唐勇力，1951年生于河北唐山。现为中央美术学院教授、博士生导师，中国国家画院院委、国画院研究员。系文化部高级职称评委、中国美术家协会理事。曾任中央美术学院中国画学院院长。1985年考入浙江美术学院（现中国美术学院）中国画系工笔人物画专业研究生班，毕业后留系任教。2000年调入中央美术学院国画系。

Tang Yongli was born in 1951 in Tangshan, Hebei Province. He is a professor and doctoral supervisor at Central Academy of Fine Arts and an Academy Committee member and a research fellow at the Traditional Chinese Painting Institute of China National Academy of Painting. He is a member of the Senior Titles Review Committee of the Ministry of Culture and council member of China Artists Association. He was the dean of the School of Chinese Painting of Central Academy of Fine Arts. In 1985, he was admitted to the graduate class of figure painting of the Chinese Painting Department of Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now China Academy of Art). After graduation, he stayed there as a teacher. In 2000, he was transferred to the Department of Chinese Painting of Central Academy of Fine Arts.