MIMI CHEN TING
(b. 1946 Shanghai, China; d. 2022 Sausalito, CA)
EDUCATION
1969
BA, Studio Arts, CA State University, San Jose
1976
MA, CA State University, San Jose
Graphics and Printing Technology, Performance as Integration of the Arts, CA State University, San Jose Dance and Choreography, University of CA Davis
Handmade Paper and Printmaking Techniques (Japan)
Intaglio, Papermaking and Viscosity Printing Techniques with Raymond Oeschger and Joseph Zirker Dance and Performance with Anna Halprin, Sherwood Chen, Hiroko Tamano
AWARDS AND HONORS
2012
Agnes Martin Award for Abstract Painting and Drawing Distinguished Achievement Award,Taos, NM
2003
National Endowment of the Arts Grant
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
“Mimi Chen Ting: Our First Tango,” Norte Maar, Brooklyn, NY, April 23-June 5
2018
“Mimi Chen Ting,” Vedder Price, San Francisco, CA
2017
“Mimi Chen Ting:Willing to Fly,” Jen Tough Gallery,Vallejo, CA, September 8-October 8
2014
“Strands: Paintings by Mimi Chen Ting,” Art Beatus,Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, April 11-June 6
2013
“Mimi Chen Ting: On the Move,” Hulse Warman Gallery, Taos, NM
“Mimi Chen Ting: In the Groove,” Encore Gallery,Taos Center for the Arts, Taos, NM
Off the Wall, The Historical Taos Inn, Taos, NM
2012
“Between Space n’ Time,” Harwood Museum of Art, Curator’s Wall,Taos, NM
2011
“Twists and Turns: Paintings by Mimi Chen Ting,” Art Beatus, Hong Kong, China, November 3-23 (brochure)
2008
“Tangles and Ties: Painting by Mimi Chen Ting,” Art Beatus, Hong Kong, China, October 5-25 (reviewed in Asian Arts News)
“Mimi Chen Ting: Confetti,” Loka Art Space, Taos, NM, February 4-March 15
2007
D’Adamo/Woltz Gallery, Seattle, Washington
2005
Three Paintings, The Harwood Museum of Art,Taos, NM
“Mimi Chen Ting: Time Tracks,” Thomson Hall Gallery, Sausalito, CA, April 3-April 25
“Mimi Chen Ting,” Belvedere-Tiburon Public Library, Tiburon, CA, March 29-April 24
1999
Quantum Corporation Galleries, Milpitas, CA
1997
Maude Kerne Art Center, Eugene, Oregon
1995
Art for the Wall, Los Gatos Fine Arts Commission, Los Gatos, CA
1994
New Works, d.p. Fong Galleries, San Jose, CA
1993
New Works, Taos Fine Art Gallery, Taos, NM
1992
New Works, Twin Cranes Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Paintings and Prints, Oakland Museum Collectors Gallery, Oakland, CA
Of Fact and Fiction, The University of Arizona Rotunda Gallery, Tucson, Arizona
Beyond Figuration, Merced College Art Gallery, Merced, CA
1991
Monotypes and Paintings, Stanford University Center for Integrated Studies, Palo Alto, CA
Recent Works, Santa Clara County Arts Council, San Jose, CA
1990
Just Pictures, Rosicrucian Museum Contemporary Gallery, San Jose, CA
1988
Paper Works, Mission College Gallery, Santa Clara, CA
Monotypes, Allegra Gallery, San Jose, CA
1987
Works on Paper, Asian Resource Gallery, Oakland, CA
1986
Monotypes, Oakland Museum Collectors Gallery, Oakland, CA
1979
“Mimi Chen Ting: Jujube waves and Related Matters,” CA State University Gallery, San Jose, CA
1970
“Mimi Chen Ting,” Lucien Labaudt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
Eleven: Nicki Marx, Gretchen Ewert, Annell Livingston, Margaret Nes, Mimi Chen Ting, Sandra Lerner, Ann Huston,TJ Mabrey, Ginger Mongiello, Paula Verona, and Christine Taylor Patten, Chimayo Trading Del Norte, Taos, NM, September
2018
“5th Annual NM Painters’ Exhibition,” Kennedy Hall, NM Highlands University, Las Vegas; exhibition traveled to Santa Fe County Administration Building, Santa Fe, NM, October 14-November 8
Town of Taos Lamppost Banner Project, Taos, NM
Women Make Art, Studio 107B Gallery, Taos, NM
Sweep – Contemporary Painting Survey, Joseph Nease Gallery, Duluth, Minnesota
“Work by Women,” (curated by Janet Webb and Judith Kendall) Harwood Museum of Art,Taos, NM, February 10-May 13
2016
Continuum:Works from the Permanent Collection, Harwood Museum of Art,Taos, NM
Non Objective Taos, 203 Fine Arts Gallery, Taos, NM
2015
Gallery Printmakers, Hulse Warman Gallery, Taos, NM
Pressing Through Time, Taos Center for the Arts, Taos, NM
Studio Visit Juried Exhibition in Print, sponsored by New American Paintings
2012
Taos Contemporary, Invitational, Metropolitan State College of Denver Center of Visual Art, Denver, Colorado
Enter the Dragon, A two-person exhibition: Mimi Chen Ting and Amy Cheng, Elisa Contemporary Art, Riverdale, New York Jan 6 - Mar 31.
