Born 1961 Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, China
Lives and works in Beijing, China

Education
1984   
BFA, Department of Fine Art, Capital Normal University, Beijing
1989   
Art Students League, New York

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2009   
Gazing Back: the Art of Lin Tianmiao, OCT Art Center, Shanghai
2008   
Mother’s!!!, Long March Space, Beijing, China          
Focus – Works on Paper, Long March Space, Beijing, China          
JGM Gallery, Paris, France  
2007   
Focus – Works on Paper, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore          
Art and Public Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland          
Loft Gallery, Paris, France
2004   
Non Zero, Tokyo Art Project, Beijing, China                    
2002   
Focus, The Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China            
Bound-unbound, 1995-1997, Gallery of the Central Academy Of Fine Art, Beijing, China
1995   
Open Studio, Baofang Hutong 12#, Beijing, China

Selected Group Exhibitions
2008   
Our Future: The Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection, UCCA, Beijing, China
Where Are We?, Beijing Center for the Arts, Beijing, China          
Four Season Group Exhibition, Zhejiang Academy of Art, Hongzhou, China          
Half Life of a Dream: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
2007   
Multiplex: Directions in Art,1970 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA          
Global Feminism, Brooklyn Museum, New York , USA
2006   
Asian Contemporary Art In Print in Celebration of Asia Society’s 50th    
Anniversary, Asia Society and Museum, New York, USA          
Asian Contemporary Art In Print, The Gallery of Singapore Tyler Print Institute , (STPI), Singapore
Martell Artist of The Year 2006, National Art Museum of China, Beijing,
China
2005   
About Beauty, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany          
Shanghai Cool – Creative Reproduction, Shanghai Dolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China          
Mahjong – Works from the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland
2004   
Between Past and Future, ICP, New York, USA; Asia Society Museum, New York, USA; Smart Museum, Chicago, USA
2003   
Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial, Japan          
New Zone Chinese Art, Zacheta National Art Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2002   
2nd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale 2002, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan          
Gwangju Biennale 2002, Korea
Ireland Biennale 2002, Ireland          
Shanghai Biennale 2002, Shanghai Art Museum, China          
Guangzhou Triennale 2002, Guangdong Fine Art Museum, China          
Paris-Pekin, Espace Cardin, Paris, France
2001   
Breaking the Mold, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Ohio, USA          
The New Media Art Festival: Non-linear Narrative, Gallery of China Academy Art, Hangzhou, China          
Translated Acts, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany and Queens Museum of Art, New York
2000   
At the New Century 1979-1999, Chengdu Museum of Contemporary Art, China
1999   
Revolutionary Capitals: Beijing in London, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK          
Inside/Out New Chinese Art, SFMOMA, San Francisco, USA
1998   
Woman-Century, National Gallery of China, Beijing
1997   
Fifth International Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey          
Another Long March, Chasse Kazerme, Breda, The Netherlands
1995   
File No. 1-Conceptual Documents for Impossible Art, Soho Biennial, New York