Dai Ying is a highly creative multi-media artist who is well established in China. She has moved to New York to develop her reputation in the West. Modern Fine Art is proud to have exclusive representation in the USA. While Ying’s body of work spans a diverse array of media, including painting, installations, performance and video art, Modern Fine Art will concentrate on promoting her beautiful and thought-provoking paintings.
From the age of five, she received systematic training in traditional Chinese calligraphy and ink painting, gradually developing a unique artistic language that integrates Eastern spirituality with contemporary expression. She studied the fine arts at the Academy of Arts & Design at Tsinghua University and the Central Academy of Fine Arts in China, where she engaged in Associate Fellow programs.
Ying works primarily with Chinese Rice paper and oil painting as her core medium. Her works on Rice paper and silk demonstrate her exceptional mastery over materials, skillfully integrating Eastern materials such as raw Rice paper, silk, and ink with Western vocabularies like acrylics, mineral pigments applied in more than twenty layers of accumulated dyeing and painting, and multimedia installations. This results in complex, layered visual structures. She adeptly harnesses the element of chance during the seepage of pigments, navigating the space between control and unpredictability to capture the dynamic fluctuations of subconscious emotions.
Her work has been showcased in prominent institutions including the Today Art Museum in Beijing, the Cui Zhenkuan Art Museum in Xi’an, the YOUNG Art Museum in Shanghai, the Chaokuang Art Museum in Xiamen, and the Pasadena Convention Center in Los Angeles. She has also participated in major art fairs such as Untitled art fair in Miami and New York Art Expo and is scheduled for a solo presentation with Modern Fine Art at Art Palm Beach in 2026.