LIN Zhipeng aka No.223
林志鹏
Lin Zhipeng (aka No.223) Born in Guangdong, China in 1979, Graduated from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies with major of financial English. Lin Zhipeng is a photographer and freelancer writer based in Beijing. Created in 2003, his blog “North Latitude 23” where he published everyday pictures accompanied by short texts received millions views and made him famous among the web community. Presented for years in group exhibitions in China and abroad , Lin’s works have also been the object of several solo shows both nationally and internationally ( Delaware Contemporary Museum ; Walther Collection Ulm ; De Sarthe Gallery Beijing ; Stieglitz19 Gallery Antwerp ; M97 Gallery Shanghai, etc). He has published photography books in China, France, Canada, Japan and Italy.
Lin is a leading figure of new Chinese photography emerging in the last decade, popularizing his work originally via social media and other online platforms as well as his self-published zines. Lin’s work has come to reflect and define a certain zeitgeist of the post-80’s and 90’s generation of non-mainstream Chinese youth. Faded flowers tangled with flesh tones, myriad patterns mixing with an emotional ambiguity of both love and chaos, fantasy and eroticism. 223’s works are saturated with a soft sense of carefreeness, a playful innocence, and a certain optimism amidst a hedonist lifestyle going against the expected pleasures and entrapments of the middle class dream.
With Lin Zhipeng, everything is tinged with a resolutely pop seduction. The colour, the shapes, the textures, the framing used are all symptomatic of a visual culture rocked by the flow of images, bodies and symbols that have marked our entry into the second millennium. Far from the traditional and unconstructive criticism of an "overconsumption" or "saturation" of images, those of the artist celebrate the vitality of his generation, starting with the staging of his life and that of his entourage. Mixing love and chaos, fantasy and eroticism, his photographs act as the collective poetic diary of a generation eager to escape social pressures and to aspire to the pleasures of life in a society that is as indifferent as it is rapidly evolving.
Publications
2024 - Photography—A Queer History, by Flora Dunster&Theo Gordon, Published by iLex Press, UK
2023 - Skinny Wave - No.223, Published by Same Paper, China
2023 - Myriad of Things And Bodies, by Yining He, Foam Magazine #63 Food! Issue
2022 - LOVE SONGS, Published by MEP Paris
2021 - Rooms Within China, Published by Tofu Collective
2021 - 123 Polaroids - No.223, Published by Super Labo, Japan
2020 - Grand Amour - No.223, Published by Witty Books, Italy
2020 - Xuan Juliana Wang: "223, Acts of Memory", Aperture, Issue 239-
2019 - Flowers and Fruits - No.223, Published by T&M Projects, Japan
2018 -Sour Strawberries - No.223, Published by Editions Bessard Press, France,
2016 - In Our Secret Life - No.223, Published by Hunan Literature & Art Press
2016 - Hidden Track - No.223, Published by Editions Bessard Press, France
2016 - 屏幕生存 Living in Screens, by 海杰Haijie, China
2016 - ExtraExtra#7, Netherlands
2016 - Snoecks 2016, Snoecks nv, Belgium
2016 - Genda#1, a+mbookstore edizioni, Italy
2014 - GUP#43, Netherlands
2014 - Versatile#2, Self-published, Beijing
2014 - (Documentary) China Through The Lens of Youth, NHK Japan
2013 - (Documentary) Emma Tassy, LA CHINE DANS L'OBJECTIF, ARTE France
2013 - Ubies, Asian Creatives, PIE International Inc. Tokyo
2013 - 想象 Imagination, by 孙慧婷 Sun Huiting, China
2012 - Satellite of Love - No.223, Published by Guangming Daily Press, Beijing
2012 - Lili Chien, Artist's Show Case: No.223, Voices Of Photography, Taiwan
2012 - Travis, The Simple Connection between Photography And Sexual, PPAPER, Taiwan
