![](https://artlaborgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Wang-Lintong王临潼_Awakening-the-Insects惊蛰_2022_Oil-on-canvas_H140x180cm_s.jpg)
![](https://artlaborgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Wang-Lintong王临潼_Stone-by-the-Sea海边的礁石No.1_2023_acrylic-and-watercolor-on-paper_H73x102cm_s.jpg)
![](https://artlaborgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Wang-Lintong王临潼_Stone-by-the-Sea海边的礁石No.2_2023_acrylic-and-watercolor-on-paper_H78.7x108.6cm.jpg)
![](https://artlaborgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Wang-Lintong王临潼_Stone-by-the-Sea海边的礁石No.3_2023_acrylic-and-watercolor-on-paper_H57.7x76.2cm_s.jpg)
![](https://artlaborgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Wang-Lintong王临潼_Garden-of-Cerberus克尔伯洛斯的花园_2023_acrylic-and-watercolor-on-paper_H76x106cm_s.jpg)
![](https://artlaborgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Wang-Lintong王临潼_Secret-Garden秘密花园_2022_oil-on-canvas_H140x180cmx2_s.jpg)
![](https://artlaborgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Wang-Lintong王临潼_Garden-of-Cerberus克尔伯洛斯的花园_2022_mixed-media-on-canvas_H100x100cm_s.jpg)
![](https://artlaborgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Wang-Lintong王临潼_Looking-for-Youth寻找少年_2022_mixed-media-on-canvas_H100x150cm_s.jpg)
![](https://artlaborgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Wang-Lintong王临潼_Youth-at-Play奔跑的少年_2023_oil-on-canvas_H100x150_s.jpg)
![](https://artlaborgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Wang-Lintong王临潼_Praying-Youth-No.1祈祷的少年_2022_mixed-media-on-canvas_H50x50cm_s.jpg)
![](https://artlaborgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Wang-Lintong王临潼_Praying-Youth-No.2祈祷的少年_2022_mixed-media-on-canvas_H50x50cm_s.jpg)
![](https://artlaborgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Wang-Lintong王临潼_Youth-in-the-Afternooon午后的少年_2022_mixed-media-on-canvas_H50x50cm_s.jpg)
![](https://artlaborgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Wang-Lintong王临潼_A-Farmer农夫_2022_mixed-media-on-canvas_H80x60cm_s.jpg)
![](https://artlaborgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Wang-Lintong王临潼_The-Perfect-Storm惊涛骇浪_2019_mixed-media-on-canvas_H140x180cmx2_s.jpg)
![](https://artlaborgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Wang-Lintong王临潼_Glimmer微光_2020_oil-on-canvas_H140x180cmx2_s.jpg)
![](https://artlaborgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Wang-Lintong王临潼_The-Circuit-马戏团(象)_2019_mixed-media-on-canvas_H100x150cm_s.jpg)
![](https://artlaborgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Wang-Lintong王临潼_The-Circuit马戏团_2019_mixed-media-on-canvas_H100x150cm_s.jpg)
![](https://artlaborgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Wang-Lintong王临潼_The-Outskirts-of-Fenghua奉化郊外_2015_mixed-media-on-canvas_H100x100cm_s.jpg)
![](https://artlaborgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Wang-Lintong王临潼_Forest丛林_2022_oil-on-canvas_H100x150cm_s.jpg)
![](https://artlaborgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Wang-Lintong王临潼_The-Disappearing-Time消失的时间_2022_oil-on-canvas_H100x150cm_s.jpg)
![](https://artlaborgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Wang-Lintong王临潼_Xiazhou夏州_2019_mixed-media-on-canvas_H180x140cm_s.jpg)
![](https://artlaborgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Wang-Lintong王临潼_Sky天空_2018_oil-on-canvas_H100x150cm_s.jpg)
![](https://artlaborgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Wang-Lintong王临潼_Pray祈祷_2020_oil-on-canvas_H80x100cm_s.jpg)
![](https://artlaborgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Wang-Lintong王临潼_Tying-Shoes系鞋带的人_2020_oil-on-canvas_H100x80cm_s-1.jpg)
![](https://artlaborgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Wang-Lintong王临潼_Return-to-Xiazhou回夏州_2019_mixed-media-on-canvas_H100x150cm_s.jpg)
![](https://artlaborgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Wang-Lintong王临潼_The-Attack-from-Pinocchio匹诺曹的攻击_2022_mixed-media-on-canvas_H70x120cm_s.jpg)
![](https://artlaborgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Wang-Lintong_Wilderness-No.1荒园一_2022_mixed-media-on-canvas_H30x30cm_s.jpg)
![](https://artlaborgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Wang-Lintong_Wilderness-No.2荒园二_2022_mixed-media-on-canvas_H30x30cm_s.jpg)
![](https://artlaborgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Wang-Lintong_Wilderness-No.3荒园三_2022_mixed-media-on-canvas_H30x30cm_s.jpg)
![](https://artlaborgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Wang-Lintong王临潼_Secret-No.1秘密一_oil-on-canvsa_H60x50cm.jpeg)
![](https://artlaborgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Wang-Lintong王临潼_Secret-No.2秘密二_oil-on-canvsa_H60x60cm.jpeg)
![](https://artlaborgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Wang-Lintong_Afternoon午后_2022_oil-on-canvas_H40x40cm_s.jpg)
![](https://artlaborgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Wang-Lintong王临潼_Candle蜡烛_2021_oil-on-canvsa_H40x30cm_s.jpg)
![](https://artlaborgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Wang-Lintong王临潼_Bang_oil-on-board_H30x24cm_S.jpg)
![](https://artlaborgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Wang-Lintong王临潼_沙沙作响二Cloak-and-Breeze-No.2_2020_oil-on-canvas_H100x150cm_s.jpg)
![](https://artlaborgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Wang-Lintong王临潼_沙沙作响一Cloak-and-Breeze-No.1_2020_oil-on-canvas_H100x100cm_s.jpg)
Born in Shaanxi Province in 1984, Wang Lintong graduated with his BA and MA degrees from the Xi'an Academy of Fine Art in 2006 and 2011. Wang has been a professional artist since his MA graduation. He has been exhibiting at home and aboard since 2007.
