Bingyi
冰逸born in Beijing
Born in Beijing and educated in the United States, Bingyi received her Ph.D. in art history from Yale University in 2005 where she specialized in the literature and culture of the Han Dynasty. There, she developed her ability to compose texts in various classic formats whether in ancient shijing-style poetry, rhapsodic fu-style verse or ancient guwen-style prose.
Bingyi is perhaps best known for her large-scale ink paintings in which she collaborates, over months or years, with the environmental conditions of a specific site to capture a reality-scaled record of the climatic and topological forces shaping a natural or urban landscape. Through her hypnotic, obsessive endurance and execution both painstaking and nuanced, one senses the loving power of nature itself as it crafts animate life from inanimate matter.
Bingyi’s works can be found in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA; White Rabbit Contemporary Chinese Art Collection, Sydney, Australia; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA; the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA; Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA; Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, MA, USA; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, USA; National Museum of Asian Art, Washington, D.C., USA; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Alicante, Alicante, Spain; and Museum of Chinese Women and Children, Beijing, China.
