About this Event
Artbook @ MoMA PS1 is honored to present Jin Mei: At The Age of 50, I Picked Up Paintbrush Again. A talk by Jin Mei, interpreted by Chang Yuchen from Mandarin to English. This Sunday March 15th 4pm, at the bookstore.
Jin Mei will give a talk about her art and life, and the unexpected turn of becoming an artist in her sixties, live interpreted from Mandarin to English by her daughter, artist Chang Yuchen.The publication jm, along with some of her new drawings, will be available for purchase. The talk will be followed with Q&A / Signing
Jin Mei was born in Shanxi in 1961 and attended the School of Art at Shanxi University in 1982. In 1993, she “jumped into the sea”: she quit her job and opened her own business, Jin Mei Flower Shop, through which she supported the artistic practices of her husband and daughter. In 2011 Jin Mei picked up a paintbrush again at the age of fifty.
In 2015, a surgery confined her to drawing on paper only. Passionately and relentlessly, Jin Mei began creating patterns that are endearing, stubborn, and mysterious. Stunned by Jin Mei’s explosive creativity, her daughter Chang Yuchen began compiling and sequencing Jin Mei’s drawings into a book. In 2024, 晋美 jm was published under Yuchen’s imprint How Many Books, encompassing Jin Mei’s nine-year practice of mark-making and accompanied by an introduction and interview by Yuchen. The new edition of 晋美 jm is distributed by D.A.P.
晋美 jm
Artwork by Jin Mei
Edited and designed by Chang Yuchen. Scanned and photographed by Chang Qing
2nd Printing | 2025 | 15 x 21.5 x 3 cm | 458 p | color throughout
$ 55.00
Produced with the support of the HUAYU GROUP and the HUAYU YOUTH AWARD
Published by How Many Books. Distributed by D.A.P.
Jin Mei was born in Shanxi in 1961 and attended the School of Art at Shanxi University in 1982. After graduation, she worked as an art editor for a magazine. In 1993, she opened her own business, Jin Mei Flower Shop, through which she supported the artistic practice of her family. Jin Mei picked up a paintbrush again at the age of fifty.
The book of her drawings, titled 晋美 jm, was published in 2024 by How Many Books. The same year she had her first solo exhibition at Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong, and launched a fashion collaboration with Home Society, Shanghai. In 2025, Jinmei participated in a residency at Anaya, Jinshanling.
Chang Yuchen works in an interdisciplinary manner—writing as weaving, drawing as translation, teaching as hospitality, commerce as social experiment (see Use Value), and publishing as a dandelion spreading its seeds. She is also an advocate for the art of her mother, Jin Mei.
Yuchen is a recipient of the New York Public Library Picture Collection Artist Fellowship, the Queens Art Fund New Work Grant, the The Poetry Project Curatorial Fellowship, the Huayu Youth Award, and the Luminarts Cultural Foundation Fellowship, among others. She has shown and performed her work at Walker Art Center, Pioneer Works, Beijing Commune, the High Line, Carnegie Museum of Art, Amant, Artists Space, Para Site, and Tai Kwun Contemporary.
She has been an artist-in-residence at Triangle Arts Association, Smack Mellon, Asymmetry Art Foundation, MASS MoCA, the Museum of Arts and Design, and the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. Yuchen has written for publications including Heichi Magazine, Press and Fold, Art in Print, and Randian, and she currently teaches in the Dance MFA program at Bennington College.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Artbook @ MoMA PS1 Bookstore, 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, United States
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