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Born in Taiyuan Shanxi Province, China
Education
1984
Graduated from Fine Art Department, Capital Normal University, China
1989
Graduated from Art Student League, New York, USA
Currently lives in Beijing, China
Solo Exhibitions
2008
Mother's!!!, Long March Space, Beijing, China
2007
Focus: on Paper, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
2004
Non Zero, Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Beijing, China
2002
Focus, The Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China
1997
Bound-Unbound 1995-1997, Gallery of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
1995
Open Studio, Baofang Hutong 12#, Beijing, China
Group Exhibitions
2008
Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Kuntsmuseum, Bern, Switzerland
2006
Asian Contemporary Art In Print in Celebration of Asia Society's 50th Anniversary 2006, Asia Society and Museum, New York, USA
Asian Contemporary Art In Print, The Gallery of Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI)
Martell Artist of the Year 2006, National Gallery of China, Beijing
2005
Rapt: Austral-Asia Zero Five, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia
About Beauty, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
ShangHai Cool—Creative Reproduction, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
The New Works of Wang, Gong Xin & Lin Tianmiao, Courtyard Gallery Annex, Beijing, China
Mahiong, Museum of Fine Arts, Bern, Switzerland
Xiangfeng! Chinese avant-garde sculpture, Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, The Netherands
Fairy Tales Forever, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Denmark
2004
Between Past and Future, ICP and Museum of Asia Society, New York, USA; MoMA, Chicago, USA
Concrete Horizons, Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Officina Asia, Gallery d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
2003
Echigo-Tsunami Art Triennial, Japan
Arles Photograph Art Festival, Arles, France
New Zone Chinese Art, Zacheta National Art Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2002
2nd Fukouka Asian Art Trienniale 2002, Fukouka Asian Art Museum, Japan
Gwangju Bienniale 2002, Korea
Ireland Biennale 2002, Ireland
Shanghai Biennale 2002, Shanghai Art Museum, China
Guangzhou Triennale 2002, Art Museum, China
Paris-Pekin, Espace Cardin, Paris, France
2001
Shout on the Face, Earl Lu Gallery Lasalle – Sia College of the Arts, Singapore
The New-Media Art Festival: Non-Linear Narrative, The Gallery of National Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
Threads of Vision: Toward a New Feminine Poetics, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Ohio, USA
Floating Chimeras, Edsvik Konst Och Kultur, Sweden
Translated Acts, Haus der Kuluren der Welt, Berlin, Germany and Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA
Wang GongXin & Lin Tianmiao's New Works, Loft New Media Art Space, Beijing, China
The Digital Art Festival 2001, Loft New Media Art Space, Beijing, China
2000
At the New Century 1979-1999, Chengdu Museum of Contemporary Art, China
Inside/Out New Chinese Art, National Gallery of Australia
Home? Contemporary Art Project, Shanghai, China
Inside/Out New Chinese Art, Hong Kong Museum of Contemporary Art, Hong Kong, China
Bed/Chair, Xuxian Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
1999
Revolutionary Capitals: Beijing in London, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
The Second Yearlong Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, He Xiang Ning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Inside/Out New Chinese Art, SFMoMA, San Francisco, California, USA
Magnetic Writing/ Marching Ideas, Works on Paper, It Park Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Cologne/Beijing/Beijing/Cologne: Exchange Exhibition, Gothaer Kunstforum, Cologne, Germany
Inside/Out New Chinese Art, Mexico Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico City, Mexico
Food for Thought: An Insight in Chinese Contemporary Art, Mu Art Foundation, Netherlands
1998
Mark of Existence: Art Workshop in Process, Beijing, China
Woman – Century, National Gallery of China, Beijing, China
Life: Contemporary Chinese Art, Wan Fung Art Gallery, Beijing, China
Neo Lagoon: Contemporary Art of North East Asia, Niigata Prefecture Museum, Japan
Inside/Out: New Chinese Art, Asia Society, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
1997
Crack in the Continent, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Fifth International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
Between Ego and Society, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, USA
Another Long March, Chasse Kazerme, Breda, Netherlands
Against the Tide, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, USA
Demonstration of Video Art 1997, Gallery of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
1995
File No.1 – Conceptual Documents for Impossible Art, Soho Biennial, New York, USA
Women Approach to Contemporary Art, Beijing Art Museum, Beijing, China
Chinese Women's Artists Invitation Show, National Gallery of China, Beijing, China
1993
Group Show, Ground Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
1988
Group Show, City Gallery, Courtland, New York, USA
1985
Beijing Youth Painting Exhibition, National Gallery of China, Beijing, China
Youth Artist Association Show, National Gallery of China, Beijing, China
1984
Beijing Youth Painting Exhibition, Liulichang, Beijing, China
Publications
1995
Exhibition Reviews: Lin Tianmiao, Asia – Pacific Sculpture (Spring 95), 49. Karen Smith
In Peking wird eine menge riskiert, Art (August 95), 45. Aktionen die Obrigkeit
1996
Metropolitan Individuals, Flash Art (Nov-Dec 1996) Hou Hanru
1997
Lin Tianmiao at the Central Academy of Fine Art, Sculpture News, (Winter 97), 54. Karen Smith
Breakout and Transcendence After the Rebellion, New Tendencies in Chinese Contemporary Art (Since the Mid-1980s)
"Gathering Wind", 1997 Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Watari Museum, 175. Qian Zhijian
Towards the Millennium: From Land's End to the Peripheral Verge, 1997 Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Watari Museum 154. Karen Smith
Somewhere Between Utopia and Chaos: Contemporary Chinese Art Today, Another Long March (Catalogue of the exhibition), Breda, Netherlands, Hou Hanru
Istanbul Biennial: Curatorial Interpretations, Flash Art (Nov-Dec. 1997) Rosa Martinez
Against the Tide, (Brochure for the show), July 1997, Lydia Yee
1998
Against the Tide, Art, Asia Pacific (January 1998), 100 Francesca Dal Lago
Asia sits so close yet so far – Contemporary expression of North East Asia, Neo Lagoon—Contemporary Art of North East Asia (Catalogue of the exhibition), Japan, Arata Tani
Cream—Contemporary Art in Culture, (10 Curators, 10 Writers, 100 Artists), Rosa Martinez
1999
Thread Concrete and Women's Installation Art in China, Art Asia Pacific (1999), Melissa Chiu