Born Beijing, China
EDUCATION
1987 MFA,
Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
1977Anhui
Teachers University, Wuhu, Anhui, China
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2008Lohin Geduld Gallery, New
York, NY
"Figure Drawings, 2004-2008", The Painting
Center, New York, NY
2007"Sacred Land",
Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford,
PA
"Tiber Valley Revisited", ISA Gallery,
Montecastello di Vibio, Umbria, Italy
2006"Landscape Paintings from Italy, Vermont & Maine" (catalog)
The Painting Center, New York, NY
"Valley & Beyond",
ISA Gallery, Montecastello di Vibio, Umbria, Italy
2005"Sky Series, 2005" ISA
Gallery, Montecastello di Vibio, Umbria, Italy
2004"Recent Landscape Paintings",
Painting Center, New York, NY
"Montecastello, Sky series",
ISA Gallery, Montecastello di Vibio, Umbria, Italy
2003"Italian Landscape," ISA
Gallery, Montecastello di Vibio, Italy
2002"Landscape Paintings from Italy and Beyond",
Cantor
Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford,
PA
2001"Water and Bones", Painting Center,
New York, NY
"The Valley Series", ISA Gallery,
Montecastello di Vibio, Italy
2000"Montecastello Revisited",
ISA Gallery, Montecastello di Vibio, Italy
"Painting as Landscape",
two person show, Rike Center, University of Dayton,
Ohio
"Paintings from Italy and Vermont",
Tompkins College Center Gallery, Cedar Crest College,
PA
1999"July’s Light-Landscape Paintings
from Umbria" ISA Gallery, Montecastello di Vibio,
Italy
"Reconstructing the Landscape - Paintings from
Ireland",
Marie Salant Neuberger Campus Center,
Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
1998"Paintings and Works on Paper",
Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford,
PA
"Reconstruct the Landscape", Enterprise
House, Kiltimagh, County Mayo, Ireland.
1996"Pan-Asian Month Project: The Art of Ying
Li", Chubb Insurance Company, New York, NY
"Recent Paintings",
Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY, March-April
"Ying Li: Abstract Paintings",
Sussex County Community College, Newton, NJ
1994Elizabeth
Harris Gallery, New York, NY
1992Bowery Gallery,
New York, NY
1990Bowery Gallery, New York, NY
TWO PERSON AND GROUP
EXHIBIIONS
2009"Resonance of Place", Gross McCleaf Gallery,
Philadelphia, PA
"Transformation: Drawing into Painting", (catalog)
The Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College,
Haverford, PA
2008"Invitational Exhibition of Visual
Arts",
American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
"183rd
Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary
American Art", National Academy Museum, New
York, NY
"Director’s Choice, Four Contemporary
Views",
Logan Galleries, Chautauqua Institute, Chautauqua,
NY
"Landscape Paintings from Zeuxis", The
Delaware College of Art and Design, Wilmington, DE
"Small Takes: Zeuxis at First Street Gallery",
New York, NY
"In / Out", Houghton House Gallery, Hobart & William
Smith Colleges, NY
2007"Contemporary Figurations, Survey of New
York Artists", Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
"Drawing 2007",
New Arts Gallery, Litchfield, CT
"On Board",
Lori Bookstein Fine Arts Gallery, New York, NY
2006"Across the Divide, 18 Chinese Artists
Who Teach Art in U.S. Colleges", Reed Whipple
Cultural
Center Gallery, City of Las Vegas, Department of
Leisure Services, Las Vegas, NE
"Facets of Perception",
Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont, CA; Sang
Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY; Schweinfurth
Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY;
Hollins University,
Roanoke, VA; University of Tulsa, OK
"Conversation
in Paint", The Painting Center,
New York, NY; College of William& Mary,
Williamsburg,
VA; Eastern Connecticut University, Willimantic,
CT; Haverford College, Haverford, PA
2005"New York Studio School Benefit Exhibition",
New York Studio School, New York, NY
"Drawing Today, 2005",
( catalog) New Arts Gallery, Litchfield, CT
"New Work",
Lori Bookstein Fine Arts, New York, NY
"Painter’s
Touch, an Invitational Exhibition" Andrews
Gallery, The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg,
VA
"Chinese American Women Artists in the Greater
Metropolitan Area," St. Johns University, New
York, NY
"Poetic Dimensions in the Modern Still Life",
( traveling, catalog) Korous Galleries, New York,
NY; Hofstra Museum, Hempstead, Long Island, NY
"Invitation",
Dupont Gallery, Washington and Lee University, Lexington,
VA
"On the Road, Landscape Paintings from Places
Far and Near", Marymont College, NY
