Drawing upon an extensive knowledge of plants both Eastern and Western, real and mythical, Fay creates his own calligraphic floating forest of reeds, branches and surreal species.
[2] Ming Fay was born in Shanghai in 1943 and late moved to Hong Kong in 1952, soon after the rise of communism in mainland China.
[3] His mother was an artist, and his father worked in the then-burgeoning Hong Kong movie industry as an art director.
Subsequently, Fay earned a graduate degree in sculpture at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1975.
Fay has also completed numerous public art commissions including a suspended glass and steel sculpture for a residential lobby in Philadelphia, a large scale tree sculpture in Puerto Rico, sculptural benches for New York City's Staten Island Ferry Whitehall Terminal, and glass mosaic murals for the Delancey Street – Essex Street New York City Subway station.