出生1938年3月5日，湖北应城人，籍贯是湖南长沙。自幼喜爱美术，小学毕业后就考进上海行知艺术学校（原育才学校）。1954年赴京考入中央美术学院附中，学习4年后毕业。1958年9月到四川重庆美术家协会（后改为四川省美协），任重庆画报编辑。画报停刊后回协会创作。
    多年以来，由于实际工作的需要，在老一辈版画家的培养关怀和影响下，开始学习创作了一些版画。1966年以后重点放在了少数民族生活。先后在云南红河傣族、哈尼族，四川凉山彝族，阿坝、甘孜藏族自治州和西藏自治区深入生活。创作了百余幅作品。包括版画、油画、素描等等。版画为最多，其中又以黑白木刻，人物为主。
    代表作品有：《待渡》（套色木刻）、《秋收》（拓片）、《乡村小学》（套色木刻）、《草地诗篇》（黑白木刻）、《珠峰儿女》（拓片）、《纳木湖畔》（套色木刻）、《主人》（黑白木刻）、《大江之源》（套色木刻）等等。
    其中《待渡》曾参加1959年莱比锡（国际版画比赛会），《主人》获***全国美展一等奖。其他作品也曾参加各国文化交流展出活动，或被中国美术馆收藏。多数作品参加了全国性美术展览，并在各种报刊、杂志、书籍上发表。
    本人为中国美术家协会会员，出席1979年全国四届文代会。曾任四川美协副主席，现任国家画院版画院研究员、四川美协顾问，国家一级美术师，享受XXX特殊津贴专家。
                                                                      自述

Xu Kuang
　　b. 1938, Changsha, Hunan.
　　Xu Kuang studied at the TaoXingzhi Academy in Shanghai from 1951 to 1954. Whilst attending the middleschool at the Central Academy of Fine Art, he also received a Soviet socialistrealistic style artistic education as at the time it was integrated into theAcademy’s curriculum.
　　During the late 1950s and early1960s, Xu Kuang took to experimenting and exploring various styles andtechniques for his print making. He made woodcuts with both oil-based ink andwater-soluble colour as well as using the dabbing technique. By the next decade,his work had matured and he was incorporating the drawing techniques, chiaroscuro,(he had a very solid drawing ability) into woodcut prints. As a result, theseworks, which represent the height of his career, lent a sculptural quality tohis figures and created a sense of volume. Equally, it led to him being mostfamed for his figural compositions.
　　His works are in the collectionsof institutions such as The Norwegian National Museum of Fine Arts, The FrenchNational Museum of Fine Arts as well as The China Gallery of Fine Art.