DING YI 丁乙 Publications

Available Publications

	Ding Yi The-Winding Path 2025 342 Pages
	Ding Yi: Homeland and Journey 2023 342 Pages
	Multi-Verse: Ding Yi in Tibet 2022 248 Pages
	Ding Yi: Flowing Infinity 2022 242 Pages
	Ding Yi The Cross Style 2020 380 Pages
	Ding Yi 2020 144 Pages
	Ding Yi: 十×30 Years 2018 324 Pages
	Ding Yi Appearance of Crosses: A Chronicle 2017 160 Pages
	Re-appearance of Crosses: Ding Yi 2016 160 Pages
	Ding Yi: What's Left to Appear 2015 159 Pages
	2013 Art Changsha Ding Yi 2013 177 Pages
	Ding Yi 2011 240 Pages
	Ding Yi 2006 58 Pages

Monography

2025

Ding Yi: The Winding Path - Conversations *

Ding Yi: The Winding Path *

/Cui Cancan

Shanghai People's Art Publishing House

2023

Ding Yi: Homeland and Journey *

/Cui Cancan

Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House

Ding Yi: Cross Galaxy *

/Yongwoo Lee

2022

Ding Yi: Flowing Infinity *

/Zhang Zikang/Sun Tianyi/Feng Jingfan

Zhejiang People's Fine Arts Publishing House

Multi-Verse: Ding Yi in Tibet *

/Sheng Liyu

Chinese Tibetology Publishing House

2020

Ding Yi: The Cross-Style *

/Carol Yinghua Lu

Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House

Ding Yi *

Tony Godfrey, Kaimei Wang /Barry Schwabsky

Lund Humphries

2019

The Challenge of Infinite—Yves Klein, Lee Ufan, Ding Yi *

/Power Station of Art

Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House

2018

Ding Yi: 十×30 Years *

/Feng Boyi

Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House

2017

Ding Yi Appearance of Crosses: A Chronicle *

/Feng Jingfan/Wang Xiaotong

Xi'an Art Museum

Ding Yi *

/Matt Price

Timothy Taylor

2016

Re-appearance of Crosses: Ding Yi *

Heibei Fine Arts Publishing House

2015

Ding Yi: What‘s left to appear *

Shanghai Calligraphy & Painting Publishing House

2011

Ding Yi *

Minsheng art museum

2010

Ding Yi Fluor Escence *

/Lin Weiguang/Yao Di

People Publishing House, Shanghai

2009

Ding Yi *

Skira Editore S.p.A/MAMbo

2008

Ding Yi *

/Galerie Karsten Greve

Galerie Karsten Greve, K？ln

2007

Contemporary Artists Series: Ding Yi *

/Lu Peng

Sichuan Fine Art Publishing House

2006

Ding Yi *

/Joanthan Watkins

Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

1997

Ding Yi *

Monica DEMATTE

ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai

1995

Ding Yi: opere su carta *

Edizioni Salarchi Immagini

1994

Ding Yi *

LI Xu

Shanghai Art Museum

Other Publications

2024

Friends in the Arts: Chinese Collectors' New Contemporaries

Tank Shanghai

Twenty Years of Iteration - Shanghai Duolun Museum of Mordern Art

/Zeng Yulan / Gu Jiajun

Shanghai Duolun Museum of Mordern Art

The History of Contemporary Art In ShangHai

Zhu Qi

ShangHai Art Publishing House

2023

Cross-border and Production: Pingshan Art Museum Yearbook 2021

/Liu Xiaodu/Zhong Gang

Pingshan Art Museum

Contemporary Chinese Art History 1978-1999/2000-2019

Lu Hong /Wu Wei/Xia Qingqi

Shanghai Calligraphy and Painting Publishing House

Start Inaugural Exhibition Season One

/He Juxing

Star Museum

Street of Eternal Happiness

