Jin Shan (b.1977, Jiangsu Province, China) is an agent provocateur. Preferring wit and satire to aggression and conflict, his work uses humor and play to draw audiences into a confrontation with the social, cultural and political problems of the day. While specifically describing aspects of contemporary China, his investigation of human motivation extends beyond national boundaries to the seemingly insatiable desire for power programmed into humanity’s DNA.
Jin Shan’s work has been exhibited at the Singapore Biennale, the Collateral Event of the 52th Venice Biennale, the Groninger Museum, the David Winton Bell Gallery at the Brown University, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) among others. His works have been collected by the M+ Museum, Hong Kong; the White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney; the Kadist Art Foundation, Paris and San Francisco; the DSL Collection Paris and San Francisco; the Uli Sigg Collection, Switzerland; the Tiroche DeLeon Collection, Israel; the Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas; and LACMA, LA.
He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Art of East China Normal University in Shanghai. He currently works and lives in Shanghai.