Ding Yi
1962
Geboren in Shanghai | born in Shanghai
1983
Abschluss am Shanghai Arts & Crafts Institute | Graduated from Shanghai Arts & Crafts Institute
1990
Abschluss am Shanghai University, Fine Arts Department | Graduated from Shanghai University, Fine Arts
Department
2005
Professor am Shanghai Institute of Visual Art | Professor at Shanghai Institute of Visual Art Lebt und arbeitet in Shanghai | Lives and works in Shanghai
Einzelausstellungen | Solo Exhibitions
2020
The Cross Style, Long Museum, Chongqing
Appearance, Nova Contemporary, Bangkok, Thailand
2019
Rim Light, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
Grids, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
2018
+x30 Years: Ding Yi, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Interchange, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai, China
2017
Appearance of Crosses: A Chronicle, Xi’an Art Museum, Shaanxi, China
Appearance of Crosses, Timothy Taylor, New York, USA
Sean Scully studio, New York, USA
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
2016
Ideal for Living, Chinese Architecture 2016 Ding Yi, Ahn Luh Zhujiajiao, ShanghaiDing Yi-Art Unlimited Art Basel 2016, Basel, SwitzlandRe-Appearance of Crosses, Ding Yi Solo Show, Hubei
Museum of Art, Wuhan, China
2015
DING YI: What’s Left to Appear, Long Museum (West Bund), ShanghaiIvory Black, ShanghART Singapore, Singapore
2014
Scintillement, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
2013
Art Changsha: Ding Yi, Changsha Museum, Changsha, China
2012
Appearance of Crosses, Galerie Karsten Greve AG, St. Moritz, Switzerland
2011
Ding Yi, Specific·Abstracted, Mingsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China Ding Yi, Appearance of Crosses, Galerie Waldburger, Brussels, Belgium
2008
Ding Yi, Recent Works, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne
Appearance of Crosses from 1989-2007, Solo Exhibition of Ding Yi, Museo d'Arte Moderna diBologna, Bologna
2007
Ding Yi, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
2006
Graticule, Ding Yi's Works from 1989 to 2006, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai, China
2005
Appearance of Crosses, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
2004
Crossed Vision, Works by Ding Yi, China Art Archive & Warehouse, Beijing, ChinaSmall Works, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai, China
2003
Ding Yi: Appearance of Crosses, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland
2002
Ding Yi,: Appearance of Crosses, Galerie Waldburger, Berlin, Germany
2000
Ding Yi: Fluorescent Paint on Tartan, China Art Archive & Warehouse, Beijing, China
1998
Ding Yi: Crosses '89-'97, International Art Palace, Beijing, China
1999
Ding Yi: Crosses '97, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
1996
15 x Red, New Works on Paper by Ding Yi, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai, China
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, China
Ding Yi's Work on Paper, Guangzhou Fine Art Academy, Guangzhou, China
Gruppenausstellungen | Group Exhibitions
2021
City on the Edge: Art and Shanghai at the Turn of the Millennium, UCCA Edge, ShanghaiEnclave Contemporary Opening Exhibition, Enclave Contemporary, Shenzhen
2020
Vitality of Variables, HOW Art Museum, Shanghai
2019
The Challenging Souls, Yves Klein, Lee Ufan and Ding Yi, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
Painting and Existence,Top Asian Abstract Painting,Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong, China
1st Airport Biennale, Airport Town, Guangzhou, China
Daybreak, The Barn Contemporary Art Space, Shenzhen, China
The exhibition of Abstract Art Across the strait, National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Taipei,Taiwan,
ChinaThe Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China 2018, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum,Beijing, China
Chinese Whispers, New Art from the Sigg Collection, Museum of Applied Arts, Wien, Austria
2018
Volez, Voguez, Voyagez, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai, ChinaArt History 40x40: Chinese Contemporary Art in 40 artists since 1978, Powerlong Museum,Shanghai, China
Ambush from All Sides, Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Sichuan, China
Shanghai Painters, N3 Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Splendours of the Sun and the Moon - China Contemporary Art Exhibition, Fondazione QueriniStampalia, Venice, Italy
