1974年8月生于山东；
    1998年毕业于中国美术学院版画系，留校任教；
    2007年中国美术学院版画系研究生毕业获文学硕士学位；
    现为中国美术学院版画系副教授，硕士研究生导师，传统水印工作室“紫竹斋”负责人。

　　Wang Chao, b. 1974, Heze, Shandong province
　　Wang Chao graduated from the Printmaking Department at the China National Academy of Fine Arts in 1998. In the year of his graduation, he won the Fukuoka Art Museum prize for Symbolic Images of the Weather. Currently he is a lecturer at the Academy and a researcher at its traditional water-based printing workshop.
　　Wang Chao is one of the few professional artists who practises the ancient woodblock method of relief design combined with colour printing. The delicate lines and subtle colours create simple yet attractive compositions reminiscent of the fine illustrative printing from the Ming and Qing periods.
　　Museums and libraries in the West have collected many of his handmade books, including the British Library and the Bibliothèque Nationale.