Jin Sha is a Chinese painter born in 1968 in Beijing, who lives and works between Sydney and Beijing. He entered the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in 1988 and graduated from its Chinese Painting Department in 1992, studying under ink masters, and is now the Vice President of the Beijing Art Institute of Chinese Fine Line Painting.Jin practises gongbi — the meticulous "fine-line" technique of classical Chinese silk painting — with such exacting discipline that he works two brushes in a single hand, one for line and one for colour, painting only an hour or two each morning before his eyes tire. In his signature Salute to Masters series (begun 1995), he re-creates canonical European paintings in gongbi on silk, then

extracts every human figure: garments and props remain, still seeming inhabited, as the gaze passes through space that should be blocked. He likens this void to liubai (留白), the "intended blank" through which the viewer enters the work, and fills it with symbols of temptation and decline — an apple, a broken column — reading the greed of a booming China against the prosperity and decay of Renaissance Europe. He now turns the same operation on Tang and Song masterpieces as readily as on the European canon.Jin has exhibited across Australia, including Wollongong Art Gallery, Western Sydney University, and the solo show Ling . Yun with REDBASE Sydney in 2023. Jin will be exhibiting with REDBASE again in August 2026. He has also exhibited across China, Japan, the United States, and Europe; and has work in collections of the National Art Museum of China and the Wuhan Art Museum.