MINGSHI Lin
b. Shenzhen, CHN
She/her/it

About

Mingshi Lin creates illustration, independent film, oil painting, music, and experimental sound that deliver evocative spiritual imagery with a poetic temperament.

She pursues an aesthetic that re-portrays and deconstructs consciousness and matter, nature and humanity, and cyborgs and knowledge, in order to inspire ‘something in between’ and liberate the third overtone from the conventional narratives.

Her works seek to explore the ‘resonation’ of the world — the ‘Aeolian’ derived from perceptions. Her brushstrokes, montage, and voice mean to create a new immersive environment — an ambience — a metaphysical space in which the mind wanders freely and ‘body’ drifts randomly while dissolving itself out of the borders. “Imagination is a sensory movement; the canvas is the habitat where my mind should go and rest,” she has noted. “Arts only live well in the uncanny collision between dreamy vision and real tactility. I just let my hand move, selling peerless imagination, not products.”



Education

University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
MPhil. Latin American Studies. 2024

University College London, London, UK
MA. Film Studies. 2022

School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
BFA. Film. 2020


Exhibition

2023
FORBES Top 100 Young Artists of China, Shenzhen, CHN

2023
ART COMPOSITION--European Contemporary Art Exhibition, by Bravo Arts, Shenzhen, CHN

2021
Dante: The White Shores, Nest Gallery, Sea World Culture and Arts Center, Shenzhen, CHN


2018
2020
Quartz (2019), Nest Gallery, Sea World Culture and Arts Center, Shenzhen, CHN




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MINGSHI LIN b. Shenzhen, CHN
She/her/it


About

Mingshi Lin creates illustration, independent film, oil painting, and experimental sound that deliver beautifully abstract imageries and emotional, poetic temperament.

She pursues an aesthetic that re-portray and deconstruct consciousness and matter, nature and human being, and cyborg and knowledge, in order to inspire ‘something in between,’ to release the third overtone from the conventional narratives.

Her works aim to explore the ‘resonation’ of the world — the ‘Aeolian’ from perceptions. Her brushstrokes, montage, and voice mean to create a new environment — an ambience — a metaphysical space where mind goes freely and ‘body’ drifts randomly while dissolving itself out of the borders. “Creation is a sensory movement, the canvas is the habitat where my mind should go and rest,” she has noted. “Arts only live well in the uncanny collision between dreamy vision and real tactility; I just let my hand moves, selling peerless imagination, not products.”


Education

University College London, London, UK
MA. Film Studies. 2022

School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
BFA. Film. 2020


Exhibition

2021
Dante: The White Shores, Nest Gallery, Sea World Culture and Arts Center, Shenzhen, CHN


2018
2020
Quartz (2019), Nest Gallery, Sea World Culture and Arts Center, Shenzhen, CHN




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QUANTUM MIND

5389 × 4093
digital painting
London, United Kingdom

2022
Light
by Mingshi Lin

Light is amorphous,
waves or particles.
As you observe it,
it reflects your consciousness;
it sneaks into your decaying night,
turns into your infinite dream.


Copyright © 2022 by Mingshi Lin