Visual Artist
B. 1991 Fuzhou, Fujian, China
Now Live in the Greater Hartford, Connecticut
EDUCATION
2019 BFA, Painting and Sculpture, with Honors, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT
2016 Associate of Art, Visual Fine Art, Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
TEACHING AND ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2022 Lead Artist / Host, TAAS Student Life Host for Fall Session, The Alternative Art School, Online.
2020-2018 Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Sculpture Course, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT
Artist Assistant for Billie Lee, West Hartford, CT
2019 Artist Assistant for Karen Tam, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT
Gallery Assistant, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT
Artist Assistant for Morgan Puett, Narrowsburg, NY
Visiting Artist, Mildred’s Lane, Beach Lake, PA
2018 Art Teacher, Painting and Sculpture Private Lesson, Waterbury, CT
Artist Assistant for Elliott Katz, Hartford, CT
Teaching Assistant, Hartford Art school, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT
SELECTED CURATED EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM/ COMMUNITY PROJECT
2021 Artist, Brilliant Boba Project, Two Months Artist Design and Creation for Class Art Material for CT High and Middle Schools’
Teachers in Respond to the Stop AAPI Hate Movement, Yale-China Association, New Haven, CT
SELECTED SELF-INITIATED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2022 Participant, Intro to Anticapitalism for Artists Cohorts, Ten-Week Course, Anticapitalism for Artists, Online.
Participant, Ancestral Memory Enclaves, Workshop with Jeffrey Yoo Warren for Building 3D Immersive Virtual Space on
Mozilla Hubs, CultureHub, New York, NY
Participant, “Designing with Alganyl: A Hands-on Exploration of Biodegradable Plastic”,
Workshop Hosted by Tei’22 Conference, University of Colorado Boulder, Online.
2022- 2020 Accepted Student/Artist, The Alternative Art School, Online Art School Program, Semester Courses with Mentor Nato
Thompson, Janine Antoni, Hito
Steyerl, Cassils, Yael Bartana, Mia Yu, Mel Chin, Zoe Butt, and Rirkrit Tiravanija, Online.
2021 Participant, "Artist Communications”, One Month Online Pilot Run Workshop, Creative Capital and Arizona State University,
New York, NY
Participant, “Microcosmos BIPOC Audio/Video Storytelling Workshop”, Two Weeks Online Workshop with Jeffrey Yoo
Warren, New York, NY
Exhibition Website Designer, The Earth is Blue Online Exhibition Website Design Team, The Alternative Art School, Online
Selected Artist, “Building a Grant”, One Hour One-on-One Grant-Writing Coaching with Yara Liceaga-Rojas, Mass Moca
A4A Workshop, Massachusetts, MA
2021- 2020 Design Fellow, Makerspace CT’s Digital Innovative Badge Program, Workshop by Loren Brandenburg for Additive
Manufacturing (3D Printing and FDM), Sixty-five Hours/ Four Months Long, Makerspace, Hartford, CT
2021- 2020 Organizer and Participant, “Art Family Gathering”, Winter Long Zoom Meet Up to Connect Artists During Covid-19, Every
Another Week of Saturday night, Organized with Collective Artists Ally Bueche and Michaela Navin Ranniello, Online on
Zoom.
