Mary Ting

Mary Ting is a visual artist working with over thirty years of creating and exhibiting her work. Solo exhibitions include: Witch, Whore, Widow at metaphor contemporary, Excerpts from the Dysfunctional Forest at Kentler International and Insomnia Stories at Lambent Foundation. Recent social practice projects include Daffodil Ashes on Grief and Art with the Rubin Museum of Art and Compassion: for the Animals Great & Small, on wildlife trafficking at the Chinese American Arts Council, 456 Gallery in NYC. Ting is a two-time New York Foundation for the Arts fellow, Lambent Foundation Fellow, Gottlieb Foundation recipient. She has been an artist in residence at the MacDowell Colony, Millay Colony, Lower Eastside Printshop, and Dieu Donne Papermill Workspace, in addition to an upcoming 2016 Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans and LMCC In Process residency. From 1995 to 1998 she worked at UNICEF- Beijing organizing twelve photography exhibitions on China’s social problems and conducted field research in the region of the Yellow River Plateau.

Mary Ting teaches at John Jay College in the studio art department and the Sustainability and Environmental Justice program. Mary has a BFA from Parsons School of Design, NYC, an advanced degree in folk art research from the Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, and a MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Art. She is also an avid gardener and writer.