Born

1961, Taiyuan Shanxi Province, China

Graduated

1984,Fine Art Department, Capital Normal University
1989,Art Student league, New York USA

Current

Independent artist

Solo Exhibitions

2004
Non Zero
Tokyo Art Project, Beijing, China

2002
Focus
The Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China

1997
Bound-unbound 1995-1997, Gallery of the central Academy
Of Fine Art, Beijing, China

1995
Open Studio
Baofang Hutong 12#, Beijing, China

Group Exhibition

2005
Rapt: Austral-Asia Zero Five,
Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia
About Beauty
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
ShangHai Cool – Creative Reproduction
ShangHai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, ShangHai, China
The New Works of Wang,GongXin & Lin,TianMiao
Courtyard Gallery Annex, Beijing, China
Mahiong
Museum of Fine Arts Bern, Switzland
Xianfeng! Chinese avant-garde sculpture
Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, The Netherlands
Fairy Tales Forever
ARoS Aarhus Art museum, Denmark

2004
Between Past and Future
ICP and Museum of Asia Society, New York, USA
MoMa, Chicago, USA
Concrete Horizons
Adam Art Gallery , Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Officina Asia
Gallery d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art from China
and the US
Samek Art Galler, Bucknell University. Otis College of Art and Design in
Los Angeles. USA
Gwang Ju Biennale 2004
Gwang Ju , Korea

2003
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Japan
Arles Photograph art Festival, Arles, France

New Zone Chinese Art
Zacheta National Art Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

2002
2nd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale 2002
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum Japan
Gwang Ju Biennale 2002,
Gwang Ju , Korea
Ireland Biennale 2002, Ireland
ShangHai Biennale 2002, ShangHai Art Museum, China
Guang Zhou Triennale 2002, Guang Zhou Art Museum, China

2001
Shout on the Face, Earl Lu Gallery Lasalle – sia College of the Art
Singapore
The New-Media Art Festival: Non-Linear Narrative The
Gallery of National Academy of Art, Hong Zhou, China
Threads of Vision: Toward A New Feminine Poetics,
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Ohio, USA
Floating Chimeras, Edsvik Konst Och Kultur, Sweden
Translated acts, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany and
Queens Museum of art, New York, USA
Wang GongXin & Lin TianMiao’ s New Works, The Loft New
Media Art Space, Beijing, China
The Digital Art Festival 2001, The Loft New Media Art Space, Beijing, China
2000 At The New Century 1979-1999, China Contemporary Art
Chengdu Museum of Contemporary Art, China
Inside/Out New Chinese Art, National Gallery of Australia
Home? Contemporary Art Project, Shang Hai
Inside/Out New Chinese Art, The Hong Kong Museum of
Contemporary Art, Hong Kong
Bed/Chair Xuxian Art Center Taipei Taiwan

1999
Beijing in London, ICA Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
The Second Yearlong Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition
He Xiang Ning Art Museum Shen Zhen, China
Inside/Out New Chinese Art, SFMOMA, San Francisco, USA
Magnetie Writing/Marxhing Ideas, Works on Paper
It Park Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Cologne-Beijing/Beijing-Colognw: Exchange Exhibition
Gothaer Kunstforum, Cologne, Germany
Inside/Out New Chinese Art
The Mexico Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico City, Mexico
Food for Thought: An Insight in Chinese Contemporary
Art, Mu Art Foundation, Netheriands

1998
Mark of Existence: Art Workshop in Process
Beijing , China
Woman – Century
National Gallery of China
Life: Contemporary Chinese Art
Wan Fung Art Gallery, Beijing, China
Neo Lagoon: Contemporary Art of North East Asia
The Niigata Prefectural museum, Japan
Inside/Out: New Chinese Art
Asia Society, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York

1997
Crack in the Continent
The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Fifth International Istanbul Biennial
Istanbul, Turkey
Between Ego and Society
Artermesia Gallery, Chicago, USA
Another Long March
Chasse Kazerme, Breda, The Netherland
Against the Tide
The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
Demonstration of Video Art 1997
The Gallery of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China

1995
File NO.1 – Conceptual Documents for impossible Art
SoHo Biennial, New York, USA
Woman’s Approach to Contemporary Art
Beijing Art Museum, Beijing, China
Chinese Women’s Artists Invitation Show
National Gallery of China, Beijing, China

1993
Group Show
Ground Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1988 Group Show
City Gallery, Coutland, New York, USA

1985
Beijing Youth Painting Exhibition
National Gallery of China, Beijing, China
Youth Artist Association Show
National Gallery of China, Beijing, China

1984
Beijing Youth Painting Exhibition
Liulichang, Beijing, China

Publications

1995
Exhibition Reviews: Lin TianMiao
Asia – Pacific Sculpture (Spring 95), 49. Karen Smith
In Peking wird eine menge riskiert
Art (August 95), 42. Aktionen die Obrigkeit
1996
Metropolitan Individuals
Flash Art (Nov-Dec 1996) Hou Hanru

1997
Lin Tianmiao at the Central Academy of fine Art
Sculpture News, (Winter 97),54. Karen Smith
Breakout and Trascendence After the Rebellion:
New Tendencies in Chinese Contemporary Art
(Since the Mid-1980s)

1997
Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art
“Gathering Wind” 1997 Exhibition of Chinese (1997 Exhibition
Chinese Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Wtari Museum, 175. Qian Zhijian
Towards the Millenium: From Land’s end to the peripheral
Verge

1997
Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Watari Museum
145 Karen Smith
Somewhere between Utopia and Chaos: Contemporary
Chinese Art Toady
Another Long March (Catalogue of the Exhibition) Breda, The Netherland, Hou Hanru
Instanbul Biennial: Curarorial Interpretions
Flash Art (Nov-Dec. 1997) Rosa Martinez
Against the Tide
(Brochure For the show) July 1997 Lydia Yee

1998
Against the Tide
Art ia Pacific (January 1998), 100 Francesca Dal Lago
Asia sits so closs yet so far- Contemporary expression of North East Asia
Neo Lagooh-Contemporary Art of North East Asia (Catalogue of the Exhibition) Japan Arata Tani
Cream-Contemporary art in culture
(10 Curators, 10 Writers,100 Artists) Rosa Martinez

1999
Thread Concrete and Women’s Installation art in China
Art Asia Pacific (1999) Melissa Chiu