Yan Bing was born in 1980 in Tianshui, Gansu Province, China and graduated from Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2007, 3rd Studio of the Oil Painting Department. He lives and works in Beijing.

Recent solo exhibitions include: Yan Bing: At First the Weather Was Fine, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing (2019); YAN Bing, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai (2016); Love, Gallery Yang, Beijing (2015); My Labour II, Gallery Yang, Beijing (2013); Superfluous Things, No.5, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2013); Farming Poems, White Box Museum of Art, Beijing (2012); My Labour, Gallery Yang, Beijing (2011); 51㎡14#, Taikang Space, Beijing (2010); Temperature – curated by Liu Xiaodong, UCCA, Beijing (2009). He also participated in numerous group exhibitions held by institutions including CAFA Museum, Beijing; Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing; Urban Arts Space, Ohio State University, U.S.A.; RH Contemporary Art, New York, U.S.A.; Xi’an Art Museum, Xi’an; Taikang Space, Beijing; Guanshanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen; and G • ART, Nanjing.