Lin Yan

 

 

1961   Born in Beijing

1984   Graduated from Central Academy of Fine Arts, Oil Painting Department, Beijng

1985-86   Atelier of Technique of Painting, L'École Nationale Supérieur des Beaux-Arts, Paris

1989   Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, Master of Fine Arts, Bloomsburg

 

Solo Exhibitions

1988   Tai Chi in Painting, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

1991   The Beginning, Twin Cranes Gallery, Seattle

1996   To Beijing, Open House Exhibition, New York

2005   Lin Yan – Drawings and Paintings, Crystal Foundation Gallery, New York

2006   Echoes in the Moment, China 2000 Fine Art, New York

Group Exhibitions

1979   1st Annual Exhibition of China Oil Painting Association, Zhongshan Park, Beijing

1985   National Youth Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing

1994   Qi – Lin Yan, Xie Dongming, Gallery of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing

1995   Man Woman Child/Husband Wife Son, Gallery Contempo-Jubilee Arts Center, New York

1998   Three Generations of Chinese Modernism – Qiu Ti, Pang Tao, Lin Yan, Soho20 Gallery, New

                  York, National Art Museum of China, Beijing; Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver

2006   visibleinvisible, onemoon, Beijing

            Curators' Choice: China Art, Complex Museum, Duxbury

            New Chinese Occidentalism - Chinese Contemporary Art in New York, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts,

                   New York

2007   3rd Chengdu Biennial, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu

            Corresponding & Responding, National Art Museum of China, Beijing

            Travelers Between Cultures: Lin Yan, Xu Bing, Wenda Gu, Lin Yilin, Zhang Hongtu, Visual Arts

                  Center of New Jersey

2008   Touched by Women's Hands, Flushing Council of Culture and Arts; Smithsonian Institution;

                  Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, New York

            Qi Yun, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal of He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen; Beijing Art

                  Now Gallery, Beijing; Hanart T Z Gallery, Artist Commune, Hong Kong; China Square

                  Gallery, New York

            Chinese Gardens for Living: Illusion into Reality, Dresden State Museum, Germany

            The Transforming Marks of Ink, Dresden State Museum, Germany

            Shanghai MoCA Envisage II - Butterfly Dream, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai

            Quiet Quest:  From Realism to Abstraction, onemoon, Beijing