Lin Tianmiao was featured in Light from Light, 2010-2012
1961 Born in Taiyuan Shanxi Province, China
1984 Fine Art Department, Capital Normal University
1989 Art Student league, New York USA
Currently lives in Beijing, China
Solo Exhibitions
2009
- Gazing Back –The Art of Lin Tianmiao, Shanghai Pujiang OCT ten year public art project 2009, Shanghai, China
2008
- Mother’s!!! , Long March Space, Beijing, China
- Focus – Works on paper, Long March Space, Beijing, China
- JGM Gallery, Paris, France
2007
- Focus on Paper, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
- Seeing Shadow, Art and Public Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland Loft Gallery, Paris, France
2004
- Non Zero, Tokyo Art Project, Beijing, China
2002
- Focus, The Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China
1997
- Bound-unbound, Gallery of the Central Academy Of Fine Art, Beijing, China
1995
- Open Studio, Baofang Hutong No.12, Beijing, China
Group Exhibitions
2009
- Over Six Hundred Choices, Arrow Factory, Beijing, China
- Art In Use: Sculptural Objects, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, China
- Metropolis Now! – A Selection of Chinese Contemporary Art, Meridian International Centre, Washington DC, USA
- The State of Things – Brussels / Beijing, Centre for Fine Art, Brussels
2008
- Four Season Group Exhibition, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
- Half Life of a Dream: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Logan Collection Group, San Francisco museum of Modern Art, San Francisco USA
- Where are we?, Tian An Time Art Centre, Beijing , China.
- Beijing – Athens: Contemporary Art from China, Grace national contemporary art center, Greece
- Our Future – The Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection, UCCA, Beijing, China
2007
- Multiplex: Direction in Art, 1970 to now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
- Global Feminism, Brooklyn museum , New York, USA
2006
- Asian Contemporary Art In Print in Celebration of Asia Society’s 50th Anniversary, Asia Society and Museum, New York, USA
- Asian Contemporary Art In Print, The Gallery of Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI), Singapore
- Martell Artist Of The Year 2006, National Gallery of China, Beijing, China
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 Gongxin & Lin Tianmiao, Courtyard Gallery Annex, Beijing, China
- Mahiong, Museum of Fine Arts Bern, Switzerland
- Xianfeng! – Chinese avant-garde sculpture, Museum Beelden Aan Zee, The Hague, Netherland
- Fairy Tales Forever, ARoS Aarhus Art museum, Denmark
2004
- Between Past and Future, ICP & Museum of Asia Society, New York; MoMa, Chicago; MoMa, Seattle, USA
- Concrete Horizons, Adam Art Gallery , Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
- Officina Asia, Gallery d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
- Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University;
- Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, USA
- Gwangju Biennale 2004, Gwangju, Korea
2003
- Echigo –Tsumari Art Triennial, Niigata, Japan
- Arles Photograph art Festival, Arles, France
- New Zone Chinese Art, Zacheta National Art Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2002
- 2nd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial 2002, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
- Gwangju Biennale 2002, Gwangju , Korea
- Ireland Biennale 2002, Ireland
- Guangzhou Triennale 2002, Guangzhou Art Museum, China
- Shanghai Biennale 2002, Shanghai Art Museum, China
2001
- 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 Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany; Queens Museum of art, New York, USA
- Wang Gongxin & Lin Tianmiao’s New Works, The Loft New Media Art Space, Beijing, China
- The Digital Art Festival 2001, The Loft New Media Art Space, Beijing, China
- Shout on the Face, Earl Lu Gallery Lasalle College of the Art, Singapore
- The New-Media Art Festival: Non-Linear Narrative, The Gallery of China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
2000
- At The New Century 1979-1999 – China Contemporary Art, Chengdu Museum of Contemporary Art, China
- Inside/Out – New Chinese Art, National Gallery of Australia, Sydney, Australia
- Inside/Out – New Chinese Art, The Hong Kong Museum of Contemporary Art, Hong Kong
- Home?, Contemporary Art Project, Shanghai
- Bed/Chair, Xuxian Art Center , Taipei, Taiwan
1999
- Beijing in London, ICA Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
- The Second Yearlong Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, He Xiangning Art Museum Shenzhen, China
- Inside/Out – New Chinese Art, SFMOMA, San Francisco, USA
- Inside/Out – New Chinese Art, The Mexico Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico City, Mexico
- “Food for Thought”, Eindhoven, Holland
- Magnetite Writing/Marxhing Ideas, Works on Paper, It Park Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
- Cologne-Beijing/Beijing-Cologne: Exchange Exhibition
- Gothaer Kunstforum, Cologne, Germany
- Food for Thought –An Insight in Chinese Contemporary Art, Mu Art Foundation, Netheriands
1998
- Mark of Existence: Art Workshop in Process, The Experimental Studio of the Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
- Woman – Century, National Gallery of China
- Life: Contemporary Chinese Art, Wan Fung Art Gallery, Beijing, China
- Neo Lagoon: Contemporary Art of North East Asia, The Niigata Prefectural museum, Japan
- Inside/Out: New Chinese Art, Asia Society, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
1997
- Crack in the Continent – Chinese Contemporary Art, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
- The Fifth International Istanbul Biennales, Istanbul, Turkey
- Between Ego and Society, Artemesia Gallery, Chicago, US
- Another Long March, Chasse Kazerme, Breda, The Netherlands
- Against the Tide, Bronx Museum of the Art, New York, USA
- Demonstration of Video Art, The Gallery of the Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China
1995
- File NO.1 – Conceptual Documents for impossible Art, SoHo Biennial, New York, USA
- Woman’s Approach to Contemporary Art, Beijing Art Museum, Beijing, China
- Chinese Women’s Artists Invitation Show, National Gallery of China, Beijing, China
- Group Show, Ground Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
- Group Show, City Gallery, Coutland, New York, USA
- Beijing Youth Painting Exhibition, National Gallery of China, Beijing, China
- Youth Artist Association Show, National Gallery of China, Beijing, China
- Beijing Youth Painting Exhibition, Liulichang, Beijing, China