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。导师范曾教授。现供职中国艺术研究院，国家一级美术师，中国艺术研究院研究生院硕士研究生导师。中国美术家协会会员，中国国际交流协会理事，全国青联委员，文化部青联副主席。
　　发表学术论文、艺术评论、随笔、诗词联语等计四十余万字。出版个人画集、文集、书法集、译著等著作十余部。
　　作品参加在法国、英国、日本、俄罗斯、美国、台湾、香港等地举办的大型画展并在国内外举办多次个人艺术展。
　　考察和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古代特别是宋元绘画鉴定鉴赏，渐入堂奥。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，致力于中西美术的考察和交流。

　　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”.