Born in 1963, in Fuzhou City, China. In 1987, his work was selected as one of the winning piece for the Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennale. Lam has held more than 50 solo exhibitions in many major cities around the world, i.e. Beijing, Hong Kong, New York, Berlin, Bremen, Milan, Singapore, Taipei, Seoul and other places.
His works have been selected by the following reputable organisations to be displayed at: Hundred-year Chinese Painting Exhibition, the National Art Exhibition, the Thirty-year Art Exhibition of China’s Reform and Opening-up, the Shenzhen International Ink Painting Biennale, the Contemporary Hong Kong Art Biennale, as well as he has participated more than a hundred joint exhibitions around the world.
His works have been collected by the National Art Museum of China, the National Painting Institute, the Guangzhou Art Museum, the Shenzhen Art Museum, the Shenzhen Art Institute, the Hong Kong Museum of Art, the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, the Government House, the Hong Kong Trade Development Council in Washington, Hong Kong Cathay Pacific Airways, Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong, Four Seasons Hotel Macau, Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong, Shangri-La Hotel, Beijing, United Airlines, Credit Suisse, Hong Kong Bank of China, etc., as well as many other institutions and private collectors worldly.
In addition, there are more than 20 publications of his collective works published.
Moreover, Lam Tian Xing was twice invited by the Chinese Ministry of Culture to paint the “Morning Songs”(2005) and “The Views of the Victoria Harbour”(2008) with the theme of Hong Kong, to take off with the Shenzhou VI and VII space shuttles respectively, witnessing the national event. It indeed is a pride of Hong Kong.
1963 年生於中國福州市的林天行，原名林仚，1978 年始先後師從畫家吳國光、林光、陳挺、 劉牧諸先生學中國畫及西洋畫。1984 年移居香港後，仍繼續其中國畫創作，並活躍於香港 畫壇，並於 87 年作品入選香港當代藝術雙年展。1989 年北上修讀中央美術學院中國畫系山水畫工作室，受業於張憑、黃潤華、李行簡、賈又福、盧沈、周思聰、韓國臻、郭怡孮、 王鏞諸教授,系統性的學院訓練為林天行的創作奠定了紮實、廣泛多元的學養基礎；同時，80 年代末期受到西方現代美術思潮的影響，林天行逐漸開始了個性化的語言探索，他將中國畫進行解構，在被剝離的色塊和構成中尋找傳統山水畫的當代意味，同時又保留了筆墨 和筆性的運用，傳承了中國畫的靈魂和精粹。開拓了水墨重彩當代的獨特視野領域。影響廣泛。
天行曾在北京、香港、紐約、柏林、米蘭、新加坡、台北、首爾等地舉辦過個人畫展五十 餘次,作品入選百年中國畫展、全國美展、中國改革開放 30 年畫展、深圳國際水墨雙年展 等,以及世界各地聯展百多次。作品被中國美術館、國家畫院、廣州美術館、深圳美術館、 香港藝術館、香港文化博物館、香港禮賓府、香港駐華盛頓貿易發展局、香港國泰航空公 司、香港四季酒店、澳門四季酒店、香港文華東方酒店、北京香格里拉酒店、聯合航空公 司、瑞士信貸銀行、香港中國銀行等,以及許多中外機構與私人收藏。出版有個人作品專集二十多種。
林天行現為香港國際藝術交流協會主席、中國美術家協會會員、中國畫學會創會理事-香港 會副會長、廣東省美協藝術委員會會員、福建省美協理事、李可染畫院研究員、中國熱帶 雨林研究院常務理事、深圳畫院客座藝術家、香港四維彩墨畫會顧問、全國文聯委員、香港政府特首選委會委員(文化界代表)。
此外,林天行兩度獲中國文化部邀請,以香港景象為主題的畫作“晨曲”、“維港兩岸”, 分別於 2005 及 2008 年隨神舟六號及七號太空船升空,見證國家盛事之餘,更為香港增光。