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'''Lin Tianmiao''' ({{zh|林天苗}}; born 1961) is a contemporary Chinese installation artist and textile designer. Through her use of everyday objects, she explores the relationship of tradition and modernization.<ref name=":0">''Suzuki, Sarah (2010). "Lin Tianmiao". Modern Women: Women Artists at the Museum of Modern Art. New York: Museum of Modern Art. pp. 405–406. {{ISBN|978-0-87070-771-1}}.''</ref> Growing up in China as well as being a woman are the two strongest voices that Lin communicates with and advocates for through her art. By using materials which are closely tied to the maternal responsibilities of a household, Lin connects her past to China's present.
'''Lin Tianmiao''' ({{lang-zh|林天苗|s=林天苗|t=|p=Lín tīan míao}}; born 1961) is a contemporary Chinese installation artist and textile designer. She sometimes makes use of everyday objects.<ref name=":0">''Suzuki, Sarah (2010). "Lin Tianmiao". Modern Women: Women Artists at the Museum of Modern Art. New York: Museum of Modern Art. pp. 405–406. {{ISBN|978-0-87070-771-1}}.''</ref>


== Biography ==
== Life ==


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Lin Tianmiao was born in 1961 in [[Taiyuan]], Shanxi province, China. Her father was an ink painter and master [[Calligraphy|calligrapher]]<ref name=":1">''Pollack, Barbara (October 2012). "Wrap Artist" (PDF). ARTnews. pp. 86–93.''</ref> and her mother studied and taught traditional dance.<ref name=":0" /> She received a [[Bachelor of Fine Arts|BFA]] from [[Capital Normal University]] in 1961, and later studied at the [[Art Students League of New York|Art Students League]] in New York City in 1989.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Caruso|first=Hwa Young|date=June 1, 2013|title=Lin Tianmiao: A contemporary Chinese Woman Artist|journal=International Journal of Multicultural Education|volume=15|doi=10.18251/ijme.v15i1.721 |s2cid=143240477 |doi-access=free}}</ref>
===Early life===


She lived in [[Brooklyn]] from 1988<ref name=":1" /> to 1994. She returned to Beijing in 1995 and converted her home into an open studio which was an important venue for Apartment Art.<ref name=":0" /> She is married to Wang Gongxin,<ref name=":0" /> who is a video artist, and together they have a son, Shaun.<ref name=":1" /> She has said that life's experience is constantly changing, and the way her works are presented is also constantly changing.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Lin|first=Tianmiao|title=Non Zero|url=https://opac.otis.edu:8443/lib/item?id=chamo:121171&fromLocationLink=false&theme=otis}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Caruso |first=Dr Hwa Young |date=2013-04-11 |title=Art Review: Lin Tianmiao: A Contemporary Chinese Woman Artist |url=https://ijme-journal.org/index.php/ijme/article/view/721 |journal=International Journal of Multicultural Education |language=en |volume=15 |issue=1 |doi=10.18251/ijme.v15i1.721 |issn=1934-5267|doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Lin Tianmiao was born in 1961 in [[Taiyuan]], Shanxi province, China. Her father was an ink painter and master [[Calligraphy|calligrapher]]<ref name=":1">''Pollack, Barbara (October 2012). "Wrap Artist" (PDF). ARTnews. pp. 86–93.''</ref> and her mother studied and taught traditional dance.<ref name=":0" /> She earned a bachelor's degree in Fine Art from [[Capital Normal University]] in [[Beijing]] in 1984. Lin worked and lived in New York from 1988 to 1995. She now resides in Beijing.


===Personal life===
== Work ==


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Lin started her career as a [[textile design]]er and used the skills she had learned in her later work.{{citation needed|date=August 2021}} She changed from textile design to art because she felt like design was limiting her creativity and suppressing her expression.<ref name=":3">Wang, Peggy. 2012. "Subversion, culture shock, "Women's Art": an interview with Lin Tianmiao". ''n.paradoxa.'' 2012: 22-31.</ref> Lin and her husband participated in the [[Beijing Young Artists' Painting Society]], which was contiguous with the [['85 Art New Wave Movement]].<ref name=":3" /> Her work is multifaceted. She sees it as representing both tradition and newness.<ref name=":3" /> She co-founded the [[Loft New Media Art Center]] in 2001.<ref name=":0" />
She lived in [[Brooklyn]] from 1988<ref name=":1" /> to 1994. She returned to Beijing in 1995 and converted her home into an open studio which was an important venue for Apartment Art.<ref name=":0" /> Lin is married to video artist [[Wang Gongxin]]<ref name=":0" /> and has a son, Shaun.<ref name=":1" /> She lives in Beijing. Lin and her husband work together and he runs her website as well as is in charge of her publicity. They also collaborate on experimental exhibitions in their home that further investigate the materials that Lin is drawn to and often uses in her work.<ref name=":3" />


