Zhi Lin:
From Tiananmen Square to Promontory Summit

Exhibition Statement

Zhi Lin is a graduate of the China National Academy of Fine Arts (Post graduate, 1987), the Slade School of Fine Art at the University of London (Higher Diploma, 1989), and the University of Delaware (MFA, 1992).

Lin has shown his work in many museums in the United States, United Kingdom and China, including the Princeton University Art Museum, Pacific Asian Museum, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Frye Art Museum, the University of London Art Collections, the Cambridge University, the Contemporary Arts Institute in London, China National Fine Art Museum and the China National Academy of Fines Arts Museum.

Lin’s work is included in many museum collections, including the Princeton University Art Museum, the Frye Art Museum, the Oxford University Ashmolean Museum, the University of London Art Collections and the China National Fine Art Museum. His work is represented by Koplin Del Rio Gallery in Los Angeles and the Howard House Gallery in Seattle.

Lin has been the recipient of the following – Princeton University Fellow in the Humanities Council and Tang Center for East Asian Art, Institute for Ethnic Studies in the United States Research Grant, UW Royalty Research Scholar and Fellowship, Creative Capital Foundation Grant, Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Arts in Giverny, Art Matters Foundation Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship in Painting, NEAi Regional Artist’s Project Grant, Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship, Missouri Arts Council Visual Artists’ Biennial Grant and the Delaware State Arts Council Artist Fellowship.

His works are reviewed and published by many national and international print and online media, including the New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Kansas City Star, St Louis Dispatch, Artnews, Art in America, American Arts Quarterly, Artweek and Art Review in London, and many others in Chinese language media. His work also was the subject of three monographs and three special TY programs.

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