Roger Ing
Encyclopedia
Roger Ing was a Chinese Canadian
artist
.
Born in Canton, China
, he emigrated to Regina, Saskatchewan
, Canada
in 1950 at the age of 18.
Roger was well known as the owner of the New Utopia Cafe, a popular gathering place for locals and artists in Regina’s North Central neighborhood. Through the 1980s and 90s, the New Utopia Cafe was a gathering place for Regina’s visual artists including Regina Five
artist Arthur McKay
, sculptor Joe Fafard
, multimedia artist Edward Poitras, painters Ernest Klinger, Sally Hui, Daniel E. Sali, Jack Severson and Lynda Walker and photographers Tom Bartlett and Jason Weedmark.
The New Utopia Cafe, besides functioning as a gathering place, served as a Art gallery
showcasing Roger's artwork and functioned as Roger's painting studio.
Roger Ing was featured on the Much Music program, Mike & Mike's Excellent X-Canada Adventures
.
In 1998, he was given a solo exhibition at the Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery
. The gallery also has two of Roger's works in their collection.
Chinese Canadian
Chinese Canadians are Canadians of Chinese descent. They constitute the second-largest visible minority group in Canada, after South Asian Canadians...
artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
.
Born in Canton, China
Guangzhou
Guangzhou , known historically as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of the Guangdong province in the People's Republic of China. Located in southern China on the Pearl River, about north-northwest of Hong Kong, Guangzhou is a key national transportation hub and trading port...
, he emigrated to Regina, Saskatchewan
Regina, Saskatchewan
Regina is the capital city of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The city is the second-largest in the province and a cultural and commercial centre for southern Saskatchewan. It is governed by Regina City Council. Regina is the cathedral city of the Roman Catholic and Romanian Orthodox...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
in 1950 at the age of 18.
Roger was well known as the owner of the New Utopia Cafe, a popular gathering place for locals and artists in Regina’s North Central neighborhood. Through the 1980s and 90s, the New Utopia Cafe was a gathering place for Regina’s visual artists including Regina Five
Regina Five
Regina Five is the name given to five abstract painters, Kenneth Lochhead, Arthur McKay, Douglas Morton, Ted Godwin, and Ronald Bloore, who displayed their works in the 1961 National Gallery of Canada's exhibition "Five Painters from Regina".-External links:...
artist Arthur McKay
Arthur McKay
Arthur Fortescue McKay a Canadian painter and professor. He was born in Nipawin, Saskatchewan.McKay studied at the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art in Calgary, Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris , and Columbia University in New York, and The Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania...
, sculptor Joe Fafard
Joe Fafard
Joseph Fafard, OC, SOM is a Canadian sculptor.-Biography:Born in Sainte-Marthe, Saskatchewan in 1942 to Leopold Fafard and Julienne Cantin whose families both date back centuries in Canada. Joe is a descendant of Jacques Goulet. He received a B.S.A from the University of Manitoba in 1966 and a...
, multimedia artist Edward Poitras, painters Ernest Klinger, Sally Hui, Daniel E. Sali, Jack Severson and Lynda Walker and photographers Tom Bartlett and Jason Weedmark.
The New Utopia Cafe, besides functioning as a gathering place, served as a Art gallery
Art gallery
An art gallery or art museum is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art.Museums can be public or private, but what distinguishes a museum is the ownership of a collection...
showcasing Roger's artwork and functioned as Roger's painting studio.
Roger Ing was featured on the Much Music program, Mike & Mike's Excellent X-Canada Adventures
Mike & Mike's Excellent X-Canada Adventures
Mike & Mike's Excellent X-Canada Adventures was a TV show that ran on the MuchMusic network until 1993. The co-hosts of the show were Mike Campbell and Mike Rhodes.The "Mike and Mike" show ran on MuchMusic from 1986 until 1992...
.
In 1998, he was given a solo exhibition at the Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery
Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery
The MacKenzie Art Gallery is located in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. The MacKenzie Art Gallery has over of space, with eight galleries totaling . It has modern technical areas including conservation lab, workshop, preparation rooms and vault, a 185-seat theatre, public resource centre, gift shop...
. The gallery also has two of Roger's works in their collection.
External links
- Rogerism official website
- Regina artist Roger Ing passes away canada.com
- Gerald Saul's Video, "Roger Ing and Regina in 1993" Internet Archive