Linjing ZHU, under the professional name Jacqueline, was born in Ningbo(China), into a family of academics and artists with a long lineage of calligraphers, educators, and philosophers. Her passion for painting began in childhood, and she holds a Master’s degree in Painting from the China Academy of Art.
Established in Paris since 2019, her work has been exhibited internationally in solo and group shows across France, the United States, Germany, Italy, Russia, South Korea, and China.
A Sociétaire of the Taylor Foundation and registered with La Maison des Artistes, she has been honored with the Tin Medal from the Académie Arts-Sciences-Lettres (2024) and the Gold Medal from the Ligue Universelle du Bien Public (2018).
As an heir to this family tradition, she is also a calligrapher. She transmutes this ancestral art into her pictorial practice, weaving a dialogue between modernity and cultural roots. Her existentialist inquiry is articulated through two fundamental texts: the published philosophical-spiritual meditation “When the Individual Faces God” (Paris, 2019) and the forthcoming bilingual collection “A Collection of Thoughts and Reflections” (in preparation). These works form a phenomenological diptych that continuously infuses her visual practice with an ontological resonance.