LIN Fanglu (b.1989) lives and works in Shanghai, China. She received her BFA (2012) and MFA (2016) in Artistic Design from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing.
LIN’s practice engages with the material culture and craft traditions of ethnic minority communities in China. Her research focuses in particular on the nearly lost tie-dye techniques of Bai women in Yunnan, as well as the Dong textile practice known as Liangbu in Guizhou. Through sustained fieldwork, she has worked in close collaboration with local female artisans, developing a distinct body of fiber-based work rooted in these inherited techniques.
In recent years, LIN’s work has been exhibited at major institutions including Victoria and Albert Museum (London, 2025), Michelangelo Foundation (Venice, 2024), Loewe Foundation (Shanghai, 2024), National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne, 2023), Aurora Museum (Shanghai, 2023), Power Station of Art (Shanghai, 2022), Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Paris, 2021), CAFA Art Museum (Shenzhen, 2021), and West Bund Museum (Shanghai, 2021), among others. Recent solo exhibitions include It’s All About Her (Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2025); The Power of Binding and Weaving (Samgaksan Geumam Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea, 2023); She’s Body (Art+ Shanghai Gallery, Shanghai), 2023; and Threads of Change (Art+ Shanghai Gallery, Shanghai, 2022).
In 2021, LIN was awarded the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize. In 2016, she received the Emerging Designer of the Year and Innovative Brand awards from the China Building Decoration Association. Her works are held in major public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Nottingham City Museums and Galleries, Nottingham; Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris; Samgaksan Geumam Museum of Art, Seoul, and Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning, Shenzhen.
Education
2012 MFA., Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
2008 BA., Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
2011 Exchanged in Karlsruhe University of Art and Design Exchanged in Tokyo University of the Arts
Solo Exhibition
2025 ‘It’s All About Her’, Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art,
St Petersburg, Russia
2023 ‘Beneath the Skin, She’s Body’, Art+ Shanghai Gallery/Suhe Haus, Shanghai,China
2023 ‘The Power of Binding and Weaving’,
Samgaksan Geumam Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2021 ‘Threads of Change’, Art+ Shanghai Gallery, Shanghai, China
Selected Group Exhibition
2026 ‘Thread’, Sarah Myerscough Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2026 “Patient Zero”, SPURS Gallery, Beijing, China
2025 ‘Dimensions: Contemporary Chinese Studio Crafts’, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom
2025 ‘Sculpting the Senses II’, Kunsthal Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2025 'A Swatch Art Playground', Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China
2025 ‘Dimensions: Contemporary Chinese Studio Crafts’, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom
2025 ‘Sculpting the Senses II’, Kunsthal Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2025 ‘The Tourists’, Tang Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2025 ‘Microcosm: Intimacies Beyond Distance’, Tang Contemporary Art, Singapore
2025‘Balada del Ouroboros’, Shanghai Jiushi Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2025‘Integration and Dialogue: 2024 Hong Kong and Macao Visual Arts Biennale’, Beijing, China
2024 ‘Homo Faber Biennale’, Michelangelo Foundation, Venice, Italy ‘Shades of Light’, Galerie56, New York, the United States
2024‘Loewe: Crafted World’, Loewe Foundation, Shanghai, China
2024‘The Nature of Things’, Sarah Myerscough Gallery, London, UK
2023‘Sculpting the Senses’, Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris, France
2023‘NGV Triennial 2023’,National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
2023‘Auto-Exotic’, Venice Design Biennial, Venice, Italy
2023‘Flexibility Carries’, Aurora Museum, Shanghai, China
2023‘Xinjiang Biennale’, Xinjiang Art Museum, Xinjiang, China
2023‘Transcend Time, Transcend Space’, Swatch Art Centre Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China
2023‘Feel the Power’, Art+ Shanghai Gallery, Shanghai, China
2022‘Hill of the Madman’, Curated by Chanel Culture FundPower Station of Art, Shanghai, China
2021 ‘Loewe Foundation Craft Prize 2021’, Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris, France
2021 ‘Material Tales-The Life of Things’, CAFA Art Centre, Beijing, China
2021 ‘Design and The Wondrous’, Curated by Centre Pompidou, West Bund Museum, Shanghai,
China
Selected Public Collection
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom
Swatch Art Centre, The Swatch Group, Switzerland
Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris, France
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art, St Petersburg, Russia
Samgaksan Geumam Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
The Peninsula Hotels, Hong Kong
Hyatt Hotels Corporation, Chicago, United States
An Museum, Shanghai, China
Residency
2022 Swatch Art Centre Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China