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Born in Beijing, China, in 1951, Ying Li graduated from Anhui Teachers University (1974-77) where she taught 1977-83. She immigrated to the United States in1983. She received an M.F.A. from Parsons School of Design, NY in 1987. She is Professor of Fine Arts and Department Chair, Haverford College. She is represented by Lohin Geduld Gallery, NY.
Selected One Person Exhibitions
Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY (two exhibitions); List Gallery, Swarthmore College, PA; Elizabeth Harris Gallery, NY (two exhibitions); The Painting Center, NY; Bowery Gallery, NY (two exhibitions); Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College , PA (four exhibitions); Marie Salant Neuberger Campus Center Gallery, Bryn Mawr College, PA; Tompkins College Center Gallery, Cedar Crest College, PA; Enterprise House, County Mayo, Ireland; and ISA Gallery, Umbria, Italy (seven exhibitions).
Selected Group Exhibitions
American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY; The National Academy Museum, NY; Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NY; Lori Bookstein Fine Arts, NY; Chris Neptune Fine Arts, NY; Korous Gallery, NY; Denise Bibro Gallery, NY; Westbeth Gallery, NY; Greenhut Gallery, Portland, Maine; Pennsylvania Academy of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Hermitage Foundation Museum, VA; Fine Art Museum, Western Carolina University, NC; Lancaster Museum of Art, Lacaster, PA; Gross-McLeaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, Lancaster, PA; The Beverly Art Center, Chicago, IL; Logan Gallery, Chautauqua Institute, Chautauqua, NY, and the Museum of Rochefort-en-Terre, Brittany, France.
Selected Awards
Donald Jay Gordon Visiting Artist, Swarthmore College; Henry Ward Ranger Fund Purchase Award, Edwin Palmer Memorial Prize for painting, and Certificate of Merit, all awarded by the National Academy Museum, New York; Valparaiso Foundation Fellowship; Kahn-Mason Foundation Grant; Heliker–LaHotan Foundation Fellowship: two Vermont Studio Center fellowships; Enterprise House Art Colony Fellowship, Ireland; Artist Residency, Rochefort-en-Terre, France; Aspen Institute Scholarship; Lindback Faculty Research Grant.
Selected Publications
Li’s work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Art Forum, Art in America, The New York Sun, New York Press, Art Critical.com, Abstract Art on Line, Cover, Morbihan France; and The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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YING LI
American, Born Beijing, China
Associate Professor of Fine Arts, Haverford College, Haverford, PA 19041
Represented by Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012: Ying Li: No Middle Way, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
(Curated by Franklin Einspruch)
2011: Recent Paintings, Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY
2010: Ying Li: A Survey, List Gallery, Swartmore College, Swarthmore, PA
2009: Ying Li: A Survey, (catalog) Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York
2008: Coastal Paintings, Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY
Figure Drawings, 2004-2007, 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: ISA Gallery, Montecastello di Vibio, Umbria, Italy
2004: The Painting Center, New York, NY
ISA Gallery, Montecastello di Vibio, Umbria, Italy
2003: ISA Gallery, Montecastello di Vibio, Umbria, Italy
2002: Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
2001: The Painting Center, New York, NY
ISA Gallery, Montecastello di Vibio, Umbria, Italy
2000: ISA Gallery, Montecastello di Vibio, Umbria, Italy
Rike Center, University of Dayton, OH
Tompkins College Center Gallery, Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA
1999: ISA Gallery, Montecastello di Vibio, Umbria, Italy
Marie Salant Neuberger Gallery, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
1998: Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
Enterprise House, Kiltimagh, County Mayo, Ireland
1996: Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
Sussex County Community College,
Newton, NJ
Chubb Insurance Co., New York, NY
1994: Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
1992: Bowery Gallery, New York, NY
1990: Bowery Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Pennsylvania Landscapes, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA
2010-11 East Meets Midwest, The Beverly Art Center, Chicago, IL; Hoffman-LaChance Contemporary, St. Louis, MO; Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY; College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA
Common Object, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA; Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA;
Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY; Maryland Institute College of Art, Meyerhoff Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2010 Group Exhibition, Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
