1966年出生于山东省威海市文登区。自幼临写范宽、黄公望、徐渭、陈淳、八大山人、石涛、吴昌硕等名家作品，深得诸家画风之精髓。曾就读于北京中央美术学院国画系。师从著名画家黄胄、王同仁、郭怡琮、张立辰等著名老师。2002年移民新西兰，开始研究西方艺术，随后就读于奥克兰大学艺术系。专注研究塞尚、毕加索、达比埃斯、勃洛克、蒙德里安、席勒、莫迪利亚尼、高更艺术风格。2018-现任澳大利亞当代美术家协会主席、2014－任新西兰美术家协会主席、新西兰中国文化艺术交流协会主席、山东画院对外艺术顾问、山东省海外交流协会理事等职务。
    中央电视台CCTV4《华人世界——姜宏光艺术人生》，北京卫视，旅游卫视，山东卫视，江门卫视，威海卫视，文登卫视，新西兰国家电视1台和CTV8，以及多家媒体都对姜宏光先生做过专题系列报道。其作品被多所大学，美术馆和***收藏，并由新西兰邮政总局和澳大利亚邮局，以其作品为原型发行动物和人物邮票系列。其作品多年来一直在保利、嘉德、荣宝和翰海等多家拍卖公司拍卖。
    一直以来姜宏光先生热心国内外公益事业，积极关注和呼吁绿色环保，多次获得国内外权威机构的表彰。2009年将其创作的六幅大型油画作品捐助于“首都爱护动物协会”已壮大动物基金会，2012获得由中国中央电视台举办中国***基金会年度“公益贡献奖”。也是唯一新西兰华人获此荣誉。2014参加《大美华夏，人道主义呼唤》首届全国助残作品展，（北京中国美术馆首展，全国巡回展），由***文化部和中国残疾人联合会主办，并将作品捐赠给残疾人基金会，拍卖资金用于帮助弱势群体。为促进中新艺术交流，组织中国艺术家来新西兰做展览，旨在推动中新两国文化交流、增进中新两国人民的友谊和丰富海外华人的文化教育。2014新西兰文化艺术交流协会和山东省政府将《尼山书屋》落户于新西兰。
    姜宏光先生虽移居海外多年，却也一直牵挂家乡的文化发展。为推动家乡的文化事业发展，促进国画与世界的相融做出了杰出的贡献。2012年向山东省文登博物馆捐赠作品60余幅；2016年向山东省威海市博物馆捐赠不同时期不同风格一批作品；2016年将其原创5幅精品花鸟无偿捐赠给山东省博物馆。为此，山东省文登市政府建了“姜宏光美术馆”用以表彰姜宏光先生对家乡的贡献。
    2013年邀请新西兰政府代表团、新西兰国家党主席彼得.古德费洛带领七人的部长代表团专程到威海参加姜宏光美术馆开馆仪式。

　　Hongguang Jiang was born in Shandong in 1966. From 1994 to 1998, he was studying in the China Central Academy of Fine Arts. He was taught by Huang Zhou, Wang Tong Ren, Guo Yi Zong, Zhang Li Chen and other well-known artists. He has traced many works from Huang Gong Wang, Ba Da Shan Ren, Xu Wei, Chen Chun, Shi Tao, Wu Chang Shuo and several other famous artists’ works since he was young. He gleaned the best from of all those artists’ works. Now he started to study Western art since he immigrated to New Zealand in 2004. He likes the styles of Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, 　　Modigliani, Paul Gauguin, Renoir, Marc Chagall, Antoni Tapies, Jackson Pollock, Piet Mondrian and Egon Schiele. In 2007 Hongguang graduated from the University of Auckland with a Bachelor of Visual Art.
