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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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VISUAL PROJECTS

The Terrapolis
60” x 70”, Oil on Linen, China, 2023

Chthulu Secrets
20” x 30”, Oil on Linen, China, 2023

All we can sense of nature is an echo of our “sounding out” of it.
We posit nature retroactively. (Morton, 2007)


Cyborg’s Song I
3428 × 4096
digital painting
London, United Kingdom
2022


Cyborg’s Song II -- Romantic Altar
3428 × 4096
digital painting
London, United Kingdom
2022


Boiled Wonder in the Falling Whale’s Call

3428 × 4096
digital painting
London, United Kingdom
2022



DANTE: THE EPHEMERAL ETERNITY
18” x 12”, Oil on Canvas, China, 2019


DANTE: THE BACKBONE OF FLUID
16” x 12”, Oil on Canvas, China, 2020



64 HEXAGRAM——2: 坤 (kūn)

䷁

70” x 30”, Oil on Canvas, China, 2021

“Would you hear,
the bells in my lungs,
between my inhale and exhale,
are all softly chanting,
for the death.”



64 HEXAGRAM——7: 地水師 (shī)

䷆

35” x 35”, Oil on Canvas, China, 2022


A painting series submitted to exhibitions, with special lighting designs. The purpose of the exhibit is to spark discussions about the extent to which the original appearance and imagination of things are limited or rendered subjectively by human senses.


QUARTZ (2018)
4K
11:53 minutes
Independent Film
New York, United States

Film Link: https://vimeo.com/376583694
Password: Quartz2018




TROY BY THE SEA (2023)
4K
Independent Film
Shenzhen, China


Coming Soon



QUANTUM MIND
5389 × 4093
digital painting
London, United Kingdom
2022

Light is amorphous,
waves or particles.





AMADEUS

15.8” x 15.8”
oil and art pastel on canvas
London, United Kingdom
2021






THE REPLICATORS
THE MIMESIS

1719 × 4096
digital painting
London, United Kingdom
2022

1719 × 4096
digital painting
London, United Kingdom
2022













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digital photography series
Tanzania, Africa, The Planet
2019


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film & digital photography series
Vienna, Austria
Budapest, Hungary
2019


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12 EPISODES DOCUMENTARY OF 2021 BEIJING CITY VIDEO “DREAM BEIJING”Information Office of the People's Government of Beijing Municipality
Access the Main Video Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOeo9klLGbQ

4K
Short Documentaries created for TikTok Promotion
Beijing, China
2021