Artist

LIU YIN
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Biography / Exhibitions

Born in 1984 in Guangzhou, Liu Yin graduated from the Guangzhou Academy of Art. Liu uses and modifies found images in her drawings as a way to examine the tremendous swatch of visual information that has long been part of our lives, of which intrusiveness has risen to historic heights thanks to the pervasiveness of the smartphone. Her experiments with news images, an important means to visually record and disseminate what is happening around us, constitute a raw database that makes visual critique and research possible. With her macaron color palette and her signature manga-style sparkly eyes, Liu starts the conversation of transforming idealized fantasy into the cruelest reminder of man-fractured perfection. Her darkly humored images have been exhibited at Arrow Factory (Beijing), Observation Society (Guangzhou), Taikang Space (Beijing), Wiessensee School of Art (Berlin), Adele C gallery (Rome) and the Ecole Régionaledes Beaux Arts (Besançon, France).

Liu Yin, Rice Field, 2019
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Solo Exhibitions

2015    Publica, Arrow Factory, Beijing, China
2011    Liu Yin: Oh, Chinese Boy… Don’t Be Ashamed…, Chinese Culture Center, San Francisco, US
2010    Reflections in the Soup, Observation Society, Guangzhou, China


Group Exhibitions

2019    Condo Shanghai 2019, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, China
2019    Condo Shanghai 2019, Antenna Space, Shanghai, China
2015    Hazy Winter, Canton Gallery, Guangzhou, China 
2014    Full of Peril and Weirdness: Painting as a Universalism, M Woods Museum, Beijing, China
2014    Stone, Wood and Paradise Syndrome, 1933 Contemporary Gallery, Shanghai, China
2014    Import Projects, Berlin Studio, Berlin, Germany
2014    Transience: Intractable Objects, Taikang Space, Beijing, China
2011    Similarity and Difference-Guangzhou/Macau Contemporary Art Exhibition, Ox Warehouse, Macau, China
2011    Not in Fashion, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China
2010    Shanzhai-Researching the Culture of Copying, Weissensee School of Art, Berlin, Germany
2010    Dazzledand Enchanted, New Age Animamix 2009-2010, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China 
2009    Dark Matter, Muma Art Space, Guangzhou, China
2009    (Anti) Realismworkshot3, Adele C gallery, Rome, Italy 
2009    (Anti) Realismworkshot2, Ecole Régionaledes Beaux Arts de Besançon, France  
2008    (Anti) Realismworkshot1, Norrköpings Konsthall, Sweden
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