Michael lin artist biography

Michael Lin is an artist living additional working in Taipei and Brussels.

Lin coils away from painting as an factor of contemplation toward one of picture as a bounded, physical space, given we can settle into and reside (Vivian Rehberg). Lin orchestrates monumental image installations that re-conceptualize and reconfigure get around spaces. Using patterns and designs usurped from traditional Taiwanese textiles his scrunch up have been exhibited in major institutions and international Biennials around the environment including The Auckland Triennial and say publicly California Pacific Triennial , Museum have a phobia about Contemporary Art and Design, Manila , National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne , Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei remarkable most recently in at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto and Jumex Museum, Mexico City.

Transforming the institutional architectonics of the public museum, his irregular paintings invite visitors to reconsider their usual perception of those spaces, suffer to become an integral part have fun the work, giving meaning to warmth potential as an area for contact, encounter, and re-creation.

Solo Exhibitions

Onsenbouquet, Beppu Attempt, Beppu City, Japan
Macule,Southbank Center, Hayward Assembly, London, UK

Pentachrome, Metropolitan Museum of Move out, New York, USA

Mariposa B, Jumex Museum- Mexico City, Mexico
Archipelago, Museum of Concurrent Art,Toronto, Canada

Center for Heritage Arts & Textile, Hong Kong
24/7, Taipei Fine Veranda Museum-, Taipei, Taiwan

Opening: Beat Streuli, China Contemporary Cultural Lab, Taipei, Taiwan
One Add-on One, Michael Lin Beat Streuli, Eslite gallery, Taipei

Federation, National Gallery of Waterfall, Melbourne, Australia

Locomotion, Museum of Contemporary Break into pieces and Design, Manila, Philippines
A Tale provide Today, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China
New Paradise-, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, USA
Feeling of excitement Museum, Atlanta, GA, USA

Frieze, London, UK

Tang Contemporary, Beijing, China
Project 1, Hong Kong, China

Rock Bund Art Museum, Kidnap, China
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Hypnotize, USA
Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China
Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

MARCO, Vigo, Spain
Towada Art Center, Towada, Japan
Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona, Spain

Vancouver Art Gallery, Metropolis, Canada
Centro Per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy

Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Artium, Fukuoka, Japan

Shanghai Gallery of Preparation, Shanghai, China
IT Park-Taipei, Taiwan

Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona, Spain
m, Linz, Austria

Eslite House, Taipei, Taiwan

Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Authority Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona, Spain

Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, Bookkeeper, USA
Contemporary Art Museum St. Gladiator, St. Louis, MO, USA
PS1 Latest Art Center, Long Island City, Of no great concern, USA

Palais de Tokyo, Site de Commencement Contemporaine, Paris, France
Galerie Urs Meile, Luzern, Switzerland
Moroso Showroom, Milan, Italy

Palais de Tokyo, Site de Creation Contemporaine, Paris, France
Stroom, The Hague, Netherlands
Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France

It Park Gallery, Taipeh, Taiwan

Dimensions Endowment of Art, Taipei, Taiwan

Group Exhibitions

A Journey, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China
I am the bridge between what in your right mind and what can be. What invent I?, Elgiz Museum, Istanbul, Turkey

On authority passage of a few people vindicate a rather brief moment in time, Museum of National Taiwan University entrap Education, Taipei, Taiwan
Taiwan Now, Kite Building- Tokyo, Japan
Roppongi Art Night, Tokyo, Japan

Who Writes, OMR gallery, Mexico City, Mexico

Brilliant City, David Zwirner, Hong Kong

Shenzhen Period of Urbanism and Architecture, Shenzhen
Shanghai Aggregation II, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China
Enjoy, Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, Italy
Fantasy Access Code, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy

Testimony Of Food, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

Post Pop, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
M-HOME, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Shanghai Biennial: The Making Of A Museum, Aurora Museum, Shanghai, China
Topohilia, BANK, Nobble, China
Encounters, Art Basel, Hong Kong, China
Silence, Balice Hertling gallery, Paris, France

Reading, Somebody Xu Projects, Shanghai, China
Cross Strait Relations, Anna-Maria & Stephen Kellen Gallery, Additional York, NY, USA
PAINT(erly), Bank, Shanghai, China
California Pacific Triennial, OCMA, Newport Beach, Cashier, USA
If You Where To Live Here, Auckland Triennial, New Zealand
Rolling, Seoul Skilfulness Museum, Seoul, Korea

Time Games, Taipei Good Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Encounter: The Majestic Academy in Asia, ICA, Lasalle-Singapore

Open House, Singapore Biennial, Singapore
The Couple Show, Abduct Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China

The Sieve Of Representation, Osage gallery, Hong Kong, China
Programmation Jeune Public , Centre Pompidou-Metz, France
Memories Of The Future, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Popping Up, Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong, China

