Ling Feng

Ling Feng is a contemporary artist whose practice moves between Beijing and Los Angeles, known for her refined abstract paintings that explore stillness, balance, and the subtle rhythm between life and art — not as a mirror, but as a continuous breath.

With nearly three decades of artistic practice, her work spans painting, performance, conceptual photography, installation, and cross-disciplinary design. Trained in oil painting at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, her work has developed into a distinctive abstract language defined by softness, restraint, and quiet intensity.

Influenced by German Expressionism, Surrealism, the philosophical sensibilities of Mono-ha, and the monochromatic explorations of Yves Klein, Ling Feng’s paintings examine the relationship between matter and void, gesture and stillness, body and spirit. Through layered textures and muted tonal fields, her works create a calm yet dynamic presence that invites awareness rather than interpretation.

Between 2009 and 2019, Ling Feng lived and worked in Los Angeles, where her practice shifted decisively toward abstraction, integrating performance and action painting into a controlled yet expressive gestural vocabulary.

Her work has been exhibited inter...

1997 — Postgraduate Program in Oil Painting, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China

1990 — BFA in Oil Painting, Harbin Academy of Fine Arts, Harbin, China

2023 — “The Reverse Side of the Sky: Tribute to Yves Klein,” M Room, Beijing, China

2023 — “Au-delà des frontières: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition,” Diekirch Municipal Art Museum and Cultural Center, Diekirch, Luxembourg

2018 — “4 × 3 m²: Tranquil Transformation,” Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, USA (Solo Project)

2018 — Spring Auction, BOISGIRARD-ANTONINI, Paris, France

2016 — “Mass Attack,” San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, USA

2014 — “50 Chinese Contemporary Artists,” Charles de Gaulle Foundation, Paris, France

2009 — “Animation Aesthetics Biennale: Between Virtual and Reality,” Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

2009 — “Animation Aesthetics Biennale,” Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China

2008 — “Beijing 2008,” Olympic Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland