LIU JINYI

Liu Jinyi (b. 1995, Beijing, China) is an artist currently living in New York. He received his bachelor’s degree (Maryland Institute College of Art) in 2018, and his graduate degree is currently studying at the School of Visual Art (MFA) in New York. Liu Jinyi’s works are playful interpretations of artistic creation and daily life. Focus on the cultural conflicts in the Internet age, as well as the mutual confrontation and interdependence behind the cultural conflicts. The artist believes that our current information environment is beyond human perception. Images, videos, and graphics are embedded and proliferated, rapidly occupying every corner of the online world in a seemingly endless number. “I collect pictures from this cyber universe. Video games, comics, pop music, and web novels. I combine them as a symbolic image with my drawing traces. I use them to make something misunderstood but fun at the same time. Dialogue and narrative.” The artist adopts the concept of biological integration. He regards different symbols from different cultures as biological cells, and allows them to be organically combined in his paintings, transforming them into a new language and narrative.