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]
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林天苗 | |
Born | 1961 Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, China |
Nationality | Chinese |
Known for | sculpture, mixed media |
Website | lintianmiao |
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] and has 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]
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.[5] Lin and her husband participated in the Beijing Young Artists' Painting Society, which was contiguous with the '85 Art New Wave Movement.[5] Her work is multifaceted. She sees it as representing both tradition and newness.[5] 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.[citation needed] 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][6] 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.[citation needed]
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."[7] She had a 2006 residency at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute where she experimented with paper media and printmaking.[1] Since the mid-1990s, her works have been included in every major international museum show on Chinese contemporary art.[2]
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][8]
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