Alisan Fine Arts, New York
On view: September 3 – October 25, 2025
Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 3, 6–8 PM

Alisan Fine Arts, New York is proud to present Ming Fay: Botanical Curiosities, a solo exhibition by the late Chinese-American sculptor and installation artist Ming Fay (1943–2025). This marks Fay’s first solo exhibition with Alisan Fine Arts in New York and his sixth with the gallery overall. Spanning works from the 1970s to the present, the show invites viewers into the artist’s lifelong study of nature, mythology, and the poetic space between science and art.

Fay’s sculptures, oversized fruits, kaleidoscopic seeds, twisting vines, skeletal shells, and other hybrid forms, straddle imagination and environmental reflection. For decades, he cultivated a personal Eden, one rooted in both botanical reality and speculative fantasy. Drawing from Eastern and Western horticultural traditions and folklore, Fay reimagined nature as a living theatre, vibrant, uncanny, and ever-evolving.

Two rare mosaics, derived from his Delancey Street Subway murals, connect his studio practice to public art and New York’s layered urban history. Together, these works reveal the evolution of Fay’s visual language and his enduring fascination with the forms of nature.