2011
Orange, (Kimber Berry,Amy Cheng, Marie Danielle Leblanc, James Minden,Vanessa Ryan, Mimi Chen Ting, Suzan Woodruff, Wayne Zebzda), Elisa Contemporary Art, Riverdale, New York, Mar 18 - May 16.
18 Days, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Juried, CCA, Santa Fe, NM
Mostly Taos, Hulse Warman Gallery, Taos, NM
2010
In Bloom, Eliza Contemporary Art, Riverdale, New York
2007
Exploring Multiple Dimensions, Juried,Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, Albuquerque, NM
2006
“Biennial Southwest I,” (juried exhibition),Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, Albuquerque, NM, September 10, 2006-January 7, 2007
Making Connections, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA
2005
Handprints, NM Print Society, University of NM, Los Alamos, NM
“Face to Face,” Corrales Bosque Gallery, Corrales, NM, May 13-August 9
A Multiplicity of Visions, CA State University, Dominguez Hill University Gallery, CA
“La Madre Poderosa: an invitational exhibition of constructed altars,” Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM, March 11-June 12
2004
Miniatures, Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, NM
Rocky Mountain Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art, Fort Collins, Colorado
2003
Miniatures, the Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
Fire in the Heart: The Creative Spirit, Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, Oregon
Art of the Book in the Southwest, the Millicent Rogers Museum,Taos, NM
2002
Landscape and Memory, Sedona Art Center Gallery, Sedona, Arizona
Transformations, dA Center for the Arts, Pomona, CA
2001
Shadow and Light, South of Broadway Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM University of Colorado Contemporary Art Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO
2000
The Birth of Wisdom, Chapelle Des Penitents Blanc, Gordes, France, and St. John’s College, Santa Fe, NM
Monotypes, College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
1999
University of Phoenix, Phoenix,Arizona
1997
Modernists, Stables Art Gallery, Taos, NM
Impressionism to Abstraction, Dearing Galleries, Taos, NM
1996
Moore Art II,Villa Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, CA
1994
Layered Perspective, Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, Arkansas
Women and the Body, Works Gallery, Juried, San Jose, CA
Fuller Lodge Art Center, Juried exhibition, Los Alamos, NM
“Gathering Medicine,”Art In General, NewYork, NY, January
Ancestors Known & Unknown, Roswell Museum, Roswell, NM
Hearst Center for the Arts, Cedar Falls, IA; exhibition traveled to Georgia State University Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA
“The Exhibitioner: 1st Juried Exhibition,” Sera Cliff Gallery, Sea Cliff, NY, January
1993
Layering, Dartmouth Street Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
Box Project, Salina Art Center, Salina, Kansas; Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Miami, FL; Delaware State College Gallery, Dover, Delaware; Bruce R. Watkins Center, Kansas City, MO
Completing the Circle II, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
1992
Collection 54, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Box Project:Ancestors,Women &TheirWork, Austin, TX
Images,Visions, & Voices, Seipp Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
Internal Visions, San Jose Art League, San Jose, CA
Different Voices, University of CA, Santa Barbara Women's Center, Santa Barbara, CA
A Woman’s Vision, San Francisco Women Artists/South of the Market Art Galleries, San Francisco, CA
“Kevin Pettelle and Mimi Chen Ting,” Twin Cranes Gallery, Seattle, WA, September 3-27
1991
Voyage into Abstraction, Chaminade Center, Santa Cruz, CA
Art First, De Novo Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
“Border to Border: a national drawing exhibition,” (juried by Anselmo Carini) Austin Peay State University Trahern Gallery, Clarksville, TN, March 19-April 9 (brochure)
