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Qin Tan (b. Beijing, China) is a contemporary painter based in New York, USA. Her paintings unfold as quiet psychological landscapes shaped by the textures of digital life and inner experience. Within these semi-fictional worlds, symbolic yellow stick figures and anthropomorphic tools drift through luminous spaces that feel at once virtual and deeply human.

Working through a painterly language she calls Virtual Realism, Tan merges the sensibility of classical painting with the visual logic of contemporary interfaces and artificial environments. Her compositions reflect on disconnection, longing, and the tender intimacies that persist within mediated realities. Suspended between simulation and authenticity, her work examines how contemporary subjectivity is negotiated across virtual and physical realms, where perception shifts but embodied experience persists.

Instagram: @qinntann 

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