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Yin Xiuzhen (Chinese: 尹秀珍; born 1963 in Beijing) is a Chinese sculpture and installation artist. She incorporates used textiles and keepsakes from her childhood in Beijing to show the connection between memory and cultural identity. She studied painting in the Fine Arts Department of Capital Normal University, Beijing from 1985-89. After graduation, Yin taught at the high school attached to the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, until her exhibition schedule became too demanding. In 1989 she was first exposed to installation art; she showed her first installation, Door, in the studio of artist Zhu Jinshi (b 1954) in 1994. She then had solo shows at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne; Asian Fine Arts Berlin Gallery, Germany; Chambers Fine Art, New York; and Town Hall, Germany.
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Yin's work consistently demonstrates a concern for the relationship between the individual and the artist, with a particular interest in her home city of Beijing. She began working during a time little attention was paid to environmental degradation in China, and her signature materials are used clothing, cement, and discarded building materials, all of which she uses to highlight the impermanence and fragility of the human environment.
Yin has participated in group exhibitions such as China 8, an exhibition of Chinese contemporary art in eight cities and nine museums in the Rhine-Ruhr region, Germany, (2015), the 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2013), the 4th Yokohama Triennale (2011), the 7th Shanghai Biennale (2008), the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007), the 14th Biennale of Sydney (2004) and the 26th São Paulo Art Biennial (2004). Her work has been the subject of solo presentation at the Groninger Museum, the Netherlands (2012) and the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2010). In 2000 she was the recipient of the China Contemporary Art Award and the UNESCO/ASCHBERG Bursary for artists.
Yin is married to fellow artist Song Dong and currently lives and works in Beijing. She and Song Dong will have their work shown in Art Basel Hong Kong on March 24–26, 2016 at the Pace Gallery.
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