/Zhao Jianying

Ying Space

A Leisurely Stroll-The Tenth Anniversary of The Long Mueseum

/Wang Wei

Long Museum

A Journey of Metaphysic - Contemporary Art from China & Germany

Diyuan Art Gallery /He Zhenglian, Li Yasi, Yu Yu, Yin Zhe

Kunstraum Villa Friede, Bonn, Germany

2022

Multiple Sights - The Tenth Anniversary of The Long Museum

/Wang Wei

Long Museum

HEM Inspiration Text Catalogue of 2021 Academic Exchange Activities

He Art Museum

2021

Time Capsule: International Contemporary Art Exhibition

Hu Bin /Li Zhengze

China Today Art Museum Publishing House

Do It China 2021

/Hans Ulrich Obrist/Cao Dan

Citic Press Group

Reimagining: New Perspectives - UBS Art Collection

/Mary Rozell

Monacelli Press

2020

Psychedelic

Mingyuan Art Museum

Uncooperative Contemporaries: Art Exhibitions in Shanghai in 2000

Lauren Cornell, Tom Eccles, Charles Eshe, etc. /David Morris

Afterall Books

Being Archives

/Xiaofeng Li

Being Art Museum

2019

Above Sea/Contemporary Art, Urban Culture, And the Fashioning of Global Shanghai

Jenny Lin

Manchester University Press

The Challenge of Infinite—Yves Klein, Lee Ufan, Ding Yi (handbook)

/Power Station of Art

Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House

The Shape of Time

/West Bund Museum, Centre Pompidou

2018

Chinese Art History: From 1978 to 2018

Li Guohua/Wang Yalei/Gao Songyin/Qiao Zhihua /Lv Peng

Shanghai Painting and Calligraphy Publishing House

Hans van Dijk / Dai Hanzhi A Life with Art in China 1986-2002

Marianne Brouwer /Samuel Saelemakers

UCCA&Witte de With Publishers

Shanghai - Louis Vitton City Guide (Chinese version)

Michel Temman/Caroline Boudehen

Louis Vitton

Shannghai - Louis Vitton City Guide (English version)

Michel Temman/Caroline Boudehen

Louis Vuitton

Chinese Contemporary Collectors Exhibition: Art Patrons

QIAO SPACE

Art Shenzhen 2018

ART Shenzhen Organization

2017

Daimler Art Collection: Chinese Contemporary Art (PDF)

Daimler Contemporary

The Artist as Curator: An Anthology

/Elena Filipovic

Mousse Publishing Koenig Books

Art and China After 1989: Theater of the World

Guggenheim Museum

2016

Sense & Sensibility: 10 Contemporary Artists

ZJ Innopark, Shanghai

Artists Liveing in Shanghai Wuu Speech

/Li Xiangyan

China Art Museum,Shanghai

Studio

QIAO SPACE

Art|Basel|Unlimited|2016

/Ursula Diehr / Holger Steinemann

Hatje Cantz Verlag, Germany

Urbanatomy: Shanghai 2008

China Intercontinental Press

2015

About Paining Too

/Pu Hong/Karen Smith

OCAT Xi'an

Shanghai Ever

/Sun Wenqing

Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai

China 8: Contemporary Art form China along the Rhine and Ruhr

/Walter Smerling/Tobia Bezzola/Ferdinand Ullrich

Wienand Verlag

Traces: Xintiandi Contemporary Public Art Exhibition

/Wang Hui/Sun Yao

Inlink China

Target Choice: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition of Collectors

TARGET Magazine

Painting Now

Suzanne Hudson

Thames & Hudson

2014

A History of Exhibition: Shanghai 1979-2006

/Biljana Ciric

Centre for Chinese Contemporary, U.K.

