Li Jin​

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Born in Tianjin, China in 1958. He graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in 1983 and served as Associate Professor of the Chinese Painting Department of the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts until 2018. Since 1985, his works have been exhibited in the United States, Germany, Britain, Sweden, Austria, Hangzhou, Jinan, Shanghai, Beijing, Taipei, Hong Kong, South Korea, Australia and other parts of the world, including the China Art Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Boston Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum, Today Art Museum, Melbourne University Ian Porter Art Museum and many other art institutions. He has also published many books and talks.

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He saw the heavenly burial in Tibet in my twenties. People are born to eat everything, while after their death, bald eagles will feed on their body. This world is full of eating, multiplying, fighting. However, people will just return to the earth, in spite of their richness, poverty, joys, and sorrows.

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"Li Jin Art Exhibition", 1990, Wilanova University Gallery, Philadelphia, USA

"Li Jin Figure Painting Exhibition", 1994, Beijing Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

"Flowers Outside the Wall-Li Jin's Ink Painting Exhibition", 1995, Han Mo Chun Xia Gallery, Beijing, China

"Li Jin Ink Painting Exhibition", 1996, Jinghuayuan Gallery, Vienna, Austria

"Li Jin's Ink Painting Exhibition", 2000, Bowman Art Museum, Stockholm, Sweden

"Li Jin's Personal New Ink Painting", 2001, Siheyuan Gallery, Beijing, China

· "Li Jin Ink Painting Exhibition", 2001, Ray Hugh Gallery, Sydney, Australia

"Contemporary Men and Women", 2002, No. 1 Gallery, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China

"Li Jin: Banquet", 2003, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA

"Li Jin: New Works", 2004, Siheyuan Gallery, Beijing, China

"Contemporary Men and Women", 2005, Hans Gallery, San Francisco, USA

"Contemporary Men and Women-Li Jin Color Ink Painting Exhibition", 2005, Tang Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand

"Simple Happiness: Living with Li Jin", 2005, Asian Art Choice, Singapore

"Li Jin's New Works Exhibition", 2006, Jiujiu Gallery, Aishafenburg, Germany

"Li Jin's Personal Painting Exhibition", 2006, Ray Hugh Gallery, Sydney, Australia

"Li Jin", 2006, Art Scene Gallery, Shanghai, China

"Contemporary Men and Women", 2007, Artset Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

"Li Jin Painting Exhibition", 2008, Dittmar Gallery, Berlin, Germany

"The Art of Li Jin", 2009, Kunstraum-Bernusstrabe, Frankfurt, Germany

"Live Diary-Li Jin's Ink and Wash Experiment", 2014, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China

"Contemporary Men and Women-Li Jin's New Works Exhibition", 2014, Victoria Art Museum, Melbourne, Australia

"Li Jin's New Works Exhibition", 2014, Hughes Gallery, Sydney, Australia

"The Life of the Unknown: Thirty Years of Li Jin", 2015, Long Museum, Shanghai, China

"Kyushu Tour", Hi Art Center, 2016, Beijing, China

"2016 Context New York Li Jin Solo Exhibition", 2016, Context New York, New York, USA

"Freedom", 2016, Mozhai Gallery, Beijing, China

Some group exhibitions

Resurrection of Tradition-Another Clue for Chinese Contemporary Art ", 2015, China Pavilion, Javits Convention Center, New York, New York, USA

 

"Invitation Exhibition of New Works of Chinese Painting", 1985, Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan, China

"National Art Exhibition of Chinese Youth in Progress", 1985, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

"Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts Exhibition", 1986, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Tianjin, China

"Chinese Modern Art Exhibition", 1989, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

"Six People's Ink Painting Exhibition of Mainland China", 1995, Singapore Folk Art Garden, Singapore

"96 Fifteen People Exhibition", 1996, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China

"The First Academic Invitational Exhibition of Chinese Painters", 1998, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

"New Chinese Painting Exhibition", 2000, Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai, China; Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum, Nanjing, China

"Twenty Years of Chinese Ink Painting Experiment: 1980-2001", 2001, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

"The First Chengdu Biennale", 2001, Chengdu Modern Art Museum, Chengdu, China

"Annual Invitational Exhibition of Chinese Artists in the 21st Century", 2001, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China

"China-Korea Modern Art Exhibition", 2002, Korea Modern Art Exhibition Center, Seoul, South Korea

"CHINART", 2002, Duisburg Museum, Duisburg, Germany

 "International Painting on Paper", 2003, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA

"The Open Age", 2003, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

"Invitation Exhibition of New Freehand Ink Painting", 2004, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

"Collection Exhibition of National Art Museum of China", 2005, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

"You are different from mine", 2005, Ian Porter Art Museum, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

"Today's Chinese Art Exhibition", 2006, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

"Chinese Ink and Wash Literature Exhibition 1976-2006", 2006, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China

"Li Jin · Wuyi Works Exhibition", 2006, Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China

"Restart-The Third Chengdu Biennale", 2007, Chengdu Modern Art Museum, Chengdu, China

"Ink Painting Focus: 2007 Contemporary Chinese Painting Invitational Exhibition", 2007, Exhibition Hall of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China

"Contemporary Chinese Version", 2007, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

"Art Changsha 2007-Fang Lijun, Wang Yin, Li Luming, Mao Yan, Li Jin Art Exhibition", 2007, Hunan Provincial Museum, Changsha Bamboo Slip Museum, Changsha, China

 "Sensory Feast", 2007, Asia Pacific Museum, Pasadena, USA

"Temperament and Civilization-History of Transformation: Chinese New Art from 2000 to 2009", 2010, National Convention Center, Beijing, China

"Exhibition of" Four Gates "Contemporary School Inheritance of Contemporary Ink and Wash", 2009, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

"Chinese Contemporary Ink Art", 2009, Berlin National Gallery, Berlin, Germany; Dresden National Art Collection, Dresden, Germany

"Mo Fei Mo-Invitational Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Ink and Wash", 2009, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China

"Li Jin", 2010, Kasten Gallery, Mannheim, Germany

"Being a Disciple with the Ancients-A Response from Ten Chinese Artists", 2010, Boston Museum of Art, Boston, USA

"Li Jinyi Square Feet Painting Exhibition", 2010, Houtian Art Gallery, Beijing, China

"Reproduction of Ink Painting", 2011, Chinese Cultural Center, Berlin, Germany

"Chinese Writing", 2011, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

“Mobi · Unfamiliar Contemporary—Contemporary Chinese Ink Art Exhibition”, 2012, Guan Shanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen, China

"Ink Painting-Chinese Art", 2012, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK