Chen Ting, Mimi

BIOGRAPHY
1946 Born in Shanghai, China

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
2022 Passed away in California, USA

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

• This Side of Blue: The Art of Mimi Chen Ting (curated by Holly Shen), University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA, USA
• Mimi Chen Ting: The Sea Within Me, Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, CA, USA

• Mimi Chen Ting: Our First Tango, Norte Maar, Brooklyn, NY, USA

• Mimi Chen Ting, Vedder Price, San Francisco, CA, USA

• Mimi Chen Ting: Willing to Fly, Jen Tough Gallery, Vallejo, CA, USA

• Strands: Paintings by Mimi Chen Ting, Art Beatus, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Mimi Chen Ting: On the Move, Hulse Warman Gallery, Taos, NM, USA

• Mimi Chen Ting: In the Groove, Encore Gallery, Taos Center for the Arts, Taos, NM, USA

• Off the Wall, The Historical Taos Inn, Taos, NM, USA

• Between Space n’ Time, Harwood Museum of Art, Curator’s Wall,Taos, NM , USA

• Twists and Turns: Paintings by Mimi Chen Ting, Art Beatus, Hong Kong (brochure)

• Tangles and Ties: Painting by Mimi Chen Ting, Art Beatus, Hong Kong (reviewed in Asian Arts News)
• Mimi Chen Ting: Confetti, Loka Art Space, Taos, NM, USA

• D’Adamo/Woltz Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA

• Three Paintings, The Harwood Museum of Art,Taos, NM, USA
• Mimi Chen Ting: Time Tracks, Thomson Hall Gallery, Sausalito, CA, USA
• Mimi Chen Ting, Belvedere-Tiburon Public Library, Tiburon, CA , USA

• Quantum Corporation Galleries, Milpitas, CA, USA

• Maude Kerne Art Center, Eugene, Oregon, USA

• Art for the Wall, Los Gatos Fine Arts Commission, Los Gatos, CA, USA

• New Works, d.p. Fong Galleries, San Jose, CA, USA

• New Works, Taos Fine Art Gallery, Taos, NM, USA

• New Works, Twin Cranes Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA
• Paintings and Prints, Oakland Museum Collectors Gallery, Oakland, CA, USA
• Of Fact and Fiction, The University of Arizona Rotunda Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, USA
• Beyond Figuration, Merced College Art Gallery, Merced, CA, USA

• Monotypes and Paintings, Stanford University Center for Integrated Studies, Palo Alto, CA, USA
• Recent Works, Santa Clara County Arts Council, San Jose, CA, USA

• Just Pictures, Rosicrucian Museum Contemporary Gallery, San Jose, CA, USA

• Paper Works, Mission College Gallery, Santa Clara, CA, USA   
• Monotypes, Allegra Gallery, San Jose, CA, USA

• Works on Paper, Asian Resource Gallery, Oakland, CA, USA

• Monotypes, Oakland Museum Collectors Gallery, Oakland, CA, USA

• Mimi Chen Ting: Jujube waves and Related Matters, CA State University Gallery, San Jose, CA, USA

• Mimi Chen Ting, Lucien Labaudt Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• Dallas Art Fair, Alisan Fine Arts, Dallas, USA
• Painting as Method, Alisan Fine Arts, New York, USA

• A Survey Exhibition: Louis Stern Fine Arts Through the Decades, Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA, USA
• Transcendental and Beyond: The Essence of Art Addison Rowe Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA

• Eleven: Chimayo Trading Del Norte, Taos, NM, USA

• 5th Annual NM Painters’ Exhibition, Kennedy Hall, NM Highlands University, Las Vegas; exhibition traveled to Santa Fe County Administration Building, Santa Fe, NM, USA
• Town of Taos Lamppost Banner Project, Taos, NM, USA
• Women Make Art, Studio 107B Gallery, Taos, NM, USA
• Sweep: Contemporary Painting Survey, Joseph Nease Gallery, Duluth, MI, USA
• Work by Women: Postwar Dialogues, Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM, USA

• Continuum: Landscape, Light and Space: Works from the Permanent Collection, Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM, USA

• Non Objective Taos, 203 Fine Arts Gallery, Taos, NM, USA

• Gallery Printmakers, Hulse Warman Gallery, Taos, NM, USA
• Pressing Through Time, Taos Center for the Arts, Taos, NM, USA
• Studio Visit Juried Exhibition in Print, sponsored by New American Paintings, USA

• Taos Contemporary, Invitational, Metropolitan State College of Denver Center of Visual Art, Denver, CO, USA
• Distinguished Achievement Awards, Fall Arts, Taos, NM, USA
• Enter the Dragon: A two-person exhibition, Eliza Contemporary Art, Riverdale, NY, USA

