Ying Hung was born in 1958 in Hong Kong. She received her BA from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and her MFA from the Pratt Institute. Ying has been awarded a Three River Festival grant as well as a Joan Mitchell Foundation grant. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

The cross-cultural experiences she accumulated throughout her life have played a crucial role in forming her unique perspectives and nurturing her artistic practice.

She combines images and abstraction to negotiate and explore the relationship between matter, element of nature and temporality in her way of seeing. Her paintings and sculptures can be viewed as a series of puzzles to bring forth a complex, contrastive, and ambiguous sensory experience.

Hung has exhibited her work in the US and internationally. She participated in the Art Biennale hosted by the Hong Kong Arts Centre in 1983, and her work has been shown in New York, including PSI (1990), the Bronx Museum of the Arts (2000) and Nars Foundation (2022). Since 1994, Hung has also held group and solo exhibitions in major museum and galleries in Taiwan, such as Turning Gazes: Woman and Arts in Dialogue (2013) at the Juming Museum, Perpetual Journey (2010), Mind and Matter: Derivation (2019) and Plus IV (2021) at Tina Keng Gallery.