姜宏光祖籍山东文登。 曾就读于北京中央美术学院。2002年移民新西兰开始研究西方艺术；喜欢塞尚、毕加索、达比埃斯、勃洛克、蒙德里安、席勒、莫迪利亚尼、高更等名家。2004年进入奥克兰大学艺术系，2007毕业于奥克兰大学艺术系列。

　　北京工艺美术出版社和人民美术出版社出版等多部个人画册，曾多次举办个人展览并参加国内外大展。其作品多次刊登在多种杂志及画刊。2004年，姜宏光任新西兰华人美术家协会副主席，2008年任新西兰中国文化艺术交流协会主席。2011年1月，授聘于广东省李铁夫美术馆名誉馆长。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，新西兰国家电视1台和CTV8，以及多家媒体专题系列报道。并由新西兰邮政总局和澳大利亚邮局发行动物和人物邮票系列。其作品被多所大学和美术馆收藏。并将其创作的作品捐助于“首都爱护动物协会”已壮大动物基金会。

　　Jianghongguang was born in Wendeng Shandong, graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts inBeijing, where he was also a journalist for the magazine .He likes the style of Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Modigliani, Paul Gauguin, Renoir, Marc Chagall, AntoniTapies, Jackson Pollock, Piet Mondrian and EgonSchiele. In 2007 Hongguang has graduated from the University of Auckland with The Bachelor of Visual Art.
　　His works have been published in several books by Beijing Gong-Yi Art and Ren Min Art Publisher as well as in several different well recognized magazines. Since 2004 He was the deputy chairman of New Zealand Chinese Art Association, and the chairman of New Zealand China Culture & Art Exchange Association in 2008. He was named as the honorary Curator Jiang Men Li Tie Fu Art Museum in 2011.
　　Hongguang also have been interviewed by CCTV4, New Zealand TV8 and many other media. His paintings were printed on stamps and published by the New Zealand Post and Australia Post. His works have been exhibited in many Chinese and foreign art galleries and collected in many universities and galleries internationally. He has donated many of his work to "protection for animal charity".