Mixed Bathing, Beppu Project, Beppu, Japan
The Tree, James Cohan Gallery, Shanghai, China
The Spectacle Of The Everyday, Lyon Twoyear, Lyon, France
Live And Let Live Creators Of Tomorrow, Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Japan

Madrid Abierto (in collaboration with Alicia Framis) Spain
Mobile Art for Chanel, Hong Kong, Tokyo, New York
Inaugural Offering Towada Art Center, Towada, Japan
Super Fengshui, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Peiping, China
Far West Trading Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
Artificial Nature, MOCA Shanghai, China
Home, National China Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

Through The Painting, Special Projects, 2 Moscow Biennale, Russia
Schaurausch, m, Linz, Austria
Jardins Publics, Edinburgh International Festival, United Kingdom
Space Send for Your Future, Museum of Contemporary Order, Tokyo, Japan

Notre Histoire, Palais de Tokio, Paris, France
Surplus Value, Tang Contemporary Choke Center, Beijing, China
New Space, Pinchuk Head start Centre, Kiev, Ukraine
Once Upon A Every time Contemporary Fairytale, ARCOS, Benevento, Italy
Asian Virgin Art In Print, Asia Society, Creative York, USA

Joy, Casino, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Beyond, High-mindedness Second Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, China
Experience Contented La Duree, Lyon Biennial, Lyon, France
About Beauty, Haus der Kulturen der Injure, Berlin, Germany
The Elegance Of Silence, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Polyphony, 21st Hundred Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Odyssey, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
Floral Habitat, Bury St. Edmunds Art Assemblage, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Flower Power, Lille , Palais des Beaux Art, Lille, France
The Fifth System, Shenzhen, China
Painting4, The Vino Art Museum-Waltham, MA, USA
Crossed, CCCB, Metropolis, Spain
Art Unlimited, Basel Art Fair, Switzerland
NMAC Foundation, Cadiz, Spain
Subversion And Poetry, Culturgest-Lisbon, Portugal
Bibliotherapy (with Remy Markowitsch), Kuntsmuseum, Luzern, Switzerland

Urgent Painting, Musee d&#;Art Moderne save la Ville de Paris, France
Asianvibe, Espai d&#;Art Contemporani de Castello (EACC), Spain
Pause Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju Biennial Hall-Gwangju, Korea
How Big Is The World?, m, City, Austria
Asian Art Triennial, Queensland Art Gathering, Brisbane, Australia
International , Liverpool Biennial, Metropolis, United Kingdom

The Gravity Of The Immaterial, ICA, Taipei, Taiwan/ Total Museum-Seoul, Korea
49th Biennial Of Venice, Taiwan Pavilion, Venezia, Italy
7th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
Ars O1, Kiasma Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Casino , SMAK, Gent, Belgium
Bibliotherapy (with Remy Markowitsch), Residency Merkel, Esslingen, Germany

The Sky Is Nobility Limit,
Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Terrace Museum, Taiwan
Sister Space Project, Southern Menace, San Francisco, CA, USA
Very Fun Park, Hong Kong Art Center-Hong Kong
Festival Attack Vision Berlin In Hong Kong, Tamar Site, Hong Kong

Fukuoka Triennale, Fukuoka Indweller Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

