Ding Yi was born in Shanghai in 1962 and graduated from fine Arts College of Shanghai University in 1990.

Solo exhibitions:
1994, "Exhibition of Ding Yi's Abstract Art Works", Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai; 1995, "Ding Yi, Opere su Carta - Paper Works of Ding Yi", Galleria degli Archi, Comiso, Italy; 1996, "15 x Red", ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai; 1997, "Ding Yi: Crosses '97", Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai; 1998, "Ding Yi: Crosses '89-'97", International Art Palace, Beijing; 2000, "Ding Yi: Fluorescence on Tartan", China Art Archive & Warehouse, Beijing; 2002, "Appearance of Crosses", Galerie Waldburger, Berlin, Germany; 2003, "Appearance of Crosses", Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland; 2004, "Crossed Vision-Works by Ding Yi", CAAW-China Art Archive & Warehouse, Beijing; 2005, "Ding Yi-Appearance of Crosses", Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK; 2006, "Graticule-Ding Yi's Works from 1989 to 2006", ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai; 2007, "DING YI", Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France; 2008, "Appearance of Crosses from 1989-2007-Solo Exhibition of Ding Yi", Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

Group Exhibition: 1985, "Exhibition of Modern Art by Six Artists", Fudan University, Shanghai; 1986, "1st Shanghai Youth Grand Fine Arts Exhibition", Shanghai Artist's Gallery, Shanghai; 1988, "Exhibition of Today's Art", Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai; 1989, "China/Avant-garde Art Exhibition", National Art Museum of China, Beijing; 1991, "Documentary Exhibition of Chinese Art of the 90's", K Gallery, Japan; 1993, "45th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale"-Cardinal Points of the Arts, Venice, Italy; 1994, "Abstract Works by Six Artists", Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong; 1995, Des Pais del Centre, Avantguardes Artistiques Xineses, Santa Monica Art Centre, Barcelona, Spain; 1996, "Shanghai Fax: Let's Talk about Money-International Fax Art Exhibition", Shanghai Huashan Professional School of Art Gallery, Shanghai; 1997, "Quotation Marks-Chinese Contemporary Paintings", National Art Museum, Singapore; 1998, "Every Day-11th Biennale of Sydney", Museum of Contemporary Art etc., Sydney, Australia; 1999, "1999 Open Channels-The First Collecting Exhibition of Dong Yu Museum of Fine Arts", Dong Yu Museum, Shenyang; 2000, "Chinese Muren Chinese Walls", Groningen, Netherlands; 2001, "Living in Time-29 Contemporary Artists from China", National galerie im Hamburger Bahnhof Museum fuer Gegenwartskunst, Berlin, Germany; 2002, "The First Guangzhou Trienniale-Reinterpretation": A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art (1990subtle2000), Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou; 2003, "Open Sky-Grand Opening of Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art", Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai; 2004, "New Boundaries", Taikang Top Space, Beijing, China; 2005, "Born in China", Goedhuis Contemporary, London, UK; 2006, "Z-art Center Opening Exhibition", Z-art Center, Shanghai; 2007, "85 New Wave-The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art", Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing; 2008, "Five Years of Duolun: Chinese Contemporary Art Retrospective Exhibition", Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Duolun road No.27, Shanghai; 2009, "Inaugural Exhibition", Hadrien de Montferrand Gallery, Beijing, China.

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