2004"179 Annual: An Invitational exhibition
of Contemporary American Art", (catalog) National
Academy of Design Museum, New York, NY
"Tri-College Art Faculty Exhibition, Haverford
College, Bryn Mawr College & Swarthmore College" The
Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford,
PA
"Spring Painting Invitational", Neptune
Fine Art Gallery, New York, NY
"Tabletop Arenas",
(catalog) Traveling Exhibition, Colby College Museum
of art, Waterville, ME.; Lori Bookstein Fine Art,
New York, NY; The Art Gallery, University of New
Hampshire, Durham, NH; Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery,
Haverford College, PA
"Artists of Rochefort-en-Terre," MICA
Building, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore,
MD
2003"Moveable Feast" Westbeth Gallery,
New York, NY
"Work on Paper," Pennsylvania
Academy of Art, Philadelphia, PA
"Value and Presence, Works on Paper," List
Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
"One Hundred Years of American Artistic Tradition—40
American Painters at Rocheforte-en-Terre" Museum
of Rochefort-en-Terre, Brittany, France
"Across the Divide, An Exhibition and Symposium
of Chinese Art Faculty in American Universities",
(catalog) Gatoy and Werby Art Galleries, State University
of California, Long Beach, CA
"Still Life Paintings," Hermitage
Foundation Museum, Norfolk, VA
"Asian Identities," Walter
Wickiser Gallery, Inc., New York, NY
"Prospects, 6 Painters and the Landscape",
(catalog) Denise Bibro Gallery, New York, NY
"Zeuxis Artists, Still Life Paintings",
Art Gallery, New England College, Henniker, NH.(traveling)
"Uncommon Perspectives",
Denise Bibro Gallery, New York, NY
"Embodying Light" Gallery
128, New York, NY
2001"Salzberg Art Fair",
Salzberg, Austria
"Dream," Elsa Mott Ives
Gallery, YWCA of the City of New York, NY
2000"Women’s View - Two Generations of
Women Artists from New York", Cantor Fitzgerald
Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
"Rhythm & Light",
the Painting Center, New York, NY
"From the Painted to the Painterly",
(catalog) PSA Art Showcase IX, New York, NY
"Seasons: A Kaleidoscope of Nature",
Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, YWCA of the City of New York,
NY
"Zeuxis, Still Life, Human Presence",
Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT
1999"Private Mythologies",
Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
"Kinds of Drawings",
(catalog) Belk Gallery, Western Carolina University,
Cullawhee, NC
"Gardens of Rochefort-en-Terre",
Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute College of
Art, Baltimore, MD
1996"Pacific Artists",
New World Art Center, New York, NY
"Women Artists from China",
Cultural Exchange Program, Synchronicity Space, New
York, NY
1995"Group Exhibition", Elizabeth
Harris Gallery, New York, NY
1994"American Painters and French Sculptors",
Museum at Rochefort-en-Terre, Brittany, France
"169th Annual Exhibition",
(catalog) National Academy of Design, New York, NY
"Works by Women Artists: Selections from The
William & Uytendale Scott Memorial Study Collection,
Part Two", Centennial Campus Center
Gallery, Bryn Mawr College, PA
1993"Summer Group Exhibition",
Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
"Abstracted Reality",
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
"Figuration 93",
55 Mercer Street Gallery, New York, NY
"Works on Paper",
Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
"MFA Painting Exhibition",
Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
1992"Inaugural Group Show",
Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
"167th Annual Exhibition",
National Academy of Design, New York, NY
1990"Group Exhibition",
Z Gallery, New York, NY
"165th Annual Exhibition",
(catalog) National Academy of Design, New York, NY
"Members Exhibition",
Bowery Gallery, New York, NY
1989"76th Annual Exhibition",
The Allied Artists of America, Inc., National Arts
Club, New York, NY
"International Calligraphy Exhibition",
National Gallery of Fine Art, Beijing, China
"Broadway Group",
596 Broadway, New York, NY
1988"Small Works, Invitational Show",
Bowery Gallery, New York, NY
"Invitational",
Chinese Cultural Center, New York, NY
1987"Emerging Artists",
M. Grumbacher, Inc., National Arts Club, New York,
NY
"Invitational", Bowery Gallery, New York,
NY
"Artists’ Liaison Competition",
Santa Monica, CA
1986"Chinese Calligraphy Invitational",
Chinese Cultural Center, New York, NY
1978-82"National
Young Artists Oil Painting Exhibit",
National Gallery of Fine Art, Beijing, China.