In the 1990s Lin created works with materials of contrasting textures,<ref name=":0" /> often using undyed cotton thread. She has also worked in other media such as sculpture, photography, video and mixed media.<ref name=rockbund/> An early work, ''The Proliferation of Thread Winding'' (1995), included 20,000 balls of thread attached with needles to a rice paper-covered iron bed.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://asiasociety.org/new-york/exhibitions/bound-unbound-lin-tianmiao-0#abouttheartist|title=Bound Unbound: Lin Tianmiao|website=Asia Society|date=September 7, 2012 |access-date=March 3, 2016}}</ref> In 2012, she made a series of works using a wooden frame, threads and synthetic bones; ''Minty Blue'' (2012) and ''Duckling Yellow'' (2012) were two works in the series.<ref name=rockbund/>
===Career===


At the 2002 [[Shanghai Biennale]] she and her husband collaborated on ''Here or There''; she described the collaboration as "unspeakable", and resolved to "never cooperate anymore."<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hao|first=He|date=2014|title=A Designer's Decade of Contemporary Art in China : The Book Designs of He Hao|url=https://opac.otis.edu:8443/lib/item?id=chamo:682008&fromLocationLink=false&theme=otis}}</ref> She had a 2006 residency at the [[Singapore Tyler Print Institute]] where she experimented with paper media and [[printmaking]].<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Archive |first=Asia Art |title=Focus: On Paper |url=https://aaa.org.hk/en/collections/search/library/focus-on-paper/search/collection-type:library-collection--content-type:artist-monograph--actors-id:274/page/1 |access-date=2024-03-02 |website=aaa.org.hk |language=en}}</ref> Since the mid-1990s, her works have been included in every major international museum show on [[Chinese art|Chinese contemporary art]].<ref name=":1" />
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Lin started her career as a [[textile design]]er and used the skills she learned later on in her work.<ref name=":2" /> She transitioned from textile design to art because she felt like design was limiting her creativity and suppressing her expression.<ref name=":3">Wang, Peggy. 2012. "Subversion, culture shock, "Women's Art": an interview with Lin Tianmiao". ''N.Paradoxa.'' 2012: 22-31.</ref> Lin and her husband participated in and were involved with the [[Beijing Young Artists' Painting Society]], which was contiguous with the [['85 Art New Wave Movement]].<ref name=":3" /> "It was more conservative, but it was also innovative" said Lin in an interview about her involvement in the Beijing Young Artists' Painting Society compared to the '85 Art New Wave Movement.<ref name=":3" /> Lin co-founded the [[Loft New Media Art Center]] in 2001.<ref name=":0" /> She had a 2006 residency at the [http://www.stpi.com.sg/ Singapore Tyler Print Institute] where she experimented with paper media and [[printmaking]].<ref name=":0" /> Since the mid-1990s, her works have been included in every major international museum show on [[Chinese art|Chinese contemporary art]].<ref name=":1" /> Lin is represented by [[Galerie Lelong]], New York and Paris.


She had her solo exhibition ''Gazing Back: The Art of Lin Tianmiao'', 對視——林天苗藝術展 as part of the 'Shanghai Pujiang OCT Ten-Year Public Art Project · 2009'. It includes three groups of works, ''Badges'', ''Advent'' and ''Gazing Back'', which were all created especially for this public art project.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Archive |first=Asia Art |title=Gazing Back: The Art of Lin Tianmiao |url=https://aaa.org.hk/en/collections/search/library/gazing-back-the-art-of-lin-tianmiao/search/collection-type:library-collection--content-type:artist-monograph--actors-id:274/page/1 |access-date=2024-03-02 |website=aaa.org.hk |language=en}}</ref>
== Artwork ==