2009-10 Transformation, Drawing into Painting, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, PA; Fine Art Museum, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC
2009 Ying Li And Joe Nicoletti Greenhut Galleries, Portland, Maine
Resonance of Place, Gross MacCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, 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
2006: Zeuxis: Facets of Perception, Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont, CA; Snug Harbor Cultural Center,
Staten Island, NY; Schwein- furth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY; Hollins University, Roanoke, VA;
University of Tulsa, 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, NY
Drawing Today, 2005, New Arts Gallery, Litchfield, CT
New Work, Lori Bookstein Fine Art,
New York, NY
Painter’s Touch, The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA
Chinese American Women Artists in the Greater Metropolitan Area, St. Johns University, New York, NY
Zeuxis: Poetic Dimensions in the
Modern Still Life, Kouros Gallery, New York, NY; Hofstra Museum,
Hempstead, NY
On the Road: Landscape Paintings from Far and Near, Marymount College,
Tarrytown NY
2004: 179th Annual Invitational Exhibition, National Academy, New York, NY
Spring Painting Invitational, Neptune Fine Art, New York, NY
Zeuxis: Tabletop Arenas, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME; Lori Bookstein Fine Art,
New York, NY;
University of New Hampshire,
Durham, NH; Haverford College, Haverford, PA
Artists of Rochefort-en-Terre, Maryland Institute College of Art,
Baltimore, MD
2003: Zeuxis: A Moveable Feast, Westbeth
Gallery, New York, NY
Value and Presence: Works on Paper, List Gallery, Swarthmore College, PA
One Hundred Years of American Artistic Tradition—40 American Painters at
Rocheforte-en-Terre,
Museum of Rochefort-en-Terre, Brittany, France
2002: Prospects: 6 Painters and the Landscape, Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY
Zeuxis: Uncommon Perspectives, Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York , NY
Embodying Light, Gallery 128,
New York, NY
2001: Salzburg Art Fair, Salzburg, Austria
Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, WYCA of the City of New York
2000: Women’s View: Two Generations of Women Artists from New York (Ying Li, curator), Haverford
College,
Haverford, PA
Rhythm & Light, The Painting Center, New York, NY
Zeuxis: The Human Presence, Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT
1999: Private Mythologies, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
Kinds of Drawings, Western Carolina University, NC
1999: Gardens of Rochefort-en-Terre, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1995: Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
1994: American Painters and French Sculptors, Museum of Rochefort-en-Terre, Brittany, France
169th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
Works by Women Artists: Selections from The Scott Memorial Study
Collection, Bryn Mawr College,
Bryn Mawr, PA
1993: Abstracted Reality, Tibor de Nagy
Gallery, New York, NY
Figuration ‘93 (Susanna Coffey,
curator), 55 Mercer Street
Gallery, New York, NY
Works on Paper, Elizabeth Harris
Gallery, New York, NY
1992: Inaugural Group Show, Elizabeth
Harris Gallery, New York, NY
167th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
1990: 165th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
SELECTED BIOGRAPHY
Joe Bendik, "Coastal Service: Ying Li at Lohin Geduld Gallery", New York Press, December 1, 2008
John Goodrich, Artcritical.com, PIC OF THE DAY, Ying Li at the Painting Center, November 7, 2008
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
Victoria 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, “Zeuxis,” 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
John Goodrich, ‘Ying Li,” artcritical.com, February, 2004
Joe Walentini, “Ying Li,” Abstract Art Online, February, 2004
Victorian Donohoe, “Ying Li,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 24, 2002
Catherine Dorsey, “A Matter of Perspective,” Portfolio Weekly, November 5, 2002
Joe Walentini, “Featured Artist of the Month, Ying Li,” Abstract Art Online, February, 2002
“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
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
Ronny Cohen, “Ying Li”, Artforum, November 1994
Valerie Steiker, “Ying Li”, The New Yorker, March 28, 1994
“East Meets West”, The New York Times, October 11, 1992 (with reproduction)
Gerrit Henry, “Ying Li”, Art in America, April, 1991
AWARDS
2008: Henry Ward Ranger Fund Purchase Award, National Academy, New York, NY
2007: Wolf Kahn and Emily Mason Foundation Award
The Heliker- LaHotan Foundation Residency Award, Cranberry Island, Maine
Artist Residency, St Mary’s College, MD
2006: Artist Residency, Norton Island Residency for Writers and Artists, Eastern Frontier Educational
