Artist
LIU YIN
biography / VACANCY exhibitions
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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).
Image: Liu Yin, Cupid, 2015 |
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Selected 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
Selected 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
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
Selected 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