In 2017, her show at Galerie Lelong in New York exhibited her work ''Protruding Patterns'' (2014)'','' which encouraged visitors to walk over her work - an installation made entirely of antique carpets. The carpets were embroidered with dozens of words about women in Chinese, English, French and other tongues - a selection of approximately 2,000 phrases she had collected over a period of more than five years.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Cascone |first=Sarah |date=2017-10-16 |title=This Artist Gathered 2,000 Words for Women—and Now, She Wants You to Walk All Over Them |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/lin-tianmiao-carpet-galerie-lelong-1113395 |access-date=2024-03-02 |website=Artnet News |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Panicelli |first=Ida |date=2017-12-01 |title=Lin Tianmiao |url=https://www.artforum.com/events/lin-tianmiao-3-236709/ |access-date=2024-03-02 |website=Artforum |language=en-US}}</ref>
=== Medium===


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===Feminist themes===
In the 1990s, Lin created works with materials of contrasting textures.<ref name=":0" /> Her signature medium became undyed cotton thread. Lin also works in other mediums such as sculpture, photography, video and mixed media. ''[http://www.galerielelong.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/work_large/gp_1699_-_more_or_less_the__same_grey_detail.jpg More or Less the Same, 2011]'' combines hard and soft materials such as silk threads and stainless steel and demonstrates a balance in textures. Her work analyzes dichotomies in a universally understood manner by translating concepts into tangible objects symbolically.<ref name=":2" />


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Lin's work often deals with themes traditionally applicable to women. With its focus on the manifestations of domesticity and motherhood, critics have compared her work to Western [[feminist art]], she has rejected that characterization.<ref name=":0" /><ref>1. ''Smith, Karen (October 2012). "Woven Labors" (PDF). Art in America: 138–144. I looked in many books and catalogues about female artists to see if this was true but came to the conclusion that it was not. I had always judged life from my own experience as a person, who just happened to be a woman.''</ref>
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===Feminist Themes===


“My art is an expression of my life, as an artist, as a Chinese, and I suppose, as a woman,” she responded to the art world’s routine characterization of her as a “Chinese woman artist.”¹ She uncouples these terms as a reminder to art critics and art historians that her work transcends such an essentializing label.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wang |first=Peggy |title=The Future History of Contemporary Chinese Art |publisher=University of Minnesota Press |year=2020}}</ref> She views that the label feminisim restricts the interpretation of her works, and how she thinks about them.<ref name=":2" />
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Lin's work often deals with themes specific to women and while critics have compared her work to Western [[feminist art]] with its focus on the manifestations of domesticity, she has rejected that characterization.<ref name=":0" /><ref>1. ''Smith, Karen (October 2012). "Woven Labors" (PDF). Art in America: 138–144. I looked in many books and catalogues about female artists to see if this was true but came to the conclusion that it was not. I had always judged life from my own experience as a person, who just happened to be a woman.''
</ref> Lin is one of the first female Chinese artists to break ground and achieve international recognition from exhibits all over Europe to shows all over the USA and works in galleries everywhere from Australia to Canada.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=http://www.galerielelong.com/artist/lin-tianmiao|title=Galerie Lelong {{!}} Artist|website=www.galerielelong.com|access-date=2016-03-03}}</ref> The contrast within the materials Lin uses creates a binary conversation about the human, and female, experience.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://asiasociety.org/new-york/exhibitions/bound-unbound-lin-tianmiao-0#abouttheartist|title=Bound Unbound: Lin Tianmiao|website=Asia Society|access-date=2016-03-03}}</ref> Every subject Lin addresses in her art, she depicts in a black & white, cold & hot, binary conversation.


==List of selected artworks and exhibitions==
===Notable Works===
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* ''The Proliferation of Thread Winding'', 1995, [[Asia Society|Asia Society Museum]], New York, 2012
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* ''Bound and Unbound'', [[Art Museum of China Central Academy of Fine Arts]], Beijing, China, 1997
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* ''Focus on Paper'', [[Singapore Tyler Print Institute]], Singapore, 2007
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* ''Mother's!!!'', 2008, Asia Society Museum, New York, 2012
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* ''More or Less the Same'', 2011, Asia Society Museum, New York, 2012
* ''Protruding Patterns'', 2014, Galerie Lelong & Co, New York, 2017<ref name=":2" />
* ''Systems'', [[Rockbund Art Museum]], Shanghai, China, 2018<ref name=rockbund>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rockbundartmuseum.org/en/exhibition/overview/955cqsr|title=Lin Tianmiao: Systems|publisher=Rockbund Art Museum|website=|access-date=November 27, 2018}}</ref>