　　Hongguang has a number of books published by the Beijing Gongyi Art Publishing House and Renmin Art Publishing House. He has held many solo exhibitions inside and outside China. Many of his artworks have been published in art magazines. He has been deputy chairman of the New Zealand Chinese Artists Association since 2004 and chairman of the New Zealand-China Culture & Art Exchange Association since 2008. In January 2011, he was named as the honorary curator of Li Tiefu Art Gallery in Guangdong Province. Hongguang has also appeared in various TV programmes, including China Central Television (CCTV4’s Chinese World—Hongguang Jiang’s Art Life). Beijing TV, Beijing Traveling Channel, Shandong TV, Jiangmen TV, Weihai TV, Wendeng TV as well as New Zealand TV1 and CTV 8. In addition, his paintings were used for stamps by the New Zealand Post and Australian Post. His works have been collected by many universities and art galleries. He donated six of his large-scale oil paintings to the Capital Animal Welfare Association (CAWA) in Beijing to support the animal charity organization; he thus received the 2012 China Song Ching Ling Foundation Charity contribution award presented by the CCTV. To help the art development of his hometown, Hongguang donated his oil paintings, Chinese traditional paintings and sketches to the Shandong Provincial government and Wendeng city government and established his own art gallery in his hometown Wendeng City.
　　Solo exhibitions
　　August 2011, Love Life—Sentiments of a Wandering Son, Beijing: Yanhuang Museum of Art, organized by the Beijing Municipal Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese and New Zealand Pacific Culture and Arts Exchange Center
　　January 2011, Jiang Hongguang Oil Painting Exhibition, Jiangmen: Li Tiefu Art Museum, and Jiangmen City Art Gallery, organized by the New Zealand Pacific Culture and Arts Exchange Center
　　November 2010, Love for Qilu—Returning to the Nature, Jinan: Shandong Province Art Museum, Shandong Provincial Department of Culture and Shandong Provincial Art Museum, organized by the New Zealand Pacific Culture and Arts Exchange Center
　　April 2008, Rhythms of the Nature, Auckland: Aotea Center, organized by the New Zealand Pacific Culture and Arts Exchange Center
　　May 2007, Protect the Environment, Love Life, Auckland: Auckland Art Gallery, organized by the New Zealand Pacific Culture and Arts Exchange Center
　　2004/2005/2006 New Zealand Artists joint exhibitions at the Aotea Center, organized by the New Zealand Pacific Culture and Arts Exchange Center
　　Magazine publications
January 2013, Chinese Literature and Art, “Hongguang Jiang: Love life, Sentiments of a Wandering Son—Appreciating the Works of a ‘Green Painter’ residing in New Zealand”
　　2012 Issue 47, SHINE LUXURIES, “Hongguang Jiang: Colorful Art Career”
　　2012 Issue 48, SHINE LUXURIES, “Hongguang Jiang: The Texture of Life”
　　December 2011 Issue 45, Art Guide, “Hongguang Jiang: Ten Years for One Sword”
　　December 2011 Issue 228, Collection, “Contemporary Art – Hongguang Jiang’s Paintings”
　　August 2011 Issue 224, Collection, “Great Love of Life: Sentiments of a Wandering Son”
　　2011, Trading Up, “Contemporary Art—Hongguang Jiang’s Oil Paintings”
　　November 2010, Issue 12, Collection Investment, “Love for Qilu—Returning to the Nature”
　　2011, Wealth and Art, Green Artist Hongguang Jiang
　　October 2010, issue 10, Collection Investment, “Green Painter Hongguang Jiang Launches Art Eco-tours”
　　July 2007 Issue 312, Metro, Hongguang Jiang - Home of Art
　　Personal Art book publications
　　2012, Artists- A Collection of Hongguang Jiang’s Oil Paintings,Published by Jilin Publishing House
　　2011, Contemporary Art- Hongguang Jiang’s Oil Paintings,Published by People’s Fine Arts Publishing House
　　2008, Hongguang Jiang Animal Sketches,Published by Beijing Gongyi Arts Publishing House
　　2008, Hongguang Jiang’s Human Sketches,Published by Beijing Gongyi Arts Publishing House