Liu Yin (b.1984, Guangzhou) currently lives and works in Hong Kong. She received her BFA in Printmaking in 2007 and her MFA in Painting in 2010 from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts.

Liu Yin always works on canvas and paper with ordinary images in an innocent way, challenging the academic art and patriarchy in modern society. Inspired by popular culture such as manga and cartoon, her art expresses sarcasm and rebellion towards the mainstream cultural and societal values.

Selected solo exhibitions: Publica, Arrow Factory, Beijing, China (2015); Liu Yin: Oh, Chinese Boy… Don’t Be Ashamed…, Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, San Francisco, US (2011); Reflections In the Soup, Observation Society, Guangzhou, China (2010) etc.

Selected Group Exhibitions: Where Jellyfish Come From, Antenna Space, Shanghai, China (2022); Dream (Is) land!, MINE Project, Hong Kong, China (2021); Folded Veil, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong, China (2019); Condo Shanghai, Antenna Space, Shanghai, China (2019); Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent…, BANK, Shanghai, China (2017); Hazy Winter, Canton Gallery, Guangzhou, China (2015); Full of Peril and Weirdness: Painting as a Universalism, M WOODS Museum, Beijing, China (2015); Stone, Wood and Paradise Syndrome, 1933 Contemporary Gallery, Shanghai, China (2014); Berlin Studio, Import Projects, Berlin, Germany (2014); Transience: Intractable Objects, Taikang Space, Beijing, China (2014); Similarity and Difference: Guangzhou/Macau Contemporary Art Exhibition, Ox warehouse, Macau, China (2011); Not in Fashion, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China (2011); Shanzhai – Researching the Culture of Copying, Weissensee School of Arts, Berlin, Germany (2010); Dazzled and Enchanted: New Age Animamix2009-2010, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China (2010); Dark Matter, muma Art Space, Guangzhou, China (2009); (Anti) Realism workshot3, AdeleC gallery, Rome, Italy (2009); (Anti)Realism workshot2, Ecole Régionaledes Beaux Arts de Besançon, Franche-Comté, France (2009); (Anti) Realism workshot1, Norrköpings Konsthall, Norrköpings, Sweden (2008) etc.