Biography
Born in 1964 in Ji’nan, Shandong Province, Wang Yin grew up in Qingdao. He graduated from the Department of Stage Design, the Central Academy of Drama in 1988. He lives and works in Beijing.
Biography
Born in 1964 in Ji’nan, Shandong Province, Wang Yin grew up in Qingdao. He graduated from the Department of Stage Design, the Central Academy of Drama in 1988. He lives and works in Beijing.
Wang Yin integrates personal emotional experience and intellectual inquiry into his engagement with the history of modern oil painting, transforming external influences into an internalized, lived reality. Through sustained and meticulous practice, the figures in his works appear suspended beyond temporal constraints, as though drawn from a collective imaginary. Rendered in muted, contemplative tones, these images often evoke the latent spirit of contemporary life—its quiet intensity and the inner worlds it conceals.
Wang Yin’s recent solo exhibitions include: Wang Yin: Mother and Child 2023, Mirrored Gardens, Guangzhou, 2023; Wang Yin 2021, A07 Building, 798 Art Zone, Beijing; Friendship, Mirrored Gardens, Guangzhou, 2017; The Gift, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing, 2016.
Exhibitions & Projects

Wang Yin: Mother and Child 2023
September 22- December 31, 2023
Mirrored Gardens, Guangzhou

Wang Yin: Mother and Son
September 27-November 25, 2022
New Century Art Foundation, Beijing

Wang Yin 2021
April 23-June 5, 2021
Location: A07 Building, 798 Art Zone, Beijing

Wang Yin
Oct 18 – Oct.21, 2018
FIAC, Paris

Wang Yin: Friendship
14 January – 30 April, 2018
Mirrored Gardens, Guangzhou
Frontier: Re-assessment of Post-Globalisational Politics
30 Dec 2017 – 11 Mar 2018
OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai
Our Painting
12 Nov 2016 – 25 Feb 2017
Yang Art Museum, Beijing

Wang Yin: The Gift
29 Mar – 27 May 2016
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, UCCA
Video Documentation
“Wang Yin: Mother and Child 2023.” Guangzhou: The Pavilion, 2023.
“Wang Yin: Friendship.” Guangzhou: The Pavilion, 2018.