Ju Ting

Ju Ting was born in 1983 in Shandong Province, China, and lives and works in Beijing. She trained at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing, completing a BA in the Printmaking Department in 2007 and a master's degree in the same department in 2013. Her graduate work earned a Recognition Award at the CAFA Graduation Works Exhibition in 2013, following a Third Prize at the same exhibition in 2007, and she received the YISHU 8 China Prize in 2013.

Her practice sits at the boundary of painting and sculpture. She builds up thick layers of acrylic paint, then cuts, slices, folds, or peels the surface to expose the accumulated strata beneath, treating the finished work as both a painted surface and a physical record of process. She has been represented in solo form primarily through Galerie Urs Meile, with exhibitions in Lucerne, Beijing, and Zurich beginning in 2018 and continuing through a 2026 solo show titled Summer. An earlier solo presentation, Peeling an Onion, was held at OCT Contemporary Art Terminal in Xi'an in 2017.

Critical attention has tracked her museum inclusion and her growing gallery presence in Europe, including her presence in the collections of the National Art Museum of China, the White Rabbit Gallery, and the Arario Museum. Her solo exhibitions with Galerie Urs Meile in Lucerne in 2018 and 2021 and in Beijing in 2019 and 2021 have been read as markers of her growing visibility outside China. The consistent thread in commentary is her treatment of surface: acrylic layers cut and folded to reveal what lies beneath, read as an investigation of accumulation and concealment rather than pure abstraction for its own sake.

Ju Ting's market is still primarily a gallery market rather than an auction one. The highest price reported for a work at auction is CNY 1,071,000 (approximately USD 149,190) for Ambre 060920, reported sold at Christie's Shanghai on 7 November 2024. That figure comes from a market-tracking summary rather than a directly verified Christie's lot record, so it should be treated as a reported high rather than a confirmed one pending direct auction-house confirmation. Market-tracking platforms show her auction activity as still limited, with roughly nineteen works recorded at auction to date, consistent with an artist whose primary market runs through her gallery rather than the secondary market.

Ju Ting's auction record is thin and recent, anchored by a single reported result at Christie's Shanghai in November 2024, so any single sale should be weighed carefully rather than treated as an established trend line. There is no catalogue raisonne, and her works are tracked and represented primarily through Galerie Urs Meile. Her strongest signal for collectors is institutional: inclusion in the National Art Museum of China, the M+ Sigg Collection, the White Rabbit Gallery, and the Arario Museum points to a developing museum reputation that has not yet been fully priced into a correspondingly deep auction market.