I often describe my works as being about encounters of bodies, especially the encounters that seem to be random and without impact at the moment but have the potential to change the trajectory of the lives of both parties. My practice is related to topics including issues of gender temperament, homosexual desire, the abject, inbetweenness, identification and differentiation, etc. as they are very connected to my personal life.
I work interdisciplinary with painting, text, object, sculpture and performance, while painting is the core of my practice. As an artist, I use the surface of my body as a layer of semi-permeable membrane which filters my biographies, personalities and retains them inside me. The rest goes through.
To some extent, my art is an extension of myself. My practice explores the border between personal and impersonal, the possibility that life and art become one. And in this way, I attempt to experience how the new percepts from us to the world are composed, how we observe the power of these new percepts which are independent from the lived perception and in this process how do we create decisions, determinations and even concepts.
Contact:
jinbinchen818@hotmail.com
Representation:
Michael Kohn Gallery, LA
Standard(Oslo), NO
CV
Education
2019 – 2021
MA, Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway, NO
2015 – 2019
BA, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, Royal Academy of Art The Hague, The Netherlands, NL
Selected Solo Exhibition
2025
Setting Off Alone From the Far Side of the Moon, LNM, Oslo, Norway, NO
2024
Dream Atlas, the Shophouse, Hong Kong, HK
2023
Portholes, Standard(Oslo), Oslo, Norway, NO
Prophecies of the Post-angel Era, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway, NO
2022
Returnees, Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, California, CA
Omega and (Anti-)Decay Atlas, Northing Space, Bergen, Norway, NO
2021
The Heimlichkeit of the Home, Fotogalleri Vasli Souza, Oslo, Norway, NO
Selected Group Exhibition
2025
Birth of Poetry, the Shophouse, Hong Kong, HK
2024
Widely Varying Styles. Selected new additions to the collection, The National Museum, Oslo, Norway, NO
Daddy’s Dinner, 413 Beta, Seoul, South Korea, KR
Daddy’s Dinner, Tenthaus, Oslo, Norway, NO
2023
Swallow Mountain, Drain Sea, Linseed Projects, Shanghai, China, CN
Myth of the Cherry Tree, Standard, Oslo, Norway, NO
Indoctrination: Multivalent Gestures, Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway, NO
2022
UTOPIA, Tegnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway, NO
PYTON place (London Craft Week), Cromwellplace, London, Britain, UK
Matrix of Gender, Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall, Arendal, Norway, NO
FUS, Kösk, Oslo, Norway, NO
2021
True Love is Searching Too, Otteudstilling, Copenhagen, Denmark, DK
Intersension(al), Northing Space, Bergen, Norway, NO
Statens Kunstutstilling 134, Høstutstillingen, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway, NO
Paper Planes, Standard (Oslo), Oslo, Norway, NO
Klubb Ergi, Ergi, ergi.xyz
2020
Statens Kunstutstilling 133, Høstutstillingen, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway, NO
2019
The Here and Now, Oslo, Norway, NO
KABK Graduation Show 2019, KABK, Den Haag, the Netherlands, NL
2018
A Foreign Affair, Billytown, Den Haag, the Netherlands, NL
Bouncing off, Billytown, Den Haag, the Netherlands, NL
Overprint, The Centre for engravings, La Louvière, Belgium, BE
Selected Collection
2024
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, TX
The City of Oslo Art Collection, Oslo, Norway, NO
The National Museum, Oslo, Norway, NO
2023
X Museum, Beijing, China, CN
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, CO
Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Miami, Florida, FL