Art & China after 1989: Theatre of the World, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain/San FranciscoMuseum of Modern Art, USA
2017
Bye Bye De Stijl, Contemporary Artists Respond to De Stijl, Centraal Museum, Utrecht,Netherlands
Sound and Image - an Art Exhibition Dedicated to Ludwig van Beethoven, 1 HAO Museum,Shanghai, China
Avant-grade Shanghai: 30 Year Literature Exhibitions of Shanghai Contemporary Art (1979-2010),Mingyuan Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Art Museum (Jinan), Xi’an Art Museum, Wuhan Art Museum, ChinaArt and China after 1989: Theatre of the World, Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York, USA
Chinese and International Contemporary Art, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Western China International Art Biennale, Hohhot, China
Beyond the Brush: Abstract Ink Painting since 1960, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
Guan Xi, Lakeville Gallery, Shanghai, China
Absoluteness, The Page Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2016
Fosun Foundation, Shanghai, China
Emtineness in Time, Shanghai BA Art Centre, Shanghai, China
Holzwege, ShanghART West Bund Opening Exhibition, ShanghART West Bund, Shanghai, China
An/Other Avant-garde China-Japan-Korea, 7th Edition of Busan Biannual, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, Korea
Studio, Qiao Space, Shanghai, ChinaNew Capital, Huang Yu Collection Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art Chengdu,Chengdu, China
Talking on Paper, Pace Beijing, Beijing, ChinaSense & Sensibility, 10 Contemporary Artists, ZART Centre, Shanghai, China
2015
Une histoire: art, architecture, design des années 1980 à nos jours,Musée National d'Art Moderne,Paris, France
Image and Text, Chinese Contemporary Art in Greece, Castiglia di Saluzzo, Saluzzo, Italy
Dunhuang - Song of Living Beings, Shanghai Himalayas Museum, Shanghai
Jing Shen, The Act of Painting in Contemporary China, PAC - Milan Museum of ContemporaryArt, Milan, Italy
Elixir, Biennale Italia-China 2015, Turin, Italy
Chinese Abstract Painting Today!, Galerie Frank Schlag & Cie., Essen, Germany
Substance, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
On Curbstone Jewels and Cobblestones, Daimler Contemporary Berlin, Berlin, German
Ding Yi & Xu Zhen, Hidden Behind Appearance, Waldburger Wouters, Brussels, Belgium
The Boundaries of Order, Hive Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Sinthome, Open Show of Richard Taittinger Gallery, Richard Taittinger Gallery, New York, USA
Oltre La Materia, Accademia di Belle Arti Bologna, Bologna,
2014
Wuhan 3rd Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts: Re-modernization, Hubei Art Museum,Wuhan, China
Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Myth/History: Yuz Collection of Contemporary Art, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China
Re-View, Opening Exhibition of Long Museum West Bund, Long Museum (West Bund), Shanghai,China
KÜNSTLERRÄUME | Artists' Spaces, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
Open Books, Artists and the Chinese Folding-Books, Sanshang Art, Hangzhou, China
Filter the Public, Shanghai World Financial Centre 5th Anniversary Art Project, Shanghai WorldFinancial Centre, Shanghai, China
Un Nuevo Horizonte | New Horizon, Exposición de Arte Chino Contemporáneo | ContemporaryChinese Art Exhibition, Conde Duque Center, Madrid, Spain
A New Spring in Ink, Contemporary Space Ink
2013
Beijing, Museum of Contemporary ArtBeijing, Beijing,
Foundational Work, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai
Von Kassel her, Zhangzhou International Public Art Exhibition, Zhangzhou Bihu Eco Park,Zhangzhou, China
2012
Through All Ages, New Style: Invitation Inaugural Exhibition of Long Museum, Long Museum,Shanghai, China
Great Way Prevailing: Chinese Contemporary Public Art Exhibition, Kassel, Germany
Slow Pace, A Kind of Contemporary Art, Li-Space, Beijing, China
Transformation: A view on Chinese Contemporary Art, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art,Istanbul, Turkey
The Seventh Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale--Accidental Message: Art is Not a System, Not a World,OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, China
Do A Book, White Space, Beijing, China
Ai Weiwei, Wang Xingwei and Ding Yi: Persona 3, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
2011
CHINA: The Art of a Nation , Outdoor Exhibition: Landscape in Mind, The Kennedy Center,Washington, U.S.A.
