Paintings About the Artist Ren Xiaolin is a technically accomplished oil painter, even though the content of his work usually overshadows or even suppresses the sophistication of his technique in the eyes of the viewers. His work is an extraordinary mixture of fantasy, eroticism and humanism. In many of his oil paintings, natural scenery provides a tantalizing setting to intimate sexual acts or sexual postures in the foreground. He has ingeniously correlated a bodily landscape with a natural one. Ren Xiaolin is really a painter who should be recognized for how he paints rather than what he paints. He rarely touches upon social or political issues in his work, a popular option for many Chinese painters of his contemporary. He doesn’t get philosophical or narrative either. He depicts rather regular folks and objects from his daily encounters and seems to obtain more satisfaction from and be committed to exploring the language of oil painting. At this time, the painter also paid homage to Chagall by introducing his color spots into his work without appearing decorative. His approach is similar to the mogu or “boneless” technique in traditional Chinese painting. His oil paintings actually acquire the quality of watercolors, more fluid, elastic, lively, transparent, emotive and uninhibited. The aesthetic appeal of Ren Xiaolin’s paintings comes in many folds and undergoes organic evolutions in the course of his career. His stylized language lies in a feeling that his paintings convey through his use of colors and the texture of his painting much more than any specific imagery.

1986 Graduated from Oil Painting Department, the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, B.A.

Solo Exhibitions

2006

Dissolute Indulgence in Make Believe, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China Landscapes, L.A. Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany

1998

Invisible Expression, International Art Gallery, Beijing, China Mountain Art Museum, Taiwan

1993

Ren Xiaolin, Gallery of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China Ren Xiaolin, International Art Gallery, Beijing, China Ren Xiaolin, Beijing Concert Hall, Beijing, China

Group Exhibitions

2008

"The Sichuan Movement - New Paintings from China", Indonesia National Museum and Linda Gallery Singapore

2007

“Embarks from the southeast” Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China

2006

Poem of Jiangnan, South Visual Art Museum, Nanjing, China YUM CHA, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney, Australia ARCO’06, L.A. Gallery, Madrid, Spain

2005

Reflection on the everyday, L.A. Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany 2nd Chengdu Biennale, ChengDu, Sichuan Beijing International Art Fair, Beijing, China History of River 1976-2005 The Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition in New Era, China Art Museum, Beijing, China

2004

Cloud Rain, Beijing Art Now Gallery, Beijing, China Art Cologne 2004, L.A. Gallery, Cologne, Germany Melbourne Art Fair 2004, L.A. Gallery, Melbourne, Australia WuHan the First Nominative Exhibition of Fine Art Literature Me, Me, Me, Court Yard Gallery, Beijing, China Inaugural Exhibition, L.A. Gallery, Beijing, China HUAJIADI, China Art Seasons, Beijing, China

2003

“Special ‘Chinese’ Room”, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2002

Highlights of the ChengDu Biennale, Court Yard Gallery, Beijing, China The First Triennial of Chinese Arts, Guangzhou Art Museum, Guangzhou, China

2001

Chengdu Biennale. Chengdu Museum of Modern Art, Chengdu, China

2000

The 20th Century Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition, China Art Museum, Beijing, China

1994

The 8th National Art Exhibition, China Art Museum, Beijing, China; Asian Museum, Japan The 2nd Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition, Beijing, China

1993

Chinese Modern Art Exhibition, Feng Pingshan Museum, Hong Kong

1991

The Annual Exhibition of China Oil Painting, Chinese History Museum, Beijing, China

1989

Exhibition of Modern Chinese Art, China Art Museum, Beijing, China The 7th National Art Exhibition, China Art Museum, Beijing, China