(1933–2008)
Roger Ing was born in a village outside of Guangzhou, China, and emigrated to Regina, Saskatchewan, in 1950. He worked in his father’s restaurant before he opened the New Utopia Café, a popular hangout for artists and locals in Regina. Ing learned traditional bamboo brush painting as a child, and local artist Kenneth Lochhead introduced him to abstract expressionism, all of which led to his unique “Roger style.”

Ing participated in many exhibitions and had his first solo exhibition at the MacKenzie Art Gallery, in conjunction with a screening of the documentary Roger Ing’s Utopia (1998), about the artist and his work.