Ding Yi

Basic 1962 Born in Shanghai

Education
2001 Artist in Residence, Kuenstlerhauser Worpswede, Germany
      1990 Graduates from Shanghai University, Fine Arts Department
      1983 Graduates from Shanghai Arts & Crafts Institute

Solo Exhibitions

2008 DING YI - recent works, Galerie Karsten Greve,
      Cologne, Germany
      Appearance of Crosses from 1989-2007-Solo Exhibition of Ding Yi, Museo
      d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
      
2007 DING YI, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
      
2006 Graticule-Ding Yi's Works from 1989 to 2006, ShanghART H-Space,
      Shanghai
      
2005 Ding Yi-Appearance of Crosses, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
      
2004 Crossed Vision-Works by Ding Yi, CAAW-China Art Archive & Warehouse,
      Beijing
      Small Works, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai
      
2003 Appearance of Crosses, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland
      
2002 Appearance of Crosses, Galerie Waldburger, Berlin, Germany
      
2000 Ding Yi: Fluorescence on Tartan, China Art Archive & Warehouse,
      Beijing
      
1998 Ding Yi: Crosses '89-'97, International Art Palace, Beijing
      
1997 Ding Yi: Crosses '97, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
      
1996 15 x Red, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai
      
1995 Ding Yi, Opere su Carta - Paper Works of Ding Yi, Galleria degli
      Archi, Comiso, Italy
      
1994 Exhibition of Ding Yi's Abstract Art Works, Shanghai Art Museum,
      Shanghai
      Ding Yi's Work on Paper, Guangzhou Fine Art Academy, Guangzhou

Group Exhibitions

2010  Exhibition in the sky, Pudong tower advertisement
      boards,Shanghai
      Shanghai, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, U.S.A.
      Shanghai Modern Exhibition, CAI,Sapporo;Gallery Monma,Sapporo
      Chinese Contemporary Art in the Year of the Tiger, Centre Culturel de
      Rencontre "Abbaye de Neumunster"
      Photo Exhibition of Contemporary Artists, Today Art Museum, Beijing
      Chinese Contemporary Artist in Their Twenties, Beijing Angle Modern Art,
      Beijing
      
2009  ShanghART Group Show, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai
      Footloose, Galerie Waldburger, Brussels, Belgium
      Collision-Experimental Cases of Contemporary Chinese Art, CAFA Art Museum,
      Beijing, China
      Out of Shanghai, Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Otterndorf, Germany
      Shanghai History in Making from 1979 till 2009, 436 Jumen Rd.
      Fan Ceremony, Fine Arts Literature Art Centre
      Warm Up, Minsheng Art Museum, Bldg F, No.570 Huaihai Rd
      Fan Ceremony-Works On Paper, Yard Gallery
      Yi Pai - Century Thinking A Contemporary Art Exhibition, Today Art Museum,
      Beijing
      Domus Collection New York | Beijing, White Space, Beijing
      Un-natural-A New Ciscussion on Nature and Chinese Traditions, Beijing
      Center for the Arts
      ShanghART Group Show, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai
      Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Peabody Essex
      Museum in Salem, Mass, U.S.A.
      Another scene - artists' projects, concepts and ideas, ShanghART H-Space,
      Shanghai
      
2008  Five Years of Duolun: Chinese Contemporary Art Retrospective
      Exhibition, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Duolun road No.27,
      Shanghai
      Hybrid, ShanghART at Huaihai Rd 796, Shanghai
      Avant-Garde China: Twenty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, The National
      Art Center, Tokyo; The National Museum of Art, Osaka; Aichi Prefectural
      Museum of Art, Nagoya
      China University Culture-2008 Contemporary Art Exhibition, New B Gallery,
      No.97 Mo Gan Shan Road; MGS 99 Studio, No.99 Mo Gan Shan Road, Shanghai
      Material Link-A Dialogue Between Greek and Chinese Artists, MoCA, Shanghai

      UWANTART: The New Signature in Art-Special Inaugural Exhibition ? Volume
      Two, UWANTART, 800 the Art Zone 303-305, Wujiaochang 800 E Guoshun Lu,
      Yangpu, Shanghai
      The Tale of Silk-A Hermès Exhibition, Beijing Today Art Museum, Beijing
      Writing on the Wall-Chinese New Realism and Avant-Garde in the Eighties
      and nineties, The Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands
      Red Aside-Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, The Joan Miró
      Foundation, Sants-Montju?c, Spain
      Selected, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai
      