Image History Existence – TaiKang Life 15th Anniversary Art Collection Exhibition, National ArtMuseum of China, Beijing, China
Tao of Nature--2011 Chinese Abstract Art Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai,China
Verso Est--Chinese Architectural Landscape, MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo,Rome, Italy
Contemporary Art Exhibition Documentation Project II:" Let's Talk about Money--1st InternationalFax Art Exhibition in Shanghai 1996", ShanghART Taopu, Shanghai, China
Chinese Abstract Slow Art, Singer Laren Museum, Laren, The NetherlandsBreaking Away, An Abstract Art Exhibition, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing, China
China Contemporary Prints Exhibition, M Art Centre, Shanghai, China
2010
One by one, ShanghART Group Show, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai, China
Reshaping History: Chinart from 2000-2009, Special Documenta, China National ConventionCentre, Beijing, China
The State of Things, Contemporary Art from China and Belgium, National Art Museum of China,Beijing, China
The Burden of Representation, Abstraction in Asia Today, Osage Gallery, Shanghai, China
Beyond The Border, Tangram Art Centre, Shanghai, China
Culture of Shanghai, The Artists Concerned by HWAS, HAWS Gallery, Shanghai, China
Coincidence, Don Gallery, Shanghai, China
Thirty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art: Painting (1979-2009), Minsheng Art Museum,Shanghai, China
Exhibition in the sky, Pudong tower advertisement boards, Shanghai, China
Shanghai Modern Exhibition, Gallery Monma Annex, Sapporo, Japan
Chinese Contemporary Art in the Year of the Tiger, Centre Culturel de Rencontre Abbaye deNeumünster, Luxembourg
2009
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
Fan Ceremony, Fine Arts Literature Art Centre, Wuhan, China
Fan Ceremony, Works On Paper, Yard Gallery, Shanghai, China
Yi Pai - Century Thinking, a Contemporary Art Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Domus Collection New York|Beijing, White Space, Beijing, China
Another scene--artists' projects, concepts and ideas, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai, China
Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem,USA
Yi – School, 30 Years of Abstract Chinese Art, Wall Art Museum, Beijing, China
2008
Five Years of Duolun: Chinese Contemporary Art Retrospective Exhibition, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
History of River - Chinese Oil Painting in New Era, The National Art Museum of China, Beijing,China
Avant-Garde China: 20 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, The National Art Centre, Tokyo;
TheNational Museum of Art, Osaka; Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan
Shanghai Academic Culture, Contemporary Art Exhibition by Shanghai, New B Gallery, Shanghai,China
Material Link, A Dialogue Between Greek and Chinese Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art,Shanghai, China
Writing on the Wall, Chinese New Realism and Avant-Garde in the Eighties and nineties, TheGroninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands
La Escuela Yi, 30 Years of Abstract Chinese Art, La Caixa, Barcelona, SpainHybrid, ShanghART at Huaihai Rd 796, Shanghai, China
2007
85 New Wave--The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art, Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art,Beijing, China
The Tale of Silk, A Hermès Exhibition, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Rejected Collection, More the 40 Chinese Artists /Over 60 Rejected Proposals, Ke Centre forContemporary Arts, Shanghai, China
2006
Z-art Centre Opening Exhibition, Z-art Centre, Shanghai, China
Art in Motion, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
Entry Gate: Chinese Aesthetics of Heterogeneity, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
6th Shanghai Biennale - Hyper Design, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Witness, Blue Dreamland Gallery, Chengdu, China
Shanghai Abstract Art Exhibition, Mingyuan Art Centre, Shanghai, ChinaMahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg,Germany
In the Name of Material, Hss Art Centre, Shanghai, ChinaTransform, Artist Created by Their Works, Jing Art Gallery, Shanghai, China
The Blossoming of Realism, The Oil Painting of Mainland China Since 1978, Taipei Fine ArtsMuseum, Taipei, China
Contemporary Chinese Art, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
Contemporary China, PKM Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2005
Sick: Today's Art of Ours, Nanjing Art Museum, Nanjing, China
Born in China, Goedhuis Contemporary, London, UK
Alien Illusion, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Cina: Prospettive d' Arte Contemporanea, Spazio Oberdan, Milano, Italy
Mahjong, Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern,Switzerland
Shenzhen Art Biennale, OCT Contempory Art Terminal, Shenzhen, China
Pictorial DNA Made in China, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland
Art & Issue, China-Korea Art Exchange Exhibition, Soca Gallery, Beijing, China
2004
New Boundaries, Taikang Top Space, Beijing, China
Dreaming of the Dragon's Nation, Contemporary Art from China, Irish Museum of Modern Art,Dublin, Ireland
Shanghai Modern, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany
Dial 62761232 (Express Delivery Exhibition), Contemporary Art Exhibition, BizArt, Shanghai,China
2003
Open Sky, Grand Opening of Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
Prayer Beads and Brush Strokes, Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Beijing, China
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, China
