Bernice Bing

Place: San Francisco

Born: 1936

Death: 1998

Biography:

Bernice Bing was a Chinese American lesbian artist involved in the San Francisco Bay Area art scene in the 1960s. She was known for her interest in the Beats and Zen Buddhism, and for the 'calligraphy-inspired abstraction' in her paintings, which she adopted after studying with Saburo Hasegawa. Bing was a co-founder of San Francisco’s SCRAP, according to the 2013 film about her life and an article in the SF City College Guardsman. She was born in San Francisco, United States in 1936 and died in 1998.