L.L. Contemporary is pleased to present In Time, a solo exhibition by Min Luo. This marks the artist’s debut exhibition in Canada and features works created over the past year during her residency at Painting Space 122 in New York.

The exhibition’s title, In Time, is drawn from a review by renowned New York art critic John Yau, who reflected on Luo’s nuanced engagement with memory, material, and cultural inheritance. It also resonates with the curatorial focus on time and its imprint on personal and collective experience.

The works selected for this exhibition span oil on canvas, paper, and wood panel, as well as ink on paper. Thick surfaces are contrasted with delicate ink lines, underscoring Luo’s sensitivity to material and form. Drawing on scenes of girlhood, domestic life, and maternal presence, her compositions reflect the quiet complexity of remembering. Faceless figures, fleeting encounters, and fragments of calligraphy recur throughout. Time emerges not only as a subject, but as a force—fading, eroding, and reshaping memory.

As John Yau writes: “The viewer is engaged by views of a world that is both personal and cool, infused with intense feelings just barely held at arm’s length… We keep looking at the ordinary while recognizing that there is nothing simple about the world we are invited to look into.”

Rooted in both Western and Eastern painterly traditions, Luo’s work resists fixed interpretation. Whether depicting adolescent girls in uniform, iconic artists like Frida Kahlo and Louise Bourgeois, or recurring images of her mother, she explores memory, identity, and loss with clarity and sensitivity. Her oil paintings and ink drawings reflect the dual legacies of Renaissance form and Chinese literati painting.

Through her ongoing engagement with memory’s fragility and the erosion of time, Luo’s practice honors the invisible labor of women and the emotional weight of remembrance. As Yau concludes, “Knowing that art does not withstand time’s indifference, she refuses to look away.”

Min Luo (b. 1968, Luzhou, Sichuan) graduated from Southwest Normal University and later received her MFA from the People’s Liberation Army Academy of Arts. She currently works in Beijing.

Her featured solo and two-person exhibitions include: “Echoes of Home · Elsewhere” — a two-person show with Danwen Xing, 2025 (Chengdu Art Academy); “Diary of Plants,” 9th Art Changsha, 2024 (Changsha Art Museum); “Dreams Beyond the Fences,” 2022 (Shanghai Gallery of Art); “Leisure Amid Flowers,” 2021 (Art Museum of Beijing Fine Art Academy); “The Surviving Poetry,” 2018 (Miguel Marcos Gallery, Barcelona, Spain); “Flowers of Another World,” 2017 (Robinson Cultural Center of Alhaurín de la Torre, Malaga, Spain); and “Mirror of Daily Life,” 2011 (Today Art Museum, Beijing).

Her major group exhibitions include: Jinan International Biennale, 2024 and 2022 (Shandong Art Museum); Chengdu Biennale, 2023 and 2021 (Chengdu Tianfu Art Museum); “After the Fog, First Flowers: Oriente and Orientalism, from Modernism to Modernity,” 2023 (Casa Vicens by Gaudí, Barcelona, Spain); “New Brocade Ash Pile: A New Perception of Contemporary Painting,” 2021 (Guangdong Museum of Art); and “Ego · Superfluous Things – Theme Exhibition of the 5th Suzhou Jinji Lake Biennale,” 2020 (Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum).