Exhibition News: Major Retrospective opens at BYU Museum of Art
PROVO, UT – A new exhibition celebrating the work of Chinese American artist Mimi Chen Ting opens at the BYU Museum of Art today. Mimi Chen Ting: Make Movement Visible, showcases more than 50 paintings, prints, and performances by the titular artist, whose featured works span six decades. Known for her vibrant colors and techniques that gave paintings a dance-like quality, Ting explored movement in all forms through vivid color on canvas, paper, and the stage. As always at the MOA, the exhibition is free and open to all.
“We’re so thrilled to introduce new audiences to the art of Mimi Chen Ting,” said Miri Kim, who curated the exhibition. “We’re incredibly grateful to Andrew, Cheryl, and Clarence Ting for making available previously unpublished images, footage, and other materials from their family holdings for the exhibition.”
Ting (1946-2022) was born in Shanghai, grew up in Hong Kong, and moved to San Francisco in 1965. Her work, which spans abstraction to representation, takes inspiration from a number of different artforms, from music to dance, and draws on themes of family, migration, and diaspora. From the graceful flow of a dancer to the careful motion of an artist’s hand, Ting was fascinated with movement and captured it with dynamism and vibrance, imbuing flat canvas with the energy of four dimensions.
“My impression as I walked into this exhibition – I was in awe,” said Andrew Ting, the husband of the artist. “Her life wasn’t always cheerful, but her work essentially is. What she’s really trying to show is the joyous part of being a human being.”
Ting was diagnosed with cancer in 2019 and died in 2022. The exhibition, created in collaboration with The Ting Family Living Trust and Artist Estate Studio, aims to honor this illustrious artist’s lifetime of work, and includes her last completed painting, Last Songs, which is being publicly exhibited for the first time. The exhibition is accompanied by a new catalogue of many of Ting’s most iconic works, which is available for purchase at the MOA Store.
The MOA has added one work, Stepping Out on Blue (2020), to its permanent collection.
Make Movement Visible
April 10 to October 10, 2026
BYU Museum of Art
North Campus Drive
Provo, UT 84602
Accompanying this major retrospective is the first major monographic publication on the artist, Mimi Chen Ting. This fully illustrated publication features an introduction by exhibition curator Miri Kim, statements from the Ting Family, an illustrated chronology, and excerpts from the oral history conducted with the artist and Jason Andrew.
For inquiries and purchases contact the BYU Museum Book Store:
801-422-8214 | moastore@byu.edu
