Bernice Bing
Bernice Bing | |
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| Born | Bernice Lee Bing 10 April 1936 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Died | 18 August 1998 (aged 62) Philo, California, U.S. |
| Education | California College of Arts and Crafts, California School of Fine Arts (BFA, MFA) |
| Known for | Oil painting |
| Movement | Abstractionism |
| Awards | Asian Heritage Council award (1990) National Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award (first Asian-American to receive award) (1996) |
Bernice Bing (10 April 1936 – 18 August 1998) was a Chinese American lesbian artist involved in the San Francisco Bay Area art scene in the 1960s. She was known for her interest in the Beats and Zen Buddhism, and for the "calligraphy-inspired abstraction" in her paintings, which she adopted after studying with Saburo Hasegawa.
Bing was a co-founder of San Francisco’s SCRAP, according to the 2013 film about her life and an article in the SF City College Guardsman.