BIOGRAPHY
1961 Born in Beijing, China
1984 BFA, Department of Oil Painting, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
1986 Atelier of Technique of Painting, L’École national supérieur des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
1989 MA, Department of Studio Art, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
Present Lives and works in New York, USA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
West Bund Art & Design, Shanghai, China
Lin Yan: Lemaire-Beijing Gateway, Dover Street Market Taikooli, Beijing, China
Lin Yan: No Return, Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
2019-2020
Lin Yan: Origin Point, Helwaser Gallery, New York, USA
2017-2018
Lin Yan: Gateway, Fou Gallery, New York, USA
2014
Lin Yan: Beyond Xuan, Associazione Culturale Officina, Brussels, Belgium
Lin Yan: Dispelling the Clouds, Tenri Culture Institute, New York, USA
Lin Yan: Paperweight, Fou Gallery, New York, USA
2013
Lin Yan: Embracing Stillness, Sprint Flatiron Prow Art Space, New York, USA
2012
Lin Yan: Enshrouded, Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, New York, USA
2008
Lin Yan: Remaking, China Square, New York, USA
2006
Lin Yan: Echoes in the Moment, China 2000 Fine Art, New York, USA
1996
Lin Yan: To Beijing, Open House Exhibition, New York, USA
1991
Lin Yan: The Beginning, Twin Cranes Gallery, Seattle, USA
1988
Lin Yan: Tai Chi in Painting, Haas Gallery, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023-2024
Pure Painting: Spring Equinox (II), Yan Art, Beijing, China
2023
Seeking the City: 2023 Datong Contemporary Art Season, Southeast Historical and Cultural District, Datong, China
In the Mood for Love: Chinese Female Artists from Song Dynasty to Modern Day, VillageOne Space, New York, USA
Mountain Ridge, WS Gallery, Shanghai, China
2022
When All At Once I Turn My Head, I Find Her There Where Lantern Light Is Brightly Shed, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing, China
From Lausanne to Beijing: 12th International Fiber Art Biennial, Yunnan Provincial Museum, Kunming, China
2021-2022
Big in China, White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Super Fusion: 2021 Chengdu Biennial, Chengdu City Art Museum, Chengdu, China
2021
In the Midst of It All, G Museum, Nanjing, China
Carry-On III, Yuan Art Museum, Beijing, China
Spring Fever 2021, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China
2020-2021
Re - Destination, Yuan Art Museum Wuqing, Tianjin, China
2020
Reflecting the Sharing Moment, Central Academy of Fine Arts online exhibition, Beijing, China
Salon Salon: Contemporary Art Practices from 1972 - 1982 in Profile: A Beijing Perspective, Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China
A Tale of Two Cities: New York, VillageOne Space, New York, USA
Clouds Gathering and Unfolding: An Exhibition of Modern Chinese Art on Paper, Ichihara Lakeside Museum, Chiba-ken, Japan
2019-2020
Mind Your Gap, The Delaware Contemporary, Delaware, USA
2019
The Latent Paradigm, Research on the Status and Ecology of Chinese Contemporary Art 2019, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
The Splendid Languages of Paper, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
Cross-Cultural Practice: Recent Works by Chinese Artists in New York, New York City College of Technology, New York, USA
A Material Lineage: Pang Tao and Lin Yan, Pearl Lam Gallery, Shanghai, China
2018-2019
New Ink Art in China 1978-2018, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
The 2018 Guang’an Field Art Biennial, Baozhensai, Sichuan, China
2017-2018
Useless Value: Lin Yan, Yin Xiuzhen, Ai Jing, Wanying Art Space, Shijiazhuang, China
2017
Loom: Contemporary Art, Jinji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou, China
Crisscrossing East and West: The Remaking of Ink Art in Contemporary East Asia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Yingchuan, China
The Dark Matters, White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2016-2017
3rd CAFAM Biennial, Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
2015
Sovrapposizioni Di Immagini, Casa Dei Carraresi, Treviso, Italy
2014-2015
Double Vision: The Culture China - Overseas Chinese Women Invitational Exhibition, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen. China
2014
China Twelfth National Art Exhibition: Mixed Media Paintings, Hebei Museum, Shijiazhuang, China
Modernity 3.0: Bridging East-West Art, 80 WSE Gallery, New York University, New York, USA
Tales of Two Cities: New York & Beijing, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT, USA
2013
New York Beijing, Here There, Yuan Art Museum, Beijing, China
2012-2013
Art on Paper 2012 Biennial, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, USA
2012
4th Taipei Contemporary Ink Painting Biennial, National Democracy Memorial Hall, Taipei, Taiwan