"East China Regional Oil Painting Exhibit",
National Gallery of Fine Art, Beijing, and nine provincial
art museums, China
"Anhui Province Annual Oil Painting Exhibit",
Anhui Province Museum of Art, Hefei, China
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Karen Rosenberg, " National Academy
183rd Annual, An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary
American
Art", The New York Times, May 30, 2008
Katy Doll, "Ying Li Captures Spirit of Movement
in Landscape", The Chautauqua Daily, June 24,
2008
Faye Hirsch, "Ying Li", Art in America,
p.224, November 2007
Maureen Mullarkey, "On Board",
The New York Sun, July 20, 2007
Victiria Donohoe, "Ying Li at Haverford College",
The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 22, 2007
Joe Walentini, "Ying Li at the Painting Center",
Abstract Art Online, November 2006
Helen Harrison, "Poetic Dimensions," The
New York Times, March 20, 2005
Victoria Donohoe, "Xeuxis," The
Philadelphia Inquirer, February, 2005
Daniel Kunitz, "Institutional Exhibitionism," The
New York Sun, May 6, 2004
Ken Johnson, "The 179th Annual," The
New York Times, May 14, 2004
Victoria Donohoe, "Tri –College Art Faculty
and Staff Exhibition" The Philadelphia Inquirer,
November 14, 2004
David Cohen, "Ying Li," The
New York Sun, February 26, 2004, artcritical.com, February,
2004
John Goodrich, "Ying Li, Recent Paintings," artcritical.com,
February, 2004
Joe Walentini, "Ying Li," Abstract
Art Online, February 2004
Jacky Ealet, "40 American Painters at Rocheforte-en-Terre," Morbihan,
April 2003
Victorian Donahue, "Ying Li," The
Philadelphia Inquirer, November 24, 2002
Catherine Dorsey, "A Matterof Perspective," Portfolio
Weekly, November 5, 2002
Joe Walentini, "Featured Artist of the Month,
Ying Li", Abstract Art On Line, February, 2002
Joe
Walentini, "Ying Li", Abstract Art on
Line, May 2001
"Painting as Landscape," The
Dayton News, October 22, 2000
Victoria Donohoe, "Exhibit Links 2 Generations
of Women Artists from New York", The Philadelphia
Inquirer, January 22, 2000
Louis Finkelstein, "Women’s View",
Haverford College, January 2000
Alicia Bessette, "Artist-Writer Collaboration",
Bryn Mawr College Alumnae Bulletin, Spring 2000
Susan
Myer, "Kinds of Drawing, New York-North
Carolina", Ashville Citizen-Times, October,
24, 1999
Victoria Donohoe, "Three Regional Exhibits Challenge
Expectations", The Philadelphia Inquirer, March
1, 1998
Robert Mahoney, "Ying Li - Sculpting Space: Bittersweet
Balance in Subject and Palette", Cover, May 1996
Sharon
Sheridan, "Some Small Steps to Discovery",
The Star Ledger, February 22, 1996, p. NW-5.
Karen Bernhardt
Samson, "SCCC Programs Have Something
for Everyone", The New Jersey Herald, January 26,
1996
Ronny Cohen, "Ying Li", Artforum, November
1994, p. 90
Valerie Steiker, "Ying Li", The
New Yorker, March 28, 1994, p. 33.
"East Meets West",
The New York Times, October 11, 1992, (with reproduction),
p. 38.
Gerrit Henry, "Ying Li", Art in America,
April 1991, pp. 168-169.
Ailian Peng, "Art of Ying Li",
US and China Magazine, Spring 1991, pp. 67-70.
AWARDS
2008Henry Ward Ranger Fund Purchase Award, National
Academy, New York, NY
2007Wolf Kahn and Emily Mason Foundation
Award
The Heliker- LaHotan Foundation Residency Award,
Cranberry Island, Maine
Artist Residency, St Mary’s
College, MD
2006Artist Residency, Norton Island Residency
for Writers and Artists, Eastern Frontier
Educational
Foundation, Norton Island, ME
Faculty Research Grant,
Haverford College, Haverford, PA
2005Faculty Research
Grant, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
2004Edwin Palmer
Memorial Prize, for Painting, National Academy Museum,
New York, NY
Faculty Research Grant, Haverford College,
Haverford, PA
2003Full Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center,
Johnson, VT
Artist Residency, French Government Art Grant,
Rochefort-en-Terre, Brittany, France.
Faculty Research
Grant, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
2002Lindback
Career Enhancement Minority Junior Faculty Award.
Artist
Residency, Western Carolina University, NC
Faculty Research
Grant, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
2001Faculty Research
Grant, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
1999Full Fellowship,
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Faculty Research Grant,
Haverford College, Haverford, PA
1998Aspen Institute
Scholarship, Aspen Institute, Aspen, CO
Art Colony Fellowship,
Enterprise House, Kiltimagh, County Mayo, Ireland
1994Certificate of Merit, National Academy of Design,
New York, NY
Rochefort-en-Terre, Art Colony Fellowship, Brittany,
France
1987Gold Medal, Emerging Artists Exhibition, M.
