Shiao-Ping Wang was born in Taiwan and immigrated to the United States in 1981.

She studied both Western art and Chinese art in New York and earned a MFA degree from Queens College, City University of New York.

She works both abstractly and from observation in various painting media. Her work has been exhibited throughout the US and China.

She has taught painting and drawing in various colleges including the University of New Hampshire.

In 2007 Shiao-Ping won a Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. In 2008 she won the Spotlight Award for Best Painter in the Seacoast.

My paintings and sculptures are a consequence of experimentation, spontaneity, imagination, play, and of course hard work.

I think being an artist means trusting your instincts and allowing your imagination to show you the path into the unknown. That’s where I want to be with my art. I want to make something no one, not even me, has seen before.

When I begin a painting I usually have very little idea where I’ll be going with it. I find that if I attempt to plan a painting or even sketch an idea beforehand I get bored and it never appears like the plan anyway. I endeavor to stay alert to any story which unfolds before my eyes and especially open to those happy accidents which happen if you’re experimenting and staying free.