Meng Jin’s photographs explore the artist’s fascination with urban life, architecture, memory, and the relationship between object and their social context. His Love Hotel series, in collaboration with artist Fang Er, features photographs of improvised, spontaneous sculptures combined with existing objects in rented love hotel rooms. The series explores the two artists’ ongoing interest in urban life, architecture, memory and found objects, and the inter-relationship between physical buildings, objects and their social context.

Born in 1973 in Chongqing, China.
EDUCATION
2005
Master
in Fine Arts with distinction, Chelsea College of University of Arts London in London, United Kingdom
1996
Bachelor of
Arts in the Fine Art Department of Southwest China
Normal University Chongqing,
China
Currently lives and works
in Beijing, China
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
Love Hotel, Photo Edition
Berlin, Berlin Germany
2009
Love Hotel, M97 Gallery, Shanghai, China
Every Room is Illuminated, Kiang Gallery, Atlanta, USA
2008
Constructed Re Constructed, Art Channel, Beijing, China
2007
Lost
& Found, M97 Gallery, Shanghai, China
2006
Been
There, Done That, Platform China 798 Project Space, Beijing, China
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
Reshaping History:
Chinart from 2000 to 2009, China National Convention Center, Beijing, China
The Magic, Art Channel, Beijing, China
It’s All about Love, My Humble House Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2009
My Humble House Exhibition of
a New Generation, My Humble House Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
The Biennial
Photoquai 2009, the musée du quai Branly, Paris, France
That Obscure
Object of Desire, Officina, Beijing, China
New Trends: Fifteen Contemporary Chinese Artists, The Pacific Heritage
Museum, San Francisco, USA
2008
vivia? Moscow Young Art Biannual, Moscow,
Russia
The
Disappearance of Nature, L&Y Gallery, Shenzhen, China
House Arrest,
Galerie Mai36 showroom, Zurich, Switzerland
Night on Earth,
MOCA Shanghai, China, Helsinki, Finland
The
International Festival of Photography in Lodz, Poland
There is No I in
Team, Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Inactivation, MOCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
China Design
Now, V&A museum, London, UK
2007
Lianzhou International Photo
Festival, Lianzhou, China
Fragmentation, Chenlinghui Art Center, Creek Art, Beijing, China
My Beijing 2X2 Photography Show, SOKA Art, Beijing, China
Unveil the Red Curtain, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Nostalgia, Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, USA
Grand Opening, Kiang Gallery, Atlanta, USA
China Photography, Staedtische Galerie Haus Seel, Siegen, Germany
Borderline Moving Image Festival, Beijing, China
Get it Louder 2007, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing,
China
Whispering Wind:
Recent Chinese Photography, Frist Center for the Visual Arts,
Nashville, USA
nactivation, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
The Boundless Reality, Photography
Exhibition,
706 Factory in 798 Art Zone, Beijing,
China
Evolution,
2007 Guangzhou Photo Biannual, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou,
China
Still
Moving, Space Noon GALLERY,
Beijing, China, National Film Institute, Seoul, Korea
Beyond
and Crossover – Mocart 2007,
Pudong Exhibition Hall, Shanghai, China
Asia
Young Artists in Heyri, KEUMSAN GALLERY,
Seoul, Korea
The Thirteen: Chinese Video Now, John
Hansard Gallery, Southampton,
UK
2006
Eyes On,
C5 Art Gallery, Beijing, Bund 18 Creative Centre, Shanghai, China
Story, Alexia
Goethe Gallery, London, UK
Art Beijing, 2006 international art
fair, Beijing, China
Ogilvy Autumn Art Exhibition, Ogilvy
0 gallery, Beijing, China
Mocart Contemporary Art Exhibition, Volkswagen Beijing Olympic Forum,
Beijing, China
Replay, C5 Art
Gallery, Beijing, China
The Thirteen:
Chinese Video Now, MOMA PS1, New York, USA
2005
Space, Aristao Gallery, London, UK
Performance Furniture, London, UK
The 6th
International Photographic Art Exposition, San Francisco, USA
On the Underbelly, the Green, London, UK
2004
After
Dark, the Tour Show from Leeds, Birmingham to London, UK
The Horse Hospital,
London UK
2003
Spiritual
Tour, Taikang Top Space, Beijing China
2002
Self-Talking, Art Channel of TOM.COM Nominate Photo
Show
2001
Dialogue, Chinese Cotemporary Art Exhibition,
Patova, Italy
2000
New Media Art Festival at Loft,
Beijing, China
1999
Visible and Unknown, Beijing, Chin