许钦松，1952年生于广东澄海。现为全国政协委员、书画室副主任，中国美术家协会副主席，中国国家画院院委、国画院研究员，广东省文学艺术界联合会主席，广东省美术家协会名誉主席，广东画院院长，中国文学艺术界联合会全委会委员，中国艺术研究院研究员，博士生导师，系国家一级美术师，享受国务院颁发的政府特殊津贴的专家。

Xu Qinsong was born in 1952 in Chenghai, Guangdong. He is a member of the National Committee of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, deputy director of the Painting and Calligraphy Studio of the conference, vice chair of China Artists Association, an Academy Committee member and a research fellow at the Traditional Chinese Painting Institute of China National Academy of Painting, chair of Guangdong Province Federation of Literary and Art Circles, honorary chair of Guangdong Artists Association, a member of the Committee of China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, a research fellow at Chinese National Academy of Art, a doctoral supervisor, a national top-level artist, and a recipient of a special government allowance granted by the State Council.