Cheng Zhifan

Cheng Zhifan (; 27 June 1927 – 1 February 2021) was a Chinese-French musician, painter, collector, and political activist. She has run for the President of France three times. She has held a number of personal exhibitions in Paris. Her works are collected in the Paris Oriental Museum and the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.

Biography Cheng was born in Beijing in 1927, to Cheng Shewo (1898–1991), a journalist, publisher, and educator, and Yang Fan . She has an older sister, Cheng Youshu (1924–2021), a diplomat and poet, and a younger brother, Cheng Siwei (1935–2015), an economist, chemical engineer, and politician.

At the age of 11, Cheng was accepted to Shanghai Academy of Music; after graduation, she taught at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.

Award 1995 Silver Medal for Paris Artists