ShanghART Taopu 2014

ShanghART

Decorum: Carpets & Tapestries by Artists

/Gong Yan

Shanghai Literature & Art Publishing House

1960

/Yi Shaofeng

Springs Center of Art, Beijing

Re-View

Wang Huangsheng/Cao qinghui/Guo Xiaoyan

Long Museum West Bund

Radical Art History Shanghai Chronicles in the 1980s

Zhao Chuan /Huang Tao

Shanghai Joint Publishing

2013

2013 Art Changsha Ding Yi

/Tan Guobin

Hunan Fine Art Publish House

Art Basel Hong Kong 2013

The 4th Art Changsha Exhibition Series

Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House

2012

The Seventh Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale--Accidental Message: Art is Not a System, Not a World

Liu Ding/Carol Yinghua Lu/Su Wei

Ling Nan Art Publishing House

2×Helbling in Shanghai

IG Halle

Creative M50 2012

M50, Shanghai

The Art of Modern China

James P. and Catharine A. Andrews

University of California

Short Cuts-Artists in China

Thomas Fuesser

Landscape in Mind-public Art from China

Remembering JiangNan

Eye Level Art

WEST BANK MUSEUM

2011

Kunset in China-Sonderedition

Contemporary Art in Shanghai: Conversation with Seven Chinese Artists

Paul Gladston

Blue Kingfisher Limited

Shanghai Art Fair 2011

As Seen 1

Karen Smith

Beijing World Publishing Cooperation

The Future to Abstract Art

/Li Xu

Hunan Fine Art Publishing House

Aer Basel Miami Beach 2011

Image History Existence

Culture and Art Publishing House

dsl collection: e-book & Virtual Museum

/Sylvain Levy

dsl collection

Chinese Abstract Slow Art

/Lao Fu / Yiyou Wang / Strange Atttractors / Li Yue / Mos Waage

The ULLENS Collection-The Nascence of Avant-Garde China Evening Sale

Sotheby's

2010

History in Making 1979-2009: Artists Interviews & Works Archives

Biljana Ciric

Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House

The Story of "Art" in China: from Late Qing Dynasty to Present by Lu Peng

LU Peng

Peking University Press

Thirty Years of Adventures

/LV Peng/ZHU Zhu/Gao Chienhui

Timezone 8 Limited

Shanghai: Art of the City

Michael Knight/Dany Chan

Asia Art Museum, U.S.A.

Thirty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art 1979-2009

/HE Juxing

Minsheng Art Museum & Culture and Art Publishing House

Reflection of Minds MOCA Shanghai Envisage III

/GONG Mingguang

MOCA Shanghai

Out of Shanghai

/Ulrike Schick

Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Germany

Tao of Nature

/Gong Mingguang

Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai

2009

Painting Today

Tony Godfrey

Phaidon Press

Art·Economies Beyond Pattern Recognition

/Khim Ong

Osage Gallery

Hadrien de Montferrand Gallery/Group Show

Hadrien de Montferrand Gallery

Art Economies beyond Pattern Recognition

/Khin Ong

Osage Gallery

Hans Ulrich Obrist: The China Interview

/Hans Ulrich Obrist

Office for Discourse Engineering

Five Years in Duolun Chinese Contemporary Art Retrospective Exhibition: Dolun 5 Years

/ZHANG Yonglin

Duolun MoMA, Shanghai

2008

40+4 Art is not enough

/Davide Quadrio/Lothar Spree/ZHU Xiaowen

Material Links

/Iris Criticou/Susan Muxia/Liana Scourles

Elix Paper Co.

From Heaven to Earth: Chinese Contemporary Painting

/Lorenzo Sassoli de Bianchi

Damiani

88 MoCCA: The Museum of Chinese Contemporary Art

88 Art Ltd.

Chinese and Japanese Contemporary Paintings from Zeit-Foto Collection

/LI Lei

Shanghai Art Museum

China University Culture - 2008 Contemporary Art Exhibition

/Wu Wenxing

New B Gallery/MGS 99 Studio, Shanghai

Chinese Dream in Marunouchi: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition

/Zeit-Foto Etsuro Ishihara

Nippon Broadcasting System Koichi Miyamoto ect.

