Yu LanYing is a leading female figure in Chinese contemporary ink painting. She employs the use of Chinese ink and mixed media on rice paper to create entirely original work. Her paintings reflect the accomplishments of a seasoned master indebted to the riches of traditional Chinese painting and experimentation with western abstract expressionism. She inherited the former as a child, when she began working at the age of seven under the tutelage of Huang JunBi and Gao YiHong among other masters of Chinese painting in Taiwan. After thirty years of study and work in the United States, Yu internalized the latter. The result has been a body of work whose abstraction evolves with the continuum of her experiences of Chinese and American culture.
Yu has exhibited extensively in the United States, China and Taiwan. She is best known for her works that explore her love for the ocean. The underwater landscapes inspire Yu to extend her soul onto paper with a combination of ink, color and texture, allowing the viewer into the private space of her spiritual journey.
虞蘭因，祖籍浙江寧波，幼時隨父母赴台灣，畢業於台灣大學，獲學士學位 (BA)，20 歲時在台北市中山堂舉辦首次個展，同年 9 月獲全額獎學金赴美深造。在美國 University of Louisville 獲藝術創作，藝術史雙碩士學位 (MFA)。後在紐約 Art Student League 隨 Will Barnet 大師工作深造多年。