Subversion and Poetry, Contemporary Chinese Art,Culturgest, Lisbon, PortugalAn Opening Era, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Different Choice, The Invited Exhibition of the Shanghai 60's Artists, Bandao Gallery, Shanghai,China
2002
The First Guangzhou Trienniale - Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art (1990 - 2000 Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, ChinaQuick Look!, Shanghai
Zhejiang Jiangsu Anhui Contemporary Art Exhibition, Consulate Generalof Switzerland, Shanghai, China
Tow Abstract Artists in Shanghai, Ding Yi--Shen Fan, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai, China
Metaphysics 2002, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, ChinaGolden Harvest, Museum of the Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
Crossing Cultures, Elementarteilchenkunst, Kunsthaus Muerz, Styria, AustriaOst + West, Kuenstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
Paris-Pekin, Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, Franc
Hamburger Bahnhof-Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
Gallery Opening, Goedhuis Contemporary, New York, USA
1999
Collecting Exhibition, Modern Chinese Art Foundation, Caermersklooster, Belgium
Looking Out / Looking In--Shanghai Contemporary Art Exhibition, Plug In Contemporary ArtCentre, Winnipeg, Canada
BM99, Bienal da Maya, Maya Art Centre, Portugal
1998
Every Day, 11th Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art etc., Sydney, Australia
Mondrian in China, Art Gallery of Beijing International Palace, Beijing;
Shanghai Library,Shanghai; Guangdong Museum of Art, Gangzhou, China
Jiang Nan, Chinese Contemporary Art, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1997
The Chinese Roots, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
New Art Work from China, Flanders Contemporary Art, Minnesota, USA
The Collection of Shanghai Art Museum, Incheon New World Art Museum, Incheon, Korea
Quotation Marks, Chinese Contemporary Paintings, National Art Museum, Singapore
In Between Limits, An Aspect of Chinese Contemporary Art, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art,Gyeongju, Korea
A point of Contact, Korean Chinese Japanese Contemporary Art, Taegu Art and Culture Hall,Taegu, Korea
Works by Shanghai Artists, Art Association Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg, Russia
China!, Artist’s House, Vienna, Austria; Zacheta Art Museum, Warsaw, Poland
Chinese Abstraction, Gallery Ursula Krinzinger, Vienna,Austria
1996
Shanghai Fax: Let's Talk about Money, International Fax Art Exhibition, Shanghai
Shanghai Abstract Art, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai, China
The First China Oil Painting Society Exhibition, China
1st Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai,China
China! Touring Exhibition, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
In China Part II, World Trade Centre, Bremen, Germany
Direct d’ART - Salon International d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France
Chinese Abstraction, Michael Wardell Gallery, Melboune, Australia
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, Göteborgs Konsthall, Goeteborg, Sweden
Aura Aurea, Chiostri Benedettini, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Chinese Contemporary Art, Goethe Institute, Beijing, China
Meridian Gallery, Melbourne,Australia
1994
Abstract Works by Six Artists, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China
In China, Gallery Carol Johnssen, Munich, Germany
1993
45th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale: Cardinal Points of the Arts, Venice, Italy
Post ’89 Chinese Modern Art, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, China
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,Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Brandts Klaederfabrik, Odense, Denmark
Hildesheim Art Gallery,Hildesheim, Germany
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
1992
Documentary Exhibition of Chinese Art of the 90's, K Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1991
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
1989
China/Avant-Garde Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
1988
Exhibition of Today's Art, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
1986
1st Shanghai Youth Grand Fine Arts Exhibition, Shanghai Artist’s Gallery, Shanghai, China
First Shanghai Concave–Convex Exhibition, Xuhui Cultural Centre, Shanghai, China
Inauguration Exhibition of the Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
1985
Exhibition of Modern Art by Six Artists, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Öffentliche Sammlungen |Public Collections
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris
Daimler Art Collection
BerlinUBS Art Collection
ZurichStichting Van Tuyckom Foundation, Brussels
Chinese Morden Art Foundation, GhentHAUDENSCHILD Collection, California
The City of Hamburg Germany, Hamburg
University of Sydney Art Collection, Australia
CDU Art Collection,Australia
The National Art Museum of China
Beijing Taikang Collection, Beijing
Chengdu Museum of Contemporary Art, ChengduHubei Museum of Art, WuhanGuangdong Museum of Art
GuangzhouLong Museum, ShanghaiChina Art Museum (former Shanghai Art Museum)
ShanghaiZ-art Centre, Shanghai
Fellowship & Residencies
2018
The 9th Session Golden Star Award for Chinese Artists: “Person of the Year”
2017
The 8th Session Golden Star Award for Chinese Artists: “Spotlight of the Year”Southern People Weekly: “Buick
2017
Person of Charm”Hi Art: Artist of the Year
2016
BAZAAR ART AWARDS:International Artist of the YearCHINA ART POWER 100: Artist of the Yea
2011
Silver Award of Shanghai Design Exhibition
2007
The Bund: “100 Influencers of Shanghai Fashion” 2004 China Architecture Art Awards: Taidi Villa for Helan Mountain Project 2001 Artist in Residence, Kuenstlerh