SELECTED ACADEMIC VISITING ARTIST APPOINTMENTS
2020 Visiting Artist, University of Hartford, Hartford Art School, West Hartford, CT
2019 Visiting Artist, Mildred’s Lane, Beach Lake, PA
GRANTS, AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND RESIDENCIES
2022 2022 Real Art Award, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
2021 - 2020 Project Innovation Grant, MakerspaceCT, Hartford, CT
MakerspaceCT Innovation Cohort Scholarship Grant, Makerspace, Hartford, CT
2021 American Makes & Makerspace CT Industry Training in Mental 3D Printing Scholarship, Makerspace, Hartford, CT
2021 - 2020 Project Innovation Grant, Makerspace, Hartford, CT
Makerspace Innovation Cohort Scholarship Grant, Makerspace, Hartford, CT
2020 2020 Signs of Time 1st Prize Signs Design, Elicit Brewing Company Interior Mural, One of Painters from Artfx Signs
Company, Manchester, CT
2020 -2019 FVAC Artist in Residence Program, Farmington Valley Arts Center, Avon, CT
2019 The Mildred Complexity Fellow, Mildred’s Lane, Beach Lake, PA
2019-2016 Artistic Merit Scholarship, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT
2018 Wolfgang Behl Prize in Sculpture, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT
Fall Semester 2017 President’s Honors List, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT
2017 Alexander A. Goldfarb Purchase Prize Award, Alexander A. Goldfarb Juried Student Exhibition, Hartford Art School,
The University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT.
2016 Hans Weiss Award, Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT
2015 Sanford Prismacolor Award, Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT
EXHIBITIONS
Solo / Two-Person Shows
2022 - 2023 Real Art Awards Solo Show, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT (Anticipated)
2020 Relics / Remants, Trae Brook and Ying Ye, Farmington Valley Arts Center Artist in Residence 2020, Farmington Valley Arts
Center, Avon, CT
Group Shows
2022 Yale-China Association’s Brilliant Boba Project, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
2021 All Road, Five Point Annex, Torrington, CT.
The Earth is Blue, The Alternative Art School, Global Online Exhibition, Online.
Cross - Atlantic Quarantine Sessions, Collaborate with Musician Elinor Speirs, Cuatro Puntos, Online, Hartford, CT
2020 Safe Spaces, Free Center, Middletown, CT
Small Works Juried Exhibition, Five Point Center for Visual Arts, Torrington, CT
Shoe Stories, Farmington Valley Arts Center, Avon, CT
2019 Then, What IF, Five Point Gallery, Torrington, CT
Today Is A Work Day, 2019 Senior Sculpture Exhibition, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT
Alexander A. Goldfarb Juried Student Exhibition, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT
Arts on Campus, Hartford Art School Admission and Harrison Library, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT
2018 Silverfarb Exhibition, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT
Alexander A. Goldfarb Juried Student Exhibition, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT
Local Art, K. Simon Center for the Art, Broad Brook, CT
Collective Ground, 2018 Senior Painting Exhibition, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT
2017 Alexander A. Goldfarb Juried Student Exhibition, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT
CONFERENCES
2019 Undergraduate Research and Creativity Colloquium, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT
2018 Northeast Regional Honors Council Art Show, Providence, RI
CTW Undergraduate Symposium in the Art & Humanities, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
RESEARCH PROJECTS
2021 “Restaurant System” is a project about the Chinese American restaurant system and structure and restaurant system
failures on supply chain issues and social capital during Covid-19, and provides adaptive solutions to restaurant owners
and workers and the USA government.
PUBLICATIONS
Selected Contribution to Online Publications
“Coming Home: A Hartford Collage”, Cuatro Puntos, Great Hartford Art Council and Autorino Center for Arts, Cuatro Puntos Youtube Channel, February 2021. https://youtu.be/K_o2CbnVQQs
“Pot & Pickles: Ying Ye at the Intersection of Food, Identity, and Culture,” Interview Writing by Dan Deutsch, Great Hartford Art Council, March 2020. https://letsgoarts.org/blog/pots-pickles-ying-ye-at-the-intersection-of-food-identity-and-culture
“1st Prize Signs Design, Elicit Brewing Company Interior Mural,” Artfx Sign, Michael Ulrich, and Ying Ye, Signs of the Times Magazine, September 2020.
SELECTED CONTRIBUTION TO RADIOS AND VIDEOS
Ever Widening Circles, “Episode 25: Carrying Your Childhood with You with Ying Ye”, Collaboration with Ash Kilmartin, Online Radio, Rotterdam, 2021.