Fan Hong Bin was born in Ningxia, China. He graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Ningxia University in 1981. In 1991, he entered the training course of the Chinese Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and studied under Zhao Ning'an and Jia Youfu. In 1995, he settled in Shenzhen and founded the Shizi Ink Painting Studio. He is a member of the Guangdong Artists Association, and is currently the chairman of the China Hong Kong Artists Association and a distinguished professor at Communication University of China.

He says, “The value of the Chinese spirit is the conscientiousness and willingness to brave new worlds and constantly push ourselves to the limits. Tradition, in my view, is a spirit, a type of development. It is not something that is stagnant without change. It is the cumulative and continuous effort of artists to excel and to push themselves to surpass boundaries, to create a new language, a new style, and an individual structure. This innovative spirit is what I call excellent tradition