Ying Li

Biography

Born in Beijing, China, painter Ying Li studied at Anhui Teachers University and earned an MFA from Parsons School of Design, NY. She is currently Associate Professor and Chair of the Fine Arts Department, Haverford College, PA. She has been on the summer faculty of the International School of Art, Montecastello di Vibio, Umbria, Italy, since 1999. She has been a visiting artist and critic at the MFA program, University of Pennsylvania; the MFA program, Brooklyn College; the MFA program, Syracuse University; Maryland Institute College of Art; Swarthmore college; Dartmouth college; Western Carolina University, among others. She lives and works in New York City and Haverford, Pennsylvania and is represented by The Painting Center, NY. One-person exhibitions include The Painter Center, NY; Elisabeth Harris Gallery, NY; the ISA Gallery, Italy; Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College; Marie Salant Neuberger Campus Center Gallery, Bryn Mawr College; Bowery Gallery, NY; and Enterprise House, Ireland. Group exhibitions include the Museum of National Academy, NY; Lori Bookstein Fine Arts, NY; Chris Naptune Fine Arts, NY; Korous Gallery, NY; the Westbeth Gallery, NY; Museum of Rochefort-en-Terre, Brittany, France; Pennsylvania Academy of Art; List Gallery, Swarthmore College; Hermitage Foundation Museum, VA; and the Denise Bibro Gallery, NY. She is the recipient of the Edwin Palmer Memorial Prize for painting in 2004 from the National Academy Museum, New York; two Vermont Studio Center Fellowships; Art Colony Fellowship, Enterprise House, Ireland; a French Government Art Grant, Rochefort-en-Terre; an Aspen Institute Scholarship; and a Lindback Faculty Research Grant. Her work has been reviewed in New York Times, The New Yorker, Art Forum, Art in America, The New York Sun, Art Cricital.com, and The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Education

Anhui Teachers University

M.F.A., Parsons School of Design

Courses: Fall 2009, Haverford

Courses: Spring 2010, Haverford