Born in 1988 in Jiangsu Province, China, Ji Xin received his BA and MA degrees in the Oil Painting Department from the China Academy of Art, and also studied in Paris as a visiting artist via an Exchange Project of CAA, in 2012. He is currently a PhD candidate at the China Academy of Art. Ji Xin’s practice spans painting, sculpture, and works on paper, with a sustained investigation into the interplay between image, material, and space. His work is marked by a deliberate engagement with the formal legacies of both Western classical art and Eastern visual philosophy, situating his practice within a transhistorical and transcultural continuum. Ji’s early works, deeply informed by classical Western painting, reveal a painterly language grounded in metaphysical contemplation and historical depth. His visual vocabulary draws upon the structural clarity of early Renaissance painting, as well as the reductive forms and spatial intelligence of modernist sculpture. Over time, his inquiry has expanded toward the metaphysical and symbolic dimensions of Eastern aesthetics, particularly those embedded in traditional cosmology, architecture, and philosophical reflection, foregrounding an inward gaze that resists binary frameworks of East and West.

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