YANQING IS AN ARTIST CURRENTLY RESIDING IN new york

Language is written into our bodies. I fill them with colour, light, and pathos as an expression of life’s complexity. Their disembodied nature in my paintings are a reflection of my own sense of separation from the self in an alienating world. 

Likewise, the pastel abstracts begin as frottage and are my non-verbal conversations with space and place. They beckon the viewer to lose themselves in their flickering colour-scapes and their memory of touch. In them, the body is absent but implied. They sit outside of myself whilst reflecting back at me, a core of what it is to be – in a singular moment – to exist. 

Yanqing’s work has been shown in both Singapore and New York. She was recently part of ‘Eye-to-Eye’, a group show at the New York Academy of Art that was a joint curation between Jonathan Travis and NYAA studentsYanqing is currently pursuing her MFA at the New York Academy of Art.

EDUCATION

2021 – 2023

New York Academy of Art, Masters of Fine Art (Painting)

2018 – 2020

Mentorship with Rebecca Leveille

2018

Mentorship with Scott M. Fischer

2008 – 2009

LASALLE College of the Arts, Bachelor of Arts with 2nd Class Honours (1st Division)

2006 – 2008

Art Center College of Design, Illustration / Fine Art

Shows

2023

“Eye-to-Eye” New York Academy of Art, New York (Group)
“The Present” The Living Gallery, New York (Group)

2022

“The Patriot” O’Flaherty’s, New York (Group) (Group)
“Truth of Dare” The Living Gallery, New York (Group)
“Hireath” New York Academy of Art, New York (Group)
“Carpe Diem” Dacia Gallery, New York (Group)

2021

“Inside/Out” New York Academy of Art, New York (Group)

2019

“The Figure in Art” 33 Contemporary, Artsy (Group)
“The Vault” 33 Contemporary, Artsy (Group)
“Painting the Figure Now 2019” Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin (Group)
“Lethbridge 20000” Lethbridge Gallery, Australia (Group)
“Birthday Suit” 
Site:Brooklyn Gallery, New York (Group)
“Adorn Me”  Online Exclusive, PoetsArtists (Group)
“Art on Paper”  Site:Brooklyn Gallery, New York (Group)

2010

“Flight”  White Canvas Gallery (Group)
“Draw Me”  My Art Space (Solo)

publications / Awards

2022

MFA Academy Scholar Award 2022-2023
Rick & Monica Segal Scholarship 2022-2023

2021

MFA Academy Scholar Award 2021-2022
“Yanqing Low’s Fluid Figures Are the Collisions of Human Relationships” Art Republik, Luxuo, Written by Ryan Mario.

2019

Finalist in Lethbridge 20000
“‘Painting The Figure Now’: Poetsartists’ Newest Exhibition” Beautiful Bizarre
“Figurative Art Today” American Art Collector, Issue #169, July 2019
“@yqin.art #expressionistic #gestural #sensual” Hashtagartmag, Written by Didi Menendez
“Adorn Me”  PoetsArtists, Foreward and curated by Carol Hodes