830 Broadwey, NYC 10003 Phone/Fax: 212-477-6508 Studio 718-855-6276

Chronology

[ Solo ] [ Recent ] [ Bibilography ] [ Awards ]

1943

Born in Shanghai, China

1965

Columbus College of An & Design, Columbus, Ohio - Diploma

1967

Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missoud - B.F.A.

1970

University of California, Santa Barbara, California - M.F.A.

[ Chronology ] [ Recent ] [ Bibilography ] [ Awards ]

2000

"Quin and Bao" Butters Gallery, Portland, Oregon

1998

"Garden of Qian" Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, New York City (February)

1997

"Lings" Bulova Center of the Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York

1997

"Earthly Delights" Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, New York

1996

"Veins of the Spiral" Kim Foster Gallery, New York City

1996

"Feast for the Eyes" Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin

1996

"Mid-nite Porridge" Broadway Windows, NYC

1994

"Mafter into Spirit" Kim Foster Gallery, New York City

1994

"Extended Curves" Butters Gallery, Portland Oregon

1994

"From the Garden" Alisan Fine Arts Ltd. Hong Kong

1993

"On the Edge" Keen Gallery, New York City

1993

"Existential Attainment" Lungmen Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

1991

"Images from Beyond" Butters Gallery, Portland. Oregon

1991

"Nature Reborn: From Archaeology to Science Fiction" Exit Art, New York City

1990

"Ming Fay" DO. Fine An Space, Taipei, Taiwan

1990

"Bell Sprouts" Petrosino Park, New York City (Outdoor Installation)

1990

"Objects from Nature" Chinese American Arts Council, Gallery 456, New York City

1989

"Journey into Nature" Squibb Gallery, Princeton, New Jersey

1989

"Elixirs" Alternative Museum, New York City

1988

"Ming Fay" Gallery Triform, Taipei, Taiwan

[ Chronology ] [ Solo ] [ Bibilography ] [ Awards ]

2000

Wave Hill, Glyndor Gallery, Bronx, NY: "Abundant Invention"

2000

Bronx River Art Center and Gallery, Bronx, NY: "Environmentally Concerned 2"

2000

Nathan Cummings Foundation, NYC: "Environmentally Concerned"

2000

Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau WI: "Art Nature/Nuture"

2000

Exit Art, NYC: "The End"

2000

Butters Gallery, Portland Oregon: "Persistence: Botanica"

1999

The Urband Center, NYC: "Art Underfoot: Manhole Covers in NYC"

1999

Central Fine Arts, NYC: "Six Degress of Seduction"

1999

Altanta College of Art, Altanta, GA "As far as the eye can see"

1998

Henry Street Settlement, NYC "Metaphors: Inspirations and Folklores"

1998

Central Fine Arts, NYC: "Modular Composite"

1998

Leedy Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, "Sculpture"

1997

Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY: "1997 Biennial Exhibition of Public Art"

1997

Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ: "Ancient Emblems, Contemporary Signifiers"

1997

Henry Street Settlement, NYC: "Gardens of Urban Delight: The Lower East Side"

1996

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.: "Posing Reality: Contemporary Still Ufe Painting & Sculpture"

1996

Marymount Manhatten College, New York City: "Black and White: Sculptors' Drawings"

1996

Taipei Gallery, New York City: "Mutation of Ink and Paper"

1995

TZ Art & Co., New York City: "Bodies/Transfomnations: Small Bronzes"

1995

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. "Elusive Source"

1995

Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, Md.: "Indetermined Origins"

1995

Gallery at Dieu Donne Papemnill, NYC: "Workspace Program: 5 Years"

1995

University of Wisconsin - LaCrosse, Wiconsin: "From Celestial to Earthly"

1994

Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, Pa.: "Totems & other structures"

1994

Henry Street Settlement, New York City : "Visionary Proposals for Lower East Side"

1994

Municipal Art Society, New York City : "Art for Learning""

1994

Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho : "Fabricate Nature"

1994

David Adamson Gallery, Washington, DC: "Orientations"

1994

Exit Art, New York City: "The Garden of Sculptural Delights"

1993

Foster/Peet Gallery, New York City "Ming Fay & Hiro Yokose"

1993

Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York City: "Plant Body: Spiritual Botany"

1993

Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ.: "Spring/Summer Exhibition"

1993

Kenkeleba Gallery, New York City: "Diverse Disclosures"

1993

Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ: "Diverse Reprnsentations II"

1992

Scott Alan Gallery, New York City: "Still Life Today"

1991

Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York City: "Bronze"

1991

Nancy Drysdale Gallery, Washington DC: "Group Exhibition"

1991

Exit Art, New York City: "The Hybrid State""

1991

Alternative Museum, New York City: "Artists of Conscience""

1991

Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY: "Paperworks"

1991

The Cultural Space, New York City: "World Disorder"

