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
2009
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
Generations, ShanghART H-Space, 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-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 (1990subtle2000), 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
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
Living in Time-29 Contemporary Artists from China, National galerie im Hamburger Bahnhof Museum fuer Gegenwartskunst, Berlin, Germany
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
Projects
2004
3 Projects for the AZIA Bldg. Pudong, Shanghai-Ding Yi: Light and Space, AZIA Bldg. Pudong, Shanghai
Museum Collection
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