Background
Jin Jifa was born in Shanghai.
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Jin Jifa
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Education
He attended Shanghai College of Arts in 1961, and concentrated on oil painting, and after graduation, Jin worked for a Shanghai publisher in charge of creative production, making propaganda posters during that time. Those early designed posters designed by Jin Jifa, mostly associated with political propaganda, are collected extensively by a sinology scholar Landsberger, Stefan R.
Career
He continues to create works with different composition of colors in abstract form. Jin currently lives and works in Shanghai, China. In 1984, Jin obtained his lectureship at Department of Art, at Shanghai University, and he continued teaching oil painting till his official retirement in 2005.
He has held many solo or group exhibitions in China or overseas.
Jin"s works received recognition from commercial galleries as well as auction houses. In 2005, Jin"s oil painting, Color Movement Number.
4, received the Judge"s prize at Shanghai Annual Art Exhibition. Jin"s works are collected by Shanghai Art Museum.
Jin"s works have constantly appeared in solo or group exhibitions.
Jin"s works are shown at 15th China Shanghai Art Festival, Shanghai(2012). Jin"s large oil painting, 《Melody from the heart》, is invited to be shown in the group show at National Arts Exhibition. Jin"s work《Water country》is shown at Horizon Art Exhibition, China in 2004.
In 2005, Jin participates in the Second Beijing International Art Biennale,China.
2012 Group show in Shanghai. Jin"s works are in permanent collection of Shanghai Art Museum, and also in private collections in China, Singapore, Hong Kong, or Taiwan.
Membership
Jin is a member of Chinese Association of Artists since 1997, and he retired from the lectureship at Department of Arts, Shanghai University in 2005. Jin is a committee member of Shanghai Association of Artists.
