Bio

Alison Ye was born in China in 1990. She received BFA in Ceramic from Sichuan Fine Art Institute and MFA in Sculpture from Academy of Art University. She inspired by her personal and friend’s love stories. She creates playful characters in clay or metal to play those stories. In 2015 she received the “Best in Show”，1st Place Award for sculpture during the annual Academy of Art Spring Show. In 2016 she received Art and Perception/ Technical Merit Award from National Student Juried Exhibition. She has showed her work at Modern Eden Gallery ,Carnegie Art Center, 111Minna Gallery, and Leedy-Voulkos Art Center.
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Resume

Education

2015 MFA       Sculpture Academy of Art University 

2012  BFA       Ceramic          Sichuan Fine Art Institute

Awards
2017      Honorable Mention award, Gateway to Imagination, Farmington Museum,                  NM
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2016      2016 National Student Juried Exhibiton, Art and Perception/ Technical Merit                Award
2015      Academy of Art University Spring Show, “Best in Show”, 1st Place – Master                of Fine Arts Sculpture

2015      Academy of Art University Spring Show, “ Falkenberg-Schifrin Award of                      Excellence in Sculpture” 

2014      Carnegie Art Center, Award of Merit

2014      Academy of Art University Spring Show, “Best in Show”, 3rd Place – Master                of Fine Arts Sculpture

2014      Carnegie Art Center, Honorable Mention

2013      Academy of Art Spring Show, “ Associate Director’s Choice Award”

Group Exhibitions
2016       Zing- Young Asian Experiment Group Exhibition, Menagerie Art Gallery,     
              Redwood City, CA

2016       Sacred & Profane, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2016       Fables, Fairy Tales, Folktales, Legends, and Myths, FE Gallery, Sacramento, 
              CA

2016       NCECA 2016 National Student Juried Exhibition, Leedy-Voulkos Art Center,                 Kansas City, Missouri

2016       Roar, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2016       Finalist of NICHE Award, American made show, Washington DC

2015       Wonderlust, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2015       Sugar and Spice, Storefront, San Francisco, CA

2015       California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art, Academy of Art                 University Gallery, Davis, CA

2015       2015 Left Coast Annual, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA

2014       In Your Dreams, Carnegie Art Center, Turlock, CA

2014       Academy of Art University Spring Show, Academy of Art University Gallery,                 San Francisco, CA

2014       California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art, Academy of Art                 University Gallery, Davis, CA
 
2014       New Notions of “Art”, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2014       Central California Art Showcase, Carnegie Art Center, Turlock, CA

2013       Academy of Art University Spring Show, Palace of Fine Art, San Francisco,                 CA

2013       California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art, Academy of Art                 Gallery, Davis, CA

Solo Exhibition

2015      Pain, Recovery and Loving again, Academy of Art University Gallery, San                    Francisco, CA

Publicity

The Woven Tale Press VOL.IV #8

Collectors


Andre Speckert, Chris Antemann,  Wayne Shaffer, Brooke Barttelbort, Margaret Keelan
Chase Cambron, Nikhl Joshi