Twenty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art

National Museum of Art, Osaka; The National Art Center, Tokyo; Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art; The Japan Foundation

New China New Art

/Richard Vine

Prestel Publishing

Rejected Collection

Biljana Ciric

Charta

Writing on the Wall: Chinese Realism and Avant-Garde in the Eighties and Nineties

/Cees Hendrikse

Groninger Museum/Nai Publishers Potterdam

2007

ShanghART 10 Years

/Uta Grosenick/Sine Bepler

Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Koenig

85 New Wave: The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art

FEI Dawei

Shanghai Century Publishing Group

1997-2007 A Wakening From A Ten-Year Long Sleep

/LI Bing

HJY Art Center

China Onward: The Estella Collection Chinese Contemporary Art, 1966-2006

/Frances Bowles

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

Shanghai Art Fair

/Shanghai Art Fair Committee

Wenhui Publisher house

China International Gallery Exposition 2007

/Zhu Yongmei/Chen Xu

Beijing Chinese Art Exposition is Media Co.,LTD

Galerie Urs Meile: Beijing - Lucerne 2007

/Galerie Urs Meile

Galerie Urs Meile, Beijin

Artists in China

Philip Tinari/Mario Ciampi

Verba Volant Ltd., U.S.A.

2006

Instants:1st Exhibition of Left Right Art Zone

Witnis

WANG Lin

Blue Dreamland Gallery, Chengdu

Z-art Center Opening Exhibition

/LU Fangzhou

Z-art Center

China performance art

LU Hong/SUN Zhenhua

Hebei Fine Arts Publisher, Shijiazhuang, China

China Avant-Garde Art 1979-2004

LU Hong

Hebei Fine Arts Publisher, Shijiazhuang

The blossoming of realism: The oil painting of mainland China since 1978

FAN Dian/YI Ying /National Art Museum of China

Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

China! New Art & Artists

TONG Dian

Schiffer Publishing, Atglen, USA

KUNSTFORUM International Bd. 183, 12/06-2/07

Contemporary China

/PKM Gallery

PKM Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Shanghai College Culture

/Wu Wenxing

Shanghai Haichang Culture Communication CO.Ltd

Entry gate: Chinese aesthetics of heterogeneity, 2006 MoCA envisage

Sunhee KIM/Victoria LU/YE Yongqing /Shanghai MOCA

Shanghai Fine Artes Publishers

Art in motion

/Samuel KUNG

Shanghai Fine Arts Publisher

Shanghai Biennale 2006: HyperDesign

/FANG Zengxian/XU Jiang

Shanghai Fine Arts Publisher, Shanghai

Try Try Look: BizArt 2004-2006

/Davide Quadrio

BizArt, Shanghai

The Chinese Contemporary

/Rika Suzuki/Kaori Otsuka Nina Nomura

Zeit-Foto Co., Ltd, Japan

2005

Born in China

/Goedhuis Contemporary

Goedhuis Contemporary, London, UK

Shanghai Modern 1919-1945

/Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker/Ken Lum/Zheng Shengtian

