ABOUT

Grace Ming is a Chinese Asian American multi-disciplinary artist and musician whose creative practice navigates the balance of Yin and Yang. While she was not encouraged to pursue fine arts for her undergraduate degree, her liberal arts education at Wellesley College introduced her to several art and media-adjacent subjects, as well as anthropology and ethnic studies that informed her creative lens with a variety of perspectives. After graduating in 2018 and living and working in Brooklyn with art as a side-gig for 5 years, she decided to dedicate her full attention to finally growing her creative seeds. While she works primarily in water-based mediums and sumi ink, she is continuously expanding her practice, incorporating mixed media, sculpture, and alchemizing whatever mediums she stumbles upon. Currently her work revolves around spiritual concepts, Taoism, earth, humans and cosmos.

My journey as a child of immigrants has taught me that while I have been blessed with the richness of a diasporic experience, I also inherited a survival mindset from my upbringing that subdued my artist voice. With each work I complete, I ask myself, "Who is speaking?" and begin another that may sound more like me. While some elements stick and others don't, I always welcome new mediums, subject matters and techniques to bring out different manifestations of my artist voice, seeking a balance that allows my art to flow freely from my soul.