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 Beijing

Selected solo exhibitions

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
2004   
Move On: Lin Yilin, ISE Cultural Foundation, New York, U.S.A

Selected group exhibitions

2012
7th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, China
MIE: A Portraits by 35 Artist, FREIGHT+VOLUME, New York, U.S.A
2011
Spacecraft Icarus 13, BAK, Utrecht, Holland
Moving Image in China: 1988-2011, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
A Line Made By Walking, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
2010
First Ural Industrial Biennial, Yekaterinburg, Russia
Glass Factory, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Great Performance, Pace Gallery, Beijing, China
Rites without myths, Impronte contemporary art, Milan, Italy
2009  
10th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France
The State of Things, Palais des Beaux-Arts / Bozar, Brussels, Belgium
2008   
Guangzhou Station, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
The Borders of Utopia, Beijing Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2007
Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany
Who do you think you are?, BaseB, Milan, Italy
2008
Accumulation, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Guangzhou-Cantonese Artist in the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
2005   
The Second  Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Mahjong-Contemporary Chinese Art from in the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
2004   
The Monk and the Demon, Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France
Effort, Koldo Mitxelena Cultural Centre, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain
2003
50th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2002
Pause, Gwangju Biennale 2002, Gwangju Biennale Hall, Korea
The First Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2001   
Transplantation in Situ, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2000   
Basic Needs, the World Exposition EXPO 2000, Hanover, Germany
1998   
Site of Desire, 1998 Taipei Biennale, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
Big Tail Elephant, Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland
Inside out, New Chinese Art, Asia Society, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, U.S.A
1997   
Trade Routes: History and Geography, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa   
Cities on the Move, Vereinigung bildender Kunstler Wiener Secession, Austria
1996
Possibility-Big Tail Elephant, Zhongguang Building, Guangzhou, China
1994
No Room-Big Tail Elephant, Guangzhou, China
1993   
China Avant-Garde, Haus der Kulture der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Third Exhibition of Big Tail Elephant Group, Red Ants Bar, Guangzhou, China
1992
A Joint Exhibition of Big Tail Elephant Group, Guangdong Broadcast/Television University, Guangzhou, China
1991   
Exhibition of Big Tail Elephant Group, Guangzhou No.1 Worker's Palace, Guangzhou, China