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    In a world of constant flux, Ding strives to align with the laws of the formless, penetrating appearances to reach a more profound reality. Through his work, Jingyan Ding seeks to provoke reflection on the relationship between emptiness and substance, reality and simulation, creating a perceptual threshold that feels both familiar and unfamiliar, ultimately leading viewers to question whether the world they inhabit is truly real.

    Jingyan Ding (b. 1999, Baicheng, China) currently lives and works in Milan. Jingyan Ding’s work revolves around the impermanence of the self, exploring its transformations and infinite possibilities within the realm of rupa (phenomena, the world of forms). Influenced by Taoist and Buddhist thought, he engages with the notions of the intangible, the formless, impermanence, and infinity, while posing a fundamental question: Are we living in a virtual world?
     
    In his work, the tensions between reality and virtuality, presence and absence, first-person and third-person perspectives, as well as seeing and being seen, intertwine to construct a profound exploration of identity, existence, and perception. For him, the self arises from non-self. In an increasingly virtualised era, individuality flows like data, constantly shifting in a state of non-linearity and uncertainty.
     

    Primarily working with oil painting, he regards painting as a medium that reveals the invisible through the visible, a visual language that describes a sense of flow, immersing the viewer in a fluctuating, ever-changing self. He sees “emptiness” (wu) as both wisdom and origin. The formless world is not void, but a real and invisible dimension whose energies and laws govern the operations of the visible world. The virtual nature of the tangible is rooted in the more profound truth of the formless.

  • Works
    • Jingyan Ding, Untitled, 2025
      Untitled, 2025
    • Jingyan Ding, Untitled, 2025
      Untitled, 2025
  • Biography
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    EDUCATION

     

    2023 – PRESENT        

    • Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture, Academia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan

     

    2022 – 2023              

    • Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture, Academia di Bella Arti di Bologna, Bologna

     2017 – 2021                 

    • Bachelor’s Degree in Animation, Changchun Normal University, Changchun

     

    SOLO EXHIBITIONS

     

    2025                           

    • BONIAN SPACE, Beijing, China, ‘The Edge of Phenomenon’

     

    GROUP EXHIBITIONS

     

    2025                           

    • Contemporary Cluster, Rome, Italy ‘4th Prisma Art Prize’

                 

    2024                           

    • No Title gallery, Venice, Italy, ‘We Art Open Worldwide’

     

    2023                           

    • P420 gallery, Bologna, Italy, ‘Le onde’

     

    ART FAIRS

     

    2025                           

    • 5th Edition of ReA, OPOS, Milan, Italy
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