Hai-Ou Hou

Hai-Ou Hou was born in Beijing China. She received a B.A. from the National Academy of Fine Art and Design in Beijing, China. After graduating Hai-Ou Hou taught at Hu Bei Fine Art Institute in Wu Han, China. Following her immigration to the United States, she received her Masters degree in Fine Arts from Towson State University.

Hai-Ou has received numerous awards and acknowledgments for her landscape, and figurative oil paintings. Also a portrait artist, she designed a unique portrait style called Passport Portraits incorporating documents, seals, and personal memorabilia painted into the portrait to tell that person’s story of their journey to America. An award-winning plein air painter, she has traveled to plein air events from California to the East Coast.

A recent series of paintings called "Window Shopping" will be featured in an exhibit at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts in Annapolis, MD in January and February, 2014. Hai-Ou is a member of Oil Painters of America, American Impressionist Society, American Women Artists, Washington Society of Landscape Painters and the Mid Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association.