• Orange, Eliza Contemporary Art, Riverdale, NY, USA
• 18 Days: National Museum of Women in the Arts, Center of Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM, USA
• Mostly Taos, Hulse Warman Gallery, Taos, NM, USA

• In Bloom, Eliza Contemporary Art, Riverdale, NY, USA

• Exploring Multiple Dimensions, (juried by Gerry Riggs and Nancy Azara), Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, Albuquerque, NM, USA

• Biennial Southwest 06, (juried by Neal Benezra, Director SFMOMA, curated by Douglas Fairbank), Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, Albuquerque, NM, USA
• Making Connections, (curated by Beth Goldberg), Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA, USA

• Handprints, New Mexico Print Society, University of New Mexico, Los Alamos, NM, USA
• Face to Face, Corrales Bosque Gallery, Corrales, NM, USA
• A Multiplicity of Visions, (juried by Kathy Zimmerer-McKelvie), California State University, Dominguez Hill University Gallery, CA, USA
• La Madre Poderosa: an invitational exhibition of constructed altars, (curated by Olga Torres-Reid), Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM, USA

• Miniatures, Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, NM, USA
• Rocky Mountain Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art. Juried, Fort Collins, CO, USA

• Miniatures, the Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA, USA
• Fire in the Heart: The Creative Spirit, Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR, USA
• Art of the Book in the Southwest, (curated by Ebby Malmgren), the Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, NM, USA

• Landscape and Memory, Sedona Art Center Gallery, Sedona, AZ, USA
• Transformations, dA Center for the Arts, Pomona, CA, USA

• Shadow and Light, South of Broadway Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM, USA
• University of Colorado Contemporary Art Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO, USA

• The Birth of Wisdom, Chapelle Des Penitents Blanc, Gordes, France, USA
• The Birth of Wisdom, St. John’s College, Santa Fe, NM, USA
• Monotypes, College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, USA

• University of Phoenix, (curated by Virgina Spirling), Phoenix, AZ, USA

• Modernists, Stables Art Gallery, Taos, NM, USA
• Impressionism to Abstraction, Dearing Galleries, Taos, NM, USA

• Moore Art II, (curated by Reid Winfrey and Robin Smith), Villa Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, CA, USA

• Layered Perspective, (juried by Rebecca Johnson), Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, AR, USA
• Women and the Body, (curated by Kiki Smith), Works Gallery, San Jose, CA, USA
• Fuller Lodge Art Center, (curated by Patricia Chavez), Los Alamos, NM, USA
• Gathering Medicine, Art In General, New York, NY, USA
• The Exhibitioner: 1st Juried Exhibition, (curated by Robyn Bellospirito), Sea Clif Gallery, Sea Cliff, NY, USA
• Ancestors Known & Unknown, Roswell Museum, Roswell, NM; Hearst Center for the Arts, Cedar Falls, IA; Georgia State University Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA

• Power and Grace, St. Supery Winery, Rutherford, CA, USA
• Layering, (juried by John Cacciatore), Dartmouth Street Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, USA
• Syntex Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
• Box Project, Salina Art Center, Salina, Kansas; Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
• Delaware State College Gallery, Dover, DE; Bruce R. Watkins Center, Kansas City, MO, USA
• Completing the Circle: Six Artists, Bernice Bing, Hilda Chen, Steven J. Pon, Hilda Shum, and Mimi Chen Ting, (curated by George Rivera), Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA, USA

• Collection 54, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, USA
• Box Project: Ancestors, Women & Their Work, Austin, TX, USA
• Images, Visions, & Voices, Seipp Gallery, Palo Alto, CA, USA
• Internal Visions, (curated by Rosa Markoff), San Jose Art League, San Jose, CA, USA
• Gathering, (curated by Mike Xepoleos), Lite Rail Gallery, Sacramento, CA, USA
• Different Voices, (curated by Teresa Espana), University of California, Santa Barbara Women’s Center, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
• A Woman’s Vision, San Francisco Women Artists/South of the Market Art Galleries, San Francisco, CAKevin Pettelle and Mimi Chen Ting, Twin
• Cranes Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA

• Voyage into Abstraction, (curated by Betsy Miller), Chaminade Center, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
• Spirits of East and West, Berkeley Store Gallery, Berkeley, CA, USA
• Art First, (curated by Ruth Branstein), De Novo Gallery, Palo Alto, CA, USA
• Border to Border: a national drawing exhibition, (juried by Anselmo Carini) Austin Peay State University Trahern Gallery, Clarksville, TN, USA (brochure)
• Positive/Negative VII, (juried by MK Wegmann) East Tennessee State University Slocumb Galleries, Johnson City, TN, USA (brochure)
• Group Show: Drawings, Photographs, Prints, Women’s Caucus for Art, South Bay Area Chapter, Ohlone College Art Gallery, Fremont, CA, USA
• Drawing from Life, Juniper Gallery, Napa, CA, USA

