Jin Jiangbo

Jin Jiangbo (1972 in Zhejiang Province, China) is a contemporary Chinese artist who focuses on site-specific artwork. From 2002 to 2007 he was Digital Art Center Studio Director for the Academy of Fine Arts, Shanghai University.

Jin Jiangbo is one of the earliest contemporary artist in the field of new media art creation and research in the home of China. Over the years, he took part in the Venice Biennale, the Shanghai Biennale, Nanjing Triennial and other international exhibitions. In recent years, he created a large frame photograph, which gained the gold award in the Lianzhou international photography festival, and he was referred by the media as: the first artist that through the art forms to express the arrival of the international financial crisis. 1972, Born in Zhejiang Province, China Executive Director of Shanghai Informatization Council, Director of Shanghai Designer, Association Member of the CPPCC, Zhabei District, Shanghai Curator of the 1st Beijing International Design Triennial, Visiting Scholar of Alfred University, United States. Visiting Scholar of Auckland University, New Zealand. Visiting Artist of Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand. 1995 Graduated from Academy of Fine Arts, Shanghai University 1997–1998 Studied the Multi-media Design Management in Celsys Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan. 1996–2000 Director of International Multimedia Office & Computer Designing Studio in Academy of Fine Arts, Shanghai University. 2002 Achieved the master's degree in Digital Art from Academy of Fine Arts, Shanghai University, and Stayed and Taught in School in the Same Year. 2002–2007 Lecturer of Digital Art Center in Academy of Fine Arts, Shanghai University. 2012 Graduated and Gained PhD in Art from Academy of Fine Arts, Tsinghua University. 2008 Won the Titles of Outstanding Artist and Gold Medal in the 4th Lianzhou International Photo Festival, Guangdong. 2009 Won the Annual Top Ten Artists in AAC (Photography Category). 2011 Won the Top Ten Youth Top-level Creative Talents, Shanghai Currently living and working in Beijing and Shanghai.

According to Gu Zhenqing's article "Light as Fuck" for ShangART:

The true "Shanghai assemblage" could not overlook artists such as Hu Jie Ming, Zhou Hongxiang and Jin Jiangbo. Their work is the pledge for the sustained advancement towards diversity of the Shanghai artists' community... Jin Jiangbo's online interactive multi-media work that linked Shanghai with the outside world – they all contain the essence of experience and spirit of the individual artists, and form an interconnected relationship with the different points of view. This avoids the tendency towards conceptualisation in the "Shanghai assemblage".