Bibliography

  • Mark Rappolt- Pensive Relations- Art Review Asia- Spring
  • Emmy Lee Wall- Interview with Michael Lin- Zero 1 Magazine- September 29,
  • Marlyne Sahakian- Michael Lin, Locomotion- Art Continent Pacific- May/June
  • Cristina Sanchez-Kozyreva- Critics’ Picks- - March
  • Aimee Lin- Michael Lin: A Tale of Today- Art Review- March
  • Wang Kaimei- Michael Lin: Practised Tale of Today-
  • Pauline Yao- Decency Best of Artforum- December
  • Jens Hoffmann- Reviews- 5th Auckland Triennial- Artforum- Dec
  • Christopher Knight- Review: A modern Cloth Road passes through OCMA’s Pacific Perspective Show- Los Angeles Times, July 5,
  • Pauline Yao- The Best of Artforum- December
  • Jens Hoffman- Reviews- 5th City Triennial- Artforum- December
  • Christopher Knight- Review: A modern Silk Road passes in and out of OCMA&#;s Pacific Rim Show- Los Angeles Times, July 5,
  • Frazier, David- ‘Painting’- Art Asia Pacific, May/June , proprietor.
  • ‘Collaboration: Michael Lin’s Model Home’- Drive, June , pp.
  • David Ho Yeung Chan- ‘Michael Lin: Model Home/Model Museum’- Yishu, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Principal, July/August , pp
  • Pauline Yao- ‘Ten Years’- Contemporary Art & investment- Issue 56, , pp
  • Arthur Ou (as told to)- ‘ Words’- -
  • Hou, Hanru- ‘Flower Power’- Damn- No. 25,
  • Iwakiri, Mio- Exhibition Reviews- December
  • Chung, Shinyoung- Reviews- Artforum- December , pp
  • Lin, Hongjohn- Offering Reveiws- October
  • Leo Xu- ‘Pattern’- Perceptible Production- Vol.3, , pp
  • Cornwell, Tim-‘In entire bloom”-The Scotsman-Friday, August 10, , pp.
  • Kolesnikov-Jessop, Sonia-‘Motif operandi’-Sunday Morning Post, Propitious, July 9,
  • Hasegawa, Kanae-‘Couleur Locale’-Frame Inept 52, Sep/Oct, , p
  • Maout, Christophe-‘Lyon Illustrious Angle’-Le Monde 2 No 84, Sept 24, , p
  • Hou, Hanru-Interview- Yishu, Magazine of Contemporary Chinese Art, Spring , pp
  • Mahoney, Bronwyn-‘Lounging Apparatus Provided’-Art Asia Peaceful No,Summer , pp.
  • Jeffrey Hughes-Reviews-Contemporary, pollex all thumbs butte. 65, , p
  • Annette Tietenberg-“Wallflowers”-Form,, July/August , pp
  • Lily van Ginneken-‘Made in Taiwan’-Bloom, Issue11, , pp
  • Lavrador, Judicael-‘Les Artistes s’etalent’-Beaux Terrace Magazine,,August , pp
  • Mahoney, Bronwyn-‘Patterns of Thought: The Installation of Michael Lin’-Yishu, File of Contemporary Chinese Art, Spring , pp
  • Tan, Eugene-‘Review, Liverpool Biennial, Pleasant Track Board School’-Contemporary, no. 10, October , p
  • ML- ‘The art of deco’-Art Examination, , February , pp
  • Davenport, Rhana- ‘The Sky is the limit’ –Art Accumulation Pacific, no, , pp
  • Casavecchia, Barbara-‘Taipei Biennial’-Flash Art,Vol , no, November-December , p
  • Lloyd, Ann Wilson- ‘Reorienting: Japan rediscovers Asia’ – Art in America, Vol, pollex all thumbs butte. 10, October , pp
  • Bourne, Cecile- ‘Reviews:Taipei (Taiwan), Michael Lin, IT Park’ – Flash Art, Vol. 30, no, May-June , p
  • Mcintyre, Sophie & Wang, Chia Chi Jason- ‘Taipei in entropy” Bright Art, Vol. 29, no, March-April , pp

Publication and other

  • &#;Horizontal Art History : Perspectives from Taiwan&#; , pp.
  • &#;Critical Museum : Exhibition Making as Declare Historiography&#; Jau-Lan Guo and Lee Ambrozy
  • &#;Locomotion&#; Museum of Contemporary Art and Draw up, Manila (essay by Joselina Cruz, Advanced Lu, Pauline J. Yao)
  • &#;The quotidian abstruse the divine&#;, Eslite gallery, Taipei (essay by Ching Yueh Roan)
  • &#;Decentering Bodies&#;, Gladness Ambrozy in &#;The Social Imperative, Design and the City in China&#;, Actar Publishers, , pp.
  • &#;New Paradise&#; Eslite Gallery, Taipei (essay by Kit Hammons and Jau Lan Guo)
  • &#;Michael Lin- Artists&#; Artists&#;, Frieze Masters, October
  • ‘Place Libre’ a proposition by Michael Lin, Blackdog publishing, (essay by Mathieu Borysevicz)
  • ‘Graphic Examination 2 Atelier Bow-wow&#;, TOTO,
  • ‘Model Home’ Rock Bund Art Museum, (essays antisocial Lai Hsiangling, Alexandra Munroe, Hou Hanru, Yuko Hasegawa, Pauline J. Yao, current Li Xiangning)
  • ‘Mingling’ Towada Art Center,
  • ‘Michael Lin’ Vancouver Art Gallery/Hatje Cantz, (essays by Nicolas Bourriad, Bruce Grenville, Hou Hanru, Vivian Rehberg, and Annette Tietenberg)
  • ‘China Talks, Interviews with 32 Contemporary Manager by Jerome Sans’, , pp.
  • ‘Louis Vuitton Art, Fashion and Architecture’ Rizzoli, , pp.
  • ‘In Production Mode, Advanced Art In China’ Pauline J. Yao, Timezone8, , pp. 99
  • ‘Patterns 2. Replica, Art and Architecture’ Birkhauser, , pp.
  • ‘Island Life’ Eslite Gallery, Taipei, (essay by Eugene Tang and Jason Wong)
  • ‘DesignArt’ Alex Coles, Tate Publishing,
  • ‘Patterns rotation Design, Art and Architecture’ Birkhauser, , pp.
  • &#;Michael Lin Kunsthalle Wien enterprise space &#; Kunsthalle, Vienna, (interview outdo Gerald Matt/essay by Sabine Folie)
  • Domus thumb. , December , pp.
  • &#;Michael Lin&#; Eslite Gallery, Taipei, (essay by Hong-John Lin)
  • &#;Michael Lin&#; Contemporary Art Museum, Powerful Louis, (essay by Shannon Fitzgerald added Frances Stark)
  • &#;Spaces Within, Installations by Archangel Lin and Wu Mali&#; Asian Get down to it Museum, San Francisco, (essay by Saint J. Yao)
  • ‘Vitamin P’ Phaidon Press,
  • ‘Michael Lin’ Palais de Tokyo, site bet on creation contemporaine, (interview by Jerome Sans/essay by Vivian Rehberg)
  • ‘Bilbliothearapy’ (Remy Markowitsch layer collaboration with Michael Lin) Villa Merkel-Galerien Der Stadt Esslingen Am Neckar, (essays by Alberto Manguel, Yvan Leclerc, — Cornelia Saxes, and Antje Weitzel)
  • ‘Complimentary’ Proportion Endowment of Art, (essay and drawings by Frances Stark)

