林祥雄@林野
    炎黄国际文化协会会长
    中国艺术研究院特约研究员
    北京大学艺术学院客座教授
    中国艺术研究院艺术与人文高等研究院高级研究员
    1945年出生于中国广东潮安。1956年移居南洋，新加坡籍艺术家、人文企业家。1965-1968年、1971-1973年先后在新加坡艺术学院和法国巴黎进修美术。
    1968-1988年先后在新加坡、泰国等国举行了7次个人画展。1990、1994及2013年受中华人民共和国文化部邀请与支持在中国北京、上海、西安、郑州等地作巡回展出。2014年6月，北京大学邀请展在百年讲堂及图书馆举办并受委托为百年讲堂创作了《踏秋图》。2015年，参与“蒙斯·欧洲文化之都”并在联合国教科文组织授予非物质文化遗产的比利时卡齐尔森林博物馆举行为期三个月的展览，饮誉欧盟并被传媒冠予“饮誉国际的华人艺术家”的称号。2014年4月，被中国美术家协会敦聘为“国际策展人”并于次年9月在北京策划并参与了“2015·第六届中国北京国际美术双年展”，出任“东南亚当代艺术特展”总监。2016年5月，在巴黎联合国教科文组织总部策划、统筹了“艺术为了和平”的东西方艺术家对话的大型主题性画展并为主展人。2017年3月，在巴黎与Area杂志社发起并倡办了“艺术为了和平”协会并在卢森堡参议院召开了“艺术为了和平”的高端圆桌论坛，同时与波兰前总统、诺贝尔和平奖得主莱赫·瓦文萨进行了东西方政治家与艺术家的和平主题互动，辩词绝伦，震撼欧洲艺坛！
    2010-2012年先后在新加坡与澳大利亚墨尔本，策划、组织与赞助举办两届“21世纪中华文化世界论坛”。2015年6月，组织、策划了“21世纪东方文化论坛”，在北京大学百周年纪念讲堂举行。2016年12月，在马来西亚吉隆坡成功举办了首届“北京大学·博雅论坛”。2017年3月，在马来西亚主办了首届“文明对话”槟城论坛，主题“一带一路”与东南亚。2017年8月，受邀参加在比利时列日市举办的“世界人文大会”发表开幕致辞并作主旨演讲。
    1976-2012年，出版散文、艺评、理论等八部著作，2013年汇集成六册《祥雄文集》；1994年出版《艺术世界》，2013年出版《天地求索》、《探索南洋》、《悲情人间》及《大象无形》等作品集。2015-2017年，汇集出版四本评介集《东艺西渐》、《南风北吹》、《艺化天下》及《赤子文心》，以及《祥雄文集》三册。

　　PROFESSOR LIN XIANG XIONG @ LIN YE
　　President of Global Chinese Arts and Culture Society
　　Research Fellow of Chinese National Academy of Arts
　　Guest Professor of School of Arts, Peking University
　　Senior Research Follow, Institute for Advanced Studies in Arts and Humanities, Chinese National Academy of Arts
　　Prof. Lin Xiang Xiong is an artist, entrepreneur, Singapore Citizen, born in 1945 in southern China's Guangdong Province and moved to Nanyang in 1956.
　　In the periods of 1965 to 1968, and 1971 to 1973, he studied fine arts in Singapore Academy of Arts, and in Paris, France respectively. He has held seven solo exhibitions in Singapore and Thailand (1968-1988). In 1990, 1994 and 2013, invited and supported by Ministry of Culture PRC to hold solo arts exhibitions in Beijing , Shanghai, Xi'an，Zhengzhou,etc. In June 2014, was invited to hold a solo exhibition by Peking University and presented a painting "Autumn Walk" which is displaying at Peking University Hall permanently. In May to September 2015, he was invited to attend the "Mons 2015 European Capital of Culture" to exhibited his paintings in Bois du Cazier which is a museum described as one of the UNESCO heritage site in Belgium. His paintings received numerous applause and praise from the media people and the public. He was titled as the "Internationally renowned Chinese artist" by the press. In April 2014, he was appointed as the "International Curator" by China Artists Association and in the following September he schemed and participated the "Southeast Asia Contemporary Art Exhibition, the 6th Beijing International Art Biennale, China". In May 2016, as the major exhibiter he curated the "Art for Peace"- Cultural Dialogue between East and West on the platform of UNESCO, France. In March 2017, co-organized with Area Revue to manage the 1st Round Table Forum "Art for Peace" in Luxembourg Palace, the Senate of France. In the forum, he had a debate with Mr. Lech Walesa, the former President of Poland regards the arts and politics, and their critical perceptions eventually stirred the European art scene.
　　He also jointly originated, sponsored and chaired two International Symposiums in Singapore in 2010 and Melbourne, Australia in 2012 of "the World Forum on Chinese Culture in the 21st Century", one of the China's top International cultural programs, to promote Chinese culture at the arena of the whole new world in the 21st Century. In June 2015, he jointly organized the 1st International Symposium, Forum of Eastern Cultures in the 21st Century (FEC), Peking University. In December 2016, successfully held the 1st "Boya Forum Peking University" at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In March 2017, the 1st "Culture Dialogue" Penang Forum was hold in Malaysia with the theme "Southeast and One Belt One Road". In August 2017, be invited by the World Humanities Conference delivered the opening speech as well as the keynote speech.
　　From 1976 to 2012, Prof Lin published eight books of essays, art reviews and theories, which have been collected into "A Collection of Xiang Xiong's Works" of six volumes in 2013. 1994 he published "World of Painting" which is a collection of his paintings since 1990 to 1994. In 2013, he published a collection on his paintings in four volumes. They are: "Exploring between Heaven and Earth", "Exploring in Southeast Asia", "A Sad World", "and Great Image Seems Formless", from 2015 to 2017, he published four more critical reviews namely "Eastern Art Moving to West", "South Wind Blowing North", "A World of Artistic Wonders", "Literary Aspirations of an Innocent Heart", and three more volume of "Xiang Xiong's essay collection".