“Positive/Negative VII,” (juried by MK Wegmann) East Tennessee State University Slocumb Galleries, Johnson City, TN, February 19- March 20 (brochure)
“Group Show: Drawings, Photographs, Prints,” Women’s Caucus for Art, South Bay Area Chapter, Ohlone College Art Gallery, Fremont, CA, November 6-24
Drawing from Life, Juniper Gallery, Napa, CA
1990
Drawings,The Fenix Gallery, Taos, NM
6 Artist Completing the Circle, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Complex Lives: Multiple Visions,Villa Montalvo Center for the Arts, Los Gatos, CA
Box Project, Art in General, NY, New York; Kean University, Union, New Jersey; Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY Barnes; Blackman Gallery & Firehouse Gallery, Houston,TX; Wooster College Museum,Wooster, OH Womankind, Gavilan College Gallery, Gilroy, CA
Works on paper: Gale Antokal, Rick Dula, Steven Gordon, Joe McDonald, Bonnie Meyer and Mimi Chen Ting, Simon James Gallery, Berkeley, CA, February
1989
ART/LA 89, Simon James Gallery/Magnolia Editions, Los Angeles, CA
Swimmers and Other Bodies of Water: Gale Antokal, Robert Arneson, Joan Brown, Helen Breger, Mimi Chen Ting, Chuck Hobson, Susan Klebanoff and Louis LaBrie, Simon James Gallery, Berkeley, CA, October-November.
1988
“Jamie Abbot, Monika Gerber, Mimi Ting,” Allegra Gallery, San Jose, CA, February 15-March 26.
“A World Without War,” State Capital Bldg., Sacramento, CA; exhibition traveled to American School Fine Arts, Singapore;The American Embassy, Malaysia;Art Forum, Singapore; Manukau City Gallery, New Zealand. Imprint, San Jose Art League, San Jose, CA
Small Print Exhibition, Citadel Print Center, San Jose, CA
1987
Contemporary Voices,Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
75th Anniversary Exhibition, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
1986
"The Purest Pigment – Pastel: Jim Dine,Yvonne Jaquette, Michale Mazur, Nathan Oliveira,Wayne Theibaud, Mimi Ting and others,” The Art Corridor, Sacred Heart Schools, Menlo Park, CA, March 14-May 2
Pastels and Watercolor, San Francisco Women Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1985
Monotypes A to Z, San Jose City College Gallery, San Jose, CA The Oback Influence - A Tribute, San Jose State University, CA
1981
Masques Invitational, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
1980
Experimental Lithography, San Jose State University Art Gallery, San Jose, CA Handmade Papers, Performance Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1977
“Six Senses: Loie Johnson, Salli Robertson, Susan Kirkpatrick, Judy Lacy, Diana Marto and Mimi Chen Ting,” (curated by Jessica Jacobs), Sun Gallery, Hayward, CA, March-April 3
SOLO PERFORMANCES
2017
Out of Time,Taos Center for the Arts Encore Gallery,Taos, NM
2007
Taking Measure/Gathering Time,Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, Albuquerque, NM
2005
“Tender Tides,” Taos Center for the Arts and Harwood Museum of Art,Taos, NM, September 11 “Ghosts Revisited,” Harwood Museum of Art,Taos, NM
2004
Riding the Hogwarts Express and Other Works, Harwood Museum,Taos, NM
2003
How to Make a Book and Eat It Too, Millicent Rogers Museum,Taos, NM
2000
Life Journal, San Geronimo Center,Taos, NM
1989
Slide, San Jose City College, San Jose, CA
1985
A Work in Progress, Upstairs at Eulipia, San Jose, CA
1984
Moving in Moving on,Works Gallery, San Jose, CA
1983
Separations: Ghosts, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
1981
Ghosts,Works Gallery, San Jose, CA
You Can Still Hear Crickets, San Jose City College Theater, San Jose, CA Shadow Walk, San Jose City College, CA
1980
Last Gathering,The Artery, San Francisco, CA
An Afternoon at the Zoo, San Jose State University Art Gallery, San Jose, CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2017
Stephanie Grilli, “Mimi Chen Ting,” Art Cover Magazine, Issue2, pp.46-47.
