Zhu Yiyong （b. 1957, Chongqing, China ). He was admitted to the Oil Painting Major of the Department of Painting at Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 1977, and after graduating in 1982, he stayed at the institute to teach. Currently, he lives and works in Chongqing, China.

His creative works cover various mediums such as oil painting, acrylic painting, watercolor, and mixed media. As one of the important representatives of "Rural Painting", Zhu Yiyong attracted wide attention in his early years for his works depicting figures in rural life. Later, his "Memorys of China" series gained extensive international recognition. This series uses the pattern of "red five-pointed stars" to strive for a new way of interpreting the past and the present, ideals and reality, and employs a childlike string-flipping game to interpret people's concern for living conditions and reflection on reality.

Throughout his creative career, Zhu Yiyong has been loyal to his true experiences, always maintaining a keen observation of the social reality around him. He has long focused on the state of people at various stages of China's era changes, and is good at capturing the living conditions and spiritual outlook of ordinary people in specific historical periods through the delicate expressions of the figures in his works.

In his "The Realm of the Heart" series, he shifted his creative focus to reflections on the current ecological environment. He uses new painting languages in the application of mediums and materials to present the content he wants to express, exploring and re-understanding the relationships between people, and between humans and nature.

In his creative practice, Zhu Yiyong continuously extends and transforms tradition and contemporaneity. In recent years, he has broken away from conventional methods across different materials to explore the interdependent relationship between "existence" and "non-existence".

Taking "Formless" as his starting point, he constantly attempts to find ways to interpret images after their boundaries have vanished, between figuration and abstraction. He detaches objects from reality to perceive the distance between psychology and reality.

In the process of diluting and dissolving images, contradictions and fragility, alienation and confusion, reality and illusion, form and formlessness emerge.

 His representative work “Village Shop” won the Bronze Award at the 6th National Art Exhibition. “ Father and Son” won the Third Prize at the 2nd National Youth Art Exhibition.  

Collections: His works are collected by institutions including the National Art Museum of China, the Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, etc. 

朱毅勇，1957年生于中国重庆，1977年考入于四川美术学院绘画系油画专业，1982年毕业留校任教，现生活和工作于中国重庆。他的创作涵盖油画、丙烯、水彩、综合材料等。朱毅勇作為「乡土绘画」重要代表人物之一，早期以创作乡村生活的人物而备受关注。其后“中国记忆”系列获得国际上的广泛认可。此系列以“红五星”的图式力求寻找过去与当今、理想与现实的全新解读方式，以一种充满童趣的翻线游戏来诠释人们对生存状态的关注，对现实的反思。在创作生涯中，朱毅勇忠诚于自己的真实体验，始终保持对所处社会现实环境的敏锐观察，长期关注中国时代变迁中各个阶段人们的状态，擅长通过细腻的人物神态，来捕捉特定历史时期普通人的生活状态和精神面貌。在“心境”系列中，将创作思路转入对当今生态环境的思考，在媒介和材料的运用中用新的绘画语言来呈现所想表达的内容，探讨并重新认识人与人、人与自然的关系。

朱毅勇在创作实践中将传统与当代不断延申与转化，在不同材料中，打破原有方式，探讨“有”与“无”的相生关系。近年来，他以“无相”为切入点，不断尝试在具象与抽象之间寻找图像被消失边界后的解读方式，将对象从现实中剥离出来，感知心理与现实的距离。在淡化和消解图像的过程中，试图超越身份、性别、国籍和文化。在模糊的图像中，呈现矛盾与脆弱、疏离与迷茫、真实与幻相，有相与无相。

朱毅勇的代表作品《山村小店》获第六届全国美术作品展铜奖，《父与子》获第二届全国青年美术作品展三等奖。作品被中国美术馆、四川美术学院美术馆.....等收藏。