Vanguard Gallery

In Jin Haofan’s works, images, sounds, and texts encountered in his daily life are simmered with his personal memories and sentiments, and reconfigured and coordinated on canvas. Jin tries to present the ups and downs in the search of fragmental perceptions, and understand the game between the impermanence of reality and the pursuit of self- integrity in order to explore the invisible boundary of life, the rhythm of normal. “My practice is based on a mechanism that understands the conflicts and frictions in life, and all their fragments, through the lens of memory,” Jin remarks. Through painting, the artist establishes the self as a set of coordinates and sails across the vortex of eternal and scattered details of reality rushing from any direction of time.

1987 Born in Guangdong, China
2006-2010 BA in Oil Painting, Sichuan Fine Art Institute, China
Lives and works in Shenzhen, China

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022
A Glance, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China

2019
Normal Temperature, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China

2016
Good Night, Idiot, Tenjinyama Art Studio, Sapporo, Japan

2015
MTTRRAGE (with He Shaotong), Gallery55, Shanghai, China

2013
Bling Bling, Line Gallery, Beijing, China

2011
Whom to Please, Line Gallery, Beijing, China
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
Painting Tiny Times, 33ml offspace, Shanghai, China
A Bee’s Wing Dropping onto Your Cheek, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

2022
A Place for Concealment, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, China
Art Week Encore: Art021 × H8, No.8 Hengshan Rd, Shanghai, China
Unruly Paradigms, Frieze 9 Cork St, London, UK

2021
Warehouse Story VII, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China

2019
Warehouse Story VI, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China

2017
Shenzhen Biennale of Contemporary Art, Shenzhen, China

2016
Sullivan’s Attic, MOUart, Beijing, China

2013
Here and Now, J Gallery, Shanghai, China

2012
Spot Light, Bund18, Shanghai, China

2011
Chongqing Independent Film & Video Festival, Chongqing, China

2010
The 5th Beijing Independent Film Festival, Fanhall Center for Arts, Beijing, China
Get It Louder, Sanlitun SOHO, Beijing, China
Hey! We’re 80s – Time Machine, Line Gallery, China