Lin Zhipeng (a.k.a. 223) was born in 1979 in Guangdong, China. He graduated from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies with major of financial English. Lin is a edgingfigure of new 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 youth. Faded flowers tangled with flesh tones, myriad patterns mixing with an emotional ambiguity of both 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.
Lin Zhipeng currently lives and works in Beijing, China.
Solo Exhibitions
2026 Under the Sunlight,There is no True Intimacy, Fotografiska Shanghai, China
2025 Intuitive Acts of Love, Stieglitz19 Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2025 Intimate Fragment & Poetic WhispersIntimate Fragment & Poetic Whispers-20 Years of Photography, Point de Vue, Deauville, France
2025 Vision Infra-mince Vision Infra-mince, Three Shadow +3Gallery, Beijing, China
2025 Wild as a Hare, Northing Space, Bergen, Norway
2025 Under the Sunlight,There is no True Intimacy; Three Shadows Photography Art Centre Xiamen, Xiamen, China
2025 Blossom Mode, KuiYuan Gallery, Guangzhou, China
2025 Free Love Chronicles, Glenda Cinquegrana Art Consulting, Milan, Italy
2023 Mysterious Skin, Stieglitz19 Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
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, Canton-Sadine, Vancouver, Canada
2020 A Savage Affection, Solonia Art Center, Suzhou, China
2019 Amphibian Relationships - 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, Stieglitz 19 Gallery, Antwerpen, Belgium
2017 No.223@M97, M97 Gallery, Shanghai, China
2016 No. 223: Lin Zhipeng, DE SARTHE, Beijing, China
2016 Hidden Track, Stieglitz19 Gallery, Anterwerp, Belgium
2014 223, Loppis Galleria, Parma, Italy
2014 Velvet Pogo, KuiYuan Gallery, Guangzhou, China
2013 Peaches, ATTIC, Taiwan
2008 Composition in Time, GZOP Lab, Guangzhou, China
2008 Me Party, Songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing, China
Group Exhibitions
2026 Crystal Boys and Others, Nan Ke Gallery, Shanghai, China
2025 That Which Seeps into the Silence, Planches Contact Festival, Deauville, France
2025 Because of Sanyu, Yitiao Art Center, Hangzhou, China
2025 Tender Comrade, White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2025 Open Windows, Ui Art Museum, Suzhou, China
2024 Their Them, Chengdu Contemporary Image Museum, Chengdu, China
2024 Cook My Book — Refresh My Mind, Dr Fanton Arles, France
2024 Selbst, boa-basedonart Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
2024 What We Are, DE SARTHE, Hong Kong
2023 (In)directions: Queerness in Chinese Contemporary Photography, Eli Klein Gallery, New York, USA
2023 “Each,Other”, Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia
2023 Love Songs, ICP, NewYork, USA
2023 Interface, ARTiX3, Tokyo, Japan
2022 I Have Not Loved (enough or worked), Art Gallery of Western Australia, Australia
2022 WHO AM I? I AM, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany
2022 Love Songs, MEP Paris, Paris, France
2022 223 & Ren Hang, Stieglitz19 Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2021 Signs of The Times, Apalazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy
2020 Possible Past, Star Gallery, Beijing, China
2020 Harvest / Hanging Fruit, M97 Gallery, Shanghai, China
2020 Lin Zhipeng’s Project, M Studio, Beijing, China
2020 Chamber of: , Lou Carter Gallery, Paris, France
2020 China Fever, Migrant Bird Space, Berlin, Germany
2020 The Farm, K11 Art Foundation, Shenyang, China
2019 I AM (AT WAR) IN LOVE WITH THE OBVIOUS, The Address Gallery, Brescia, Italy
2019 Chinese Spring Part 4, Stieglitz19 Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2019 Convection, Art Tai Space, Hohhot, China
2018 Ten Directions: The 10th Anniversary Exhibition of The Three Shadows Photography, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
2018 EL CUERPO REINTERPRETADO, NUE Gallerie, Valencia, Spain
