Artwork
Private Reading Lamp 2010
Light sculpture
Fabric, steel frame, light bulb and seat
Private Reading Lamp invites audiences into a private environment in a public space. As a single-person reading room, complete with a light, this highly personalised crafted space stands in contrast to the institutional public setting. Take your favourite book in with you or just sit and think.
State Library of Queensland location: level 2
Shanghai Library location: level 4
Artist’s C.V.
1961 Born in Taiyuan Shanxi Province, China
1984 Fine Art Department, Capital Normal University
1989 Art Student league, New York USA
Currently lives in Beijing, China
Solo Exhibitions
2009
Gazing Back –The Art of Lin Tianmiao, Shanghai Pujiang OCT ten year public art project 2009, Shanghai, China
2008
Mother’s!!! , Long March Space, Beijing, China
Focus – Works on paper, Long March Space, Beijing, China
JGM Gallery, Paris, France
2007
Focus on Paper, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
Seeing Shadow, Art and Public Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland Loft Gallery, Paris, France
2004
Non Zero, Tokyo Art Project, Beijing, China
2002
Focus, The Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China
1997
Bound-unbound, Gallery of the Central Academy Of Fine Art, Beijing, China
1995
Open Studio, Baofang Hutong No.12, Beijing, China
Group Exhibitions
2009
Over Six Hundred Choices, Arrow Factory, Beijing, China
Art In Use: Sculptural Objects, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, China
Metropolis Now! – A Selection of Chinese Contemporary Art, Meridian International Centre, Washington DC, USA
The State of Things – Brussels / Beijing, Centre for Fine Art, Brussels
2008
Four Season Group Exhibition, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
Half Life of a Dream: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Logan Collection Group, San Francisco museum of Modern Art, San Francisco USA
Where are we?, Tian An Time Art Centre, Beijing , China.
Beijing – Athens: Contemporary Art from China, Grace national contemporary art center, Greece
Our Future – The Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection, UCCA, Beijing, China
2007
Multiplex: Direction in Art, 1970 to now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Global Feminism, Brooklyn museum , New York, USA
2006
Asian Contemporary Art In Print in Celebration of Asia Society’s 50th Anniversary, Asia Society and Museum, New York, USA
Asian Contemporary Art In Print, The Gallery of Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI), Singapore
Martell Artist Of The Year 2006, National Gallery of China, Beijing, China
2005
Rapt: Austral-Asia Zero Five, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia
About Beauty, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Shanghai Cool: Creative Reproduction, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
The New Works of Wang Gongxin & Lin Tianmiao, Courtyard Gallery Annex, Beijing, China
Mahiong, Museum of Fine Arts Bern, Switzerland
Xianfeng! – Chinese avant-garde sculpture, Museum Beelden Aan Zee, The Hague, Netherland
Fairy Tales Forever, ARoS Aarhus Art museum, Denmark
2004
Between Past and Future, ICP & Museum of Asia Society, New York; MoMa, Chicago; MoMa, Seattle, USA
Concrete Horizons, Adam Art Gallery , Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Officina Asia, Gallery d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University;
Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, USA
Gwangju Biennale 2004, Gwangju, Korea
2003
Echigo –Tsumari Art Triennial, Niigata, Japan
Arles Photograph art Festival, Arles, France
New Zone Chinese Art, Zacheta National Art Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2002
2nd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial 2002, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
Gwangju Biennale 2002, Gwangju , Korea
Ireland Biennale 2002, Ireland
Guangzhou Triennale 2002, Guangzhou Art Museum, China
Shanghai Biennale 2002, Shanghai Art Museum, China
2001
Threads of Vision: Toward A New Feminine Poetics, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Ohio, USA
Floating Chimeras, Edsvik Konst Och Kultur, Sweden
Translated acts, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany; Queens Museum of art, New York, USA
Wang Gongxin & Lin Tianmiao’s New Works, The Loft New Media Art Space, Beijing, China
The Digital Art Festival 2001, The Loft New Media Art Space, Beijing, China
Shout on the Face, Earl Lu Gallery Lasalle College of the Art, Singapore
The New-Media Art Festival: Non-Linear Narrative, The Gallery of China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
2000
At The New Century 1979-1999 – China Contemporary Art, Chengdu Museum of Contemporary Art, China
Inside/Out – New Chinese Art, National Gallery of Australia, Sydney, Australia
Inside/Out – New Chinese Art, The Hong Kong Museum of Contemporary Art, Hong Kong
Home?, Contemporary Art Project, Shanghai
Bed/Chair, Xuxian Art Center , Taipei, Taiwan
1999
Beijing in London, ICA Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
The Second Yearlong Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, He Xiangning Art Museum Shenzhen, China
Inside/Out – New Chinese Art, SFMOMA, San Francisco, USA
Inside/Out – New Chinese Art, The Mexico Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico City, Mexico
“Food for Thought”, Eindhoven, Holland
Magnetite Writing/Marxhing Ideas, Works on Paper, It Park Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Cologne-Beijing/Beijing-Cologne: Exchange Exhibition
Gothaer Kunstforum, Cologne, Germany
Food for Thought –An Insight in Chinese Contemporary Art, Mu Art Foundation, Netheriands
1998
Mark of Existence: Art Workshop in Process, The Experimental Studio of the Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Woman – Century, National Gallery of China
Life: Contemporary Chinese Art, Wan Fung Art Gallery, Beijing, China
Neo Lagoon: Contemporary Art of North East Asia, The Niigata Prefectural museum, Japan
Inside/Out: New Chinese Art, Asia Society, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
1997
Crack in the Continent – Chinese Contemporary Art, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
The Fifth International Istanbul Biennales, Istanbul, Turkey
Between Ego and Society, Artemesia Gallery, Chicago, US
Another Long March, Chasse Kazerme, Breda, The Netherlands
Against the Tide, Bronx Museum of the Art, New York, USA
Demonstration of Video Art, The Gallery of the Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China
1995
File NO.1 – Conceptual Documents for impossible Art, SoHo Biennial, New York, USA
Woman’s Approach to Contemporary Art, Beijing Art Museum, Beijing, China
Chinese Women’s Artists Invitation Show, National Gallery of China, Beijing, China
Group Show, Ground Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Group Show, City Gallery, Coutland, New York, USA
Beijing Youth Painting Exhibition, National Gallery of China, Beijing, China
Youth Artist Association Show, National Gallery of China, Beijing, China
Beijing Youth Painting Exhibition, Liulichang, Beijing, China
林天苗（中国）
私人阅读灯 Private Reading Lamp 2010
灯光雕塑布料，钢架，灯泡及坐椅
“私人阅读灯”邀请观众在公众空间内进入一个私人环境。作为一个单人阅读空间及配与一盏吊灯，这个非常私人化，巧妙的空间与公众机关场所成对比。你可以进来看喜欢的书，或只是坐下来，静思。