Xu Bing, an artist. Xu Bing serve as a professor in CAFA. Xu Bing is widely recognized as the leading conceptual artists. He has always been expanding the boundaries of art with the inventive breakthrough in his artistic creations. His work has been exhibited at various art institutions such as the National Art Museum of China, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, the British Museum, London, the Venice Biennale, and have been widely collected.

In 1999, Xu Bing received the highest creative talent award in the United States. In recognition of his “capacity to contribute importantly to society, particularly in printmaking and calligraphy.” In 2003, he was conferred the 14th Fukuoka Asian Culture Award for his “contribution to the development of Asian culture”. In 2004, he won the first Artes Mundi Prize in Wales in United Kingdom. Reasons for the jury's award: "Xu Bing is an artist who can transcend cultural boundaries, convert Eastern and Western cultures, and express his thoughts and practical issues in visual language. In 2006, the Southern Graphics Council conferred on Xu Bing its lifetime achievement award in recognition of the fact that his “use of text, language and books has impacted the dialogue of the print and art worlds in significant ways.”  In 2015, he was awarded the AIE Medal of Arts by Secretary of Unite State. In 2010, he was awarded an honorary doctorate in humane letters from Columbia University.