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== References ==
Lin is best known for her installations.<ref name=":2" /> One of her earliest works, ''[http://www.galerielelong.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/work_large/lin_tianmiao_installation_08_0.jpg The Proliferation of Thread Winding]'' (1995), included 20,000 balls of thread attached with needles to a rice paper-covered iron bed.<ref name=":0" /> In 2012, she made a series of works using a wooden frame, threads and synthetic bones; ''[http://www.galerielelong.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/work_large/gl_8913_-_minty_blue.jpg Minty Blue]'' (2012) and ''[http://www.galerielelong.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/work_large/gl_8941_-_duckling_yellow.jpg Duckling Yellow]'' (2012) were two works in the series that explored suppression and boundaries using symbolic colors monochromatically to keep the attention on the object.

==List of Selected Artworks and Exhibitions==
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* ''[http://sites.psu.edu/contemporarywomenartists/wp-content/uploads/sites/14737/2015/09/1995-1997.jpg The Proliferation of Thread Winding]'', 1995, [[Asia Society Museum]], New York, 2012
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* ''[http://media.asiasociety.org/video/120920_LinTianMiao.mp4 Bound and Unbound]'', [[Art Museum of China Central Academy of Fine Arts]], Beijing, China, 1997
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* ''[http://www.aaa.org.hk/WorldEvents/Details/7507 Focus on Paper]'', [[Singapore Tyler Print Institute]], Singapore, 2007
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* ''[https://cdn.theculturetrip.com/images/56-181976-lin-tianmiao-installation-18.jpg Mother's!!!]'', 2008, [[Asia Society Museum]], New York, 2012
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* ''[https://cdn.theculturetrip.com/images/56-181976-lin-tianmiao-installation-18.jpg More or Less the Same]'', 2011, [[Asia Society Museum]], New York, 2012
* ''[http://68.media.tumblr.com/6810763953e0eb6acc6f47a2b60d0835/tumblr_nj084zMTDh1tstroko8_1280.jpg Badges]'', 2011–12, [http://www.galerielelong.com/ Galerie Lelong], New York, 2012
* ''[http://galerielelong.com/mobile-exhibition-pr/472 Drawings & Works on Paper]'', [[Galerie Lelong]], New York, New York, 2014

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==References==
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*[http://lintianmiao.com/ Official website]

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Latest revision as of 01:43, 4 December 2024

Lin Tianmiao
林天苗
Lin Tianmiao, studio tour Beijing, July 2015
Born1961
Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, China
NationalityChinese
Known forsculpture, mixed media
Websitelintianmiao.com

Lin Tianmiao (Chinese: 林天苗; pinyin: Lín tīan míao; born 1961) is a contemporary Chinese installation artist and textile designer. She sometimes makes use of everyday objects.[1]

Life

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Lin Tianmiao was born in 1961 in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, China. Her father was an ink painter and master calligrapher[2] and her mother studied and taught traditional dance.[1] She received a BFA from Capital Normal University in 1961, and later studied at the Art Students League in New York City in 1989.[3]

She lived in Brooklyn from 1988[2] to 1994. She returned to Beijing in 1995 and converted her home into an open studio which was an important venue for Apartment Art.[1] She is married to Wang Gongxin,[1] who is a video artist, and together they have a son, Shaun.[2] She has said that life's experience is constantly changing, and the way her works are presented is also constantly changing.[4][5]

Work

[edit]

Lin started her career as a textile designer and used the skills she had learned in her later work.[citation needed] She changed from textile design to art because she felt like design was limiting her creativity and suppressing her expression.[6] Lin and her husband participated in the Beijing Young Artists' Painting Society, which was contiguous with the '85 Art New Wave Movement.[6] Her work is multifaceted. She sees it as representing both tradition and newness.[6] She co-founded the Loft New Media Art Center in 2001.[1]

In the 1990s Lin created works with materials of contrasting textures,[1] often using undyed cotton thread. She has also worked in other media such as sculpture, photography, video and mixed media.[7] An early work, The Proliferation of Thread Winding (1995), included 20,000 balls of thread attached with needles to a rice paper-covered iron bed.[1][8] In 2012, she made a series of works using a wooden frame, threads and synthetic bones; Minty Blue (2012) and Duckling Yellow (2012) were two works in the series.[7]

