Artist Biography
Mr. Yu Ping and Ms. Ren Ping were both born in 1962 in Shandong Province. Graduating from the Department of Decoration of the Shandong Institute of Light Industry, the couple taught at Yantai First Vocational School for many years. In 2001, they began their career as full-time artists.
Yu Ping and Ren Ping’s artworks have received many awards over the years: notably First Prize at the National Paper-cutting Grand Award Competition; First and Second Prize at the Folk Paper-cutting Grand Award Competition; First Prize at the National Elementary and High School Teachers’ Paintings Grand Competition; First Prize at the Century Paper-cut Retrospective Exhibition; and Gold Prize at the National Grand Exhibition of Folk Paper-cutting. Their works have been collected by the National Fine Arts Museum, the Capital Museum in Beijing, the Beijing Arts and Crafts Museum, and the Yantai Fine Arts Museum.
In recent years, the two artists have held exhibitions at the Beijing Arts and Crafts Museum, the Taiwan Provincial Art Museum, the Art Center of Taiwan Tsinghua University, and the Han Tang Yuefu Art Gallery in Taipei, Taiwan. They have published over 40 art catalogs.