Ying-lun
Dai

Dai Ying-lun, born in Fushun in 1987, has loved painting, reading, and thinking since childhood.

In 2011, he graduated with a bachelor's degree from the Department of Cultural Communication and Management at the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts.

In 2016, he graduated with a master's degree from the Chinese Painting Department of LuXun Academy of Fine Arts.With the completion of his graduation project, he embarked on a new, independent creative journey. 

In 2017, Dai Ying-lun began his work and life in Shanghai. As he continued to paint, he started some exhibition activities. At the same time, he officially started selling his works on the online art sales platform.

In 2018, Dai Ying-lun had more exchanges and interactions with artist friends in Shanghai, creating with a broader perspective and having more realistic thinking.

In 2019, sales on the platform continued to grow, and the stability of his life provided more space and freedom for Dai Ying-lun's thinking and creation.

In 2020, Dai Ying-lun began to reduce his outings and spent more time painting and reading. He focused on exploring his inner self, which he had started many years ago, and in this period, he had more specific objective conditions.

In the following years, Dai Ying-lun greatly enriched his inner world. He realized the importance of the experience for life and continuously absorbed the vivid nutrients of reality into his paintings. At the same time, he also gradually resolved the balance between the painterly quality and formal sense in the picture, as well as the sense of order that he personally preferred. This further promoted the growth of his creation.

Dai Ying-lun's works are about the crowd and the seemingly absurd behavioral system generated by the crowd in his pictures. In the early stage, he explained his works as "the flat arrangement of individual consciousness", that is, by entering and deeply experiencing the personality of each individual image in the work, to show a certain degree of their reality, and thereby construct the overall characteristics and emotional state of the crowd in the era. With the deepening and evolution of his creation, Dai Ying-lun tried to extend the meaning of his works to "the blindness of group consciousness", presenting the isolation and lack of logic of contemporary individuals, as well as the illusory sense of meaning, through the recombination and reproduction of ordinary images and behaviors.