2013
Eric Swanson, “Mimi Chen Ting Studio Visit,” Touching the Shutter, June 13
2012
Lynne Taetzsch, “Featured Abstract Artist Mimi Chen Ting”, Art and Design Magazine, December 20
Nathan Suazo,“Taos Artists Honored”,The Taos News Tempo Magazine, September 27
Robbie Steinbach and Lyn Bleiler, A Precarious Balance: Creative Women of Taos, Blurb Press
2011
賈選凝, “陳潔培「曲折」人生 處處驚喜”, Hong Kong Wen Wei Po, November 7 Cara Fox,“A Certain Quietness”,The Taos News Tempo Magazine, March 17
2009
Brian Siedlecki,“A Conversation with Mimi Chen Ting”,TheArtGallerist.com, Dec. 13
2008
Ian Findlay, “Mimi Chen Ting at Art Beatus”, Asian Art News, November/December p.137
Steve Fox, “Flags, Skulls, Evanescent Moments”, Horse Fly, November 18
Erin Goodwin-Guerrero, “The Tangles and Ties of Human Relations”, ArtShiftSanJose.com, Nov. 8
“String Theory: a Metaphorical Exploration of the Dance of Life”, United Hemisphere Magazine, October
2006
Editor.“HealthcareforAll:Compass-Ion,” Yes!Magazine,InsideCover,Fall
Rick Romancito,“Who’s Who’ in Taos Art”, The Taos News Tempo Magazine, October 5
Betsy Carey, “Art as the Ultimate Teacher”, The Taos News Tempo Magazine, August 24
2005
Dory Hulburt,“Top Ten: Knowing When to Stop,” Taos Daily Horse Fly, Sunday, May 15
Craig Smith,“Sole Survivors,”The New Mexican Pasatiempo, August 5, 2005
Sally Russell,“Taos SavvyWomen,”Albuquerque Journal, August 2005
Dory Hulburt,“EastMeetsWest,” Taos Daily Horse Fly, Friday, July15, 2005
Dory Hulburt,“La Madre Poderosa,” Taos Daily Horse Fly, Friday, April 15, 2005
Diane Smith,“Mimi Chen Ting Exhibits”,The Ark, March 23
2002
“The Art of Layering: Making Connections”, Society of Layerists and Multi Media Artist
2001
Nancy Fournier,“Art Briefs,” Horse Fly, October 15
1996
Salli McQuaid,“Moore Art II: Remembering Russell Moore,” Artist Writer
1995
Anne Gelhaus,“Personal Reflections,” Los Gatos Weekly Times , Wednesday, March 1
Anne Gelhaus,“A woman’s brush with intimacy,” Willow Glen Resident, Wednesday, March 8
1994
Rick Romancito, “Mimi Chen Ting Is Home at Last”, The Taos News Tempo Magazine, February 22
Salli McQuaid, “Two Opposing Senses”, Artist Writer, April
1993
Rick Romancito,“Spring Arts”,The Taos News Tempo Magazine, June 3
Joni Tickel /J.Pointer, “Space as Cornucopia”, Taos Magazine, June
Salli McQuaid, “Art in Alliance”, Artist Writer, April
Ann Elliott Sherman, “Six Sided Circle”, Metro, January 7
1992
Ross Owens, “Multiple Moods...Well Rounded View”, Santa Clara Valley Weekly, November 18
“The Churning Woman”, Sillicon Valley Visitors Guide, October
“Unfinished Business”, Seattle Guide, September
“Beyond Figuration”, Merced Sun Star, March 27
“Multi Talented Artist Featured”, Photo by Doug Quick, Merced Sun-Star, March 20
“Electric Eclectic”, Photo by Andrew Ting. The Observer, March 24
“Universal Images”, Merced Times, March 23
Leah bar Nahum Sobol,“Perambulator”,The Taos News Tempo Magazine, March 26
“Peninsula Highlights: Egress 6.89 (Beyond the Gate of Heavenly Peace)”, WestArt, March
“Ideation 4”, Praxis:A Forum for Social Change, February/March
“For Mandela”, Lo Que Pasa, February 24
Holly Johnson,“It's a Bold, Fresh 'Gathering”, Sacramento Union, February 8
1991
Camille & Mary Castillo,“Willow Glen Artist”,Willow Glen Resident, January
“Deflated Mouse Seeks Mt. Everest”, Mandarin Oriental Magazine, Cover, January
Jane Mont,“Explosive Imagery”, Mandarin Oriental Magazine, January
Priscilla Hexter,“Ting on Exhibit”, Stanford University Campus Report, August 28
