Artist
JIN RUOXI
Biography
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Jin Ruoxi, born in 1997 in Harbin, China, is a Paris-based cross-disciplinary artist who received her diploma in 2024 from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, studying under the atelier of Guillaume Paris. Her concept-driven installation practice engages with unconventional forms, integrating performative and theatrical elements where the notion of presence lingers, shifts, and merges with fictional narratives. Props, tools, and found objects are often integrated into her work, repurposed through malfunction or disuse, evoking vulnerability across physical, emotional, economic, and political dimensions. The original sovereignty of historical contexts or objects is disrupted and reconfigured, giving rise to a parallel universe where the obsolete, uncertain, or incomplete transcends material limitations, opening a portal to new meanings and redefined legitimacy. Coming from a multi-religious family and a neurologist parent, she explores the interplay between purpose and disrepair, as well as the dichotomy of existence and void, interrogating the permeable thresholds between perceptible and perceivable reality.
In 2025, Jin was one of the six laureates in the second edition of ‘Mennour Emergence’ programme. She was also the laureate of the 2024 collections entry program selected by les Amis des Beaux-Arts de Paris. Her solo exhibitions include: ‘REGRETS’ at Beaux-Arts de Paris (2024). Recent group exhibitions include: ‘Mennour Emergence #2’ at Mennour, Paris (2025); ‘L’art et la vie et inversement’ at Palais des Beaux-Arts de Paris (2025); ‘Projet Église des Trinitaires’ at Église des Trinitaires de Metz (2025); ‘Crush’ at Beaux-Arts de Paris (2024); ‘Unique objet de mon ressentiment’ at Galerie de L’IESA (2024); ‘Souvenirs de jeunesse’ at Palais des Beaux-Arts de Paris (2024); and ‘Répétition Générale’ at Galerie du Crous, Paris (2024). 
Jin Ruoxi, Dernières volontés, 2021–2024, egg, stars cut out from the scratch game, polyester resin, curtain rod tip, 7 × 15 × 19 cm
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Solo and two-person exhibition
2025 Where the Hand Forgets, with Reeha Lim, Gallery Vacancy at Constellations Warsaw, PL 2024 REGRETS, DNSAP with honors (DNSAP avec les Félicitations du Jury), Beaux-Arts de Paris, FR Group exhibitions 2025 Mennour Emergence #2, curated by Christian Alandete, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris, FR 2025 L’art et la vie et inversement (Art and life and vice versa), Exposition Félicités curated by Anaël Pigeat, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Paris, FR 2025 Projet Église des Trinitaires (Project at the Former Church of the Trinitarians), supervised by Virginie Pringuet, Église des Trinitaires de Metz, FR 2024 Crush, curated by Louise Nicolas de Lamballerie, Tadeo Kohan, and Emilie Villez, Beaux-Arts de Paris, FR 2024 Unique objet de mon ressentiment (The only object of my resentment), directed by Agnès Violeau, Galerie de L’IESA, Paris, FR 2024 Souvenirs de jeunesse (Memories of Youth), curated by Alice Thomine-Berrada, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Paris, FR 2024 Répétition Générale (Dress Rehearsal), curated by Florian Martin-Wester, Galerie du Crous, Paris, FR 2023 Mondes nouveaux (New Worlds), Cour Vitrée, Beaux-Arts de Paris, FR 2023 Vestibule, Lethaby Gallery, London, UK 2023 Ctrl+c Ctrl+v, Angle Court, London, UK 2023 Chantier de Recherche, La Valeur de Copie (Research Project, The Value of Copy), La Chapelle des Petits-Augustins, Beaux-Arts de Paris, FR 2022 There will be no more enigma, with Elie Seksig, Grenier Tongelresestraat, Eindhoven, NL 2019 Qui a la clé? (Who has the key?), Atelier Guillaume Paris, Beaux-Arts de Paris, FR 2018 Camping, Centre National de la Danse, Pantin, FR 2018 Nous ne sommes pas le nombre que nous croyons être (We are not the number we think we are), curated by Mélanie Bouteloup, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FR Awards and scholarships 2025 Laureate of the 2024 collections entry program (la lauréate du programme entrée en collections 2024), les Amis des Beaux-Arts de Paris 2025 Laureate of the Mennour Emergence program, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris 2024 Foundation Prize, the Fondation of France (Prix des Fondations, la Fondation de France) Residencies 2025 Hôpital de la Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, FR 2024 Le Village Le Cube, Ivry-sur-Seine, FR 2020 Fonderie de Coubertin, Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse, FR Research project Presents Taxonomy of Catastrophe: Afterlives of the Study Collection with La Chapelle des Petits-Augustins des Beaux-Arts de Paris; Central Saint Martins, London; Sir John Soane’s Museum, London; Glasgow School of Art; Royal Academy of Art, The Hague; Accademia di Bella Arte di Brera, Milan; Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence. Publications 2025 Finale, L’art et la vie et inversement (Finale, Art and life and vice versa), exhibition catalogue (des Félicités 2024), Beaux-Arts de Paris Éditions 2024 Souvenirs de jeunesse (Memories of Youth), exhibition catalogue, curated by Alice Thomine-Berrada, Beaux-Arts de Paris Éditions Press Ruoxi Jin — Galerie Mennour, Paris, by Guillaume Benoit, Slash, April 9, 2025 Six lauréats pour le programme Mennour Emergence, The Art Newspaper, January 28, 2025 Les lauréats de Mennour Emergence annoncés, Le Quotidien de l’Art N° 2974, January 27, 2025 Art Basel Paris, retour au Grand Palais (Ruoxi Jin, au commencement était...), Point de Vue N° 3975, October 23, 2024 Collection Collection of Beaux-Arts de Paris |