Lin Jing-Jing is a conceptual artist whose work deals primarily with social-political themes.
Lin explores the depths of social and personal identity in the context of modern society, often examining themes such as confusion and quest, existence and absence, constraint and resistance through a lens of paradox.
Of particular focus is how individuals define themselves amongst the effects of the outside world,vis-à-vis culture, politics, history and the economy.
Her artwork spans installation, video, sound, LED Light, performance, digital media, performance, painting, mixed media, and photography.
She is well known for layering thread over painting, installation, and other mixed media to create dazzling worlds.
The surreal effect created via this method immerses the viewers into another consciousness.
Lin was profiled by TATE research Center: Asia, as part of their ongoing study of “ Women Artist in Contemporary China”.
Lin ’s works have been exhibited in major public museums including the National Art Museum of Chile in Santiago(Chile), the Ivam in Valencia(Spain), the Kunstraum in Vienna(Austria), Galeria Herold in Bremen, Saint Mary’s University Art Museum in Halifax(Canada), the Leonard Pearlstein Gallery in Philadelphia, the Tikanoja Art Museum in Vaasa (Finland), the Long Museum in Shanghai(China), the Nanjing Museum Nanjing(China), Guangzhou Art museum in Guangzhou(China), the Du Land Modern Art Museum in Shanghai (China) and Song Zhuang Art Museum in Beijing (China), Ljubljana Castle in Slovenia, etc.
Lin's work has been reviewed in major publications such as Asia Art Pacific, Artforum, Artnet News, AsiaArt, Southern Weekly, Kolaj magazine, Randian, China Daily, Luxuo, Hong Kong Economic Journal, South China Morning Post, etc.
With her work showing in Art Basel Hong Kong, Art Basel, Art021 in Shanghai, Asia Now in Paris, Sydney Contemporary, Taipei Dang Dai, GIGE Beijing, Art Shenzhen, Art Beijing, Art Silicon Valley San Francisco, Art Stage Singapore, etc.
Her work has been sold by both Sotheby’s and Christie’s.
Lin's large-scale (take up to 26000 sqf. museum space) solo show: I Want to Be With You Forever, was curated by Li Xianting, the renowned independent art critic and curator of contemporary Chinese art, known as the “Godfather of Chinese contemporary avant-garde” for Song Zhuang Art Museum in Beijing (2009).
Richard Vine, managing editor from Art in America wrote about her work:
“In paintings, altered objects and installations, she addresses some of the most wrenching themes imaginable—death, loss, loneliness, betrayal— with remarkable sophistication and restraint, even at times a touch of humor. Her contribution to contemporary art is thus two-fold. She couples a focus on individual experience (in what has for centuries been a collectivist culture) with art-making of unassuming skill. The amalgam generates a distinct form of beauty—existentialism melded with subdued artistry and permeated with simple human care. In short, Lin’s vision is compassionate, transcultural, and mature.”
Important Collection:
Ivam Museum (Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno), Valencia,Spain
Museum Macan (The Museum of Morden and Contemporary Art in Nusantara), Jakarta, Indonesia
Chile National Museum of Fine Art ,Santiago,Chile
The Mountain Group Museum , Taiwan
National Art Museum of China,Beijing, China
Liu Hai Su Art Museum,Shanghai,China
He Xiang Ning Art Museum,Shenzhen,China
Tai Da Museum,Tian jing, China
Museum of the nation,Lima, Peru
White Box Art Museum,Beijing,China
Long Museum, Shanghai,China
Solo Exhibitions
2023 ●" Elsewhere" Leila Heller Gallery, Dubai
2022 ●" Elsewhere" De Sarthe Gallery, Hong Kong
2022 ●" Utopian Absurdity" Art Basel
2020 ●"You Can Trust Me" San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, USA
2019 ●"Lov-Lov Shop" De Sarthe Gallery, Hong Kong
2018 ●"...I..." Performance,Residency Unlimited,New York
2017 ●"Take Off" De Sarthe Gallery, Hong Kong
2015 ● “Tomorrow Was Wonderful" De Sarthe Gallery, Beijing,China
2014 ● "Promise Again for the First Time" De Sarthe Gallery, Hong Kong
2012 ●“ Possible of Impossible" Neues Kunstforum , Cologue , Germany
2012 ●“ My Promise for Your Happiness "Alexander Ochs Gallery , Beijing, China
2011. ●“The Method Of Paradox" Chile National Art museum plaza Vespucio,Santiago,Chile
2011 ●”Rose Rose " Chile National Art museum plaza Trebol ,Concepcion,Chile
2011 ●“Public Privacy " White Box Art museum , Beijing, China
2009 ●“I want to be with you forever "Song zhuang Art Museum,Beijing,China, Curated by Li Xianting
1998 ● "Lin Jingjing, The International Yiyuan Art museum, Beijing, China
1997 ● "Dreamlike Flower: Lin Jingjing's painting Exhibition, Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai, China
1996 ● "Lin Jingjing Oil Painting Exhibition, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
Group Exhibitions
2021 ● "Rose Rose" Performance, Chashama, Manhattan, New York, USA
2021 ● Please Form A Straight Line, Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonio, USA
2019 ● Light Year 55, Video Art exhibition projected onto the Manhattan Bridge, New York, USA
2019 ●Look Both Ways, SVA Chelsea Gallery, New York, USA
2019 ●Escape From, Escape To, SVA Chelsea Gallery, New York, USA
2018 ●The Encuentros Abiertos-Festival de la Luz, Centro Cultural Conti, CABA, Argentina
2016 ●"SHE",International Women Artists Exhibition,Long Museum, Shanghai, China
2016 ●"Half the sky",Red Gate Gallery,Beijing, China
2014 ● "CCTV",Galerie Herold,Bremen, Germany
2013 ●" Chinese Contemporary Art" Saint Mart 's university Art Museum, Nova Scotia, Canada
2012 ●" Short Cut "Alexander Ochs Gallery ,Berlin, Germany
2011 ●" Half the sky: women in the new of China " Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
2010 ● "The Possibility of Uncertainty "Song zhuang Art Museum, Beijing, China
2010 ,● “Cruzando El Horizonte " Chinese contemporary Art, Chile National Art museum, Santiago, Chile
2009 ● Gemeinsam in Bewegung-Deutschland und China contemporary art, Wuhan museum, China
2008 ● 55 Days in Valencia , Chinese art meeting , Ivam museum,Valencia, Spain
2007 ● "Journey to the west " Kunstraum, Vienna, Austria
2005 ● Archaeology of The Future” The Second Triennial Of Chinese Art, Nanjing Museum,China
2004 ● EAST OF EAST, Ljubljana Castle, Ljubljana, Slovenja
2004 ● "One to one: visions—recent photographs from China" at Chambers Gallery, New York, USA
2003 ● "The Different Same---contemporary Art exchange Exhibition,Du Land Modern Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2003 ● "The First China Art Tri-annual Exhibition", Guangzhou Art Museum, China
2002 ● "Cultural Forum -- New Millennium Chinese Art " Tikanoja Art Museum, Vaasa, Finland
2001 ● "21st Century Chinese Oil Paintings Exhibition" The National Art museum of China, Beijing, China
Education:
MFA (Art Practice) School of Visual art, New York, USA