Born in 1994 in Guangdong and raised in Xiamen, Chen Jinbin is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans painting, text, object, and sculpture. Chen’s delicate colour palettes create environments that house his male subjects in themes of vulnerability, fragility, honesty, and comfort. These spaces seek to uncover a language of intimacy that excludes the sexually explicit, and rather, paint his own vocabulary of desire: a vernacular that absorbs a viewer’s gaze. In his portraiture, the concept of the masculine traverses a terrain of liminal gender dispositions that embrace the freedom of becoming without societal boundaries of gender. He holds a BA from Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, Royal Academy of Art The Hague, The Netherlands, and an MA, from Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway. He currently lives and works in Oslo, Norway

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