Using delicate shades of black, white, and gray as the visual thread, Wang Lintong's works traverse his entire oeuvre. People often repeat when they wish to describe things they want to express, with each description filtering out certain information, gradually distancing themselves from the essence of the subject and becoming a perpetually corrected expression. In a similar fashion, Wang Lintong chooses to cover the canvas layer by layer with pure white oil paint, each layer representing a step towards perfecting the image, until the entire composition reveals a pure world.
Memories, contradiction, metaphor, and fable intrigue Wang Lintong, and the action of painting is his way of narrating and storytelling. Painting, for as far back as he can remember, brought him nourishment and inspiration, through acute observation of contemporary society and the people within it and himself.
Whether it is the scenery before our eyes or the landscapes within our hearts, time is the sole measure of distance. Art is a form of exposition, and painting is just one of its means of expression. Wang Lintong freezes time through painting because his work draws inspiration from the continuation of life experiences. It represents the reproduction of a specific scene from memory, an extension of certain emotions in communication, an awakening of consciousness in contemplation, and the manifestation of certain images in imagination. Wang Lintong weaves a secret garden through his paintings, an inner world that exists parallel to the external world, following solitude and melancholy after the clamor subsides.
1984 in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China
2011
MA, Oil Painting Department, Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts
2006
BA, Art Education Department, Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts
2023
The Secret Garden, Shanghai Himalaya Museum, Shanghai
Island of Memory, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai
2022
The Visible Thoughts, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai
2021
Coral Bleaching, Draftsmanship, Cloak and Breeze, Xi'an Art Museum, Xi'an
2016
The Nihility of Mountain, MOU Art, Beijing
2024
Shanghai Calling, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai, China
2021
Electric Picnic, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai
Yuanzhang Appreciates Stones II, Piao Piao Gallery, Taipei
2019
Art Xiamen, Xiamen, Fujian Province
Garden, MOU Art, Beijing
@riginal: Inter-Youth Painting exhibition, CAA Art Museum, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province
2018
Redefining the City with Context - Beyond the Wall, Xi'an Contemporary Art Exhibition, Xian Art Museum, Xi'an
Meridian: Contemporary Chinese Works on Paper, Volcano Theatre, Swansea Wales, UK
Garden - Earthly Delights, MOU Art, Beijing
Modern Culture and Art Festival, Shaanxi Province Art Museum, Xi'an
2017
Breaking the Barrier: Xi'an Contemporary Art Exhibition, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, Hubei Province; Blue Roof Museum of Chengdu, Chengdu
Modern Culture and Art Festival, Shaanxi Province Art Museum, Xi'an
2016
Moving Art Project, Xi'an Art Museum, Gong Art Space, Xi'an
2015
Sino-German Art Exhibition, Tangyan City Art Center, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province
Young Artists Experiment Project, Xi'an Art Museum, Xi'an
A Nostalgia of Contemporary Asia, Banpo International Art Zone, Xi'an
Plateau•Plateau: 4th Oil Painting Exhibition of Western China, Shaanxi Province Art Museum, Xi'an
2014
Seeking Differences while Reserving Similarities, Gong Art Space, Xi'an
Showcases Project 1: Artist vs. Curator, Xi'an Art Museum, Xi'an
Chang'an Departure: Xi'an Young Artist Exhibition, Shaanxi Province Art Museum , Xi'an
Art World: Seoul Art Impression (group exhibition by 8 artists) , Xi'an Art Museum,Xi'an
2013
Art World Project by Xi'an Art Museum and BRIGHT Magazine, Seoul, Korea
What Should Happen will Happen: Xi'an Contemporary Art Exhibition, Xi'an Art Museum, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province
2012
Plateau•Plateau: 2nd Oil Painting Exhibition of Western China, Shaanxi Province Art Museum, Xi'an
China-Korea Art Exchange Exhibition, Heyri Art Village, Paju, Korea
2011
China-Korea Art Exchange Exhibition, Xi'an Art Museum, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province
2009
2nd Occurring Art Exhibition, Xi'an Art Museum, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province
2008
1st Occurring Art Exhibition, Tang City Wall Ruins Park, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province
Art of China Painting Exhibition, Museo Della Permanente, Milan, Italy
2007
Start from Here: Shanghai Youth Art Biennale, Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai
2019
Power Long Artist Residency, Hechuan, Chongqing