| 1965 | Born in Tunxi, Anhui, China |
| 1986 | Graduated from the Fine Arts Department, Anhui Normal University |
| 1991 | Graduated from the Oil Painting Department, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing |
| Taught at the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts |
| 2018 | Cai Jin: Arcadia, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China |
| 2017 | A Gathering of Flower Fairies: Cai Jin Solo Exhibition, Triumph Art Space, Beijing, China |
| 2015 | Static and Flowing, Art Space, Beijing, China The World Garden Instillation, Public Art School Program, New York, USA |
| 2014 | Return to the Source, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing and New York |
| 2012 | Cutting Dreams, Site-specific public art installation, Prow Art Space, Flatiron Building, New York, USA Cai Jin, National Art Museum of China, Beijing |
| 2011 | Cai Jin: Works on Paper, Hadrien de Montferrand Gallery, Beijing, China |
| 2008 | Red Tide – Cai Jin, Galerie PICI, Seoul, South Korea Water/color/flower-CaiJin, Joey Chang Art Gallery, Beijing, China |
| 2007 | Cai Jin, Beijing Cube Gallery, Beijing, China |
| 2005 | Cai Jin: Eros in Red, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China |
| 2003 | Beauty Banana Series: The Art of Cai Jin, Goedhuis Contemporary, New York, USA Cai Jin: Sound in Red, Fujikawa Gallery/Next, Osaka, Japan |
| 2000 | Cai Jin, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, USA |
| 1999 | Banana Plants Paintings, Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin, Germany Cai Jin: Off the Canvas, The Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China |
| 1997 | Cai Jin: Chinese Hand Studies from Life, Ethan Cohen Fine Art, New York, USA |
| 1995 | Cai Jin: Recent Works, Kiang Gallery, Atlanta, USA |
| 1991 | Cai Jin's Oil Paintings, Art Gallery of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China |
| 2019 | Double X, Ethan Cohen Gallery, New York, New York |
| 2015 | RT021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair , Triumph Art Space, Beijing,China |
| 2014 | White Box 2014 Art & Design 100, WhiteBox Art Center, Beijing, China |
| 2013 | Voice of the Unseen Chinese Independent Art 1979/Today, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy |
| 2012 | Hannover Messehalle, Hannover, Germany |
| 2011 | Absent Identity, Fujian Art Museum, Fujian, China Love and Hope-Art World Assisting Children Affected by the Japanese Disasters, Iberia Center For Contemporary Art, Beijing, China Nv Yishu-Series V: Viriditas, Imagine Gallery,Beijing, China Scenery, Silhouette-Triumph Art Space Collection of Portraits, Triumph Art Space, Beijing, China |
| 2010 | Reshaping History – Chinart from 2000 to 2009, National Convention Center; Arario Gallery; Today Art Museum, Beijing, China Xie Dao West Art Zone Exhibition, Xiedao West Art Zone, Beijing, China |
| 2009 | Yipai, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China Memory of the Muse, Wall Art Museum, Beijing, China |
| 2008 | Women's Work, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong Trasforming Women, Osage Gallery, Shanghai, China Deep Breath-Chinese Contemporary Female Art Exhibition, Suhe Art, Shanghai, China Ing-Female Art Exhibition, Muzhenliao Art Museum, Beijing, China Chinese Contemporary Art of Exhibition, Gehua Art Museum, Beijing, China |
| 2007 | Everloving Shuimo--The 2th Invite Exhibition of the Shuimo, Union of Songzhuang China, East Region Art Center, Beijing, China New Voyage-Contemporary Art Exhibition, Yu Qingtang Gallery, Nantong, China |
| 2006 | Temptations – Cai Jin and Deng Jianjin Oil Painting Exhibition, Wall Art Museum, Beijing Chinese Oil on Fire, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, U.S.A Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, U.S.A |
| 2005 | Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ, USA |
| 2004 | Lodz Biennale 2004, Poland International Artists Museum, Lodz, Poland |
| 2003 | The Inverse Mirror, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA |
| 2002 | Femininity in Contemporary Asian Art, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, USA |
| 2001 | Towards a New Image: Twenty Years of Contemporary Chinese Painting, National Art Museum, Beijing; Shanghai Art Museum; Guangdong Art Museum; Chengdu Art Museum, China |
| 1999 | Transience – Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the 20th Century, David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, USA |
| 1998 | Half of the Sky, Frauen Museum, Bonn, Germany Canalogy, Gowansus Canal Brooklyn, NY The Unseen Seen, Peng Gallery Philadelphia, PA |
| 1997 | Against the Tide, Bronx Museum, New York, USA Contemporary Art by Chinese Women Artists, Department of Fine Arts, UC Berkeley Berkeley, CA Oil Paintings, LuLu allery Albany, NY |
| 1996 | China – Aktuelles Aus 15 Atelier Art Festival, Munich, Germany |
| 1995 | Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibition, Gothenburg Museum of Art, Sweden Women's Approach to Chinese Contemporary Art, Beijing Art Museum, Beijing Recent Works, Kiang Gallery Atlanta, GA |
| 1994 | Annual Exhibition of Works by Critic-nominated Artists, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China |
| 1993 | China's New Art, Post '89, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, China |
| 1992 | Contemporary Chinese Oil Paintings, Beijing Workers’ Cultural Palace, China |
| 1991 | 24th Festival International de la Peinture, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France |
| 1987 | China's First Exhibition of Oil Paintings, Shanghai Art Museum, China |
| 1985 | International Youth Year Exhibition, National Fine Art Museum, Beijing, China |
| National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China |
| Today Art Museum, Beijing, China |
| University Museum of Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, China |