1990

Artist Space, New York City: "Selections"

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Newspaper Revilews

2000

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (WI) "Artists' Vision transforms nature", Jame Aure, December 27

1999

Creative Loafing (GA) "Land, lots of land" Cathy Byrd, February 13

1998

The New York Times (NY) "Garden of Qian by Ming Fay" Grace Glueck, February 27

1997

The New York Times (NY) "Art Flourishes on a Grimy Brooklyn Waterfront" Kennedy Fraser, October 27

1997

The New York Times (NY) "Sculpture With an Aura of Ritual and Myth" Barry Schwabsky, Augester 3

1997

The Jersey Journal (NJ) "Jersey City Museum Sheds Light on other-worldly creations" Kay Kenny, July 26

1997

The New York Times (NY) "Hudson Valley Conversations" Roberta Smith, July 18

1997

The New York Times (NY) "In New Jersey, Evolution in Retrospectives" Michael Kimmerman, July 18

1997

The Star Ledger (NJ) "Three by five: Contemporary Sculpture" Dan Bischoff, June 20

1996

Journal Sentinel Milwaukee (WI) "Smorgasbord for the eye" James Auer, July 15

1996

The Philadelphia Inquirer, (PA) "Painter Bride" Edward J. Sozanski, October 14

1994

The New York Newsday, (NY) "The New WPA" Anamona Hartcollis, October 12

1994

Williamette Week, (Portland, OR) "Full Cirde" Ted Sawyer, June 29

1994

The Washington Post, (DC) "In the Sprit of Nature" Mary McCoy, June 25

1994

The Standard, (HK) "Ming sees fruits of his labour" Josie Brenan, Jan. 5

1994

Souh China Morning Post, (HK) "Ming's Fertile Garden" Margaret Sheridan, Jan. 5

1991

The Oregonian, (Portland) "Art's HerbaI 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) "Ming Fay" Michael Brenson, February 15

1990

The Star-Ledger, (NJ) "Food Inspires Delectable Exhibition" Eileen Watkins, November 16

1990

The New York Timas~ (NJ) "Food Made Larger than Life" William Zlmmer, October 26

1990

The New York Times, (NY) "Ming Fay" Michael Brenson, February 23

Periodicals & Books

1999

Contemporary Outdoor Sculpture" Brook Barrier, Introduction: Glenn Harper, Rockport Publishers

1998

Review Magazine, "Ming Fay", Robert Morgan, February

1997

Art in Americ, "A School for Sculpture" Eleanor Heartney, October

1996

Cover Magazine, "Seasonal Delights" Robert Morgan, October

1994

Reflex, "Fabricated nature, Sculptural Dualities" Chris Schnoor, August/September

1994

Asian Art News, "The Alchemist of Spirits"" Kathleen Finley Magnan, July/August

1994

Artweek, "Through a Looking Glass" Jeanette Ross, May 19

1994

New York Magatine, "Dance of Life and Death" Kay Larson, March 28

1994

Asian Art News, "Ming Fay at Alisan Fine Arts" Hylton Jolliffe, March/April

1994

Window Magazine, "A Fruitful Imaginalion" Hilary Banks, January 14

1992

Sky Magazine, "Cast in Paper" Shawn Casey, September

1991

Artweek "At the End of the Rabbit Hole" Lois Allan, November

1991

Art in Annerca, "Ming Fay at Exit Art" Robert Taplin, October

1991

Arts Magazine, "Ming Fay" Gerard Haggerty, Summer

1991

American Art, "Turning the Minors Around - the Pre-Face" Lucy Lippard, Winter/Spring

1991

The Journal of Art, "Art During Wartime" Matthew Rose, April

1991

The New Yorker, Goings on About Town-Art "Ming Fay" February 25

1990

"Mixed Blessings/New Art in a Multicultural America", Lucy A. Lippard, Pantheon Books

Catalogue Essays

[ Chronology ] [ Solo ] [ Recent ] [ Bibilography ]

1999

MTA, Delancey/Essex Streets Station, NYC

1999

Economic Development Corp of NY, Lippman Arcade, Flushing Queens

1998

GSA, US Court House, Seattle, Washington

1998

Percent for Art, Staten Island Ferry Terminal, New York City

1997

Public Art Fund, Phipps Housing, Bronx, New York

1995

John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Arts/Indusry Program, Kohler, Wisconsin

1994

Mid-Alantc Arts Foundation, Visual Arts Residency Program, Rutgers Center for Innavative Printmaking, New Brunswick, New Jersey

1994

New York Experimental Glass Workshop, Brooklyn, New York; Visiting Artist Residency

1993

Per Cent for Art, Criminal Justice Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1992

Lila Wallace Readers Digest Arts Partners Program

1990

Per Cent for Art, P.S. 7, Elmhurst, New York

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