Cai Jin

Cai Jin (; born 1965) is a Chinese painter best known for her oil paintings of the banana plant. Cai was born in Tunxi, Anhui Province, China in 1965. Cai studied art at the Anhui Teachers University in Wuhu, China, graduating in 1985. She went on to participate in the Advanced Oil Painting Program of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, where she studied until 1991. Cai teaches at Tianjin Fine Arts Institute in Tianjin, China. While she has primarily produced oils on canvas, Cai has painted on such materials as mattresses, silk quilts, cushions, women’s shoes, bicycle seats, and bath tubs. Her paintings explore vitality and beauty.

In 2008, Cai deviated from her focus on the banana plant and began work on a series of landscape paintings. While the title of the series is Landscape the paintings are lyrical and organic, showing influences of both Western and traditional Chinese sources. These are evocative of submarine landscapes or cloud-filled skies and verge on abstraction, but without totally abandoning their origin in the world around her.

Exhibitions Cai Jin Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, 2021 Double X, Ethan Cohen Gallery, New York, New York, 2019 RT021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, Triumph Art Space, Beijing, China, 2015 White Box 2014 Art & Design 100, WhiteBox Art Center, Beijing, China, 2014 Return to the Source, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing and New York, 2013 Cai Jin, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, 2012 Cai Jin: Works on Paper, Hadrien de Montferrand Gallery, Beijing, 2011 Red Tide - Cai Jin, Galerie PICI, Seoul, Korea, 2008 Cai Jin, Beijing Cube Gallery, Beijing, 2007 Cai Jin: Eros in Red, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, 2005 Beauty Banana Series: The Art of Cai Jin, Goedhuis Contemporary, New York, 2003 Cai Jin: Sound in Red, Fujikawa Gallery/Next, Osaka, Japan, 2000 Cai Jin, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, USA, 2000 Banana Plants Paintings, Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin, Germany, 1999 Cai Jin: Off the Canvas, The Courtyard Gallery, Beijing Cai Jin: Chinese Hand Studies from Life, Ethan Cohen Fine Art, New York, 1997 Cai Jin: Recent Works, Kiang Gallery, Atlanta, USA, 1995 Cai Jin's Oil Paintings, Art Gallery of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, 1991