Yi Ming

Yi Ming (; born 4 March 1974) is a Chinese painter, calligrapher and cross-disciplinary designer whose practice spans studio ink painting, oil painting, Olympic visual identity and cinematic art direction. His synthesis of traditional brushwork with contemporary graphic design has been commissioned for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics and the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, while his ink, oil paintings and calligraphy have entered public and private collections in China and abroad.

Early life and education Yi Ming grew up in Wuhan and mastered expressive ink lines by the age of ten.

Career Olympic and state commissions Yi Ming was appointed chief image designer for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, weaving auspicious-cloud motifs and kinetic brush forms into the Games' visual narrative. He reprised the role for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, adapting icy palettes and fluid strokes to articulate themes of resilience and unity. On 11 December 2023 his canvases Auspicious Clouds and Enigma were displayed ahead of sale in the Contemporary Art section of Beijing Rongbao's autumn auction, where their paired hanging highlighted his manipulation of colour-field luminosity. A solo exhibition titled "Exploration·Traces" is scheduled for later part of 2025 as part of the China–Singapore 60th-anniversary cultural programme and will include live calligraphy demonstrations.