2018 Unseen Photo Fair 2018, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2018 A nous la mode! Three Shadows Xiamen Photography Art Centre, Xiamen, China
2017 Chinese Spring #3, Stieglitz19 Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2017 PHOTOSYNTHESIS, M97 Gallery, Shanghai, China
2017 The World Section, Xi’an Art Museum, Xi’an, China
2017 Poem, Zhong Gallery, Beijing, China
2016 Meet Daido Moriyama, Aoman Space, Beijing, China
2016 Illuminate Your Beauty, UCCA, Beijing, China
2016 BredaPhoto International Photofestival, Breda, Netherlands
2015 Teetering at the Edge of the World Reading the Chinese Contemporary, Espacio de Arte Contemporeáno (EAC), Montevideo, Uruguay
2015 This is Not China Anymore, GuatePhoto International Photography Festival, Antigua, Guatemala
2015 Coming Image curated by LEAP, PhotoShanghai, Shanghai, China
2015 Changjiang International Image Biennale, Chongqing, China
2014 Collab#1 curated by Now&Them, The Gallery, Shanghai, China
2014 No.223, Tenth Lianzhou International Photography Festival, Guangdong, China
2014 XXX, Bank Gallery, Shanghai, China
2014 Chinese Spring#2, Stieglitz19 Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2013 Unseen Photo Fair, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2013 FUCK OFF 2, Groningen Museum, Netherlands
2013 Exposure: Contemporary Media Art From Hong Kong,Taiwan and MainlandofChina, London Gallery West, London, United Kingdom
2013 Equal Relationships, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong
2012 I Have Also Other Favorites, Stacion Gallery, Prishtina, Kosovo
2012 Across the Great Divide, White Gloss Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2012 Unspecified Urban Site, RH Gallery, New York, USA
2012 Everyday, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
2012 Secret Love, Ostasiatiska Museet, Skeppsholmen, Stockholm, Sweden
2011 Earthworm, Lianzhou Foto 2011, Guangdong, China
2011 dAfT, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
2011 Chinese Spring #1, Stieglitz19 Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2011 Boys’ Little World / 223 & Hanchao & Eiki Mori, Zen Photo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2011 Recurrent Shadows – Selected Works from the Three Shadows Photography Award 2008-2011, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2011 Myriad Visions – The Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition 2011, Beijing, China
2011 Art Amsterdam 2011, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2011 Myriad Vision, Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing, China
2011 GTZ Photography Workshop 2011, Berlin, Germany
2010 5PRCITY, United Nude Miami, Miami, United States
2010 First International Contemporary Art Festival of China Jimei, Xiamen, China
2010 Caochangdi Photo Spring 2010: ARLES IN BEIJING, Beijing, China
2010 Box II: The Cruelty of Youth, White Space Collection, New York City, USA
2009 LINEART Fair at Flanders Expo Gent, Belgium
2009 China Now –The Edge of Desire, Max Lang, New York, USA
2009 I, I SEE-Southern Pocket Film festival, Guangzhou, China
2008 Youth Appearance, Fourth Lianzhou International Photography Festival, Guangdong, China
2008 Metamorphosis – New Generation of Chinese Contemporary Photographers, Art Scene China, Shanghai, China
2008 Hidden Life: Apartment Diary, Lin & Keng Gallery, Beijing, China
2008 Foto Grafia International Festival, Rome, Italy
2008 New Photography in China, City Festival, Hong Kong, China
2007 Sampling: Chinese Young Photographers, Potential Gallery, Beijing, China
2007 Refresh: Emerging Chinese Artists, touring exhibition, Zendai MoMA, Shanghai, China; Arario Gallery, Beijing, China
2006 Selfhood – Absent Minded, First Lianzhou International Photography, China
2005 Five New Generation Photographers, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China