{"id":3737,"date":"2015-04-15T10:54:08","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T10:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.galerieloft.com\/artist\/wang-jin-2\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T09:47:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T09:47:50","slug":"wang-jin","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/www.galerieloft.com\/en\/artists\/wang-jin\/","title":{"rendered":"Wang Jin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wang Jin<\/strong> was born in Datong, in the Chinese province of Liaoning. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1987, where he specialized in traditional Chinese painting. Wang Jin lives and works in Beijing and exhibits regularly in many countries.<\/p>\n<p>His work uses several mediums, such as photography, sculpture and performance, indiscriminately and sometimes simultaneously. His very conceptual work is inspired by personal experiences. It expresses an assumed subjectivity while echoing, with biting irony, the evolutions and problems of Chinese society.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>His famous photograph Marrying a Donkey (1995) features him in costume, leading a donkey in a wedding dress. This performance denounced the absurdity of bureaucratic blockages denying him a visa to go to the United States, which led the artist to divorce his wife, who was studying in this country.<\/p>\n<p>In another photograph, Fighting the Flood &#8211; Red flag canal (1994), he poured 25 kilos of red paint into an old canal. If red is the traditional color of happiness, marriage and revolution, the artist evokes with this gesture the transmission of pollution or poison. He also repainted, with a red obtained from elements of traditional Chinese culture, the rails of a railway line between Beijing and Hong Kong. More recently, in the same order of ideas but in a different register of expression, he exhibited traditional Chinese costumes woven from PVC, a symbolic material of contemporary consumer society, now well known for its toxicity. The robes are transparent and white, the traditional color of death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wang Jin was born in Datong, in the Chinese province of Liaoning. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1987, where he specialized in traditional Chinese painting. Wang Jin lives and works in Beijing and exhibits regularly in many countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1815,"template":"","artist_cat":[225,21],"class_list":["post-3737","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","artist_cat-photographer","artist_cat-sculptor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/3737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artist"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist_cat?post=3737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}