Xingjian Ding

Painter.
Shanghai-born, SoCal-raised. Currently lives and works between Brooklyn, Los Angeles, and Mexico City. These contrasting environments bleed into his paintings as washes and glazes, controlled mark-making, looming shapes, establishing shots, and ambiguous figures.
His current practice explores an “honest” narrative—intimate and reflective, shaped like the kind of truth we tell ourselves in a journal.



Business & collab:
dxj006@gmail.com

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Group exhibitions:
2024
Conferences; LivingSkin, Brooklyn, NY

2023
Backyard Dreams Keep Me Awake 2; Tutu Gallery, NY

2022
Understatements; Godwin-Ternbach Museum, NY

2020
Backyard Dreams Keep Me Awake; Tutu Gallery, Online

2018
Modern Expressions of Traditions; Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, NY

2017
Light Up Therapy Resort; with Shanghai PSA at Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, CN
Poisoned Apples & Smoking Lamps; SVA Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY

Press:
2022
“Asian-American Identity Through Quiet, Ordinary Gestures”
Hyperallergic

2018
“LIGHT UP Therapy Resort”
NYU Tisch School of the Arts

Select works:

Madrugada
2025
Acrylic on canvas, 16x20in

People stood sparingly across the hall - chatting, maybe reminiscing, scattered. Most of them dressed with somber. Blacks. Grays. Muted greens..

She cries & she smiles.. weary. Holding a plastic bag in one hand and her other hand tucked into the pocket of her oversized black coat. She hesitates at the threshold, sometimes gazing aimlessly - unable to enter.

The elderly soloist goes on and on.. an eternal echo.
untitled
2025
Acrylic on canvas, 20x26in

Do it urself (homage)
2023
Acrylic on paper, 12.4x14in

Laziness
2022
Acrylic & oil on canvas, 12x16in



Tepic
2024
Acrylic on canvas,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Doom
2022
Acrylic on canvas, 18x24in

Mars
2022
Acrylic on canvas, 30x40in



Escape. long island city.
2025
Acrylic on paper,



CV

Group exhibitions:
2024
Conferences; LivingSkin, Brooklyn, NY

2023
Backyard Dreams Keep Me Awake 2; Tutu Gallery, NY

2022
Understatements; Godwin-Ternbach Museum, NY

2020
Backyard Dreams Keep Me Awake; Tutu Gallery, Online

2018
Modern Expressions of Traditions; Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, NY

2017
Light Up Therapy Resort; with Shanghai PSA at Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, CN
Poisoned Apples & Smoking Lamps; SVA Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY

Press:
2022
“Asian-American Identity Through Quiet, Ordinary Gestures”
Hyperallergic

2018
“LIGHT UP Therapy Resort”
NYU Tisch School of the Arts