Lin Jidong

1994 Born in Dalian, Lianning, China

2013 Graduated from Oil Painting Department of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute with bachelor’s degree

Currently studies in the Oil Painting Department of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute

GROUP EXHIBITION

2021  

"Yawn" Chongqing Small Oil Painting Exhibition, Art Museum of Southwest University, Chongqing, China

2020 

"Specimen" 2020 Annual Exhibition of Graduate Students of the Department of Oil Painting, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China

2016  

"The True Colors of the Academy" Annual Exhibition, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China

2014  

Sichuan Meiji Foundation Exhibition, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China

The starting point of my work is the search for my identity. After graduation, I lived in Guangzhou for a long time. Like migrant workers, I looked for opportunities here, worked hard, met and separated. The deepest feeling that this experience gave me was thinking about my identity as an outsider. Maybe I was surrounded by some people who were similar to me, so I also realized a lot of thinking about the concept of identity through their eyes. I want to use the image of a broken package to depict this feeling. A broken package means migration means leaving. This is also the most common thing in my experience. Although there are a lot of immature aspects in creation, I think that I have seen many possibilities in the practice of the work, which may be a direction and point of interest for my future creation.

In the current pluralistic social environment, inheritance and change are implicit and constantly updated. People look for themselves in confusion and anxiety. But I think everyone needs a window to reconcile with yourself. For individuals, the creative process is a form of self-dialogue and reconciliation, and I enjoy peace and loneliness in painting.