| Hua Tianyou 滑田友 | |
| Birth Name: | Hua Tingyou (滑庭友) |
| Birth Date: | 1901 |
| Birth Place: | Huaiyin, Jiangsu province |
| Death Date: | 1986 |
| Nationality: | Chinese |
| Field: | Sculpture |
Hua Tianyou (; 1901–1986), courtesy name Shunqing (Chinese: 舜卿), was a Chinese artist and a pioneer of the field of sculpture in modern China.[1]
Born Hua Tingyou (Chinese: 滑庭友) in Huaiyin, Jiangsu province in 1901, Hua graduated from the No. 6 Normal School of Jiangsu Province in 1924. In 1933 he left China to study at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.[2]
He returned to China in 1947 at the encouragement of Xu Beihong. After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, he became a professor at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts, and served as the first director of the sculpture department of the academy.[2] [3]
Hua is one of the seven artists featured in the Exhibition for Noted Painters at the China Art Museum of Shanghai.[1] His works are also in the collections of the National Art Museum of China in Beijing, and the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris.[3]