刘波，字荷生。原籍山西，1974年生于内蒙古。2005年毕业于南开大学，获艺术史博士学位。现供职中国艺术研究院，艺术培训中心主任，无党派，国家一级美术师，博士研究生导师。中国美术家协会理事，国家出版基金评委，国家艺术基金评审专家，国际文化交流学术联盟常务理事、艺术专门委员会副主任。北京市政协委员。?发表学术论文、艺术评论、随笔、诗词联语等计五十余万字。出版个人画集、文集、书法集、译著等著作十余部。
    跟随叶嘉莹教授和范曾教授研习古典诗文多年。访问国内外百余所博物馆、美术馆、历史遗迹。跟随陈佩秋先生研讨宋元绘画鉴定鉴赏，对于佛教壁画、造像、棺椁线刻、墓葬壁画等有长期深入的研究和积累，致力于中西美术比较和交流。

　　Liu Bo, also known as Hesheng, was born in Inner Mongolia in 1974. He graduated from Nankai University with a doctoral degree. He is well versed in Chinese classical poetry, calligraphy and painting. He works for the Chinese Painting Academy of the Chinese National Academy of Arts. He is member of the Chinese Artists Association, a committee member of All-China Youth Federation and vice president of the Youth Association of the Ministry of Culture.
　　He has 300,000 words of publication to his name, including articles, art reviews, essays, poems and couplets. To this are also added more than 10 books including a personal collection of painting works, a collection of essays, a collection of calligraphy and translations.
　　His works have been seen in big exhibitions held in France, Britain, Japan, Russia, the USA, Taiwan and Hong Kong. He also held personal exhibitions both at home and abroad more than one time.
　　In 2007, one of his works won the prize of “Excellent Work from the National Academy of Painting”, an exhibition which was of the first ever sponsored by the Ministry of Culture in China.
　　He was invited as a special guest to contribute to the World Conference on Olympic Fine Arts held in Beijing in 2008 and London in 2012. He was invited as the director of the Organizing Committee to attend the London Conference on Olympic Fine Arts 2012.
　　In 2010, during Chinese New Year, he composed a couplet himself and took part in the Situation Calligraphy Exhibition held by National Art Museum of China. The couplet ended as a collection of the Museum.
　　He has visited about 100 museums, galleries, and historical relic sites around the world. He is particularly expert in ancient Chinese fine arts, especially Buddhism art and the paintings in Song and Yuan Dynasties. He has a longstanding interest in the communication between Chinese art and Western art.
　　He teaches Chinese culture and art for foreign students from America, Britain, Australia, Japan and Korea. He communicates and collaborates with artists from Taiwan and such countries as America, Canada and Israel.
　　In May, 2009 he was invited to Vancouver by the University of British Columbia and the Chinese Culture Center of Greater Vancouver to hold a personal exhibition and give a lecture on “Contemporary Chinese Arts” in UBC.
　　In April, 2010, he was invited to “The Ninth Israel Annual Symposium on Asia Studies” held at the University of Haifa and gave a lecture on “Traditional Chinese Painting in the 21st Century.” During his stay there, he visited Tel Aviv University and lectured upon Chinese calligraphy and painting for the artists and students.
　　In October, 2012, he was invited to “The Third World Chinese Collectors Conference” in Taipei and delivered a speech on “Epigraphy in Contemporary China”.
　　In November, 2012, he was invited to the Confucius Institute of Halla University, Korea and gave a speech on “Investigation into the Spirit of Chinese Painting”.