Tim Yip

Tim Yip is a world-renowned artist whose multifaceted practices span almost all disciplines: drawing, calligraphy, sculpture, photography, film, stage, installation, and multi-media.

For Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (directed by Ang Lee, 2000), Tim Yip won the Oscar for Best Art Direction and the British Academy Film Award for Best Costume Design.

Since 1986, Tim Yip has been working with the world’s leading screen directors, including John Woo, Ang Lee, Feng Xiaogang, Cai Mingliang, Chen Guofu, Stanley Kwan, Chen Kaige, Tian Zhuangzhuang and Li Shaohong. From the Hong Kong new wave film Rouge (directed by Stanley Kwan, 1987) to the co-produced epic war film Red Cliff (directed by John Woo, 2008; 2009), Tim Yip’s work continues to present to the world a visual sensibility so ‘Chinese’, so distinct, and so strong that his name now immediately conjures up a whole way of seeing.

In the field of theatre, Tim Yip has also collaborated with many of the world’s most renowned practitioners. In 2010, he collaborated with choreographer and dancer Akram Khan for Desh, which won the American Bessie Award and the British Olivier Award.

In 2018, Tim Yip was a visual artist for Rite of Spring choreographed by Yang Liping, which premiered in Shanghai in 2018 and was on tour in the United Kingdom in 2019. In 2015, Tim Yip’s short film Kitchen won Best Art Direction at the 8th ASVOFF Festival at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, France.

Tim Yip’s solo art exhibitions include ‘In Parallel’ at the Maison de la Culture d’Amiens in France and ‘Tim Yip: Reformation’ at the Shanghai Power Station of Art in China, both in 2016.

Art practice; costume design; stage design; fashion; photography; film production; contemporary art; Chinese aesthetics; transmedia storytelling; creative writing

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