China Academy of Art is an art school in mainland China. It was founded in 1928 by the government of Republic of China.

In 1928, the National Academy of Art was founded as the first comprehensive art academy in China on the bank of the West Lake in Hangzhou by the eminent educator Cai Yuanpei with Mr. Lin Fengmian. It takes integrating eastern and western arts, creating arts of the time and developing Chinese culture as its tenets. For decades, the location of the Academy has been changed ten times while its name six times, as follows:

• 1928 - the National Academy of Art
• 1929 - Hangzhou National College of Art
• 1938 - National College of Art
• 1950 - East-China Campus of Central Academy of Fine Arts
• 1958 - Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts
• 1993 - China Academy of Art