1964 Born in Guangzhou, P.R China
1983-1987 Studying at the Sculpture Department, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts
1990 Co-founder of "Big-Tail-Elephant Group"
Present Lives and works in New York and Guangzhou
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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2022 No ×××××××× Hatred, Spurs Gallery, Beijing, China
2017 Lin Yilin: The Departure from Her Feet, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing, China
2013 Holiday, Edicola Notte, Roma, Italy
2012 Golden Journey, Walter and Mcbean Galleries, San Francisco art Institute, U.S.A
2010 Whose Land? Whose Art?, The Land Foundation, Chiangmai and Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok, Thailand
2009 Big Family: Brothers, Not Comrades, Arrow Factory, Beijing, China
2008 Target, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
A Spatio-temporal Tunnel, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
2006 Zero Interface: Brave New World, Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou, China
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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2023 Between Performance and Documentation: Contemporary Photography and Video from China, Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, U.S.A
Fuori Tutto, MAXXI, Rome, Italy
2022 Notes: Chinese Artistic and Intellectual Voices from the End of the Twentieth Century, Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing, China
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