DING YI
Ding Yi (b. 1962) was born and currently resides in Shanghai.
The practice of Ding Yi encompasses painting, sculpture, spatial installation and architecture. He works primarily with “+” and its variant “x” as formal visual signals, above and against the political and social allegories typical of painting in China. He chose this sign in the second half of the 80s as a synonym of structure, rationality and of a pictorial expressiveness that reflects the essence of things.
Ding Yi has exhibited extensively at various institutions and galleries, among many others, Power Station of Art (Shanghai, 2019); San Francisco MoMA (2018-2019); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York/Bilbao, 2017-2018); Daimler Contemporary (Berlin, 2017); Centre Pompidou (Paris, 2015); Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, 2007). His works has also been included in 45th Venice Biennale (1993), The First Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (1993), Yokohama 2001 International Triennale of Contemporary Art (2001), 6th Shanghai Biennale (2006), 6th Busan Biennale (2016).
He has recent solo exhibitions at Long Museum (Chongqing, 2020/ West Bund, Shanghai, 2015), alerie Karsten Greve (Paris& St.Moritz, 2021/Cologne, 2020), Guangdong Museum of Art (Guangzhou, 2018), ShanghART Gallery (Shanghai, 2018/ Singapore 2022), Xi’an Art Museum (Xi’an, 2017), Timothy Taylor Gallery (London, 2017/New York, 2021), Hubei Museum of Art (Wuhan, 2016).