Ming is a lens-based artist and PhD candidate at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. His practice draws upon his lived experience as a first-generation Chinese-Australian to examine immigrant identity in contemporary Australia. He employs a novel methodology that integrates autoethnography with lens-based practices to create video essays reflecting on his hybrid identity within both contemporary and historical Australian contexts. By accentuating the paradoxes between lived and prescribed sociocultural realities, his work offers a hybrid perspective—advocating for deeper understandings that transcend cultural, social, and political barriers.
Ming holds a Master of Fine Art from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and has exhibited across Australia since 2022, including at Blindside ARI, MARS Gallery, Melbourne Design Week, Testing Grounds, Kings Artist-Run, Felt Space, and Run Artist-Run. He has received several accolades, including first prize in the fortyfivedownstairs Emerging Artist Award and the NAVA Ignition Prize, as well as finalist selections for the Churchie Emerging Art Prize, the Footscray Art Prize, and the Incinerator Art Award. Ming completed a residency at the Centre for Contemporary Photography in 2024 and is currently an ACMI-X Creative Resident at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image.
EDUCATION
2021 - 2022 | Master of Fine Art | Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne
2013 - 2016 | Master in Architecture (by research) | Tsinghua University, Beijing
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 | Run artist-run, Melbourne
2024 | Red Gallery, Melbourne
2024 | MARS Gallery, Melbourne
2023 | Testing Grounds, Melbourne
2023 | Kings Artist-Run, Melbourne
2023 | Felt Space, Adelaide
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
RESIDENCY
2024 - Present | ACMI-X | Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne
2023 | RMIT + ACMI-X graduate residency | Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne
2023 | Run artist-run, Melbourne
AWARDS
2024 | Finalist | The Churchie Emerging Art Prize, Brisbane
2023 | 1st Prize | fortyfivedownstairs Emerging Artist Award, Melbourne
2023 | Finalist | Incinerator Art Award, Melbourne
2023 | Finalist | Footscray Art Prize, Melbourne
2022 | Recipient | Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence and contribution to the program, RMIT, Melbourne
2022 | Recipient | NAVA Ignition Prize for Professional Practice, National Association for the Visual Arts
GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS
2024 | RTP Stipend Scholarship, RMIT, Melbourne
2015 | Beijing Municipal Government Scholarship, Beijing
2025 | Talk | Themes in Contemporary Creative Practice, Master of Fine Art, RMIT, Melbourne
2025 | Talk | Halfway Seen Halfway Home, Run Artist Run, Melbourne
2024 | Presentation | AN4AA Postgraduate Symposium 2024, Australasian Network for Asian Art, Australia
2024 | Talk | Re-Shaping Worlds, Bachlor of Arts, RMIT, Melbourne
EXPERIENCE
2024 - Present | Artistic Director | Blindside ARI, Melbourne
2024 | Industry Mentor | Tastings Festival, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
2023 | Artistic Director Intern | Blindside ARI, Melbourne
2023 | Gallery Technician | Blindside ARI, Melbourne
2023 | Gallery Intern | Blindside ARI, Melbourne
2017 - 2020 | Graduate architect | Arkit Pty. Ltd., Melbourne
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Monika Vidugiryte and Ben Harrington. “Blindspotting” Radio interview, 3RRR 102.7FM, December 28, 2023.