Jin Jie

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Jin Jie (金捷) (b. 1965, Jiangsu, China) is a professor at Nanjing University of the Arts, where he earned his BFA, MA, and PhD. Known for lyrical semi-abstract oil paintings, he masterfully blends Western techniques with restrained palettes of grey, black, and white to evoke the rural landscapes of Jiangsu. His vigorous, layered brushwork captures atmosphere and emotion over detail, expressing a poetic Jiangnan spirit. Jin Jie has exhibited widely in China, is a member of the China Artists Association, and his works are held in major national and provincial museum collections.

A House In The Village, 2015, 60x60cm, Oil on Canvas
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Spring Plums, 2011, 60x60cm, Oil on Canvas
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Old Trees Along The Winding Path, 2012, 60x60cm, Oil on Canvas
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Ripples, 2011, 60x60cm, Oil on Canvas
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The After Rain, 2014, 60x60cm, Oil on Canvas
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White Wall And Green Woods, 2015, 60x60cm, Oil on Canvas
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Moss, 2014, 60x60cm, Oil on Canvas
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Alley Way, 2013, 60x60cm, Oil on Canvas
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Green Plants Under The Sunset, 2014, 60x60cm, Oil on Canvas
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Moving Willow Branches, 2015, 60x60cm, Oil on Canvas
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As Smoke As Cloud 轻烟慢云, 2014, 60x60cm, Oil on Canvas
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Village, 2015, 60x60cm, Oil on Canvas
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Biography

Jin Jie was born in 1965 in Jiangsu, China. He graduated from Oil painting studies in Nanjing University of the Arts in 1991 and went on to achieve an M.A. in Western Arts and Lecture in 1997. In 2008, he went back to Nanjing University of the Arts to obtain a PhD in Fine Art.

The lyrical nature of Jin Jie’s semi-abstract works is a testament of his mastery of western traditional of oil painting techniques. With over two decades of exploration and development within one of the most competitive art institutions in China, Jin Jie employs inviting colours, notably various shades of grey, black and white, with occasional strokes of colours, to portray the rural landscape of his beloved homeland.

Jin Jie feels a strong affinity to his homeland, a personal and familiar place deeply rooted where his spirit lifts when he encounters her beautiful landscape and scenery. This is evident in his work where we observe generous layers of oil streaked across the canvas, in quick and vigorous strokes, capturing not the minute details but the essence of the place, of the atmospheric qualities of the Jiangsu landscape and also the essence of the artist’s state of mind and his response to the place.

As such, Jin Jie instinctively captures the spirit of Jiangnan style – where the works are poetic rather than political in today’s contemporary art scene. Despite the weighty societal changes occurring in China, the artist has allowed viewers to adopt a unique perspective of his hometown, casting aside the stuffy, industrialized atmosphere that precedes economic development, and drawing attention to the presence of a poetic, tireless cultural code that binds a country with its people.

Jin Jie has exhibited extensively within Jiangsu province and is a member of the prestigious China Artists Association amongst many other notable appointments in China. His works are permanently collected in Dadu Museum of Art (China), Jiangsu Art Museum (China), Suzhou Art Museum (China), Wuxi Phoenix Art Museum (China) and National Art Museum of China. He continues to live and practice art in Nanjing, China, where he is a professor at his alma mater Nanjing University of the Arts.

Education

1991 | B.A. in Oil Painting, Nanjing University of the Arts

1997 | M.A. in Western Arts and Lecture, Nanjing University of the Arts

1991 | Ph.D in Fine Art, Nanjing University of the Arts

Exhibitions

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2016 | Trail of Heart a solo exhibition by Jin Jie, iPreciation Gallery, Singapore

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021 | Spring Rhapsody, iPreciation, Singapore 2019 | iPreciation 20th Anniversary: Reverie Collection – 25 Years of Art Collecting Journey, iPreciation, Singapore 2018 | Unbounded – Nie Weigu Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China 2017 | iPreciation at Art New York 2017, New York, USA 2016 | Nanyi Art Exhibition, Chong Chuan Art Museum, Nantong China 2015 | Mind & Schema Painting Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China / Picturesque Jiangnan, Suzhou Municipal Center of Public Culture, Jiangsu, China 2014 | Mind & Schema Painting Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China / Integration – Academic and Contemporary Art Research and Exhibition, Suzhou Municipal Center of Public Culture, Jiangsu, China / Integration – Academic and Contemporary Art Research and Exhibition, Fangshan Art Camp, Nanjing, China / Memory of South China – The 3rd Selected Oil Painting Masters Exhibition, Jiangsu Art Museum, Jiangsu, China 2013 | Should live without it – Jiangsu Contemporary Art Research Exhibition 2012 | Thousand Mile Live Drawing Journey Art Exhibition / The 8th Jiangsu Province Oil Painting Exhibition 2011 | Zhuzi Gallery Prominent Artist Oil Painting Exhibition / Jiangnan Culture Native Country Oil Painting Exhibition / Noumenon Discussion Jiangsu Artist Oil Painting Exhibition 2010 | Jiangsu Province Research and Exhibition of Small Oil Paintings / “Reality and Exceed” Jinling Oil Painting Exhibition of One Hundred Artists 2008 | Jiangnan Culture Yangtze River Delta Oil Painting Exhibition 2007 | Jiangsu Province Oil Painting Exhibition 2005 | Jiangsu Province Oil Painting Exhibition 2004 | Jiangsu Province Oil Painting Exhibition 2003 | Winter Solstice, iPreciation Gallery, Singapore / The 3rd Anniversary China Oil Painting Exhibition 2001 | Jiangsu Province Oil Painting Exhibition 1999 | The 9th Anniversary Art Exhibition of China / New Millennium Jiangsu Province Art Festival 1997 | China Youth Oil Painting Exhibition