Grumbacher, Inc., National Arts Club, NYC, NY
1981First
Prize, Oil Painting Exhibition, Museum of Art, Anhui
Province, Hefei, China
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
PresentAssociate Professor of Fine
Arts, Haverford College, PA
2008Visiting Faculty, The
National Academy Museum & School
of Fine Arts, New York, NY
Guest Speaker &Visiting
Faculty, Visual Arts School, Chatauqua Institute, NY
Guest
Speaker and Critic, Master of Fine Arts Program, Western
Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT
2007Chair of
Fine Arts Department, Haverford College, 2003- 2007,
Visiting
Faculty, summer session, The International School of
Drawing, Painting and
Sculpture, Montecastello di Vibio,
Umbria, Italy. Since 1999.
Guest Speaker, The National
Academy of Design School, New York, NY
Visiting Professor,
Landscape Workshop, St. Mary’s
College, MD
Visiting Critic, Maryland Institute College
of Art, Baltimore, MD
2006Guest Speaker and Critic, Sponsored
by Mellon Teaching Associates Fund, Bates College, Lewiston,
ME
Visiting Critic, Maryland Institute College of Art,
Baltimore, MD
2005Guest Speaker and Critic, Dartmouth
College, NH
Guest Speaker and Critic, Maryland Institute
College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Guest Speaker and Critic,
Master of Fine Arts Program, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA
2004Guest Speaker and Critic, Master
of Fine Arts Program, Syracuse University, NY
Visiting
Professor, Landscape Workshop, Western Carolina University,
NC
Guest Critic, Art Lab, Snug Harbor Cultural Center,
Staten Island, NY
2003Guest Speaker and Critic, Graduate
School of Fine Arts, Brooklyn College, CUNY
2002Associate
Professor of Fine Arts, Haverford College, Haverford,
PA
Visiting Artist and Juror, Western Carolina University,
N.C., April
2001Guest Speaker and Critic, Swarthmore
College, PA
2000Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, Haverford
College, Haverford, PA
Guest Speaker, Cedar Crest College,
PA
Guest Speaker, Asian Student Association, Bryn Mawr
College, PA
1997Visiting Assistant Professor of Fine
Arts, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
Guest Critic, Muhlenberg
College, Allentown, PA
1996Instructor, New School of
Social Research, New York, NY
Guest speaker, Sussex County
Community College, Newton, NJ
Guest Speaker, Chubb Insurance
Company, New York, NY
1995Visiting Artist, Fairleigh
Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ
1994Visiting Artist,
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
1993Visiting Artist,
Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
1991Guest Lecturer,
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
1989Guest Lecturer,
Queens College, City University of New York, Queens,
NY
1982-83Assistant Professor, Department of Arts, Anhui
Teachers University, Anhui, China
1977Instructor, Department
of Arts, Anhui Teachers University, Anhui, China.
PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES
2008Organizer, "Transformation, Drawing into
Painting", Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery,
Haverford College
2007Panelist, "Figuration in the Beginning of
the New Century", Westbeth Gallery, New York,
NY
Guest Speaker, " From Propaganda Art to Landscape
Painting", Heliker- LaHotan Foundation, Cranberry
Island, ME
Guest Speaker, Art Salon, St. Mary’s
City, Maryland
2006Panelist, "Painting and Education - Panel
Discussion", Moderator: Carrie Patterson, The Painting
Center, New York, NY
Organizer, "Chinese Calendar Posters in Early
Twentieth Century Shanghai", Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery,
Haverford College, Haverford, PA
Ccoordinator, "Conversation In Paint",
Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford,
PA
2005Panelist, "The
City, Myths and Realities of Women Artists." Women’s
Herstory Month, Borough
of Manhattan community College, NY
2004Panelist, "The Use and Misuse of Description
in Art", other panelists: Robert Berlind,
Lois Dadd,
Wolf Kahn, moderator: Geoffrey Dorfman, The Painting
Center, New York,
Organizer, "Tabletop Arenas, Still Life Paintings
From Zeuxis", Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery,
Haverford
College
2002Organizer and Curator, "Tri-College Art
Faculty and Staff Exhibition", Cantor Fitzgerald
Gallery, Haverford College
Organizer and Moderator, Tri-College
Panel Discussion "The
Role of Art in Liberal Arts Education", Mellon Tri-College
Faculty Forum Grant, Haverford College
2001Organizer
and curator, "Charles Dean Collection,
American Abstract Prints 1940- 1960", Cantor Fitzgerald
Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
Co-organizer, "Leland Bell, A Retrospective".
List Gallery, Swarthmore College; Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery,
Haverford College
2000Curator, "Women’s View- Two Generations
of Women Artists from New York", Cantor Fitzgerald
Gallery, Haverford College
1999Organizer, "Louis Finkelstein Retrospective",
Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College
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