Chang Jin
Introduction
Chang Jin has been one of the most important ink artists and a leading representative of the New Literati Group in mainland China since the 1980s. Chang studied figure and landscape painting at Jiangsu Provincial Academy of Traditional Chinese Painting. After graduating in 1981, he remained there to teach and administer the Academy. He is currently the Chairman of Academy’s Research Institute, Vice-chairman of Academy’s Arts Committee, also a member of Chinese Artists Association in mainland China.
Chang’s landscape paintings are poetic and dreamy, harmonic and elegant. His brush strokes are simple and light. The dedicate texture of his dry brushwork creates an effect of transparency, giving the landscape a unique style of own. He fuses the complex characteristics of traditional Chinese paintings from the dynasties of Southern Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing, making his expression contemporary as well as traditional.
Chang received several awards from the mid-1980s, including the 2nd prize of the 6th China Arts Exhibition in 1984, winner of the same exhibition in 1986, the “Chinese Young Artists Prize” in 1989, winner of the 1st Landscape Painting Exhibition of Jiangsu Province in 1998. He is acclaimed as the typical landscape artist in southern China.
He has had more than 20 solo and group exhibitions in USA, Germany, Australia, Japan, Malaysia, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong since 1984. Alisan organized two group exhibitions showcasing Chang Jin’s portrait paintings in 1997 and 1999.
1951 Born in Nanjing, China
1968-74 During the Cultural Revolution, he was sent to work in the countryside of Jiangsu
1974-76 Took pencil drawing and watercolor painting lessons from On Rong Kang and Qian Zhong Yu, and landscape painting lessons from Yi Guan Rong
1976-78 Returned to Nanjing where he took landscape painting lessons with A Ming and Sung Wen Zhi. He studied figure painting at the Jiangsu Provincial Academy of Traditional Chinese Painting, travelled the Dunhuang caves to study the Buddhist mural paintings, and went to A Ba Di Qu in Sichuan to study out-door sketches
1981 Graduated from the Jiangsu Provincial Academy, where he became a teacher and administrator Chairman of the Academy Arts Committee and a member of Chinese Art Association
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2000
- East Pavilion Gallery, Chicago, USA
- Solo exhibition of landscape paintings, Art Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Solo exhibition of landscape paintings, Chang Jiang Art Centre, Taipei, Taiwan
- Solo exhibition of figure paintings, Chang Jiang Art Centre, Taipei, Taiwan
- Solo exhibition of landscape painting, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
- Modern Chinese Art Centre, Osaka, Japan
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014
2005
- Daylight and Cloud-Shadow’s Dancing, Soka Art Centre, Beijing, China
- 3rd International Ink Biennial, Shenzhen, China
- 2nd International Ink Biennial, Shenzhen, China
- Century Door 1979-1999 China Art Invitational Exhibition, Chengdu, China
- Shenzhen Art Biennial, Shenzhen, China
- Shanghai Art Biennial, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
- 5000 Years of Chinese Art and Civilization, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
- Group exhibition, Ludwigsburg Museum, Germany
- Contemporary Chinese Artists Best Works Exhibition, Hong Kong
- Group exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
SELECTED AWARDS
1998 Winner of the 1st Landscape Painting Exhibition of Jiangsu Province, China
1989 Chinese Young Artists Prize, China
1986 Winner of the 8th China Arts Competition, China
1984 Second prize in the 6th China Arts Competition, China
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Jiangsu Art Museum, China
Guangzhou Art Museum, China
Modern Chinese Art Centre, Osaka, Japan
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
