Zeng Yi was born in Jinan, Shandong China, in January 1949. He is general director of the Museum of the Shandong College of Arts & Design, director of Eastern Gallery of Modern Art and chairman of the Photographer’s Association, Jinan. He is honored and promoted as “Specialist of Chinese Ministry”.
Zeng Yi organized many large national and international art-and photography exhibitions. He held photography exhibitions in USA, Europe and Asia and awarded “Asia Culture Prize” of UNESCO and many other prizes. He judged several national and international photographers competitions and was the curator of the “Picasso Painting Exhibition” in China, the “Confucius Culture Exhibition”, “Photography Competition of the International Year of Peace”, “China (Jinan) Contemporary International Photography Biennale”. He published the photo catalogues “Confucius the Great Sage”, “Contemporary International Photography” and more than 20 other photo catalogues. He was invited to held exhibitions and lectures in San Francisco (USA), Seoul (Republic of Korea), Bonn (Germany), Turin (Italy), Sao Paulo (Brazil), Buenos Aires (Argentina), etc.