Introduction

Lin Aojie, born in Guangzhou in 1986, graduated from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Oil Painting Department in 2010. He lives in Guangzhou, currently working in Beijing and Shanghai.

Presented through video, photography, painting, text, etc., Lin Aojie’s artistic practice departs from his personal experiences. The artist has a keen and delicate record of the trivial details of daily life or deliberately planned events with strongly improvisatory and humorous images, while a seemingly dispassionate tone threads the whole narrative structure. By beating around the bush he tries to question, ridicule and criticize the capitalist mode of production, artist's survival predicament and the relationship between artists and other art professionals.

Recent solo exhibitions include: Lin Aojie: Playing it Safe in 2023, Praying for Wealth in 2024, ShanghART Singapore (2024); Lin Aojie: Real, Queensway Television, Singapore (2024); Lin Aojie: From an Art Student to an Artist, TC101 SPACE, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (2023); Lin Aojie: Ponzi Scheme, ShanghART Beijing (2023);        Lin Aojie: How Do Artists Make a Living, ShanghART Beijing (2021); Shifting Times, Moving Images IV: Lin Aojie, ShanghART Singapore (2021); Lin Aojie: Designers Have a Future only When They Treat Artworks as Initial Inspiration, ShanghART Shanghai (2019); Lin Aojie: Those Who Like Playing Tricks Usually Don’t Live a Good Life, ShanghART, Beijing (2019) etc.

Recent group exhibitions include: Four Winds: A Different Perspective on Southern Art, Guangdong Contemporary Art Center & XY Gallery, Guangzhou (2024); A Constellation of Cities: Contemporary Art and Experiment in Southern China and Beyond, Guangdong Museum of Art (Baietan Area), Guangzhou (2024);        Nomads in the South: Rivers, Tunnels, Dampness and Constellations, Pingshan Art Museum, Shenzhen (2023); Tales of the South, He Art Museum, Foshan (2023); Semi Art Community Project: Boogie Woogie Museum, Ulsan Art Museum, South Korea (2023); TAG · New Contemporary Art Exhibition - Sailing, TAG Art Museum, Qingdao (2022); Don't Kill Me I'm in Love! - A Tribute to Huang Xiaopeng, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou (2021); Mirage or Reality, CHI K11 Art Museum, Shanghai (2021); Very Natural Actions, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong (2019); Night Tour of the Pearl River, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou (2019); Emerging Curators Project 2018, Power Station of Art, Shanghai (2018); The 11th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai (2016) etc.