Jin Jiachen 金佳辰

Artist Biography：

Jin Jiachen (b. 1993, Gansu, China)，Jin Jiachen graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Oil Painting from Tianjin Normal University in 2015, and received her Master’s degree in Oil Painting and Printmaking from the Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music in Japan in 2022. She currently lives and works in Aichi, Japan.Her practice begins with perception. Her primary media are acrylic, pastel, and cotton fabric. Through the fusion and permeation of pigment, water, and cotton, she captures images that emerge at the point of contact between soul and matter. By repeatedly entering and withdrawing from her own experience, she seeks to identify emotions that have not yet taken form. For Jin, painting is not the expression of a result, but a repeated calibration of feeling—she compares this process to muscle training. The bodies in her paintings often remain in an unidentifiable state, presenting structures in the process of becoming: weight, imbalance, tactility, and the trace of emotions moving through the body.She currently lives and works in Aichi, Japan.

Exhibition Record

Solo Exhibitions

2024 “Keep Your Shadow”, Nagoya

2023 “An Elephant in My Heart”, Gene Gallery × BACKSTAGE ART, Shanghai

2023 “ママ、私の心臓の中には小さな象がいる” (Mom, There Is a Little Elephant in My Heart), Gallery Minosha, Tokyo

2023 “走る獣” (Running Beast), Hidari Zingaro, Tokyo

2022 “Salt of the Eyes, Sea of the Ears”, Prime Studio, Nagoya

2022 “Pickle Your Shadow”, Nagoya

2022 “Salt of the Eyes, Sea of the Ears”, Prime Studio, Nagoya

2022 F Award – Connecting Next Generation Selected Exhibition, Furukawa Art Museum, Nagoya

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026 “Relax”, ISM Art Space, Shenzhen

2026 Two-Person Exhibition “UMA”, Brew Gallery, Hokkaido

2026 “Did You Hear Their Hum?”, Gallery Where, Beijing

2025 Holbein Scholarship, Osaka

2025 “Starry Night 2025 part-1”, Shi Gallery, Nagoya

2024 “OVERTURE”, Mitsukoshi Art Salon, Nagoya

2024 “Giant Objects Move, Bodies Lose Weight”, Inner flow Gallery, Beijing

2024 “Touch on Moss”, CHOW SPACE, Shanghai

2024 “ASPHALT”, Gene Gallery, Shanghai

2023 GEISAI#22, Tokyo

2022 “E no Kairo” (Circuit of Painting), Aichi Arts Center X, Nagoya

2021 3331 ART FAIR, Tokyo

2021 DRAWING COMMUNICATION 2021, Berlin

2022 DRAWING COMMUNICATION 2022, Okinawa

2020 “The Road of Painting”, Nagoya

Art Fairs

2024 Beijing Dangdai Art Fair, Inner flow Gallery, Beijing

2023 ART NAGOYA 2023, Nagoya

Awards & Recognitions

2025 Selected for the 24th Art Gallery · Home

2025 R.E. Award – Residency Production and Exhibition Award

2024 The 37th Holbein Scholarship – Selected Scholar

2023 GEISAI#22 & Classic MADSAKI – Jury Prize

2023 GEISAI#22 & Classic Holbein – Art Prize

2022 Gallery Minosha Student Selection Exhibition – Silver Award

2022 The 7th Hoshino Coffee Painting Competition – Excellence Award

Activities & Residencies

2025 Residency Program, Shiraoi, Hokkaido

2025 POT UCK Art Book Fair

2025 Artist in Residence Program “ASP” (Yogyakarta, Indonesia) – Residency & Collaborative Project

2024 Assembridge NAGOYA Open Studio – Studio Visit, Artist Talk, Workshop

2024 Minatomachi Art Book Fair

2023 Open Studio – Studio Visit

2023 Workshop – “Port Town Book Market presents Minato Saturday Market”