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MINGSHI LIN
b. Shenzhen, CHN
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About

Mingshi (Soléa) Lin is a interdisciplinary artist and DPhil student at the University of Oxford, whose practice now mainly concentrate on oil painting, film, and scholarly work. Her experience spans leading visual and media productions for the Olympics and films across the globe, with accolades including Forbes China’s 2023 Top 100 Young Artists and The Official Olympic Commemorative Medal awarded by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of South Korea.

Drawing on her background in visual arts and Latin American Studies, Lin’s work goes beyond mere depictions of fantasy and phenomena to explore the resonances and frictions between science, nature, and culture—particularly in Global South contexts—with her artistic practice serves as a parallel form of historical and interpretive research.

Her works explore plants, the culture of “lines,” ancient Chinese science and the I Ching, and Latin American indigenous cosmologies. She advocates for dialogue between modern science and the ancient natural philosophies of the Global South—reweaving the divided realms of science, nature, the human, and the nonhuman. Currently, she is developing projects that braid knowledge systems, inviting audiences to cross sensory, cultural, and ecological thresholds grounded in relational ontology.

Beyond academic and historical inquiries, Lin’s creative process is rooted in an intuitive sensitivity to the metaphysical ambience of the world. “Imagination is a sensory movement; the canvas is the habitat where my mind should go and rest,” she writes. “Art lives in the uncanny collision between dreamy vision and real tactility. I just let my hand move, selling imagination, not products.”


Educations

University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
DPhil. Medieval and Modern Languages. 2025—

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


Exhibitions and Publications

2025
XV Florence Biennale “The Sublime Essence of Light and Darkness. Concepts of Dualism and Unity in Contemporary Art and Design.,” Fortezza da Basso, 18-26 October 2025, Florence, Italy. (Incoming)

2023
FORBES Top 100 Young Artists of China, CHN

ART COMPOSITION--European Contemporary Art Exhibition, by Bravo Arts., China Resources Tower Art Center, 1 August 2023-30 September 2023, Shenzhen, CHN

ART Shenzhen. Shenzhen International Cultural Convention and Exhibition Center Hall 7/8, September 2023, Shenzhen, China.

Sea World Culture and Arts Center, 2 December 2022-5 January 2023, Shenzhen, China.

2021
Future? Future!., AIXY Center, December 2021, Shenzhen, CHN

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

Lin, M. (2020). ‘The Critical perspectives on the Creative Storytelling and Character Development’, Crossing Boundaries: Chinese Art in Transition. Beijing: Heilongjiang Art Press, pp.62-66. ISBN: 978-7-5593-5715-1.

Lin, M. (2019). ‘The Fire That Unites: An Olympic Symphony’, in Song, Z. (ed.) Passion for Pyeongchang 2018: 2019 Chinese Volunteers Winter Olympics and Paralympics Story (Chinese Edition). Beijing: Xinhua News Agency, pp.214-223. ISBN: 978-7-5166-4874-2.

Lin, M. and Zhao, M. (2020). ‘River of Life’. [Film Music] mixed by Yuesong Li. Beijing: New Classics Media


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


About

Mingshi (Soléa) Lin is a interdisciplinary artist and DPhil student at the University of Oxford, whose practice now mainly concentrate on oil painting, film, and scholarly work. Her experience spans leading visual and media productions for the Olympics and films across the globe, with accolades including Forbes China’s 2023 Top 100 Young Artists and The Official Olympic Commemorative Medal awarded by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of South Korea.

Drawing on her background in visual arts and Latin American Studies, Lin’s work goes beyond mere depictions of fantasy and phenomena to explore the resonances and frictions between science, nature, and culture—particularly in Global South contexts—with her artistic practice serves as a parallel form of historical and interpretive research.

Her works explore plants, the culture of “lines,” ancient Chinese science and the I Ching, and Latin American indigenous cosmologies. She advocates for dialogue between modern science and the ancient natural philosophies of the Global South—reweaving the divided realms of science, nature, the human, and the nonhuman. Currently, she is developing projects that braid knowledge systems, inviting audiences to cross sensory, cultural, and ecological thresholds grounded in relational ontology.

Beyond academic and historical inquiries, Lin’s creative process is rooted in an intuitive sensitivity to the metaphysical ambience of the world. “Imagination is a sensory movement; the canvas is the habitat where my mind should go and rest,” she writes. “Art lives in the uncanny collision between dreamy vision and real tactility. I just let my hand move, selling imagination, not products.”


Education

University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
DPhil. Medieval and Modern Languages. 2025—

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 and Publications

2023
FORBES Top 100 Young Artists of China, CHN

ART COMPOSITION--European Contemporary Art Exhibition, by Bravo Arts., China Resources Tower Art Center, 1 August 2023-30 September 2023, Shenzhen, CHN

ART Shenzhen. Shenzhen International Cultural Convention and Exhibition Center Hall 7/8, September 2023, Shenzhen, China.

Sea World Culture and Arts Center, 2 December 2022-5 January 2023, Shenzhen, China.

2021
Future? Future!., AIXY Center, December 2021, Shenzhen, CHN

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

Lin, M. (2020). ‘The Critical perspectives on the Creative Storytelling and Character Development’, Crossing Boundaries: Chinese Art in Transition. Beijing: Heilongjiang Art Press, pp.62-66. ISBN: 978-7-5593-5715-1.

Lin, M. (2019). ‘The Fire That Unites: An Olympic Symphony’, in Song, Z. (ed.) Passion for Pyeongchang 2018: 2019 Chinese Volunteers Winter Olympics and Paralympics Story (Chinese Edition). Beijing: Xinhua News Agency, pp.214-223. ISBN: 978-7-5166-4874-2.

Lin, M. and Zhao, M. (2020). ‘River of Life’. [Film Music] mixed by Yuesong Li. Beijing: New Classics Media




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20” x 30”, Oil on Linen, China, 2023