2007  85 New Wave - The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art, Ullens Center
      for Contemporary Art, Beijing
      The Tale of Silk-A Hermès Exhibition, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
      Rejected Collection-More the 40 Chinese Artists /Over 60 Rejected
      Proposals, Ke Center for Contemporary Arts, Shanghai
      Individual Positions 1, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai
      Strategy on Paper-Works on Paper Invitational Exhibition, Square Gallery
      of contemporary Art, Nanjing
      Harmony and Difference-East China Contemporary Sculpture Invitational
      Exhibition, Art Space of Fine Art College from Shanghai University,
      Shanghai
      Shanghai Attitude-Invitation Exhibition of Contemporary Art in Shanghai,
      No.3758 QixinRd., MinhangDist, Shanghai China
      
2006  Z-art Center Opening Exhibition, Z-art Center, Shanghai
      Art in Motion, Moca Shanghai, Shanghai
      Entry Gate:Chinese Aesthetics of Heterogeneity, Moca, Shanghai
      6th Shanghai Biennale - Hyper Design, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
      Witness, Blue Dreamland Gallery, Chengdu
      Shanghai Academic Culture-Contemporary Art Exhibition by Shanghai
      Universities’ teachers, Shanghai Art Museum
      Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Hamburger
      Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
      In The Name of Material, Hss Art Centre,Shanghai
      Transform-Artist Created by Their Works, Jing Art Gallery, Shanghai
      Works on paper, Xuhui Art Museum, Shanghai
      The Blossoming of Realism-The oil painting of mainland China since 1978,
      Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
      Contemporary Chinese Art, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
      Contemporary China, PKM Gallery, Seoul, Korea
      
2005  Born in China, Goedhuis Contemporary, London, UK
      Alien Illusion, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
      Cina: Prospettive d' Arte Contemporanea, Spazio Oberdan, Milano, Italy
      Mahjong-Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum
      Bern, Bern, Switzerland
      In Their 40's, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai
      Shenzhen Art Biennale, OCT Contempory Art Centre, Shenzhen
      Pictorial DNA made in China, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland
      Art & Issue-China-Korea Art Exchange Exhibition, Soca gallery, Beijing
      Reveal, Shanghai Artdeco, Shanghai
      Study Practice, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai
      
2004  New Boundaries, Taikang Top Space, Beijing, China
      Dreaming of the Dragon's Nation-Contemporary Art from China, IMMA (Irish
      Museum of Modern Art), Dublin, Ireland
      Shanghai Modern, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany
      Dial 62761232 (express delivery exhibition)-contemporary art exhibition,
      BizArt, Shanghai
      Persona-Ai Weiwei, Ding Yi, Wang Xingwei, China Art Archive & Warehouse,
      Beijing
      
2003  Open Sky - Grand Opening of Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art,
      Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
      Prayer Beads and Brush Strokes, Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Dashanzi,
      Beijing
      Chinese Maximalism, Millennium Art Museum, Beijing; University at Buffalo
      Art Galleries and Museum Studies, State University of New York at Buffalo,
      USA
      Take a Seat, Artsea Studio & Gallery, Shanghai
      Subversion and Poetry-Contemporary Chinese Art, Culturgest, Lisbon,
      Portugal
      An Openning Era, NAMOC (National Art Museum of China), Beijing
      Junction-Chinese Contemporary Architecture of Art, Lianyang Architecture
      Art Museum, Shanghai
      Different Choice-The Invited Exhibition of the Shanghai 60's Artists,
      Bandao Gallery, Shanghai
      
2002  The First Guangzhou Trienniale - Reinterpretation: A Decade of
      Experimental Chinese Art (1990 - 2000), Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou

      Quick Look!-Shanghai Zhejiang Jiangsu Anhui Contemporary Art Exhibition,
      Consulate General of Switzerland, Shanghai
      Tow Abstract Artists in Shanghai-Ding Yi - Shen Fan, ShanghART Gallery,
      Shanghai
      Metaphysics 2002, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
      Golden Harvest, Museum of the Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
      Crossing Cultures. Elementarteilchenkunst, Kunsthaus Muerz (Steirischer
      Herbst), Austria
      Ost + West, Kuenstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
      Paris-Pekin-Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Espace Pierre Cardin,
      Paris, France
      24:30 Contemporary Art Exhibition, Bizart, Shanghai
      