2012 - No.223, Published by Revolution-star, Taiwan
2012 - 223, From China With Love, Bare Bones, London, Issue 9
2012 - Versatile#1, Self-published, Beijing
2011 - Tristan Chen, "22.3 questions about No.223", Fashion China, China
2011 - Mino, 'Intimate Bodies Through Lens, Surface, China, June
2011 - My Private Broadway - 223's Photobook 3, Self Published, Beijing,
2010 - Pinko, ‘Adolescence is the most creative periods’, The Outlook Magazine, China
2009 - Nicki Xiao, ‘The Third Eye on Fashion’, Design 360°, Hong Kong, N.20
2008 - Sarah Fakray, ‘New faces of Beijing’, Dazed&Confused, London, December
2008 - Xu Jinglei, ‘Lin Zhipeng Q&A’, Wallpaper.com
2008 - Cynthia, ‘Creative Forces in Beijing’, Milk, Hongkong, August,
2007 - Joe Magliaro, ‘223’, Theme Magazine, New York, issue 11, fall
2006 - Jifan Wong & Cong, I like the city with a bit distance, Rice magazine, Guangzhou
2006 - John Millichap (ed), 3030: New Photography in China, 3030 Press, Hong Kong
2006 - My Private Broadway - 223's photobook 2, self published, Guangzhou
2005 - My Private Broadway - 223's photobook 1, self published, Guangzhou
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 - Boys Boys Boys, Migrant Bird Space, Berlin (Germany)
2023 - We have no purity in the dark, Kitsuné Gallery, New York (USA)
2022 - Colors of Love, Represented by in)(between, RASTOLL Gallery, Paris / Sinibaldi Galerie, Arles (France)
2022 - Colors of Love, Represented by in)(between, Galeria Cadaques, Cadaques (Spain)
2021 - Polaroids, Stieglitz19 Gallery, Antwerp (Belgium)
2020 - Satellite of Love 愛,放衛星, Canton-Sadine, Vancouver (Canada)
2020 - A Savage Affection 以蛮为情, Solonia Art Center, Suzhou (China)
2019 - Amphibian Relationships 两栖关系 - No.223@The Delaware Contemporary, Delaware (USA)
2019 - No.223@Akio Nagasawa Gallery Aoyama, Tokyo (Japan)
2019 - No.223@The Walther Collection feats Then And Now, The Walther Collection, Neu Ulm (Germany)
2019 - No.223@in)(between, in)(between Gallery, Paris (France)
2018 - No.223@Grand Amour, Grand Amour Hotel, Paris (France)
2018 - 223@Stieglitz19, Stieglitz19 Gallery, Antwerp (Belgium)
2017 - No.223@M97, M97 Gallery, Shanghai (China)
2016 - No.223, de Sarthe Beijing Gallery, Beijing (China)
2016 - Hidden Track, Stieglitz19 Gallery, Antwerp (Belgium)
2014 - 223, Loppis Galleria, Parma (Italy)
2014 - 青红皂白 Velvet Pogo, Kui Yuan Gallery, Guangzhou (China)
2013 - 蜜桃 The Peaches, ATTIC, Taipei
2008 - 我派对 Me Party, Songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing (China)
2008 - 时光成分 Composition In Time, GZOP Lab, Guangzhou (China)
Selected Group Exhibitions
你的你 Their Them, Chengdu Contemporary Image Museum, Chengdu (China)
Cook My Book — Refresh My Mind, Dr Fanton Arles (France)
selbst,boa-basedonart Gallery, Düsseldorf (Germany)
“What We Are”, de Sarthe Gallery, Hongkong (China)
2023 -
(In)directions: Queerness in Chinese Contemporary Photography, Eli Klein Gallery, NewYork (USA)
"Each,Other", Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane (Australia)
Love Songs, ICP, NewYork (USA)
中間地帯 interface, ARTiX3, Tokyo (Japan)
2022 -
I Have Not Loved (enough or worked), Art Gallery of Western Australia (Australia)
WHO AM I? I AM. Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, (Germany)
Love Songs, MEP Paris, Paris (France)
223 & Ren Hang, Stieglitz19 Gallery, Brussels (Belgium)
2021 - Signs of The Times, Apalazzo Gallery, Brescia (Italy)
2020 -
可能的往事 Possible Past, Star Gallery, Beijing (China)
丰收 / 尖果儿 Harvest / Hanging Fruit, M97 Gallery, Shanghai (China)
自如的绑票与疗愈的暗示, M Studio, Beijing (China)
Chamber of: , Lou Carter Gallery, Paris (France)
China Fever, Migrant Bird Space, Berlin (Germany)
The Farm, K11 Art Foundation, Shenyang (China)
2019 -
I AM (AT WAR) IN LOVE WITH THE OBVIOUS, The Address Gallery, Brescia (Italy)
Chinese Spring Part 4, Stieglitz19 Gallery, Antwerp (Belgium)
