Ming Fay

Ming Fay was raised in Hong Kong, and now lives in New York. He came to the United States in 1961 to study at the Columbus College of Art and Design in Ohio, and later received his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri and his MFA from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Institutions that have exhibited Fay’s work include the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C; the Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai; the Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris and the National Academy of Art in New York; the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia in Virginia Beach; and the Berrie Center for Performing and Visual Arts at Ramapo College in Mahwah, New Jersey. Fay’s other public art commissions include Ginkoberry Gwa (2003) for the Oregon Convention Center in Portland; Delancey Orchard and Shad Crossing (2004) for the Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York City; and Árbol Mágico (2005) for the city of Yauco, Puerto Rico. Fay is a professor of sculpture at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey, and an artist-in-residence at the Rinehart School of Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.