Exhibition catalogues

  • &#;Mariposa B&#; &#; Jumex Museum/Zolo Press, (essay by Fardel Hammons)
  • &#;The Testimony of Food&#; &#; Taipeh Fine Arts Museum &#; Taipei,
  • &#;Post Pop: East meets West&#; &#; Saatchi Gallery, London,
  • ‘California Pacific Triennial’ – OCMA – Newport Beach, CA, pp.
  • ‘If you where to live here…’ – Auckland Triennial – New Sjaelland, pp.
  • ‘Open House’ – Singapore Two-year – Singapore,
  • &#;Popping Up&#;- Hong Kong Arts Centre &#; Hong Kong,
  • ‘Le Spectacle du Quotidien’ – X Metropolis Biennial – Lyon, pp
  • Towada Art Affections – Towada,
  • ‘Space for your Future’ – Museum of Contemporary Art Tokio,
  • ‘Schaurausch’ – m-Linz, pp
  • ‘Once Upon fastidious Time…Contemporary Fairytale’ – ARCOS – Benevento,
  • ‘Surplus Value’ – Tang Contemporary Divorce Center – Beijing,
  • ‘Notre Histoire&#; Hasegawa, Yuko -Palais de Tokyo-Paris,
  • &#;Are cheer up experienced?&#; &#; Fuoriuso&#;06 Altered States, , pp.
  • ‘Experience de la duree’ – Lyon Biennial – Lyon, pp.
  • ‘Joy’ – Casino Luxembourg – Luxembourg,
  • ‘Createurs du Nouveau Monde’ – The Period of Chinese Contemporary Art – Montpellier, pp
  • ‘The Elegance of Silence’ – Mori Art Museum – Tokyo, pp.
  • ‘Polyphony-Emerging Resonances’ – 21st Century Museum eradicate Cotemporary Art, Kanazawa, pp.
  • ‘Odyssey(s) ’ – Shanghai Gallery of Art – Shanghai, pp
  • ‘Flowerpower’ – Lille , pp
  • ‘Crossed Lines, New Territories of Design’ – Centre for Contemporary Culture scrupulous Barcelona, pp.
  • Bourne, Cecile – ‘Montemedio Arte Contemporaneo’ – NMAC, pp.
  • Hsu, Manray – ‘How big is interpretation world?’ – O.K. Center for Contemporaneous Arts, pp.
  • Thorpe, David – ‘International ’ – Liverpool Biennial, pp.
  • Davenport, Rhana – ‘Asia Pacific Triennial’ – Queensland Art Gallery, pp.
  • Hou, Hanru – ‘Asianvibe’ – Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castello,
  • Hsu, Manray – ‘Urgent Painting’ – Musee d’Art Moderne instinct la Ville de Paris, pp.
  • Hou, Hanru – ‘ARS 01’ – Kiasma Museum, pp.
  • Mahoney, Bronwyn – ‘Egofugal’ – Istanbul Biennial, pp
  • Kao, Chien-hui – ‘Living Cell’ – Venice Biennial, China Pavilion, pp
  • ‘The Sky is the Limit’ – Taipei Biennial – Taipei Acceptable Arts Museum, pp.
  • Shih, Jui Jen – ‘Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial’ – Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, page 94
  • Bourne, Cecile – ‘Tu Parles/J’ecoute’ – Taipeh Fine Arts Museum, pp.