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Li Jin PROFILE WORKS EXHIBITION	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