About
WANYING JIN
“ The framework of my research focuses on beauty and love. I use beauty as a starting point for discussion, and gender, ethnicity, and cultural tendencies are generalized in my works. After trying to weaken or eliminate sexual desire, the truth of love and the missing part of the self is portrayed and presented. This embodies the beauty of truth. The relationship between the subject and the other is explored as well. ”
Wanying Jin (b.1995) in Harbin, China lives and works in Shenzhen. Jin has been creating a constellation of mythical characters since 2016. Pursuing truth and beauty in their pure forms, Jin depicts figures that are ambiguous in gender, race, and cultural background – wandering souls whose stories are yet to be discovered by each viewer.
She looks back to Byzantine art and Netherlandish portrait paintings to reinvent a universal, androgynous, and expressive visual language. Love and desire are fundamental currents running through Jin’s works. She aspires to provide her portraits as a channel for the audience to see their own emotions, relationships, and longings.
Before becoming a painter, Jin started as an illustrator with a portfolio of fashion illustrations. She received her M.A. in Illustration from Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, England, and holds a B.A. in Illustration from the Arts University of Bournemouth, Poole, England.
👉🏻 Currently represented by Uncommon Beauty Gallery Press
Foreign Look Magazine Vol.5, Oct 2021
GRAZIA, The Artwork Evoking Our Emotions This Week, June 2021
Capsule Book Vol.4, 2020
Editorial
Contemporary Figurative Painting, Artsy, 2023
Women Artists to Watch, Artsy, 2021
Artsy Editorial Newsletter, Artsy, 2021
Shows
You Are EVERYONE who Tells a Story, Duo show, Uncommon Beauty Gallery, New York, 2023
Breathing Euphoria, Uncommon Beauty Gallery, Artsy Viewing Room, New York, 2021
Marc Deck, MarcD Gallery, Columbus, OH, 2018
Stay Ugly, Manchester School of Art, Graduate show, 2017