Li Jin
1958
Born  in  Tianjin,  China
1983
Graduated  from  Chinese  Painting  Department  of  Tianjin  Academy  of  Fine  Arts
Presently  Associate  Professor  at  Chinese  Painting  Department  of  Tianjin  Academy  of  Fine  Arts
 
SELECTED  AWARDS  &  HONORS
2014
"Artist  of  the  Year "  granted  by  L 'OFFICIEL  Art  2013
2013
"Ink  Artist  of  the  Year "  granted  by  AAC  ·  Art  China  2012
 
SELECTED  SOLO  EXHIBITIONS
2016
The  Trip  in  Kyushu  -  Latest  Works  of  Li  Jin,  Lin  Gallery,  Beijing,  China
Li  Jin:  Being,  Ink  studio,  Beijing,  China
2015        
The  Sensory  Life  of  the  Mass:  30  Years  of  Li  Jin,  Long  Museum,  Shanghai,  China
2014
The  Roots  of  Pleasure:  The  Paintings  and  Sculpture  of  Li  Jin,  Sotheby’s  Hong  Kong  Gallery,  Hong  Kong  S.A.R.,  China
Li  Jin,  I  Must  Be  Myself,  L’Officiel  Art  Space,  Beijing,  China
Banquet  ·  An  Exhibition  of  works  by  Li  Jin,  Museum  of  Contemporary  Art  Xinjiang,  Urumqi,  China
Li  Jin  New  Art  Work  Exhibition,  Houtian  Gallery,  Beijing,  China
Merrymaking:  Li  Jin’s  Solo  Exhibition,  Gallery  100,  Taipei
On  the  Spot  Journal-Li  Jin’s  Experimental  Ink  Painting,  Shanghai  Exhibition  Center,  Shanghai,  China
2013
Eat  and  Drink,  Man,  Woman,  The  Victorian  Artists  Society,  Melbourne,  Australia
Li  Jin  –  New  Work,  The  Hughes  Gallery,  Sydney,  Australia
2012  
Li  Jin  ·  Today  ·  Banquet,  Today  Art  Museum,  Beijing,  China
Tuschmalerei  (Ink  Paintings),  Dittmar  Gallery,  Berlin,  Germany
Li  Jin  New  Year  Work  Exhibition,  Houtian  Gallery,  Beijing,  China
2010
Li  Jin,  Kasten  Gallery,  Mannheim,  Germany
Li  Jin:  One  Square  Meter  Paintings,  Houtian  Gallery,  Beijing,  China
2009
The  Art  of  Li  Jin,  Kunstraum-Bernusstrabe,  Frankfurt,  Germany
2008  
Malerei  und  Tuschzeichnungen  (Paintings  and  Ink  Drawings),  Dittmar  Gallery,  Berlin,  Germany
2007
A  Feast,  Food  and  Sex,  Artside  Gallery,  Seoul,  Korea
2006  
Li  Jin’s  New  Works,  Gallery  99,  Aschaffenburg,  Germany  
Li  Jin  Solo,  Ray  Hughes  Gallery,  Sydney,  Australia
Li  Jin  -  Solo  Exhibition,  Art  Scene  China,  Shanghai,  China
2005
Eat,  Drink,  Man,  Woman,  Haines  Gallery,  San  Francisco,  USA
Art  Exhibition  By  Li  Jin:  Eat,  Drink,  Man,  Woman,  Tang  Contemporary  Art,  Bangkok,  Thailand
Simple  Pleasures—Passing  Time  with  Li  Jin,  Asian  Art  Options,  Singapore
2004
Li  Jin:  New  Works,  Courtyard  Gallery,  Beijing,  China
2003
Li  Jin:  A  Feast,  Seattle  Art  Museum,  Seattle,  USA
2002
Eat,  Drink,  Man,  Woman—Paintings  by  Li  Jin,  Yan  Gallery,  Hong  Kong  S.A.R.,  China
2001
Li  Jin  New  Ink  Paintings,  Courtyard  Gallery,  Beijing,  China
Li  Jin  Ink  Painting  Exhibition,  Ray  Hughes  Gallery,  Sydney,  Australia
2000
Li  Jin 's  Ink  Figure  Paintings,  Baulmann  Gallery,  Stockholm,  Sweden
1996
Li  Jin  Ink  Exhibition,  Mirrors  and  Flower  Gallery,  Vienna,  Austria
1995
Flowers  Out  of  the  Wall  –  Li  Jin  Ink  Exhibition,  Spring-Summer  Paniting  Gallery,  Beijing,  China
1994
Li  Jin  Figures  Paintings,  Museum  of  Contemporary  Art  Beijing,  Beijing,  China
1990
Li  Jin  Art  Exhibition,  Villanova  University  Art  Gallery,  Philadelphia,  USA

