Mary Ting has a varied studio art practice that includes: installation, video, sculpture, and drawing. The work is layered with stories, literary references, memories, and cultural metaphors. Ting is inspired by varied sources from folk culture, natural history dioramas, to trends in fashion design. Ting is the recipient of two New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships (2001, 2007), Lambent Fellowship in the Arts (2003-06), Puffin Foundation, the Ruth Chenven Foundation Award, and a Pollack Krasner Foundation grant. She has also been a resident at the Macdowell Colony residency, Millay Colony, Soaring Gardens Artist Residency, and an Alden B. Dow Creativity Center fellow. She has also participated as a project artist in the Dieu Donne Workspace program and the Lower Eastside Printshop Special Editions program. Ting has upcoming solo exhibitions in 2009 at Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn; Dean Project, LIC and the Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn. She is also part of the graduate faculty at Transart Institute MFA in New Media (Berlin & NYC) where she has taught courses such as Poetics: Spatial and Temporal ; Collections, Obsessions and the Display of the Other; and Sensory Perception.