Yin Xiuzhen

'Yin Xiuzhen currently lives and works in Beijing. Yin began her career after earning a BA from Capital Normal University’s Fine Arts Department, Beijing, in 1989. She is best known for her sculptures and installations comprising secondhand objects like clothing, shoes, and suitcases. Inspired by the rapidly changing cultural environment of her native Beijing, Yin arranges and reconfigures these recycled items to draw out their individual and collective histories. Her assembled materials operate as sculptural documents of memory, alluding to the lives of individuals who are often neglected in the drive toward rapid development, excessive urbanization, and the growing global economy.

Yin has participated in many milestone exhibitions and presentations since the 1990s. Her works have been widely exhibited in museums and art institutions around the world, including in Inside Out: New Chinese Art (1998—99), which was presented at the Asia Society and MoMA PS1 in New York and then traveled to SFMOMA and the Asian Art Museum; the China Pavilion of the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007); the International Art Exhibition of the 58th Venice Biennale (2019); the Elaine Dannheisser Projects Series at MoMA (2010); and a large-scale retrospective exhibition held in 2012 at the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands and the Düsseldorf Art Museum in Germany.' *

In 2001, Yin participated in the Womanifesto Workshop at Rai Boonbandarn Farm.

* Pace Gallery, 'Yin Xiuzhen', https://www.pacegallery.com/artists/yin-xiuzhen/, accessed February 2025.