Born in Shanghai, China
EDUCATION:
1970 University of California, Santa Barbara, California - M.F.A
1967 Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri - B.F.A.
1965 Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, Ohio – Diploma
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
1998 Garden of Qian, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, NY
1997 Lings, Bulova Corporate Center of the Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
1997 Earthly Delights, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY
1997 Veins of the Spiral, Kim Foster Gallery, New York City
1997 Feast for the Eyes, Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
1997 Mid-nite Porridge, Broadway Windows, NYC
1994 Matter into Spirit, Kim Foster Gallery, NYC
1994 Extended Curves, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
1994 From the Garden, Alisan Fine Arts Ltd., Hong Kong
1993 On the Edge, Keen Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Existential Attainment, Lungmen Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
1993 Queens Museum of Art at Bulova Corporate Center Flushing Meadows Corona Park, NY
1991 Images from Beyond, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
1991 Nature Reborn: From Archaeology to Science Fiction, Exit Art, New York, NY
1990 Ming Fay, D.D. Fine Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
1990 Bell Sprouts, Petrosino Park, New York, NY (Outdoor Installation)
1990 Objects from Nature, Chinese American Arts council, Gallery 456, New York, NY
1989 Journey into Nature, Squibb Gallery, Princeton, New Jersey*
1988 Elixirs, Alternative Museum, New York, NY*
1988 Ming Fay, Gallery Triform, Taipei, Taiwan
1986 Ming Fay, The Hong Kong Institute for Promotion of Chinese Culture Hong Kong*
1985 Ming Fay, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri*
1985 Drawings for Sculpture, Alisan Fine Arts Ltd., Hong Kong*
1984 Ming Fay, Broadway Windows, New York, NY
SELECTED RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2000 Persistence: Botanica., Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
1998 As far as the eye can see, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GE
1998 Metaphors, Inspirations and Folklores, Henry Street Settlement, NYC
1998 Paper: the State of Connection, Bergestrom-Mahler Museum, Neenah, WI
1998 Sculpture., Leedy Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, MI
1997 Biennial Exhibition of Public Art, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
1997 Ancient Emblems, Contemporary Signifiers, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
1997 Gardens of Urban Delight: The Lower East Side, Henry Street Settlement, NYC
1996 Posing Reality: Contemporary Still Life, University of Massachusetts, Amhearst, MA
1996 Black and White: Sculptors’ Drawings, Marymount Manhatten College, NYC
1996 Mutation of Ink and Paper, Taipei Gallery, NYC
1994 Bodies/Transfomations: Small Bronzes, TZ’ Art & Co., New York City
1994 Elusive Source, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
1994 Indetermined Origins, Maryland Art Place, Balitmore, MD
1994 Workspace Program: 5 Years, Gallery at Dieu Donne Papermill, NYC
1994 Totems and Other Structures, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
1994 Visionary Proposals for Lower East Side, Henry Street Settlement. NYC
1994 Art for Learning, Municipal Art Society, NYC
1994 Fabricated Nature, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID.
1994 Orientations, David Adamson Gallery, Washington DC
1994 Gaia Coughs: The Awful Beauty of the Contemporary Environment, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH
1994 Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art, Asia Society, New York, NY*
1994 Inaugural Exhibition, Foster Peet Gallery, New York, NY
1994 ORIENTations: WORKS OF EIGHT CHINESE-AMERICAN ARTISTS, Friends of Hong Kong/Macao Association,
David Adamson Gallery, Washington, DC*
1994 Louisville Visual Art Association, Louisville, KT
1993 Plant Body; Spiritual Botany, Cavin-Morris Gallery, NYC
1993 Open Books, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR:
1993 The Breadth of Life, Keen Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Ming Fay & Hiro Yokose Foster/Peet Gallery, New York, NY:
1993 Plant Body: Spiritual Botany, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Spring/Summer Exhibition, Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ
1993 Diverse Disclosures Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, NY:
1993 Diverse Representations II, Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
1992 Contemporary Sculpture from Taiwan, Taipei Gallery, New York, NY
1992 Still Life Today, Scott Alan Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Bronze, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Group Exhibition, Nancy Drysdale Gallery, Washington DC
1991 The Hybrid State Exit Art, New York, NY
1991 Artists of Conscience*, Alternative Museum, New York, NY:
1991 Paperworks, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY
1991 One World/Four Views, The Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, NJ
1991 World Disorder, The Cultural Space, New York, NY
1991 Food Center Sculpture Park at Hunts Point Annual Exhibit, New York, NY
1990 Selections* Artist Space, New York, NY
1990 Still Life and Its Borders, Wilson Arts Center, Rochester, NY
1990 Harvest 2001, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
