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Mimi Chen Ting

Mimi Chen Ting (1946 - 2022) was active/lived in California, New Mexico / China.  Mimi Ting is known for Abstract painting, printmaking, performance art, teaching.

Mimi Chen Ting (1946-2022), was a Chinese-American painter, printmaker, and performance artist whose high-spirited practice fused Eastern and Western aesthetics. She was active in theartist communities of the Bay Area of San Francisco, CA, and Taos, NM.

An intense, unpretentious woman with a soft voice and fierce spirit, Ms. Ting was born in Shanghai, China, at the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War and during the communist takeover of the mainland. As a teenager her father swept floors for the industrialists Song Brothers to support his own family. By the time of Ms. Ting’s birth, he had worked his way up to Bank manager. 

Her mother was a concubine introduced to her father—16 years her senior when she was just 13. Raised in what Ms. Ting considered feudalistic China, she grew up in a compound with a shared courtyard where she played with other children and waited for the rice popper man to pass by. Memories of her maternal grandmother’s bound feet made a lasting i   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 24205 characters.]  Artist bio

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