1990
Editor.“Completing the Circle at Southern Exposure Gallery,” San Jose Mercury News, Friday, October 21
Joanne Forman, “Perambulator”, Photo by Andrew Ting, The Taos News Tempo Magazine, October 3
Dorothy Burkhart, “Festival 2000: Critic's List of Bests”, San Jose Mercury Art & Books, September 30
Charlotte Moser, “Sampling Ethnic Diversity”, Artweek, November 1
1989
Dorothy Burkhart,“Minority Women”, San Jose Mercury News Art & Books, March 5
Stan Moreillon,“Artist Imitates Art”, Photo by Gary Parker, San Jose Mercury News, April 26
T. J. McNamara,“Where is the Message in Art?”,The New Zealand Herald, March 16
Helen Chang,“Give Peace a Chance”, The Singapore BusinessTimes
1987
“A Talent Worth Noting”,World Journal Chinese Daily of San Francisco, August 21
Salli McQuaid,“Room to Grow”, San Jose MetroGuide, October 8
Dorothy Burkhart, "Show Inaugurates Triton Building”, San Jose Mercury News, October 23,
Henry Woon, “Triton Museum”, East West News, October 15
1986
Dorothy Burkhart, “Pretty in Pastel – Magically Luminous Art”, San Jose Mercury News,April 4
1985
Judith Green, “Art Times Three”, San Jose Mercury News, May 28
1979
“Wind”, Peninsula Magazine, Back Cover, June
1970
Thomas Albright, “Central Paradox”, San Francisco Chronicle, October 7
SELECTED PUBLIC, CORPORATE AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Advance Micro Device, CA
A.G. & Associates, CA
American Telegraph and Telephone, CA
Apollo Corporation,AZ
CA Bankers Association, CA
Cheatham and Skovronski Law Offices, CA
Caroon and Black Insurance Inc., CA
Dianne and John Ryan
Annie Wong Art Foundation,
Hong Kong Fawn Powers and Roger Poyner
Good Samaritan Hospital, CA
Harwood Museum, NM
Joseph and Eva Zirker,
Kaiser Permanente Hospitals, CA
Lois and Richard Abraham
Megatest Inc., CA
Nordin Blacker Law Offices, CA
Norman Lariviere Law Offices, CA
Pacific Bell Inc., CA
Pillsbury, Madison & Sotro Inc., CA
Read-Rite Corporation, CA
Robert J. Pope & Associates, CA
Roger Poyner Law Offices, CA
SBC Communications, CA
Sperling Fine Arts, CA
Spieker Partners, CA
Stanford University Hospital, CA
Stevens Musica and Violin Shop, CA University of Phoenix,AZ
Xerox Corporation, CA
TEACHING
Taos Institute of Art
University of CA at Berkeley Extension San Jose Community College
CA State University at San Jose
San Jose Metropolitan Adult Education
LECTURES AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Art Talk with David Scott, Interview, Loka Art Space,Taos, NM, 2/14/2008
Biennial Southwest 06, Lecture,Albuquerque Museum of Art and History,Albuquerque, NM, 12/17/2006
Visual Arts and the Law, Panel, CLE International Conference,Taos, NM, 2003
Writing for the Arts, Lecture. University of Minnesota, Minnesota, 1995.
Women of Achievement, Lecture,Abraham Lincoln High School, San Jose, CA, 1995
Cultural Diversity, Lecture, San Jose Convention Cultural Services, CA, 1994
Connecting Communities, Panel. Spiderwomen Forum, College of Santa Fe, NM, 1992
Beyond Figuration, Lecture, Merced College, CA 1992
San Jose State University Art and Technology Exchange,Advisory Panel, 1988-89
Nine Passengers for San Jose,Artist Speaker, a film, 1988.
CA State University Distinguished Artists Forum, Delegate, 1986
An answer to a Question, Featured Work, KNTV Channel 11. 11 O'Clock News, 2/13/88
Fu Dog, Featured Work, KNTV Channel 11. 6 O'Clock and 11 O'Clock News, 10/15/87
Lois Hart A Woman's Place, Interview, KNTV, Channel 11 3/21/76