Self-taught artist Walasse Ting was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu, China, but raised in Shanghai, where he briefly attended the Shanghai Art Academy. He moved to Paris in 1952 where he became acquainted with members of the avant-garde group CoBrA, including artists such as Karel Appel, Asger Jorn, and Pierre Alechinsky. Influenced by the modernist Western movements he encountered in Paris as well as traditional Chinese ink painting, Walasse Ting developed his unique, colorful style in Paris before moving to New York in 1958. The artist was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship Award for Drawing in 1970, along with numerous exhibitions and collections in museums world-wide. After suffering a stroke in 2002, Walasse Ting spent the remainder of his life in the Netherlands until his death in 2010. Selected Public Collections: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Silkeborg Museum, Silkebor, Denmark Tate Gallery, London, UK Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA Musee Cernuschi, Paris, France Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China Selected Solo Exhibitions: Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, USA, 1960 Galerie de France, Paris, France, 1968 Galerie Birch, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1970 Galerie Lefebre, New York, USA, 1973 National Gallery of Art, Reykjavik, Iceland, 1982 Galerie Alcolea, Baecelona, Spain,1988 Galleria 2RC, Milan, Italy, 1990 Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong, 1994 Galery Delaive, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1996 Scheringa Museum voor Realisme, Spanbroek, Netherlands, 2000 “Spring Drink, Flower Giggling” Shanghai Yibo Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2002 “Amazing Feelings” New Millenium Gallery, Beijing, China, 2010 “From Heroic Expression to Resplendent Color” Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, 2010 “The Floral Journey-The Artistic Memoir of Walasse Ting” Soka Art Center, Beijing, China, 2011