Lam & Cherry

Lam&Cherry  (Lin Jiangquan, Zeng Dongping)

They were born in Canton, China and are an internationally renowned coupling of contemporary artists. Lam studied art with renowned artists in his childhood. At the age of 9, he held a personal art exhibition that received attention from the national education department. During his childhood, he was recognized as a “painting genius” by public media and later admitted to Tsinghua University; Zeng Dongping graduated from South China Normal University. Their artistic practice covers conceptual painting, composite materials, installations, architecture, imagery, film, poetry, novels, public art, science, and Chinese, Japanese, and Korean calligraphy. Invited to hold solo exhibitions at numerous art museums in Europe, America, Asia, and other places, including the National Cultural Center of Portugal, the Pessoa Museum, the Museum of University of Lisbon, Lars Lerin Art Museum, the Sahlströmsgården Museum in Sweden, National Museum of Italy (Rome),Harvard University and more. Their collaborative works with former Moderna museet director have been exhibited multiple times; Their two solo exhibitions respectively formed dialogue exhibitions with two Nordic national treasure artists.Lam has launched leading exhibitions such as a public installation solo exhibition that turned a 3000 square meter library into a banned book library, a solo exhibition of his works by 17 curators, a solo exhibition at the intersection of three European countries, and the largest solo exhibition in history that renamed road signs. Their curators include former Czech President Havel’s administrator, former director of the Oxford Museum of Modern Art in the UK, and former Portuguese Minister of Education. As a supervisor invited to attend courses at Harvard University, University of Southern California, Trinity St. David’s University in Wales, and other universities, a doctoral supervisor.

Artworks are collected by public museums and academic institutions, including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the National Gallery of Switzerland, the Basel Museum of Fine Arts, the Zurich Museum of Fine Arts, the Smithsonian Institution National Museum, the Huntington Museum of Art in California, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Library of the United Kingdom, the Library of Congress, the Washington D.C. Museum of Art, the Art Museum of Chicago, the National Gallery of Australia, the Dartmouth University Museum of Art, the Geneva Museum of Art and History in Switzerland, M+Museum Lib, Royal Academy of Art, Sotheby’s School of Art (London, New York), National Library of Victoria, Royal Library of England, Royal Library of Sweden, Harvard University, Cambridge University, Oxford University, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology, Princeton University, Yale University, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University, University of Chicago, Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University of New York, University of California, Berkeley, King’s College London, University of Edinburgh, Prada Italy Organizing Committee of the Fertrinelli Prize, University of Toronto, Duke University, Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, McNally Jackson, New York University, National Library of Berlin, Louis Nussela Public Library in France, National Assembly of South Korea, Adam Mickiewicz University of Poland, University of Bonn, University of Göttingen, Tsinghua University, Peking University, University of Hong Kong, University of Lisbon, University of Bologna in Italy, University of Athens in Greece, Oslo School of Architecture and Design in Norway, Aalborg University in Denmark, University of Turku in Finland, University of the Arts Iceland, University of Dublin in Ireland, University of Tokyo, Kyoto University, Osaka University, etc. Their works are compared to those of Gerhard Richter, Ed Lascha, Margaret, Alex Katz, Anthony Tapies and others are hidden in European national venues. Published over ten works, some of which have been translated and published in more than ten languages. Invited to participate in multiple international biennials, biennials, literary festivals, poetry festivals, art festivals, etc.

From painting to integrated media art, they directly intervene in the order of social reality, exploring the eternal barriers, uncertainties, and gender crises between people in contemporary society in a secretive way. They conduct in-depth research on intimate relationships, family, social and real situations, and unspeakable privacy issues. Through interactions with strangers, they awaken self-awareness in the process of gradually becoming familiar with each other, transform roles between objectified people and personified objects, and reorganize the order of things and perception.

Lam is known as the ‘Fernando Pessoa of China’ by both domestic and foreign media. He opposes cross-border activities and has been invited to participate in various authoritative events with different genders and professional identities. The author of “Performance Art” published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong referred to him as “an artist who is beyond his reach, and today three people have this ability: Cai Guoqiang, Xie Deqing, and Lam.” The Japanese critic referred to Lin Jiangquan’s artistic practice as “a brand new creation that has changed art history from 1928 to the present.” His exhibition, planned by the curator of the Venice Biennale, has been widely reported by domestic and foreign media such as China National Television (CCTV) Channel 3.

Lam currently serves as the Vice Chairman of the Macau Smart City Art Development Association, the Chairman of the Organizing Committee for the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area Poetry and Architecture Contemporary Art Festival, and a member of the Guangdong Provincial Art Museum Association.