Jin Sha (b.1968, Beijing, China) currently lives and works in Beijing. He is a leading figure in contemporary Chinese ink painting. Jin graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA). His paintings showcase the artist’s flawless signature style: a perfection of realistic painting techniques of linear perspective and three-dimensional modelling often found in Renaissance oil and tempera painting. Jin achieved this effect by using ink and watercolour gongbi brushwork on silk, China’s most conservative and most difficult brush technique, characterised by combining fine lines with multiple layers of both ink-shadings and colours to achieve its three-dimensional qualities. In his painting, Jin often imaginatively preserved the subjects’ attire and eliminated their original faces and figures, leaving his viewers to imagine corresponding contemporary alternatives.
Jin has had numerous solo exhibitions in China and Japan, and his works were shown frequently in group exhibitions of Gong-bi art at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing.
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| 1968 | Born in Beijing, China |
| 1992 | Graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), B.A. |
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Secretary-general of the Beijing Art Institute of Chinese Fine Art Painting; Executive Director of China Hue Art Society; Member of the Art Committee of the Zhejiang Art Academy’s Chinese Fine Art Painting Research Institute
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| Present | Lives and works in Beijing and Sydney |
| 2016 | Disappeared in the Mirror, Amyli Gallery, Beijing |
| Salute to Masters, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Beijing | |
| 2014 | Salute to Masters, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo |
| 2016 | Image: Originality – Academic Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Gongbi |
| Painting, National Art Gallery of China, Beijing | |
| Metamorphosis – 4th Biennale China-Italia, Being 3 gallery, Beijing | |
| Annual review exhibition of China Contemporary Ink Painting 2015-2016, Today Art Museum, Beijing | |
| Zhong Dao Zi Ran：Spring Invitational Exhibition of Chinese Painting Master, 81 Gallery of Art, Beijing | |
| 2015 | A New Fine Line: Contemporary Ink Painting from China |
| Center for Visual Arts of Metropolitan State University, Denver | |
| Illusion & Image: 2015 Exhibition of Fine Brushwork Masters Painting, Sunyard Art, Hangzhou | |
| Ink and Wash Articles-Change in the World of Colors, Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan | |
| Ink Art: Exhibition of Chinese Painting Society heritage, National Art Museum of China, Beijing | |
| Image Study, Right View Art, Beijing | |
| 2014 | Variation – Contemporary Chinese Ink Art Series II, |
| Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing | |
| MICRO SALON 2014，Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo | |
| Reviewing hand brushwork: Academic Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Fine Line | |
| Painting, Ling Nan Art Museum, Guangzhou | |
| Transitional Mirage – Australian & Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition Meijiang Art Museum, Tianjin | |
| 8th The ACC Art Ecology Observation Exhibition Tour, Today Art Museum, Beijing | |
| New Expressionism of Gong Bi Art, Art Gallery of Jiangsu, Nanjing | |
| The China Invitation Exhibition of Chinese Realistic Painting 2014, Ink Art Gallery, Nanjing | |
| 2013 | Micro Salon 2013, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo |
| Hue Art in Contemporary era, National Art Museum of China, Beijing | |
| Fable in Images, Jie Mo Gallery, Nanjing | |
| Philosophical in Interpretations, Poly Art Space, Hong Kong | |
| Philosophical in Interpretations 2013, National Art Museum of China, Beijing | |
| Academic and Classical, Art Gallery of Hu Bei Institute of Fine Arts. Wuhan | |
| 8th Academic Painting, Beijing Art Space, Beijing | |
| Miniature Delicacies, Poly Art Museum, Beijing | |
| The Way of Rejuvenation, Beijing Art Space, Beijing | |
| 2012 | Xiamen National Hue Art Painting Exhibition Collections |
| Biennale Italit-China, Monza | |
| Planeta Cina, Monza | |
| From Paper & Silk, Sydney | |
| Mabic in Details. Poly Art Museum, Beijing | |
| The Contemporary Gongbi Exhibition by Five Artists, Poly Art Museum, Beijing | |
| Onward from Concept 2012, National Art Museum of China, Beijing | |
| Ulti-Layered, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai | |
| 2011 | Philosophical in Interpretations 2011, China Space, Beijing |
| 6th Academic Painting, Art Gallery of National Academy of Painting, Beijing | |
| China Imagery, China Space, Beijing | |
| Imagery & Style, China World Trade Center, Beijing | |
| Live in Between, China World Trade Center, Beijing | |
| Come & Going, Sydney | |
| 中间：MIDWAY, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane | |
| Harmonios·Beautiful: The 1st Painting Exhibition of Sichuan Province Meticulous | |
| Painting Society, Chengdu Art Museum, Chengdu | |
| 2010 | 中间：MIDWAY :Australian Contemporary Art Tour Exhibition |
| Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong | |
| 2009 | Micro and Exquisite : Art Exhibition of the Second Traditional Chinese Realistic |
| Painting Small Works, Beijing, Shijiazhuang, Wuhan, Changsha, Hangzhou | |
| 中间：MIDWAY : Australian Contemporary Art Tour Exhibition, Beijing, Tianjin, Xiamen, Shanghai | |
| COMING HOME : Australian Art Exhibition，Linda Gallery, Beijing | |
| 2008 | Dialogue Image: The Portrait Exhibition of Chinese Oil Painting, Chinese Fine Line and Ink Painting, Xiamen, Shenzhen, |
| Shanghai, Zhengzhou, Shenyang | |
| Boutique 2008 : Invitation Exhibition of Famous Chinese Painting Artist, | |
| Art Museum of Beijing Fine Art Academy, Beijing | |
| 2007 | Dialogue Image : The Portrait Exhibition of Chinese Oil Painting, Chinese Fine Line and Ink Painting, National Art Museum of |
| China, Beijing | |
| Academic Fine Line: The second National Youth Artist Exhibition of Chinese Fine | |
| Line Painting, Art Museum of Beijing Fine Art Academy, Beijing | |
| North and South Dialogue :Contemporary Chinese Painting Academic Exhibition, | |
| West Lake Art Museum, Hangzhou | |
| Graft One Twig on Another: Contemporary Fine Line Painting Exhibition, | |
| Yu Lan Tang Gallery, Beijing |