Museum Villa Stuck/Hatje Cantz

Alien Illusion

/LI Xiangyang/PAN Wei

Shanghai Art Museum

Getting to Know Suzhou Creek Aritsts

XUE Hongyan

Shanghai People Publishing, Shanghai, China

Shanghai Gallery of Art 2005

/LIN Meijin/LI Jinghan/WENG Ling

Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai

Art & Issue: China-Korea Art Exchange Exhibition

/Soka Contemporary Space

Soka Contemporary Space, Beijing, China

Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection

/Bernhard FIBICHER/Matthias Frehner

Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany

Reveal

AOTUKU, Shanghai

The Portraits of 100 Most Influential Artists in Contemporary Chinese Art

GAO Minglu

Hubei Fine Arts Publishing, Wuhan

2004

Left Bank of the Seine of the East: The Art Warehouses of Suzhou Creek

HAN Yuqi/ZHANG Song

Shanghai Antique Publishing House, Shanghai

New Boundaries

YANG Yang /TANG Xin

Taikang Top Space, Beijing, China

China Art Now: Photograhpy by Marc Domage

Michel Nuridsany

Flammarion, Paris, France

Hopeland: Artist's Will

/The Phoenix Valley

Chinese Renmin University Press

Melbourne Art Fair 2004

/Melbourne Art Fair Foundation

Melbourne Art Fair Foundation Ltd., Australia

Artists's Studios along the Suzhou Greek

Wang Jiemin /Ye Juelin

Yusi Publishing, Hong Kong

Dreaming of the Dragon's Nation: Contemporary Art Exhibition from China

/LI Xiangyang

Shanghai Art Museum/Irish Museum of Modern Art

Werke der Sammlung Novartis

Novartis

Art|35|Basel

/Holger Steinemann/Ursula Diehr

Hatje Cantz Verlag, Germany

From Hero Lauds to the Earthly World

YI Ying

China Renmin University Press

2003

Art|34|Basel

/Holger Steinemann/Ursula Diehr

Hatje Cantz Verlag, Germany

Open Sky: Contemporary Art Exhibition

GU Zhenqing

Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai

Prayer Beads And Brush Strokes

LI Xianting

Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Beijing

Series of Critiques on Chinese Contemporary Art: Give Me a Mask

Qiu Zhijie

Chinese People University Press

Take a Seat

Artsea Studio & Gallery, Shanghai

Subversion and Poetry: Contemporary Chinese Art

LI Xianting /Anabela MAIA DE PABLOS/Jean Marc DECROP

Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal

Chinese Maximalism

Gao Minglu

Chongqing Publishing House

2002

Metaphysics 2002: Shanghai Abstract Art Exhibition

/LI Xu

Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai

Interviews and Conversations with Contemporary Chinese Artists

/Dong Xiaoming

Hunan Fine Arts Publication, Changsha

Paris-Pekin

Johnson Tsongzung Chang etc. /Susan Acret/Claire Hsu etc.

Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong/Chinese Century, France

On the Edge of the Millennium: New Art from China

Michael GOEDHUIS

Goedhuis Contemporary

Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art (Vol. 1, No. 3)

/Keith Wallace

Art & Collection Group, Taiwan

Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting

Barry Schwabsky /Valerie Breuvart

Phaidon Press, New York, USA

China: Contemporary Art

Jean Marc DECROP/Karen SMITH etc. /Jean Marc DECROP

Fundacao Armando Alvares Penteado - FAAP, Sao Paulo, Brazil

The First Guangzhou Triennial - Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art 1990-2000 (Chinese version)

Chris BERRY/Britta ERICKSON/Yi Ying/PI Li etc. /Wu Hung

Macao Publishing House, Macao

Junction: Architectural Experiment of Chinese Contemporary Art

AI Weiwei/ZHANG Qing /WEI Ping/ZHAO Jianping

China Architecture & Building Press, Beijing

The First Triennial of Chinese Arts I

/Zuo Qing

Hubei Fine Art Publishing House

2001

Off Triennale

Zeit-Foto Co., Ltd, Japan

China's New Art, Post-1989

/Geremie R. BARME/Johnson Tsongzung CHANG

The Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong

Yokohama 2001: International Triennale of Contemporary Art

Shinji KOHMOTO /Nobuo NAKAMURA /Fumio NANJO ect. /Makabe Kaori/Mikami Yutaka/Yokohama Triennale Office

The Organizing Committee for Yokohama Triennale, Japan

Metaphysics 2001: Shanghai Abstract Art Exhibition

/LI Xu

Shanghai Art Museum

Towards a New Image: Twenty Years of Contemporary Chinese Painting

/LI Xianting/FAN Dian/HUANG Zhuan/ZHANG Lietc.

