丁乙 1962 年生于上海，现工作、生活于上海。1983 年毕业于上海工艺美术学校，1990 年毕业于上海大学美术学院。丁乙的创作领域包括绘画、雕塑、空间装置和建筑。“十”字以及变体的“X”是他主要的视觉符号，用以超越和对抗当时中国典型的政治、社会寓言绘画。从 80 年代后期开始，他将这一标志作为结构和理性的代表，以及反映事物本质的图像表现的代名词。

与构图单元的简洁相比，丁乙所使用的材料和颜色变化极度丰富，从几乎是单色调的绘画到明亮的荧光色画。对他来说，作品不仅是过度、噪音、混乱和困惑在画布上的表现，也与他生活的城市上海所具有的刺激与特征息息相关。

丁乙的作品在全球不同机构和画廊广泛展出，重要群展包括“CHINA 8”（杜伊斯堡、杜塞尔多夫等地，2015）；“戴汉志：5000 个名字” （尤伦斯当代艺术中心，北京；Witte de With 当代艺术中心，鹿特丹，2014）；“向东方，中国建筑景观”（MAXXI 博物馆，罗马，2011）；“上海”（旧金山亚洲艺术博物馆，旧金山， 2010）；“’85 新潮：中国第一次当代艺术运动”（尤伦斯当代艺术中心，北京，2007）；“麻将：希克的中国当代艺术收藏展”（伯尔尼、汉堡、巴塞罗那等地，2005－2009）；“生活在此时，29 位中国当代艺术家作品展”（汉堡火车站当代美术馆，柏林，2001）等。丁乙还曾参加第 45 届威尼斯双年展（1993）、第 1 届亚太三年展（1993）、第 11 届悉尼双年展（1998）、第 1 届横滨三年展（2001）、第 6 届上海双年展（2006）、第 7 届深圳雕塑双年展（2012）。

近期的个展包括龙美术馆西岸馆（上海，2015）、Karsten Greve 画廊（巴黎，2014），民生现代美术馆（上海，2011），博洛尼亚当代美术馆（博洛尼亚，2008），Ikon 美术馆（伯明翰，2005）等。

DING YI

Ding Yi (b. 1962) was born and currently resides in Shanghai. He graduated from Shanghai Arts & Crafts Institute in 1983 and graduated from Shanghai University with B.F.A. in 1990. The practice of Ding Yi encompasses painting, sculpture, spatial installation and architecture. He works primarily with “+” and its variant “x” as formal visual signals, above and against the political and social allegories typical of painting in China. He chose this sign in the second half of the 80s as a synonym of structure, rationality and of a pictorial expressiveness that reflects the essence of things.

The simplicity of compositional structure contrasts with the use of a wide variety of materials and of colors that range from almost monochrome tones to the very bright and fluorescent. For the artist these are a record on canvas of the excesses, noise, chaos and confusion but also the stimuli and styles of the city of Shanghai, with which his work is inextricably bound up.

Ding Yi has exhibited extensively at various institutions and galleries, among many others, “China 8, Contemporary Art from China at the Rhine and Ruhr”, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, 2015); “Hans van Dijk: 5000 Names” (Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing; Witte de With Center, Rotterdam, 2014); “Verso Est, Chinese Architectural Landscape” (Museo Nazionale Delle Arti Del XXI Secolo MAXXI, Rome, 2011); “Shanghai” (Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, 2010); “’85 New Wave, The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art” (Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2007); “Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection” (Bern, Hamburger, Barcelona, etc. 2005-2009); “Living in Time, 29 Contemporary Artists from China” (Hamburger Bahkhof Museum Für Gegenwart, Berlin, 2001).

He has recent solo exhibitions at Long Museum (West Bund) (Shanghai, 2015), Galerie Karsten Greve (Paris, 2014), Minsheng Art Museum(Shanghai, 2011), Museo d’Arte Modena di Bologna (Bologna, 2008), Ikon Gallery (Birmingham, 2005).