2001  Living in Time-29 Contemporary Artists from China, National galerie
      im Hamburger Bahnhof Museum fuer Gegenwartskunst, Berlin, Germany
      Gallery Opening, Goedhuis Contemporary, New York, U.S.A.
      China Art Archives & Warehouse Opening Exhibition, Beijing
      The 1st Chengdu Biennal, Chengdu Modern Art Museum, Chengdu
      Ornament & Abstraction, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
      Towards a New Image-Twenty Years of Chinese Contemporary Painting,, The
      National Art Museum of China, Beijing; Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai;
      Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou; Sichuan Modern Art Museum, Chengdu
      Next Generation Art Contemporain d'Asie, Passage de Retz, France
      As long as they catch mice…, Munkeruphus Gallery, Mumkerphus, Danmark
      Yokohama 2001: International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yokohama,
      Japan
      
2000  Chinese Muren Chinese Walls, Groningen, Netherlands
      2000 China - Korea – Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition, Changning Culture
      and Art Centre, Shanghai
      Looking out / Looking in-Art Show 2, East Quad Art Gallery, University of
      Michigan, USA
      Uncooperative Approach (Fuck Off), Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai
      
1999  1999 Open Channels-The First Collecting Exhibition of Dong Yu Museum
      of Fine Arts, Dong Yu Museum, Shenyang
      Concepts, Color and Passions, China Art Archives & Warehouse, Beijing
      Collecting Exhibition, Modern Chinese Art Foundation, Caermersklooster,
      Belgium
      Looking Out/ Looking In-Shanghai Contemporary Art Exhibition, Plug In
      Contemporary Art Centre, Winnipeg, Canada
      BM99, Bienal da Maya, Maya Art Center, Portugal
      
1998  Every Day-11th Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art etc.,
      Sydney, Australia
      Mondrian in China, Art Gallery of Beijing International Palace, Shanghai
      Library, Guangdong Museum of Art
      Jiang Nan-Chinese Contemporary Art, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver,
      Canada
      
1997  Quotation Marks-Chinese Contemporary Paintings, National Art Museum,
      Singapore
      In Between Limits-An Aspect of Chinese Contemporary Art, Sonje Museum of
      Contemporary Art, Kiungju, Korea
      Works by Shanghai Artists, Art Association Exhibition Hall, St.
      Petersburg, Russia
      
1996  Shanghai Fax: Let's Talk about Money-International Fax Art
      Exhibition, Shanghai Huashan Professional School of Art Gallery, Shanghai
      Shanghai Abstract Art, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai
      The First China Oil Painting Society Exhibition, China Art Museum, Beijing

      1st Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum
      China!-touring exhibition, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
      
1995  Des Pais del Centre, Avantguardes Artistiques Xineses, Santa Monica
      Art Centre, Barcelona, Spain
      New Chinese Art: 1990-1994, Vancouver Gallery of Art, Vancouver, Canada,
      Art Centre, Chicago, USA
      Change-China Contemporary Art, Kuensthalle Goetaplatsen, Goeteborg, Sweden

      
1994  Abstract Works by Six Artists, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
      
1993  45th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale - Cardinal Points
      of the Arts, Venice, Italy
      The First Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art
      Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
      Mao Goes Pop, China Post '89, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney &
      Victoria National Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
      China Avant-garde, Touring Exhibition, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin;
      Kunsthall, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Brandts Klaederfabrik, Odense,
      Denmark; Hildesheim Art Gallery, Germany; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK

      
1991  Documentary Exhibition of Chinese Art of the 90's, K Gallery, Japan
      Documentary Exhibition of China Art Research, Beijing, Nanjing, Chongqing & Dongbei Area
      
1989  China/Avant-garde Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
      
1988  Exhibition of Today's Art, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
      
1986  1st Shanghai Youth Grand Fine Arts Exhibition, Shanghai Artist’s
      Gallery, Shanghai
      First Shanghai Concave – Convex Exhibition, Xuhui Cultural Centre,
      Shanghai
      Inauguration Exhibition of the Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai Art
      Museum,Shanghai
      
1985  Exhibition of Modern Art by Six Artists, Fudan University, Shanghai

Public Collections
Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai

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