Born in 1966, Shia Yih Ying is a Malaysian fine artist from Kuching, the state capital of Sarawak. Her early education in art was from the Malaysian Institute of Art where she obtained her Diploma in Fine Art. Since then, she has been actively involved with the Malaysian art scene where her work has traveled across the region. Her body of work encircles around culture and heritage where elements of traditional clothing and such can be clearly seen.

Shia has been involved with many exhibitions where she was involved in the ‘Asean Visual Art Education Symposium & Workshop’ in 1994 which was held at the Philippines while in 1999, she was involved in the ‘Commonwealth Fellowship in Arts and Crafts’ held at New South Wales in Australia. Her show at Galeri Petronas in 2004 entitled ‘wOm(b)’ was one of the highlights of her art career while some of her paintings have been inducted into the permanent collection of the National Art Gallery as well as in corporations like HSBC (Malaysia). She has won awards like that of the Alternate Artist by the VSC Freeman Fellowship in the United States in 2007 while in 1997 and 1996 her works received Honourable Mention at the Philip Morris Asean Art award.