SELECTED  GROUP  EXHIBITIONS
2016
The  Magic  of  Characters-3000  years  of  Chinese  calligraphy,Museum  of  East  Asian  Art  ,Cologne,  German
Being  and  Inking—Documenting  Contemporary  InkArt  (2001-2016),Redtory  Museum  of  Contemporary  Art,Guangzhou,China
Permanent  Abstraction——Epiphanies  of  a  Modern  Form  in  Escaped  Totalities,Red  Brick  Art  Museum

2015
The  Revival  of  Tradition:  Another  Approach  to  Contemporary  Chinese  Art,  Jacob  K.  Javits  Convention  Center,  New  York,  USA
2014
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
         
Poetry  Calligraphy  Painting  Magazine’s  First  Annual  Exhibition:  Male·Female,  Shandong  Art  Museum,  Jinan,  China
Within  and  Without—Transformations  in  Chinese  Landscapes,  Cantor  Arts  Center  at  Stanford  University,  Stanford,  USA
Ink  and  the  Body,  Ink  Studio,  Beijing,  China
In  Sequence—Chinese  Contemporary  Ink  Art  Exhibition,  Zhejiang  Art  Museum,  Hangzhou,  China
China’s  Changing  Landscape—Contemporary  Chinese  Ink,  Nordiska  Akvarellmuseet  (Nordic  Watercolour  Museum),  Skärhamn,  Sweden
2013
Portrait  of  the  Times—30  Years  of  Chinese  Contemporary  Art,  Power  Station  of  Art,  Shanghai,  China
Illusion/Image—Contemporary  Chinese  Ink  Art  Series  I,  Hive  Centre  of  Contemporary  Art,  Beijing,  China
The  Origin  of  Dao—New  Dimensions  in  Chinese  Contemporary  Art,  Hong  Kong  Museum  of  Art,  Hong  Kong  S.A.R.,  China
2012
Chinese  Contemporary  Ink  Art  Exhibition,  Guan  Shanyue  Art  Museum,  Shenzhen,  China
Ink:  The  Art  of  China,  The  Saatchi  Gallery,  London,  UK
Shuimo/Water  Ink:  Chinese  Contemporary  Ink  Paintings,  Sotheby’s,  New  York,  USA
Re-Ink:  Invitational  Exhibition  of  Contemporary  Ink  and  Wash  Painting  2000-2012,  Hubei  Museum  of  Art,  Wuhan,  China;  Today  Art  Museum,  Beijing,  China.
2011
Re-Interpretation,  China  Cultural  Centre,  Berlin,  Germany
Expression  of  Chinese  Contemporary  Art,  Today  Art  Museum,  Beijing,  China
2010
Fresh  Ink:  Ten  Takes  on  Chinese  Tradition,  Museum  of  Fine  Arts,  Boston,  USA
Temperament  and  Civilization—Reshaping  History:  Chinart  from  2000  to  2009,  China  National  Convention  Center,  Beijing,  China
2009
Four  Square  Exhibition  on  Inheritance  of  Chinese  Contemporary  Ink,  Today  Art  Museum,  Beijing,  China
2008  
Chinese  Contemporary  Ink  Art,  Staatliche  Museen  zu  Berlin,  Berlin,  Germany;  Staatliche  Kunstsammlungen  Dresden,  Dresden,  Germany.
Ink  Not  Ink,  Shenzhen  Art  Museum,  Shenzhen,  China
2007
Reboot—The  3rd  Chengdu  Biennale,  Chengdu  Tomorrow’s  Fine  Arts  and  Technology  Gallery  and  Museum,  Chengdu,  China
Focus  on  Ink:  2007  Invitational  Exhibition  of  Contemporary  Chinese  Ink  Art,  CAFA  Museum,  Beijing,  China
Contemporary  Cultural  Venation  ·  China  Version,  Today  Art  Museum,  Beijing,  China