1990 The Second Hunts Point Sculpture Park Exhibit Hunts Point Cooperative Market
1990 Occupation & Resistance*, Alternative Museum, New York, NY
1990 Radiant Fruit: Iconic Still Life, Trabia Gallery, New York, NY
1989 Evil Empires, Bronx Council On the Arts, Longwood Arts Project, Bronx, NY
1989 Evocation, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY
1989 Power Struggle, SPACES, Cleveland, Ohio
1989 Made in New York*, Williams Center for the Arts, Lafayette College,
Easton, PA
1989 From Pillar to Post, Kenkeleba House, New York, NY
1988 6 Contemporary Sculptors, Montclair State College, Upper Montclair, NJ
1988 Natural Transformations, Art in General, New York, NY
1988 Of Relic and Residuum, Jayne Baum Gallery, New York, NY
1988 Public Art in Chinatown, Asian American Arts Center, New York, NY
1988 Branches: Artists Work with the Trees, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York
1987 Endangered Species*, Alternative Museum, New York, NY
1987 New York: New Venue*, Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina:
*CATALOG
COMMISSIONS:
Public School, Brooklyn, NY, PS 7, Elm Leaf Steel Gate
SELECTED RECENT NEWSPAPER REVIEWS:
John Michael Kohler Arts Center Newsletter, Ming Fay: A Feast For The Eyes , Faye Hirsch, May-June 1996
The Standard, Arts and Entertainment Ming Sees Fruits of his Labour, Josie Brennan, January 5, 1994
South China Morning Post, Lifestyle, Ming’s Fertile Garden, Margaret Sheridan, January 5, 1994
Willamette Week, Portland, OR, Full Circle, Extended Curves, Ted Sawyer, June 29, 1994
The Star-Ledger, (NJ), Morris Museum Exhibit Showcases Cultural Diversity, Eileen Watkins, Jan. 24, 1993
The Oregonian, (Portland), Art's Herbal Essence, Randy Gragg, November 15, 1991
The New York Times, (WC), With Paper as a Starting Point, Vivien Raynor, September 15, 1991
The New York Times, (NY), Sculpture Borne by the Earth and Lighted by the Sky Michael Brenson, March 8, 1991
The New York Times, (NY), Exit Art review, Michael Brenson, February 15, 1991
The New York Times, (NJ), Food Made Larger than Life, William Zimmer, October 28, 1990
The New York Times, (NY) Ming Fay, Michael Brenson, February 23, 1990
The New York Times, (WC) When the Villain is Colonialism, Vivien Raynor, October 29, 1989
The New York Times, (NJ) Ambiguous Fruits of Nature, William Zimmer, July 30, 1989
The Village Voice, (NY), Material Nature, Elizabeth Hess, March 7, 1989
The Village Voice, (NY), It's a Jungle Out There, Kim Levin, March 24, 1987
The New York Times, (NJ), Paper's 3rd Dimension in Paramus, Patricia Malarcher January 18, 1987
SELECTED RECENT PERIODICALS & BOOKS:
Sky Magazine, Cast in Paper, Shawan Casey, September 1992
Arts of Asia, Editorial, Tuyet Nguyet, July/August 1992
Artweek, At the End of the Rabbit Hole, Lois Allen, November 1991
Art in America, Ming Fay at Exit Art, Robert Taplin, October 1991
Arts Magazine, Ming Fay, Gerard Haggerty, Summer 1991
American Art, Turning the Mirrors Around-the-Pre-Face, Lucy Lippard, Winter/Spring 1991
Mixed Blessings/New Art in a Multicultural America, Lucy Lippard, Pantheon Books, 1990
PHOTOGRAPHICART, (Hong Kong), Ming Fay, Karl Lunde, 2nd Edition 1989
Arts Magazine, New York in Review, Robert Mogran, September 1988
Artention International Magazine, (Hong Kong), Public Art A Reflection of Progress, Robert Lee, July/August 1988
SELECTED RECENT CATALOGUE ESSAYS:
The Hybrid State, Exit Art, New York 1992 Essays: Luis Camnitzer, Papo Colo, Joshu Decter, Jimmie Durham, Guillermp Gomez Pena, Celeste Olallquianga, Warren Niesluchowski, and Krizysztof Wodiczko
Artists of Conscience, Alternative Museum, New York 1991 Introduction: Geno Rodrigue, Lowery Simes, Lucy Lippard, Margot Lovejoy Keith Morrison
Ming Fay, D.D. Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan 1990; Introduction: Gerard Haggerty
Selections, Artist Space, New York, NY 1990; Introduction: Carl Hazelwood
Occupation and Resistance, Alternative Museum, NY 1990; Introduction: G. Roger Denson
Journey Into Nature - Selected Works by Ming Fay 1989, Squibb Gallery, Princeton, NJ; Introduction: Kathie Mukaida
Power Struggle, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio 1989; Introduction: Don Desmett
Made in New York, Williams Center for the Arts, Easton, PA 1989; Forward: Judd Tully
New York: New Venue, Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC 1987; Forward: Jane Essays: Geno Rodriguez, Lowery Sims
Ming Fay Recent Works, Hong Kong Institute for Promotion of Chinese Culture, Hong Kong, 1986; Essays: Karl Lunde, Jerry Kwan, Shiah Li-fa
RECENT GUEST LECTURES:
1992 School of Visual Art, New York, NY
1992 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
1992 Chatham Square Public Library, New York, NY
1991 Reed College, Portland, OR
1991 Portland State University, Portland, OR
1991 Portland Art Museum School, Portland, OR
1991 SUNY, Stony Brook, NY
1990 The New School, New York, NY
1991 Asian American Art Center, New York, NY
1990 Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH
1989 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
RECENT AWARDS & GRANTS:
1996 Artist in residence Arts/Industry program John Michael Kohler Arts Center
1993 Percent for Art, Criminal Justice Center, City of Philadelphia
1993 Visiting Artist Residency, New York Experimental Glass Works
1992 Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Arts Partners Program
1990 Percent for Art, P.S. 7, Elmhurst, Queens, Dept. of Cultural Affairs,NYC
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