Lin Tianmiao
Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, China, 1961

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Lin Tianmiao often uses material such as thread or twine to meticulously wrap everyday objects. Wrapping them in white thread, she hints at the “ever-present tension between tradition and modernization in today’s China.” An intensive process, the thorough encasing of objects echoes the menial and repetitive tasks of traditional female domestic labor, but that in the end produces nothing more than obsolete objects.
Lin Tianmiao also works collaboratively with Chinese video artist, Wang Gongxin, 3. creating the Here? Or There? series in 2002. These colour photographs are an ornate meditation on urban and organic change, remembrance, ghosts and the adorned body.

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Education
Capital Normal University ,
Fine Art Department (1984)
Art Student league, New York (1989)

Solo exhibition (selection)
2009 Gazing Back: The Art of Lin Tianmiao, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal of He Xiangning Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2008 Mother's!!!, Long March Space, Beijing
2008 Focus - Works on paper - Lin Tianmiao solo show, Long March Space, Beijing
2008 Lin Tianmiao solo show, JGM Gallery, Paris, France
2007 Focus – Works on Paper, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
2007 Seeing Shadow - LinTianmiao's solo show, Art and Public Gallery, Geneva, Zwitserland
2007 LinTianmiao's solo show, Loft Gallery, Paris
2004 Non Zero, Tokyo Art Project, Beijing
2002 Focus, The Courtyard Gallery, Beijing
1997 Bound-unbound 1995-1997, Gallery of the central Academy Of Fine Art, Beijing

Group exhibitions (selection)
2011 The Couple Show, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
2010 Self-Image: Woman Art in China (1920-2010) Exhibition, Central Academy of Fine arts, Beijing
2010 Light from Light, MAAP, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, Austrilia Light from Light, MAAP, Shanghai Library, Shanghai, China
2010 The Constructed Dimension - 2010 Chinese Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition”, National Art Museum of China,Beijing, China
2010 Popcorn – The art of Lin TianMiao, Audi Art Design Award Opening, Beijing
2010 N Choices, JUNGLE - A Close up focus on Chinese Contemporary Art Trends, Platform China, Beijing, China
2009 Over Six Hundred Choices, Arrow Factory, Beijing, China
2009 Art In Use: Sculptural Objects, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, China
2009 Metropolis Now! A Selection of Chinese Contemporary Art Meridian International Center,Washington D.C, VS
2009 The State of Things-Brussels/Beijing, Centre For Fine Arts (BOZAR), Brussel
2008 Our Future: The Guy and Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection, UCCA, Beijing
2008 Where Are We?, Beijing Center for the Arts, Beijing
2008 Four Season Group Exhibition, China National Academy of Art, Hongzhou, China
2008 Half Life of a Dream: Contemporary Chinese Art from The Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
2008 Beijing – Athens: Contemporary Art from China, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athene
2007 Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2007 Global Feminism, Brooklyn Museum, New York
2006 Asian Contemporary Art In Print in Celebration of Asia Society’s 50th Anniversary, Asia Society and Museum, New York
2006 Asian Contemporary Art In Print, The Gallery of Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI), Singapore
2006 Martell Artist of The Year 2006, National Gallery of China, Beijing
2005 Rapt: Austral-Asia Zero Five, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
2005 About Beauty, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlijn
2005 ShangHai Cool – Creative Reproduction, ShangHai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, ShangHai, China
2005 The New Works of Wang Gong Xin and Lin TianMiao, Courtyard Gallery Annex, Beijing, China
2005 Mahjong, Museum of Fine Arts Bern, Zwitserland
2005 Xianfeng! Chinese avant-garde sculpture, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Den Haag, The Netherlands
2005 Fairy Tales Forever, ARoS Aarhus Art museum, Aarhus, Denemarken
2005 Focus on Portraits, Canvas International Art, Amstelveen, The Netherlands
2005 Focus on Portraits, Canvas International Art, Amstelveen, The Netherlands
2005 Rapt: Austral-Asia Zero Five, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia
2005 About Beauty, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2005 Mahiong, Museum of Fine Arts Bern, Switzerland
2004 Between Past and Future, ICP and Museum of Asia Society, New York
2004 Concrete Horizons, Adam Art Gallery , Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
2003 New Zone Chinese Art, Zacheta National Art Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2002 2nd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale 2002, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum Japan