• Drawings, (curated by Judy Kendall), The Fenix Gallery, Taos, NM, USA
• 6 Artist Completing the Circle: Bernice Bing, Hilda Chen, Steven J. Pon, Hilda Shum, Michael Tang, Mimi Chen Ting, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
• Complex Lives: Multiple Visions, Villa Montalvo Center for the Arts, Los Gatos, CA, USA
• Box Project, Art in General, New York, NY; Kean University, Union, NJ; Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, USA
• Barnes-Blackman Gallery & Firehouse Gallery, Houston, TX; Wooster College Museum, Wooster, OH, USA
• Womankind, (curated by Sylvia Rios), Gavilan College Gallery, Gilroy, CA, USA
• Works on paper: Gale Antokal, Rick Dula, Steven Gordon, Joe McDonald, Bonnie Meyer and Mimi Chen Ting, Simon James Gallery, Berkeley, CA, USA

• ART/LA 89, Simon James Gallery/Magnolia Editions, Los Angeles, CA, USA
• 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, California, USA

• Jamie Abbot, Monika Gerber, Mimi Ting, Allegra Gallery, San Jose, CA, USA
• A World Without War, (curated by Helen McKinley), 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, (curated by Glen Rogers), San Jose Art League, San Jose, CA, USA
• Small Print Exhibition, (curated by Glen Rogers), Citadel Print Center, San Jose, CA, USA

• Contemporary Voices, (curated by George Rivera), Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA, USA
• 75th Anniversary Exhibition, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, USA

• The Purest Pigment – Pastel: Jim Dine, Yvonne Jaquette, Michael Mazur, Nathan Oliveira, Wayne Theibaud, Mimi Ting and others, (curated by Signey Mayfield), The Art Corridor, Menlo Park, CA, USA
• Pastels and Watercolor, San Francisco Women Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA

• Monotypes A to Z, (curated by Joseph Zirker), San Jose City College Gallery, San Jose, CA, USA
• The Oback Influence: A Tribute, (curated by John Divicenzi), San Jose State University, CA, USA

• Masques Invitational, (curated by Susan Kirkpatrick), San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA, USA

• Experimental Lithography, (curated by Lois Stuart), San Jose State University Art Gallery, San Jose, CA, USA
• Handmade Papers, (curated by Joseph Zirker), Performance Gallery, Palo Alto, CA, USA

• Six Senses: Loie Johnson, Salli Robertson, Susan Kirkpatrick, Judy Lacy, Diana Marto and Mimi Chen Ting (curated by Jessica Jacobs), Sun Gallery, USA
• Third World Artists, De Anza College, Helen Euphrat Gallery, Cupertino, CA, USA

• Six Senses, Sunnyvale Creative Arts Center, Sunnyvale, CA, USA

• KQED Select Exhibit, Crown Zellerbach Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA

• California State Fair Fine Art Exhibit, Sacramento, CA, USA

• Hancock Gallery, (curated by Eric Oback), Santa Barbara, CA, USA

SELECTED AWARDS AND HONOURS
2012 Agnes Martin Award for Abstract Painting and Drawing Distinguished Achievement

2003 National Endowment of the Art Grant

SELECTED PUBLIC, CORPORATE AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Advance Micro Device, CA, USA

A.G. & Associates, CA, USA

American Telegraph and Telephone, CA, USA                                  

Apollo Corporation, AZ, USA

CA Bankers Association, CA, USA

Cheatham and Skovronski Law Offices, CA, USA                    

Caroon and Black Insurance Inc., CA, USA 

Dianne and John Ryan, USA

Annie Wong Art Foundation, USA                                                                                  

Hong Kong Fawn Powers and Roger Poyner, USA

Good Samaritan Hospital, CA, USA

Harwood Museum, NM, USA

Joseph and Eva Zirker, USA

Kaiser Permanente Hospitals, CA, USA

Lois and Richard Abraham, USA

Megatest Inc., CA, USA

Nordin Blacker Law Offices, CA, USA

Norman Lariviere Law Offices, CA, USA

Pacific Bell Inc., CA, USA

Pillsbury, Madison & Sotro Inc., CA, USA                              

Read-Rite Corporation, CA, USA

Robert J. Pope & Associates, CA, USA

Roger Poyner Law Offices, CA, USA

SBC Communications, CA, USA

Sperling Fine Arts, CA, USA

Spieker Partners, CA, USA

Stanford University Hospital, CA, USA

Stevens Musica and Violin Shop, CA University of Phoenix, AZ, USA

Xerox Corporation, CA, USA