese contemporary art. Pang Tao is the daughter of Pang Xunqin and Qiu Ti, two important members of the early Chinese avant-garde art group the Storm Society (Jue Lan She), which was formed in the 1930s. The artistic life of Pang had long been nourished by her parents as well as the generation of artists from before 1949, who were devoted to modern art since the beginning of the 20th century. In her later formative years, Pang worked as an independent artist and an educator in academia from the 1950s to 1970s, a period marked by the Cultural Revolution. Not interested in engaging with politics, Pang was discounted as academic and conservative, and her works did not spark much critical debate within the binary categorization of art as either “new” or “traditional” at the time. Pang lived in Paris for a year in 1984 and was among the first group of artists who were sent to Europe to study art. . .. "