Amos Jin is a painter, DJ, model, casting assistant and tattoo artist born in Suzhou, China, currently residing in New York. Jin’s paintings evoke the terms: Organic, Uncanny, Nostalgia, Digital, Celestial, Humorous, Esoteric. The focal point of their painting usually exists inside an impossible, surreal landscape that extends indefinitely, speaking on infinity, repetitive patterning and the linear yet chaotic rhythm of the universe. The macrocosm the same as everything existing organically on a micro level. Jin often incorporates text unrelated to the subject matter, rather, it intends to provoke a similar feeling as the painting itself.
Jin’s work also explores the translucent color palette inspired by seashells, sea creatures, oil spills, and rust. Jin examines the rainbow hues popping out unexpectedly inside and outside the world, without knowing the beauty of itself, going unnoticed since the beginning of time.
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Jin started DJing in 2023. Their sounds can be [techno, trance, deconstructed club, tech house, experimental soundscapes and niche hits, aiming to provoke a unfamiliar feeling. Their previous mix ‘Axiel Aparaxia’ merged text to speech sound to a steep and diverse soundscape critiquing the fake modern nihilistic positivity.]
Having DJed in clubs including Le Bain, Bossa Nova, Paragon, and The End etc, as well as Radios like HKCR and Xpizza, and for various underground collectives and newsletters such as Perfectly Imperfect, Jin that goes by ‘DJ FISHTANK’ is familiar with music and the use of DJ equipments- especially music in NYC and maybe the kind of broken NYC equipments.
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From October 2024, Jin started working with Casting Director, Filmmaker and Artist Kiernan Francis as his casting assistant, gaining various skills such as street talent scouting, online scouting and database management. Starting off as a model, and a pure appreciation for beauty and the fashion world, Jin has worked with fashion designer Yasuyukiishi among others.
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Growing up at the start of digital age, old technology, analog images and anachronistic, ephemeral media is another focus in their paintings. To Jin, the nostalgia evokes a similar feeling as the uncanny outlook of nature. Being borne inside the void, what existed before and will exist forever is a flickering sight that will matter nothing in the fullness of time, but will always have existed: The randomness of existing has a particular law and order. Their work aims to celebrate the existence - as a human, but also as a particle inside vastness of the universe.
They currently hold an BFA from Pratt Institute.