Beijing Contemporary Visual Art Development, Beijing

Next Generation/ Art Contemporain D'Asie

Jacqueline FRYDMAN/Michel NURIDSANY

Passage de Retz and Michel Nuridsany

Living in Time: 29 Zeitgenossische Kunstler aus China

/Fan Dian/Gabriele Knapstein/Martina Koppel Yang

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin/PreuBischer Kulturbesitz

Chengdu Biennale 2001

/GU Zhenqing

Sichuan Fine Arts Publishing House

2000

Shanghai 2000

/Julie WALSH/Ralph WALSH

Walsh Gallery, Chicago, USA

Chinese Art at the End of the Millennium

/John Clark

New Art Media Limited, Hong Kong

It's Me!

LENG Lin

The Publishing House of the China Literary Federation

90's Art China

LV Peng

Hunan Fine Art Publishing House

Fuck Off

/AI Weiwei/FENG Boyi

1999

Chinese-art .com Volume 2 Issue 2

/LI Xianting/Pamela Kember

Robert Bernell/New Art Media Limited

Approaching Lands

/YANG Qing

Novo Nordisk China

Mads Oevlisen/Andrea Stelzner/ShanghART Gallery

Modren Chinese Art Foundation

John Clark/Hans Van Dijk

Province Oost-Vlaanderen

1998

Jiangnan: Modern and Contemporary Art from South of the Yangzi River

/Hank Bull

Annie Wong Foundation /Western Front Society, Canada

Every Day: 11th Biennale of Sydney

Jonathan Watkins /Jo Spark

the Biennale of Sydney Ltd.

Mondrian in China: A documentary Exhibition with Chinese Originals

/HU Fang/ZHANG Wei

1997

Quotation Marks: Chinese Contemporary Paintings

Johnson Tsongzung CHANG ect.

The Singapore Art Museum

In Between Limits

FEI Dawei

Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, South Korea

Platform 1: 70 Youny Modern Artists from Asia and Latin America

/Joris Escher/Martijn Kielstra

Canvas Foundation, Amsterdam

Originality Gather

Hong Kong Trade Development Council

A Point of Contact. Korean Chinese Japanese Contemporary Art

/Shin Yong-Doug/Kim So-Hee

Taegu Art/Culture Hall

1996

Shanghai Biennale 1996

/Hu Zhirong

Shanghai Art Museum

China! Zeitgenossische Malerei

Dieter Ronte/Walter Smerling/Evelyn Weiss

Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany

Shanghai Fax: Let's Talk about Money

/Hank Bull/Ding Yi/SHI Yong/ZHOU Tiehai

Hua Shan Fine Arts College, Shanghai

Reality: Present and Future

Art Gallery of Beijing International Art Palace

1995

Year Record of Chinese Art Colletion

/Wu Shixiong

History of Chinese Oil Painting: From Realism to Post-Modernism

James CAHILL etc.

Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong

Chinese oil painting

Tianjin People's Fine Art Publishing Society, Tianjin

China Beijing·1995 Vol 2

/ZENG Xiaojun/AI Weiwei/XU Bing

1993

China Avent-Garde: Counter-Currents in Art and Culture

/Jochen Noth/Wolfger Pohlmann/Kai Reschke

Oxford University Press, Hong Kong

China's New Art, Post-1989

/Hanart TZ Gallery

Hanart TZ Gallery

China Avantgarde

Braus

First Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art

Caroline TURNER

Queensland Art Gallery, Australia

Mao Goes Pop: China Post-1989

Geremie R. BARME/Johnson Tsongzung CHANG etc.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia

Art and Asia Pacific (1993)

Alison CARROLL/Johnson Tsongzung CHANG etc.

Fine Arts Press, Sydney