Ming Ying

Ming Ying (b.1995) is from Beijing and currently lives and works in London. Now she is having MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art (2018-2020). Her works are almost exclusively in oil paint. 
Her recent works mainly reflects a kind of collision between reality and unreality that can happen in the everyday world, such as when listening to music or seeing something familiar that creates a mental image. Such collisions intersect with daily experience. 

Before this series, she has been trying to put ‘sense of flow’ into her painting works since 2017. She hopes that，through the painting，she can present a philosophic idea that everything is in absolute motion and stillness is relative. Eastern Buddhism believes that all things in the world have a constant state of change and are interdependent, and for this western philosophers have the same ideas. This feeling is quite strong in our era. We have to face and to be connected with such a dramatically changing world.

Currently, her exploration is geared to a new stage which focuses on the cognition of fiction and reality in this fast-changing world. In the paintings, she weaves her imaginings - fictional ones - with what she has experienced in her life and demonstrates them through combining different layers and contrasting surfaces. She employs a semi-abstract way of creating an atmosphere which is characterized by realistic and fictional elements. These works have a dream-like quality and are intended to trigger the imagination and ideas of the viewer.   

In recent years her work has got and been shortlisted for a number of prestigious prizes including: Winner of “Effect Edge” International Juried Exhibition (2019); Lynn Painter-Stainer Prize (2018); Ashurst Emerging artist prize (2018); Third winner of Khojaly Peace Prize for Art (2017);. Her work has been featured in a number of important shows including: “Effect Edge” in Katonah Museum of Art in New York (2019) , “Prism” in Republic of Korea Parliament in Seoul (2019), “Spring” in St.Peterburg which was hold by Artist Association of Russia(2018),  “Briser les frontiers” in Joseph gallery in Paris(2018) and so on. Her work was also collected by European Azerbaijan Society, University of the Arts London and published by European Times, Aesthetic magazine and other press.

Email: mingying1204@gmail.com

Website: www.mingyingart.com

Instagram: @mingying-art