Lin Tianmiao

(Chinese, born 1961)

Lin Tianmiao is a contemporary Chinese artist best known for her large-scale installations of thread-bound objects. Often wrapping or binding synthetic bones or wooden frames with hair, silk, or thread, Lin brings up issues of traditional crafts and gender roles within contemporary society. “My work is like drinking tea. You understand how and what it is only after drinking it,” she explained. Born in 1961 in Taiyuan, China, as a child she helped her mother wind cotton thread for long hours and little money. During the 1980s, Lin studied in the Fine Art Department of the Capital Normal University in Beijing. Following her studies, she moved to New York with her husband the artist Wang Gongxin. During the following years Lin worked as a textile designer, before returning to China in 1995 to focus on her art practice. In 2013, the Asia Society Museum in New York held “Bound Unbound,” Lin’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States. The artist currently lives and works in Beijing, China. Today, her works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, and the Singapore Art Museum, among others.

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This Artist Gathered 2,000 Words for Women—and Now, She Wants You to Walk All Over Them

by Sarah Cascone

This Artist Gathered 2,000 Words for Women—and Now, She Wants You to Walk All Over Them

Art & Exhibitions

Lin Tianmiao Explores Identity and the Body at the HOW Art Museum

Lin Tianmiao Explores Identity and the Body at the HOW Art Museum

Lin Tianmiao Speaks to artnet News About the Art of Endurance

Lin Tianmiao Speaks to artnet News About the Art of Endurance

Lin Tianmiao Artworks

Lin Tianmiao (147 results)

Here ? or there ? (portfolio of 15), 2002

Wang Gongxin and Lin Tianmiao

Here ? or there ? (portfolio of 15), 2002

Sale Date: March 17, 2008

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Seeing shadow, 2006

Lin Tianmiao

Seeing shadow, 2006

Sale Date: March 17, 2008

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Focus no. 36, 2003

Lin Tianmiao

Focus no. 36, 2003

Sale Date: March 17, 2008

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Go?, 2001

Lin Tianmiao

Sale Date: February 29, 2008

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Seering shadow no.5, 2006

Lin Tianmiao

Seering shadow no.5, 2006

Sale Date: December 11, 2007

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Signal

Lin Tianmiao

Sale Date: November 25, 2007

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Go?, 2001

Lin Tianmiao

Sale Date: November 16, 2007

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Growing (set of 3)

Lin Tianmiao

Growing (set of 3)

Sale Date: May 13, 2007

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Bound and unbound - Teapot (+ 3 others; set..., 1998

Lin Tianmiao

Bound and unbound - Teapot (+ 3 others; set..., 1998

Sale Date: October 13, 2007

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Focus 44, 2004

Lin Tianmiao

Focus 44, 2004

Sale Date: September 20, 2007

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Here ? or there ? (set of 15), 2002

Wang Gongxin and Lin Tianmiao

Here ? or there ? (set of 15), 2002

Sale Date: September 20, 2007

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Focus 46, 2004

Lin Tianmiao

Focus 46, 2004

Sale Date: September 20, 2007

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Here ? or there? (collab/ w/ Wang Gaoxin, 15 ...

Lin Tianmiao

Here ? or there? (collab/ w/ Wang Gaoxin, 15 ...

Sale Date: December 20, 2006

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Here or there? (collab. w/Wang Gongxin), 2002

Lin Tianmiao

Here or there? (collab. w/Wang Gongxin), 2002

Sale Date: June 27, 2007

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Here or there

Wang Gongxin and Lin Tianmiao

Here or there

Sale Date: June 23, 2007

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Here or there

Wang Gongxin and Lin Tianmiao

Here or there

Sale Date: June 23, 2007

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Here or there

Wang Gongxin and Lin Tianmiao

Here or there

Sale Date: June 23, 2007

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Here? Or there? N° 14 (collab. w/Wang Gongxin), 2002

Lin Tianmiao

Here? Or there? N° 14 (collab. w/Wang Gongxin), 2002

Sale Date: May 25, 2007

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Here or There série: N°11 (collab. w/Wang..., 2002

Lin Tianmiao

Here or There série: N°11 (collab. w/Wang..., 2002

Sale Date: May 20, 2007

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Untitled, 2003

Lin Tianmiao

Untitled, 2003

Sale Date: May 18, 2007

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Here or there (collab. w/ Wang Gongxin)

Lin Tianmiao

Here or there (collab. w/ Wang Gongxin)

Sale Date: April 1, 2007

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Here or there (collab. w/ Wang Gongxin)

Lin Tianmiao

Here or there (collab. w/ Wang Gongxin)

Sale Date: April 1, 2007

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Here or there (collab. w/ Wang Gongxin)

Lin Tianmiao

Here or there (collab. w/ Wang Gongxin)

Sale Date: April 1, 2007

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Here? or there? (15 works)

Wang Gongxin and Lin Tianmiao

Here? or there? (15 works)

Sale Date: March 21, 2007

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