biography
1961 Born in Taiyuan Shanxi Province, China
1984 Fine Art Department, Capital Normal University
1989 Art Student league, New York USA
1994 Returned to Beijing, China
Selected Exhibitions
2009 APT, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection. Berkeley Museum of Art, University of California, Berkeley,
2008 Focus. Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
2008 Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now. The Museum of Modern Art,, NY (solo)
2008 Lin Tianmiao. Long March Space, Beijing, China (solo)
2007 Focus: on Paper. Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore (solo)
2007 Global Feminisms. Brooklyn Museum, New York
2006 Asian Contemporary Art In Print in Celebration of Asia Society?s 50th
2006 Anniversary 2006. Asia Society and Museum, New York, New York, USA
2006 Asian Contemporary Art In Print. The Gallery of Singapore Tyler Print Institute
2006 Martell Artist of the Year 2006. National Gallery of China, Beijing
2006 Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection. Kunsthalle, Hamburg Germany
2005 Rapt: Austral-Asia Zero Five, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia
2005 About Beauty, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
2005 ShangHai Cool ? Creative Reproduction, ShangHai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, ShangHai, China
2005 The New Works of Wang,GongXin & Lin,TianMiao, Courtyard Gallery Annex, Beijing, China
2005 Mahiong, Museum of Fine Arts Bern, Switzland
2004 Between Past and Future, ICP and Museum of Asia Society, New York, USA
2004 Concrete Horizons, Adam Art Gallery , Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
2004 Officina Asia, Gallery d?Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
2004 Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US, Samek Art Galler, Bucknell University. Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles. USA
2004 Non Zero, Tokyo Art Project, Beijing, China (solo)
2003 Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Japan
2003 Arles Photograph art Festival, Arles, France
2003 New Zone Chinese Art, Zacheta National Art Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2002 2nd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale 2002, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum Japan
2002 Gwang Ju Biennale 2002, Gwang Ju, Korea
2002 Ireland Biennale 2002, Ireland
2002 Focus, The Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China (solo)
2001 Shout on the Face, Earl Lu Gallery Lasalle ? sia College of the Art Singapore
2001 The New-Media Art Festival: Non-Linear Narrative The Gallery of National Academy of Art, Hong Zhou, China
2001 Threads of Vision: Toward A New Feminine Poetics, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Ohio, USA
2001 Translated acts, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany and Queens Museum of art, New York, USA
2000 At The New Century 1979-1999, China Contemporary Art Chengdu Museum of Contemporary Art, China
2000 Inside/Out New Chinese Art, National Gallery of Australia
1999 Beijing in London, ICA Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
1998 Woman ? Century, National Gallery of China
1997 Bound-unbound 1995-1997, Gallery of the central Academy Of Fine Art, Beijing, China (solo)
1995 Open Studio, Baofang Hutong 12#, Beijing, China (solo)
Literature
2007 China Art Book. Uta Grosenick / Caspar Sch?bbe (Ed.), 680 pages, approx. 850 images, trilingual: Engl./Ger./Chin., Dumont Buchverlag, Cologne 2007. www.chinaartbook.de
1999 Thread Concrete and Women?s Installation art in China Art Asia Pacific (1999) / Melissa Chiu
1998 Against the Tide, Art ia Pacific (January 1998), 100 / Francesca Dal Lago
1998 Asia sits so closs yet so far- Contemporary expression of North East Asia, Neo Lagooh-Contemporary Art of North East Asia (Catalogue of the Exhibition) Japan / Arata Tani
1998 Cream-Contemporary art in culture (10 Curators, 10 Writers,100 Artists) / Rosa Martinez
1997 Breakout and Trascendence After the Rebellion: New Tendencies in Chinese Contemporary Art (Since the Mid-1980s), 1997 Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art ?Gathering Wind? 1997 Exhibition of Chinese (1997 Exhibition Chinese Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Wtari Museum, 175. / Qian Zhijian
1997 Lin Tianmiao at the Central Academy of fine Art, Sculpture News, (Winter 97),54. / Karen Smith
1997 Towards the Millenium: From Land?s end to the peripheral Verge, 1997 Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Watari Museum, 145. / Karen Smith
1997 Somewhere between Utopia and Chaos: Contemporary Chinese Art Toady, Another Long March (Catalogue of the Exhibition) Breda, The Netherlands / Hou Hanru
1997 Instanbul Biennial: Curarorial Interpretions, Flash Art (Nov-Dec. 1997) / Rosa Martinez
1997 Against the Tide (Brochure For the show) July 1997 / Lydia Yee
1996 Metropolitan Individuals, Flash Art (Nov-Dec 1996) / Hou Hanru
1995 In Peking wird eine Menge riskiert Art (August ?95), 42., Aktionen die Obrigkeit