LIN JU

In the real world, Lin Ju is a story-teller, a traveler in a dreamland, who sometimes displays an extremely bewildering if not feigned insanity. His passion for life is obviously much closer to religious sentiment and cult, which make him even more like a shaman or a wizard. From this point, the images he paints which depict severed limbs and siblings devouring each other seemingly point out the other way to cure his life and soul. Lin Ju’s works often seem terrifying at first sight, but nonetheless permeate with every mystical and irrational element that activates life.

He founded an art group “Living Clay” with his friends and then held group shows in different places in 1988, 1991, 1996. The experiment of pure painting by Lin Ju, solitary confinement during 90 days was held at Jia-ren Gallery in 1985. It has been a focus of attention in the artistic circle. Lin’s work participated in Taipei Fine Arts Museum Biennale in 1996 and the Taiwan Contemporary Art 1988-1999 Exhibition at the National Art Museum of China in 1999 and had solo exhibition at the Taipei Fine Art Museum. His works have been shown in joint exhibitions in New York, Spain, Portugal, and in cities throughout the US.

Courtesy Tina Keng Gallery