Biography:

Lin Yilin(b. 1964, Guangzhou) is a performance and installation artist, who lives and works in Beijing and New York.

Lin studied sculpture at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and graduated in 1987. Between 1986 and 1987, he became an active member of the Southern Artists Salon.

At the end of 1990, Lin, Chen Shaoxiong and Liang Juhui formed the art group Big-Tail Elephant in Guangzhou. Some of Lin’s early exhibitions include the ‘Exhibition of the Big-Tail Elephant Group’ (Guangzhou No. 1 Worker’s Palace, Guangzhou), the ‘Joint Exhibition of the Big-Tail Elephant Group’ (Guangdong Broadcast/Television, Guangzhou, 1992), ‘China Avant-Garde’ (Haus de Kulture der Welt, Berlin, 1993), the ‘Third Exhibition of Big-Tail Elephant Group’ (Red Ants Bar, Guangzhou, 1993), ‘China New Art Exhibition’ (Exhibition Centre, Guangzhou, 1994), ‘No Room — Big-Tail Elephant’ (Guangzhou, 1994) and ‘Possibility — Big-Tail Elephant’ (Zhongguang Building, Guangzhou, 1996).

Some of his recent exhibitions include ‘Cities on the Move’ (Denmark, London, Bangkok and Helsinki, 1999), ‘Paris-Pekin’’ (Paris, 2002), the first and second Guangzhou Triennials (Guangzhou, 2002 and 2005), the fourth Gwangju Biennale (Gwangju, South Korea, 2002) and Documenta 12 (Kassel, 2007).