Ji Xin

Along the passage of Ji Xin’s practice, we enter a trance that keeps blossoming in reality. This experience is like reading a novel, where the elements provided in the text are transformed by the reader into concrete existence, a provisional sanctuary, a mirror, or an experience of self-verification after simulating the existence of the other. The brief moment that most people endure through narrow passages is, for Ji Xin, a vast landscape worth exploring. Almost out of his desire for certainty, Ji Xin painted the rooms and the symbolism of the rooms just right; everything is within reach. Painting becomes a reality created by him in seek of the truth through the haze of modernity. In this process, the distinctively personal, increasingly pellucid world introduced by the artist elaborates in front of us.

1988 Born in Nantong, Jiangsu Province

2010 Graduated from the Department of Oil Painting of China Academy of Art, B.A Degree

2013 Graduated from the Department of Oil Painting of China Academy of Art with Master’s Degree

2012 Included in an Exchange Project to the International Art City in Paris

Currently lives and works in Hangzhou and Shanghai

Solo Exhibitions

2021 Ji Xin: Trance Afternoon, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

2018 Vanished Eden: Ji Xin, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Shenzhen, China

2016 Interval: Ji Xin, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

2015 Ji Xin: Twilight, Sanshang Art, Hangzhou, China

2014 Nightingale: Ji Xin Solo Exhibition, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

Group Exhibitions

2020 The Salvation of Shahrazad: Memo of the New Generation Painting, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

2019 Light Profoundness: The Worldlet of East Asian Artists, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

          Summer Fling, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

2018 Déjà vu: Painting as the Art of Signification, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

2017 Full of Tigers on the Roof, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Shenzhen, China

2016 A Ride to Combine: Hive’s Special Exhibition 2016, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

          Painting as Strait Gate: Post 80s Artists Invitation Exhibition, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

          Unrealities in the Reality: The Intellectual Dimension of Daily Life, Boxes Art Space of OCT Harbour, Shenzhen, China

2015 Illusory: Realness and Truth, GALERIE HUIT, HK, China

          Inter-Youth: The International Higher Art Institutes Youth Art Exhibition, CAA Art Museum, Hangzhou, China

2014 ART021 SHANGHAI, Shanghai, China

2013 Blue & Yellow: Swift Transitions of Self, Moore Gallery, London, U.K.

          Yes, Youth: Oil Painting Invitation Exhibition of Young Artists, 6-Art Contemporary Art Center, Hangzhou, China

          Exhibition of Excellent Graduates of China Academy of Art, Fine Arts Museum of China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China

          ART021 SHANGHAI, Shanghai, China

          Art Beijing, Beijing, China

          Discovery & Reconstruction: Exhibition of Chinese Excellent Young Artists, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China

          Nap of the Earth: Exploration for Art Spirit in Life-Special Exhibition for Young Artists of 70/ 80/ 90 Generations, Kuaiyi Space, Hangzhou, China

          Observation: Exhibition of Chinese New Realistic Painting, 111 Art Space Lin Gallery, Shanghai, China

          Seventy Cents, Art No.2 Space, Hangzhou, China

          Grand Exhibition of Fine Arts for Young Artists in Shanghai, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China

2012 Youths’ Ambition: Exhibition for Young Artists of 80/90 Generations in Zhejiang, Ningbo Art Museum, Ningbo, China

Awards

2013 Luo Zhongli Scholarship, Finalist Award

          Marie’s Award for Art

2012 Star of the Century: Exhibition for Education Study of the Department of Oil Painting of China Academy of Art, Creative Award of Gold Phoenix Arts’ Scholarship

2011 Star of the Century: Exhibition of Self-selected Works for Students of the Department of Oil Painting of China Academy of Art, Artistic Award of Gold