2007  Art  Changsha—Fang  Lijun,  Wang  Yin,  Li  Luming,  Mao  Yan,  Li  Jin,  Hunan  Provincial  Museum,  Changsha  Bamboo  Slips  Museum,  Changsha,  China
Banquet:  A  Feast  for  the  Senses,  Pacific  Asia  Museum,  Pasadena,  USA
2006
Chinese  Art  Today,  National  Art  Museum  of  China,  Beijing,  China
Retrospective  Exhibition  on  Chinese  Ink  Art,  1976–2006,  Nanjing  Museum,  China
Li  Jin  ·  Wu  Yi  Artwork  Exhibition,  CAFA  Art  Museum,  Beijing  China
2005
Collections  Exhibition  of  National  Art  Museum  of  China,  National  Art  Museum  of  China,  Beijing,  China
The  Difference  Between  You  and  Me,  The  Ian  Potter  Museum  of  Art,  The  University  of  Melbourne,  Australia
2004
Fresh  Brushwork  in  Chinese  Painting  Exhibition,  National  Art  Museum  of  China,  Beijing,  China
2003
International  Paper—Drawings  by  Emerging  Artists,  the  Hammer  Museum,  Los  Angeles,  USA
An  Opening  Era,  National  Art  Museum  of  China,  Beijing,  China
2002
Chinese  and  Korean  Modern  Art  Exhibition,  Korean  Modern  Art  Exhibition  Center,  Seoul,  Korea
“CHINART”,  MKM  Museum  Küppersmühle,  Duisburg,  Germany
2001
China:  20  Years  of  Ink  Experiment  1980-2001,  Guangdong  Museum  of  Art,  Guangzhou,  China
The  First  Chengdu  Biennale,  Chengdu  Tomorrow’s  Fine  Arts  and  Technology  Gallery  and  Museum,,  Chengdu,  China
21st  Century  Chinese  Artists  Annual  Invitation  Exhibition,  Nanjing  Museum,  Nanjing,  China
2000
Neo-Inkpaintings,  Liu  Haisu  Art  Museum,  Shanghai,  China;  Jiangsu  Art  Museum,  Nanjing,  China
1998
First  Invitation  Exhibition  of  Chinese  Ink  Painters,  National  Art  Museum  of  China,  Beijing,  China
1996          
Exhibition  of  15  Artists  in  1996,  National  Art  Museum  of  China,  Beijing,  China
1995          
Ink  Figure  Paintings  by  Six  Chinese  Artists,  Soobin  Art  Int 'l,  Singapore
1989          
China/Avant-Garde,National  Art  Museum  of  China,  Beijing,  China
1986
Exhibition  of  Four  Artists  at  Tianjin  Academy  of  Fine  Arts,  Tianjin  Academy  of  Fine  Arts  Gallery,  Tianjin,  China
1985        
Invitational  Exhibition  of  New  Works  of  Chinese  Painting,  Wuhan  Art  Museum,  Wuhan,  China
The  Advancing  Chinese  Youth  Fine  Art  Exhibition,National  Art  Museum  of  China,  Beijing,  China
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
SELECTED  COLLECTIONS

National  Art  Museum  of  China,  Beijing,  China
Museum  of  Fine  Arts,  Boston,  USA
Seattle  Art  Museum,  Seattle,  USA
Museum  of  Fine  Arts,  University  of  Washington,  Seattle,  USA
Today  Art  Museum,  Beijing,  China
Hong  Kong  Museum  of  Art,  Hong  Kong  S.A.R.,  China
Guangzhou  Museum  of  Art,  Guangzhou,  China
San  Francisco  State  University,  San  Francisco,  USA
The  Hammer  Museum,  Los  Angeles,  USA
Ray  Hughes  Gallery,  Sydney,  Australia
The  Ian  Potter  Museum  of  Art,  The  University  of  Melbourne,  Melbourne,  Australia
Berkeley  Art  Museum,  University  of  California,  Berkeley,  USA