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Ming Ren Resume POSITIONS: 2017-present, Professor, Director of International MFA Program, China Academy of Art 2018-present, Professor for the Art PhD Program, Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts 2018-present, Guest Professor of Mural Painting Dept., Central Academy of Fine Arts 2013-present, Professor for Graduate Program, Consultant to the President of Foreign Affairs, Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, China 1988-2008 Professor of Winter Program , Rhode Island School of Design 2008-2013 Consultant to the President for China Affairs, California College of the Arts 2014-present, Guest Professor, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, China 1989-present, Professor of Art Dept., City College of San Francisco, Art Dept. 2006-present, Special Assistant to the President, San Francisco Art Institute AWARDS 奖励 2003 Gold Medal, Florence Biennial International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Italy COLLECTIONS AND PUBLICATIONS 收藏和出版 1997 Painting, “Warm Beijing” collected by Central Academy of Fine Arts, China 2010 Paintings, “Warm Wind from Shimalaya”, (2009A),(2009F) collected by The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco 2013 Painting, “No Title in Luxun”, collected by Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, China 2017 Paintings, “Mysterious World 2017-1”, “Mysterious World 2017-2”, collected by Shandong Art Museum, China 2017 Painting, “2017 My Mysterious World”, collected by China Academy of Art Museum, China 2010 Book “Happy Accident – The New Work of Ming Ren” 2007 Book “Poetry in Painting – The Work of Ming Ren” Both books have been collected by: The Library of Congress Harvard University Yale University Stanford University Rhode Island School of Design School of the Art Institute of Chicago California College of the Arts San Francisco Art Institute Minneapolis College of Art and Design San Francisco Asian Art Museum EDUCATION 1991 Master of Fine Arts ( San Francisco Art Institute) 1984 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Oil Painting Dept., China Academy of Art) EXHIBITIONS 2019 New York Citi Field Sichuan Institute of Art Museum 2018 San Francisco Asian Art Museum 2017 China Academy of Art Museum 2017 Shandong Art Museum 2016 International Art Center of San Francisco 2015 San Francisco Asian Art Museum Peninsula Museum of Art International Art Center of San Francisco 2014 798 SZ Art Center, Beijing Coos Museum of Art Luxun Academy of Fine Arts Museum 2013 Luxun Academy of Fine Art Museum University of Rhode Island,Art Gallery 2012 San Francisco Asian Art Museum De Young Museum University of San Francisco M50 Gallery of Art College of Shanghai University 2011 Huantie Time Art Museum, Beijing Sacramento Temporary Contemporary Gallery 2010Limn Gallery, San Francisco 2009 Limn Gallery, San Francisco Art & Consciousness Gallery, JFK University 2008 Limn Gallery, Los Angeles 2007 City Arts Gallery, San Francisco 2006 City Arts Gallery, San Francisco 2005 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Artists Gallery 2004 City College Library Gallery, San Francisco 2003 Florence Biennial International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Italy City Arts Gallery, San Francisco 2002 Wodds Gallery, RISD 2001 City Arts Gallery, San Francisco Hitachi Center, San Francisco 2000 Shanghai University Art College Gallery, 2000 City Arts Gallery, San Francisco 1999 City Arts Gallery, San Francisco 1998 Limn Gallery, San Francisco 1997 City Arts Gallery, San Francisco 1996 City Arts Gallery, San Francisco 1995 Nanhai Art center, Millbrae 1994 Eastwind Art Gallery, San Francisco 1993 Taibei Fine Art Museum, Taiwan 1991 Fort Mason Center, San Francisco 1990 Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco 1989 C.G.REIN Gallery, Edina, Minnesota 1988 San Bernadino County Museum, Los Angeles 1988 Edina Art center, Minnesota

Luxun Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, 2013

Solo show [Mysterious Ink World]

January 24, 2022September 25, 2024

Beijing Huantie Time Art Museum, 2011

Solo Show [Happy Accident – The Artwork of Ming Ren]

The Opening Reception on November 30, 2011

Hundreds of guests participated the Opening Reception. VIP guest included Dr. Roger Mandle, Former Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the National Gallery of Art, Dr. Tony Jones, Chancellor of the School of Art Institute of Chicago, Prof. Jin Shangyi, Chairmen of the National Artist Association of China, Prof. Pan Gongkai, President of the Central Avademy of Fine Arts, Prof. Xu Jiang, President of China Academy of Art, Prof. Wei Ershen, President of Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, Dr. Jeannene Przyblyski, Dean of San Francisco Art Institute, Dr. Toyomi Hoshina, Vice President of Tokyo University of Art, Prof. Steve Beal, President of California College of Art and Design, and etc.

January 24, 2022

Group Show [No Room For Form] 798 SZ Art Center, Beijing, China, 2014

No Room for Form

“Now what shall we call this new sort of gazing-house that has opened in our town where people sit quietly and pour out their glancing like light, like answering?” Jelaluddin Rumi, No Room for Form *

Seeking as we all do some sort of reassurance of the eternal, in the poem, No Room for Form, the 13^th century poet Rumi has drafted an elegantly complex but simple reminder of the ways we come to “know” the way to personal salvation. In similar ways, the four artists in this exhibition portray their own confidence in the eternal values of humanity through their work. Each painting by each artist expresses his search for the peace and beauty of resolution through risk. As different as each artist’s work is from the others in this exhibition, there is a familial materiality about the techniques that are used, and the abstract forms that portray their quest. The body of works by each artist represent their own “gazing house that opened in our town” as we encounter them “pouring out their glancing like light, like answering(.)” see more

Curator: Dr. Roger Mandle, (1914-2020), Former Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the National Gallery of Art