Artist Biography
Mr. Yu Ping and Ms. Ren Ping were both born in 1962 in Shandong Province and graduated from the Department of Decoration of the Shangdong Institute of Light Industry. The couple now work 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, the Yantai Fine Arts Museum, and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Library.
In recent years, the two artists have held exhibitions at Beijing, Taiwan and Hong Kong. They have published over 40 art catalogs.