Zi Ling is a visual artist based in Bristol, UK. She was born to the Chinese painter HuiTao Lin, a pioneer of the 85 New Wave Movement.
Her works of etchings, watercolours, drawings, and mixed medium have been displayed extensively at many prestigious venues and exhibitions in the UK and
China. Her artwork has been permanently collected by the National Art Museum of China, Royal Academy of Dance, as well as private collectors from over 14 countries, including Germany, France, the US, Bulgaria, Canada, the UK, Singapore, China, Italy, Denmark, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, and South Korea. She received the President Choice Award RI (2022), the Richard Plincke RI Prize (2021), Cass Art Prize (2019), DAC Beachcroft Space Prize (2018), Frank Herring Easel Award (2018), First Prize of Leathersellers Award (2016), and the Rosemary & amp;
Co Prize (2015) from the Princess Michael of Kent. She is also the winner of the Royal Academy of Dance Portrait Competition 2022.
She is a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours and the co-Artistic Director of the cross-disciplinary art group 2617KUNST.