丁乙1962 年生于上海,现工作、生活于上海。其创作领域包括绘画、雕塑、空间装置和建筑。从 80 年代后期开始,他将视觉符号“十”字以及变体的“X”作为结构和理性的代表,以及反映事物本质的图像表现的代名词。
丁乙的作品在全球不同机构和画廊广泛展出,包括伦敦大英博物馆(2021);香港M+博物馆(2021);上海当代艺术博物馆(2020);旧金山现代艺术博物馆(2018-2019);古根海姆博物馆(西班牙毕尔巴鄂/美国纽约,2017-2018);柏林戴姆勒当代艺术馆(2017);巴黎蓬皮杜艺术中心(2015);杜伊斯堡、杜塞尔多夫等地美术馆联合群展(2015);罗马MAXXI 博物馆(2011);北京尤伦斯当代艺术中心(2007);瑞士伯尔尼、德国汉堡、西班牙巴塞罗那等地美术馆巡展(2005-2009);柏林汉堡火车站当代美术馆(2001)等。大型国际双年展包括第45届威尼斯双年展(1993)、第1届亚太三年展(1993)、第11届悉尼双年展(1998)、第1届横滨三年展(2001)、第6届上海双年展(2006)、第7届深圳雕塑双年展(2012)、第7届釜山双年展(2016)。
近期在国内外多家机构举办个展,包括奎里尼·斯坦帕利亚基金会(威尼斯,2026),里森画廊(伦敦,2025),昆明当代美术馆及云南大学人类学博物馆(昆明,2025),Mostyn当代艺术中心(兰迪德诺,威尔士,2025),考斯特酒庄(艾克斯镇,普罗旺斯,2024),宁波美术馆与华茂艺术教育博物馆(宁波,2023),深圳市当代艺术与城市规划馆(深圳,2023),摩诘美术馆(太原,2023),西海美术馆(青岛,2022),吉本岗艺术中心和喜德林空间(拉萨,2022),RGR画廊(墨西哥城,2022),香格纳画廊(上海,2018;新加坡,2022),泰勒画廊(纽约,2021;伦敦,2019),龙美术馆(重庆,2020;上海西岸馆,2015),卡斯滕·格雷夫画廊(科隆,2024/2020;巴黎/圣莫里茨,2025&2021),Nova Contemporary(曼谷, 2020),Rüdiger Sch?ttle画廊(慕尼黑,2019),广东美术馆(广州,2018),西安美术馆(西安,2017),湖北美术馆(武汉,2016),民生现代美术馆(上海,2011),博洛尼亚当代美术馆(博洛尼亚,2008),Ikon美术馆(伯明翰,2005)等。
其作品被诸多国内外艺术机构收藏,包括大都会艺术博物馆(纽约)、大英博物馆(伦敦)、牛津大学阿什莫利博物馆、三星现代艺术博物馆(首尔)、蓬皮杜艺术中心(巴黎)、奔驰艺术收藏(柏林)、UBS艺术收藏(瑞士)、Stichting Van Tuyckom基金会(布鲁塞尔)、中国现代艺术基金会(根特)、德国汉堡市政府、悉尼大学艺术收藏、查尔斯达文大学艺术收藏、福冈亚洲美术馆、盛冈图书馆、善载当代艺术博物馆(庆州)、复星基金会(纽约)、M+博物馆(香港 )、K11艺术基金会(香港)、余德耀基金会(雅加达)、DSL收藏(巴黎)、中国美术馆(北京)、泰康收藏(北京)、成都当代美术馆、和美术馆(顺德)、上海当代艺术博物馆、中华艺术宫(原上海美术馆)等。
DING YI
Ding Yi (b. 1962) currently lives and works in Shanghai. The practice of Ding Yi encompasses painting, sculpture, spatial installation and architecture. He works primarily with “+” and its variant “x” as formal visual signals, above and against the political and social allegories typical of painting in China. He chose this sign in the second half of the 80s as a synonym of structure, rationality and of a pictorial expressiveness that reflects the essence of things.
Ding Yi has exhibited extensively at various institutions and galleries, among many others, The British Museum (London, 2021); M+ Museum (Hong Kong, 2021); Power Station of Art (Shanghai, 2020); San Francisco MoMA (2018–19); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York/Bilbao, 2017–18); Daimler Contemporary (Berlin, 2017); Centre Pompidou (Paris, 2015); Lehmbruck Museum (Duisburg, 2015); Museo Nazionale Delle Arti Del XXI Secolo MAXXI (Rome, 2011); Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, 2007); Exhibition tour in museums in Bern, Hamburger, Barcelona, etc. (2005–09); Hamburger Bahkhof Museum Für Gegenwart (Berlin, 2001). His works has also been included in 45th Venice Biennale (1993), The First Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (1993), 11th Biennale of Sydney (1998), Yokohama 2001 International Triennale of Contemporary Art (2001), 6th Shanghai Biennale (2006), 7th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale (2012), 6th Busan Biennale (2016).
He has recent solo exhibitions at Querini Stampalia Foundation (Venice, 2026), Lisson Gallery (London, 2025), Contemporary Gallery Kunming and Anthropology Museum of Yunnan University (Kunming, 2025), Mostyn (Llandudno, 2025), Chateau La Coste (Aix-en-Provence, 2024), Ningbo Museum of Art and Huamao Museum of Art Education (Ningbo, 2023), Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning (Shenzhen, 2023), Mojie Art Museum (Taiyuan, 2023), TAG Art Museum (Qingdao, 2022), Jebum-gang Art Center and Shide Space (Lhasa, 2022), Galería RGR (Mexico City, 2022), ShanghART Gallery (Shanghai, 2018; Singapore, 2022), Timothy Taylor Gallery (New York, 2021; London, 2019), Long Museum (Chongqing, 2020; West Bund, Shanghai, 2015), Galerie Karsten Greve (Cologne, 2024/2020; Paris/St.Moritz, 2025&2021), Nova Contemporary (Bangkok, 2020), Galerie Rüdiger Sch?ttle (Munich, 2019), Guangdong Museum of Art (Guangzhou, 2018), Xi’an Art Museum (Xi’an, 2017), Hubei Museum of Art (Wuhan, 2016), Minsheng Art Museum (Shanghai, 2011), Museo d’Arte Modena di Bologna (Bologna, 2008), Ikon Gallery (Birmingham, 2005), etc.
His works are collected by numerous institutions, including Metropolitan Museum Of Art (New York), The British Museum (London), Ashmolean Museum (Oxford), Leeum Museum of Art(Seoul), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Mercedes-Benz Art Collection (Berlin), UBS Art Collection (Zurich), Stichting Van Tuyckom Foundation (Brussels), Chinese Modern Art Foundation (Ghent), The City Government of Hamburg (Germany), University of Sydney Art Collection, CDU Art Collection (Darwin City, Australia), Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Morioka City Library, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art (Gyeongju), Fosun Foundation (New York), M+ Collection (Hong Kong), K11 Art Foundation (Hong Kong), Yuz Foundation (Jakarta), DSL Collection (Paris), The National Art Museum of China (Beijing), Taikang Collection (Beijing), Chengdu Museum of Contemporary Art, He Art Museum (Shunde), Power Station of Art (Shanghai), China Art Museum (former Shanghai Art Museum), etc.