對流 Convection, Art Tai Space, Hohhot (China)
2018 -
EL CUERPO REINTERPRETADO, NUE Gallerie, Valencia (Spain)
十方 Ten Directions: 三影堂摄影奖十周年特展 The 10th Anniversary Exhibition of The Three Shadows Photography Award,Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing (China)
Chinese Spring #3, Stieglitz19 Gallery,Antwerp (Belgium)
知尚 A nous la mode! , Temple Beijing / Bailian Centre Shanghai / Three Shadows Xiamen / Chengdu Museum (China)
2017 -
世界切片 The World Section, Xi'an Art Museum, Xi'an (China)
PHOTOSYNTHESIS, M97 Gallery, Shanghai (China)
诗 Poem, Zhong Gallery, Beijing (China)
2016 -
遇见森山大道 Meet Daido Moriyama, Aoman Space, Beijing (China)
坦白·猝不及防的九场自拍实验 Illuminate Your Beauty, UCCA, Beijing (China)
BredaPhoto International Photofestival, Breda (Netherlands)
2015 -
Teetering at The Edge of The World-Reading the Chinese Contemporary, Espacio de Arte Contemporeáno (EAC), Montevideo (Uruguay)
This is not China anymore, GuatePhoto International Photography Festival, Antigua (Guatemala)
图像新潮 Coming Image, curated by LEAP, Photo shanghai (China)
首届长江国际影像双年展 Changjiang International Image Biennale, Chongqing (China)
2014 -
Collab#1 curated by Now&Them, The Gallery,Shanghai (China)
No.223, 10th Lianzhou International Photography Festival, Lianzhou (China)
XXX, BANK Gallery, Shanghai (China)
Chinese spring #2, Stieglitz19 Gallery, Antwerp (Belgium)
2013 -
Unseen Photo Fair, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
不合作方式2 FUCK OFF 2, Groninger Museum (Netherlands)
Exposure, London Gallery West (UK)
平等的关系 Equal Relationships, Blindspot Gallery, Hongkong.
2012 -
宓爱 Secret Love,OSTASIATISKA MUSEET Skeppsholmen (Sweden)
每一天 Everyday, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai (China)
Unspecified Urban Site, RH Gallery, NewYork (USA)
ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE, White Gloss Gallery. Los Angels (USA)
I have also other favorites, Stacion Gallery, Prishtina (Turkish)
2011 -
蚯蚓-连州国际摄影节 Earthworm, Lianzhou Foto 2011 (China)
白痴 dAfT,Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai (China)
Chinese Spring #1, Stieglitz19 Gallery, Antwerp (Belgium)
Boys' Little World,ZEN FOTO Gallery,Tokyo (Japan)
一重影事 Recurrent Shadows, Hexiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen (China)
万相 MYRIAD VISIONS, Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing (China)
Art Amsterdam 2011 (Netherlands)
GTZ Photography Workshop 2011, Berlin, (Germany)
2010 -
5PRCITY, United Nude Miami, Miami (USA)
Get It Louder Exhibition, touring exhibition, venues in Shanghai & Beijing (China)
首届集美国际当代艺术节 The First International Contemporary Art Festival of China Jimei, Xiamen (China)
草场地摄影季 Caochangdi Photo Spring 2010: ARLES IN BEIJING, Beijing (China)
Box II: The Cruelty of Youth, White Space Collection, New York City (USA)
2009 -
LINEART Fair at Flanders Expo Gent (Belgium)
China Now –The Edge of Desire, Max Lang Gallery, New York (USA)
我,我见 I, I SEE- Southern Pocket Film festival, Guangzhou (China)
2008 -
连州国际摄影节 Youth Appearance, 4th Lianzhou International Photography Festival, Lianzhou (China)
变形记 Metamorphosis, Art Scene China, Shanghai (China)
潜活:公寓日志 Hidden Life: Apartment Diary, Lin & Keng Gallery, Beijing (China)
FotoGrafia International Festival, Rome (Italy)
New Photography In China, City Festival (Hong Kong)
2007 -
抽样 Sampling: Chinese Young Photographers, Potential Gallery, Beijing (China)
刷新 Refresh: Emerging Chinese Artists, touring exhibition, ZendaiMoMA, Shanghai, China; ARARIO Gallery, Beijing (China)
Get It Louder Exhibition, touring exhibition, venues in Guangzhou, Shanghai & Beijing (China)
2006 -
自私-连州国际摄影节 Selfhood – Absent Minded , First Lianzhou International Photography (China)
2005 -
平遥国际摄影节 Five New Generation Photographers, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao (China)