At the 2002 Shanghai Biennale she and her husband collaborated on Here or There; she described the collaboration as "unspeakable", and resolved to "never cooperate anymore."[9] She had a 2006 residency at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute where she experimented with paper media and printmaking.[1][10] Since the mid-1990s, her works have been included in every major international museum show on Chinese contemporary art.[2]

She had her solo exhibition Gazing Back: The Art of Lin Tianmiao, 對視——林天苗藝術展 as part of the 'Shanghai Pujiang OCT Ten-Year Public Art Project · 2009'. It includes three groups of works, Badges, Advent and Gazing Back, which were all created especially for this public art project.[11]

In 2017, her show at Galerie Lelong in New York exhibited her work Protruding Patterns (2014), which encouraged visitors to walk over her work - an installation made entirely of antique carpets. The carpets were embroidered with dozens of words about women in Chinese, English, French and other tongues - a selection of approximately 2,000 phrases she had collected over a period of more than five years.[12][13]

Feminist themes

[edit]

Lin's work often deals with themes traditionally applicable to women. With its focus on the manifestations of domesticity and motherhood, critics have compared her work to Western feminist art, she has rejected that characterization.[1][14]

“My art is an expression of my life, as an artist, as a Chinese, and I suppose, as a woman,” she responded to the art world’s routine characterization of her as a “Chinese woman artist.”¹ She uncouples these terms as a reminder to art critics and art historians that her work transcends such an essentializing label.[15] She views that the label feminisim restricts the interpretation of her works, and how she thinks about them.[12]

List of selected artworks and exhibitions

[edit]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Suzuki, Sarah (2010). "Lin Tianmiao". Modern Women: Women Artists at the Museum of Modern Art. New York: Museum of Modern Art. pp. 405–406. ISBN 978-0-87070-771-1.
  2. ^ a b c d Pollack, Barbara (October 2012). "Wrap Artist" (PDF). ARTnews. pp. 86–93.
  3. ^ Caruso, Hwa Young (June 1, 2013). "Lin Tianmiao: A contemporary Chinese Woman Artist". International Journal of Multicultural Education. 15. doi:10.18251/ijme.v15i1.721. S2CID 143240477.
  4. ^ Lin, Tianmiao. "Non Zero".
  5. ^ Caruso, Dr Hwa Young (April 11, 2013). "Art Review: Lin Tianmiao: A Contemporary Chinese Woman Artist". International Journal of Multicultural Education. 15 (1). doi:10.18251/ijme.v15i1.721. ISSN 1934-5267.
  6. ^ a b c Wang, Peggy. 2012. "Subversion, culture shock, "Women's Art": an interview with Lin Tianmiao". n.paradoxa. 2012: 22-31.
  7. ^ a b c "Lin Tianmiao: Systems". Rockbund Art Museum. Retrieved November 27, 2018.
  8. ^ "Bound Unbound: Lin Tianmiao". Asia Society. September 7, 2012. Retrieved March 3, 2016.
  9. ^ Hao, He (2014). "A Designer's Decade of Contemporary Art in China : The Book Designs of He Hao".
  10. ^ Archive, Asia Art. "Focus: On Paper". aaa.org.hk. Retrieved March 2, 2024.
  11. ^ Archive, Asia Art. "Gazing Back: The Art of Lin Tianmiao". aaa.org.hk. Retrieved March 2, 2024.
  12. ^ a b c Cascone, Sarah (October 16, 2017). "This Artist Gathered 2,000 Words for Women—and Now, She Wants You to Walk All Over Them". Artnet News. Retrieved March 2, 2024.
  13. ^ Panicelli, Ida (December 1, 2017). "Lin Tianmiao". Artforum. Retrieved March 2, 2024.
  14. ^ 1. Smith, Karen (October 2012). "Woven Labors" (PDF). Art in America: 138–144. I looked in many books and catalogues about female artists to see if this was true but came to the conclusion that it was not. I had always judged life from my own experience as a person, who just happened to be a woman.
  15. ^ Wang, Peggy (2020). The Future History of Contemporary Chinese Art. University of Minnesota Press.
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