Phoenix Singing: Traveling Exhibition of Contemporary Female Art, Tree Museum, Beijing, China
Vaulting Limits, Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, USA
2011
Art on Paper, Gallery North, Long Island, New York, USA
Asian Variegations, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA
2011 Paper Art Biennial, National Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
Giving and Receiving: A Collaborative Exhibition of Contemporary Artists from China and USA, CU Art Museum, University of Colorado, Denver, USA
2010
3rd Contemporary Ink Painting Biennial, Taipei National Museum of History, Taiwan
Spring Equinox, Yuan Art Museum, Beijing, China
2009-2010
Living Ink, Gallery Korea, Korean Cultural Centre, New York, USA
2009
Here & Now: Chinese Artists in New York Chapter 1, Museum of Chinese in America, New York, USA
Making It, Deutsche Bank 60 Wall St. Gallery, New York, USA
2008
Art Graduate Reunion Exhibition: Class of 1980, Studio III, Department of Oil Painting: Celebrating 90th anniversary of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Loft 3 Gallery, 798 District, Beijing, China
Shanghai MoCA Envisage II: Butterfly Dream, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
Cross Reference: 11 Artists from NY, Shuimo Art Space, 798 District, Beijing, China
Then and Now: Chinese Art from 1710 to 2007, Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH, USA
Chinese Gardens for Living: Illusion into Reality, The Dresden State Art Collections, Germany
The Transforming Marks of Ink, The Dresden State Art Collections, Germany
Chinese Traditions Reconfigured, Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, CT, USA
2007-2008
Touched by Women’s Hands, curated by Lin Yan, Smithsonian Institution, Flushing Town Hall, New York; Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, New York, USA
Qi Yun: International Traveling Exhibition of Chinese Abstract Art, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China; Artist Commune, Hong Kong; China Square, New York, USA
2007
Art Beijing, National Agricultural Exhibition Centre, Beijing, China
3rd Chengdu Biennial, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu, China
Responding & Corresponding, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
In and Out, 2x13 Gallery, New York, USA
Language / Environment, Contemporary Museum of Art of Beijing, Beijing, China
2006-2007
Curators’ Choice: China, Art, Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA, USA
2006
Transplant-Transculture, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY, USA
Travelers Between Cultures: Xu Bing, Gu Wenda, Lin Yilin, Lin Yan and Zhang Hongtu, Visual Arts Centre of New Jersey, NJ, USA
Trans-Boundary Experiences, Spool MFG, Binghamton, NY, USA
Brooklyn, Westport Arts Centre, CT, USA
New Chinese Occidentalism: Chinese Contemporary Art in NY, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, USA
2005
Simplicity in Life, Crystal Foundation Gallery, New York, USA
Simplicity in Life 2, William Fellows Architects, New York, USA
2003
Between the Lines, curated by Lin Yan, China 2000 Fine Art, New York, USA
The Paper Chase: Creations in Paper, curated by Lin Yan, China 2000 Fine Art, New York, USA
2002
Visual Dialogue, curated by Lin Yan, China 2000 Fine Art, New York, USA
2000
Art Span: Three Generations, Nine Artists in One Family, Satellite Show of Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai, China
1999
Global Roots: Artists from China Working in New York, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
1998
Three Generations of Chinese Modernism: Qiu Ti, Pang Tao, Lin Yan, Soho20 Gallery, New York, USA; National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
1995
Recent Paintings by Chinese-American Artists, Cork Gallery, Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Centre, New York, USA
NY Soho Biennial ’95, 450 Broadway, New York, USA
Man Woman Child/ Husband Wife Son, Gallery Contempo, Jubilee Arts Centre, New York, USA
1994
Qi, Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
1991
Second Spring: Contemporary Chinese Painting & Sculpture, University of San Diego, San Diego; San Diego State University, San Diego, USA
1987
From Central Academy of Fine Arts, Museum of Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo, Japan
1985
National Youth Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
1984
Beijing City Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
1979
1st Annual Exhibition of China Oil Painting, Association Zhongshan Park, Beijing, China
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Deutsche Bank Art Corporate Citizenship Art, New York, USA
White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Yuan Art Museum, Beijing, China
Long Museum, Shanghai, China
Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu, China
Teda Contemporary Art Museum, Tianjin, China
Pang Xunqin Museu, Changshu, China
