Tie Ying, who lives and works in Beijing, China, is a classical trained painter. He graduated from the oil painting department of the renowned Beijing Central Academy of Art and later studied at the Royal University of Fine Art Stockholm, Sweden where he commenced creating works by using photography as a main tool to articulate his artistic expressions. After two years of studies, Tie Ying returned from Sweden to Beijing in 1999. The cultural shock from a life of Scandinavian tranquillity and streamlined landscape to an ever-changing face and pace in the capital of China has compelled him to create a large amount of photography works to capture the glimpse and the split second of the encyclopedic modern Chinese society, which also serves as semi autobiographical documentations. 

 

Education 1996 -1998 Visiting scholar at the Royal University of Fine Arts, Stockholm, Sweden

Current works and lives in Beijing, China

 

 

Solo Exhibitions

2011   

MASSES, Element Art Space, Singapore

The World Is Yours, Plus Once Space, Beijing, China

2009   

BACKFIRE - Showroom Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

2005   

State Power - Photography Exhibition Marlborough Chelsea, New York, USA

1994   

Morass of Reverie - Oil painting Exhibition, CAFA, Beijing, China

 

Group Exhibitions

2011

Scope Basel 2011, Fang Gallery, Basel, Switzerland 

CDS Art Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark 

Art Stage Singapore 2011, Fang Gallery, Singapore

2010  

Fang Gallery - Grand Opening, Jakarta, Indonesia

Bazaar Art Jakarta 2010 - Indonesian Art Fair, Jakarta, Indonesian

CDS Art & Visibility the contemporary art gallery at Nordic Art Copenhagen, Denmark

2008  

House Arrest - Showroom Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

Asian Contemporary Art Consortium, Asian Society Artists in Conversation program 2008 at Sotheby’s New York, USA

2007  

Distance Estimated by Eyes Photography of Eight Chinese, Shenzhen, China

ShContemporary 2007, Marlborough Gallery, Shanghai, China

China International Gallery Exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, Beijing, China

The International Asian Art Fair, New York, USA

2006  

A3 - art Fair, Paris, France

China International Gallery Exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, Beijing, China

The International Asian Art Fair, New York, USA

2005  

Group show of Photography at 798 Time Space DaShanzi Art Zone, Beijing, China

The First Book - Group Photography Works show at Art Scene China Gallery, Shanghai, China

2004  

Founding of Tie Ying Projects Studio, located in Dashanzi Art

Zone, 798 Factory, Beijing, China

2003  

First place of the country, documentary photography works

2nd Roma International Photo Festival, Roma, Italy

No Problem - Ten Young Photographer, Aura Gallery, Shanghai, China

1997  

Painting exhibition, Mejan Gallery of Royal University of Fine Arts, Stockholm, Sweden

1993  

Beijing Contemporary Paintings Art Show, China Daily Gallery, Beijing, China

1992  

China Oil Paintings 92, Hong Kong