This interview was conducted at Ding Yi's studio in Shanghai on 26 November 2008. For more information visit the Materials of the Future website.


Biography:

Ding Yi (b. 1962, Shanghai) is an artist and has been a professor at the Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts at Fudan University since 2005.

Between 1980 and 1983, Ding was enrolled at the Shanghai College of Arts and Crafts, an important art school in Shanghai at the time. Other noteworthy members of this school include Yu Youhan, Chen Zhen and Wang Ziwei to name a few.

After graduating, Ding became a designer in the Number 12 Toy Factory in Shanghai, and he began to experiment with abstract oil paintings. In 1986, Ding exhibited his work at the first ‘Concave-Convex' exhibition, one of the first showcases for experimental art in Shanghai. In 1988, Ding began to use an abstract pattern of crosses in his paintings, which later developed into his celebrated series Appearance of Crosses.

Ding continues to paint and exhibit widely, both internationally and in China. Most recently, his work appeared in a group show called ‘Shanghai’ held at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum (2010).

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丁乙，藝術家，1962年生於上海。2005年至今在，任復旦大學上海視覺藝術學院任教授。

丁乙在1980年入讀上海市工藝美術學校。當時的工藝美術學校是上海的重要的美術學校，其時的老師中有余友涵，學生有陳箴、王子衛等。1983年畢業后，在上海玩具十二廠擔任設計師。同時開始創作抽象油畫。1986年參加上海新潮美術的重要展覽《凹凸展》。1988年起在畫中使用十字圖案，並借用印刷術語「十示」以命名，成為藝術家最廣為人知的系列作品。

丁乙在中國及海外展出頻繁。最近，舊金山亞洲藝術博物館策劃展覽《上海》（2010年），丁乙是參展藝術家之一。

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