Huang Yong Ping was born in 1954 in Xiamen, Fujian, China, and passed away in 2019 at the age of 65. In 1982, he graduated from the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, China and a few years later became the leader of the Xiamen Dada group.

His work has been subject to exhibitions at De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway; Barbican Art Center, London, UK; Musee d’art contemporain, Lyon, France; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, Massachusetts; Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China; MAXXI, Rome, Italy; Power Station Art, Shanghai, China; and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York.Huang Yong Ping participated in the 48th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.

In 1999, he was made a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters, then in 2015 Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the Ministry of Culture and Communication. In 2000, he received the UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts in recognition of Outstanding Creative Achievement in the field of visual arts. In 2016, he was the winner of the Wolfgang Hahn Prize, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany.

Institutional collections include: Astrup Fearnley Museum, Centre Pompidou, DSL Collection, Fondation Cartier, Galeries Lafayette Foundation, Gröningen Museum, Guan Yi collection, Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation, Louis Vuitton Foundation, Ludwig Museum, MoMA, M+ Museum, MCA Chicago, Pinault Collection, Qatar Museums, Red Brick Museum, Rubell Family Collection, Sigg Collection, Walker Art Center and Yuz Museum, among others.