当代国学艺术名家。别署燕公，号穆斋。先后在首都师范大学、北京大学学习与中国国家画院任职。现为国家一级美术师、西泠印社社员、中国书法家协会会员、中华诗词学会会员、北京大学访问学者、中国书法学术研究院常务副院长、漱玉印社社长、济南政协委员、政协书画院副院长、《中华藏书集成》副主编等。出版有《马子恺艺术作品集》、《古篆论语》、《周易锦言》、《汉印精华》、《古玺精华》、《知水仁山》、《依仁游艺》等专著。作品传略及理论文章散见于数百种书刊中。曾在国内外成功举办二十余次个展，获得重要奖项百余次。作品被人民大会堂等机构收藏展出；2008年为北京奥运会题写“中国茶”、中国美术学院出版大型画册《马子恺艺术作品集》；2010年“马子恺书法艺术”专场拍卖会在北京成功举办，成为当代个人书法专场拍卖的第一人；2013、2014年书法作品《你好·世界》《你好·未来》连续两年登上纽约时代广场的纳斯达克大屏，成为热点新闻；2014年创作《中华第一印——泰和宝玺》问世于文博会上；大型艺术纪录片《中国艺术大家——马子恺专集》播出；10月“马子恺古篆艺术展”在巴黎卢浮宫卡鲁萨尔厅成功举办；2015年8月在米兰世博会荣获中国艺术展金奖；2016年6月在加拿大多伦多艺术中心成功举办“马子恺古篆艺术全球巡展”；10月在北京创办“中国古篆艺术论坛”，2017年荣获新华社等国家级艺术机构主办的权威奖项“最具收藏价值艺术家”。被选为《南方周末——精英》《中国书画》《中国文艺家》《神州》封面人物。在北京、上海、杭州等地创建“马子恺艺术馆”，为推广传统国学艺术做出了积极贡献。

　　He is a contemporary well-known Chinese traditional-cultural artist. After studying in Beijing University, then holding a post in the China National Art Academy, and as a member of the Chinese Calligrapher Association, a member of the Xiling Seal Engravers Society, he is now the executive vice-president of the Chinese Calligraphy Academic Research Institute, the president of the Beijing Shuangxiu Academy of Classical Learning, the Proprieter of the Shuyu Seal Engravers Society, the visiting scholar of the Beijing University, the academic chief editor of China Art Academy, and also the associate editor of some important books such as Chinese Art Encyclopedia, Calligraphy Characters Dictionary, Integration of China Collected Books. He has published more than ten monographs including the Compilation of Ma Zikai’s Art Works, Distinguished Seals & Engravings in Shandong, the Analects of Confucius in Seal Characters, Proverbs in the Books of Changes, the Essential Han Seals, Merciful for Mountain and Wised for River, with his biographical sketches and theoretical essays appeared in hundreds of books and periodicals. As a successful exhibitor holding more than twenty exhibitions home and abroad, a winner of many significant awards for more than hundred times, he enjoys a high reputation in and out of the art industry.
　　There has been 18 Ma Zikai Art Galleries at present established in famous scenic regions in Beijing, Hangzhou, Sanya, Jinan, etc. His works are reputed as the classic oriental art works by many experts and specialists. His production Ode to Mt. Tai has been collected and exhibited by some important institutes such as Great Hall of the People, China Art Gallery. In 2008 he inscribed the “Chinese Tea” for Beijing Olympic Games; meanwhile his traditional Chinese painting “Hua Xia Feng Gu” (Traditional China’s Strength of Character) appeared in the Olympic Art Meetings, which received reward from the International Olympic Committee. In the same year, the large-scale painting album A Compilation of Ma Zikai’s Art Works was published by the China Art Academy. In 2010, the “Ma Zikai Calligraphy Art” special auction was a big success, making him the first individual holding a calligraphic auction contemporarily. In 2013, his calligraphic work “Hello, world” was showed on the NASDAQ screen in New York Times Square, which became the hot news. In 2014, he painted a masterwork “China’s Biggest Seal: Tai He Bao Xi”, which, came out in the Culture Expo, earned a wide range of compliments. The documentary “China’s Great Masters of Art” presented a Ma Zikai special episode. October, 2014, “Ma Zikai’s Art Exhibition of Traditional Seal Character” was held successfully in Louvre, Paris, which made him the first Chinese artist exhibiting calligraphy in Louvre. He is also selected as the cover person in Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, Chinese artists, Shen Zhou (the Divine Land), etc.