Hui-Chu Ying (1956-)
The Prayer Series (click for more info)
The Rogers Series (click for more info)
About the artist
Hui-Chu Ying has been an Ohio resident since coming to the University of Akron, where she is a professor in the Myers School of Art. She earned a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree at Shih Chien College in Taipei (Taiwan, Republic of China) and then came to the U.S. to earn a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) at San Jose State and a Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) at Texas A & M. As an academic and artist, in addition to exhibiting her work in solo and group shows, she has given workshops and presentations around the world and has written about art as well as having her art written about. She takes her students to study and make art around the U.S. as well as abroad, and has herself engaged in artist residencies, such as at the Frans Masereel Centrum in Kasterlee, Belgium and the Fundation Valparaiso in Almeria, Spain. She has held a number of fellowships and has also been active as a grant-writer to support both her students and her own art-making.
Where you can see more of this artist’s work:
Ying exhibits widely in solo and group exhibitions in the U.S., Europe, Australia, and in Korea and China.In Northeast Ohio, her prints are displayed in the offices of GOJO Industries (Akron), and in the Akron Children’s Hospital and the Akron Art Museum, as well as in University Hospitals and the Cleveland Clinic up in Cleveland.She is represented by galleries in Cleveland and Akron.