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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: Red Peony, Green Peony, Mirrored Gardens, Guangzhou; Wang Yin: Fragrant, DRC No.12, Beijing; World: Wang Yin - Theatre, 405 Space, Beijing, 2025; 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.