Foundation, Norton Island, ME
Faculty Research Grant, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
2005: Faculty Research Grant, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
2004: Edwin Palmer Memorial Prize
for Painting, National Academy
Museum, New York, NY
Faculty Research Grant, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
2003: Full Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Artist Residency, French Government Grant, Rochefort-en-Terre,
Brittany, France
Faculty Research Grant, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
2002 Lindback Career Enhancement Award
Artist Residency, Western Carolina
University, Cullowhee, NC
Faculty Research Grant, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
2001: Faculty Research Grant, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
2000: Faculty Research Grant, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
1999: Full Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Faculty Research Grant, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
1998: Aspen Institute Scholarship, Aspen, CO
Art Colony Fellowship, Enterprise House, Kiltimagh, County Mayo, Ireland
1994: Certificate of Merit, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
Rochefort-en-Terre, Art Colony
Fellowship, Brittany, France
1987: Gold Medal, Emerging Artists
Exhibition, M. Grumbacher, Inc., National Arts Club, New York, NY
1981: First Prize, Oil Painting Exhibition, Anhui Province Museum of Art, Hefei, China
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Present: Associate Professor of Fine Arts, Haverford College, PA
2008: Visiting 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
2007: Chair 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
2006: Guest Speaker and Critic, Sponsored by Mellon Teaching Associates Fund, Bates College, Lewiston, ME
Visiting Critic, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2005: Guest 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
2004: Guest 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
2003: Guest Speaker and Critic, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Brooklyn College, CUNY
2002: Associate Professor of Fine Arts, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
Visiting Artist and Juror, Western Carolina University, N.C., April
2001: Guest Speaker and Critic Swarthmore College, PA
2000: Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
Guest Speaker, Cedar Crest College, PA
Guest Speaker, Asian Student Association, Bryn Mawr College, PA
1997: Visiting Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
Guest Critic, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
1996: Instructor, New School of Social Research, New York, NY
Guest speaker, Sussex County Community College, Newton, NJ
Guest Speaker, Chubb Insurance Company, New York, NY
1995: Visiting Artist, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ
1994: Visiting Artist, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
1993: Visiting Artist, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
1991: Guest Lecturer, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
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1989: Guest Lecturer, Queens College, City University of New York, Queens, NY
1982-83: Assistant Professor, Department of Arts, Anhui Teachers University, Anhui, China
1977: Instructor, Department of Arts, Anhui Teachers University, Anhui, China.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2012: Interview with critic/curator Franklin Einspruch, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery,
Haverford College
2010: Panelist, contemporary still life painting, Lancaster Museum of Art
2010: Lecture, Lang Performing Arts Center Cinema at Swarthmore College
2008: Organizer, “Transformation, Drawing into Painting”, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery,
Haverford College
2007: Panelist, “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
2006: Panelist, “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
Organizer, “Conversation In Paint”, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College
2005: Panelist, “The City, Myths and Realities of Women Artists.” Women’s Herstory Month,
Borough of Manhattan Community College, NY
2004: Panelist, “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
2002: Organizer 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
2001: Organizer 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
2000: Curator, “Women’s View- Two Generations of Women Artists from New York”, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College
1999: Organizer, “Louis Finkelstein Retrospective”, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College
EDUCATION
1987: MFA, Parsons School of Design,
New York, NY
1977: Anhui Teachers University, Wuhu, China
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