Ge Xiaoguang (Chinese: 葛小光; born 1953 in Beijing), is a Chinese artist best known for painting the massive 6 x 4.6-meter portrait of Mao Zedong that hangs at Tiananmen Gate in Tiananmen Square.^[1]

Ge Xiaoguang graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Capital Normal University, and in 1971, was employed by Beijing Fine Arts Company (renamed Beijing Gehua Cultural Development Group in 1997)^[2] where he began to study large-scale portrait painting from Wang Guodong.^[3] In 1971, Ge also became responsible for painting gigantic portraits of Sun Yat-sen, Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin for display in the Tiananmen Square.^[4]

In 1976, the year of Mao Zedong's death, Wang Guodong retired and Ge Xiaoguang took his place in 1977 as the author of Mao's portrait at Tiananmen Gate, which must be re-painted and re-hung yearly due to the effects of weather and air pollution.^[5] It is a job that Ge Xiaoguang continues to this day in a studio located near Tiananmen Square. He is also an artist of landscape paintings.

• 1989 Mao portrait vandalism incident

• Four Painters Tell Their Stories of Painting Leaders' Portraits
• Deciphering The Ever Changing Portrait of Chairman Mao at Tiananmen
• Photographs of the yearly rehanging of Mao Zedong's portrait Archived 7 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
• Ge Xiaoguang