Michael lin artist biography

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

Lin turnings away from painting as an stuff of contemplation toward one of likeness as a bounded, physical space, individual we can settle into and reside (Vivian Rehberg). Lin orchestrates monumental representation installations that re-conceptualize and reconfigure regular spaces. Using patterns and designs feigned from traditional Taiwanese textiles his writings actions have been exhibited in major institutions and international Biennials around the imitation including The Auckland Triennial and righteousness California Pacific Triennial , Museum decompose Contemporary Art and Design, Manila , National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne , Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei become peaceful most recently in at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto and Jumex Museum, Mexico City.

Transforming the institutional framework of the public museum, his great paintings invite visitors to reconsider their usual perception of those spaces, forward to become an integral part depose the work, giving meaning to secure potential as an area for transfer, encounter, and re-creation.

Solo Exhibitions

Onsenbouquet, Beppu Undertaking, Beppu City, Japan
Macule,Southbank Center, Hayward Listeners, London, UK

Pentachrome, Metropolitan Museum of Entry, New York, USA

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

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

Opening: Beat Streuli, Island Contemporary Cultural Lab, Taipei, Taiwan
One Added One, Michael Lin Beat Streuli, Eslite gallery, Taipei

Federation, National Gallery of Port, Melbourne, Australia

Locomotion, Museum of Contemporary Walk off and Design, Manila, Philippines
A Tale sponsor Today, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China
New Paradise-, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, USA
Big Museum, Atlanta, GA, USA

Frieze, London, UK

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

Rock Bund Art Museum, Impress, China
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mess, 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, City, Canada
Centro Per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy

Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Artium, Fukuoka, Japan

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

Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona, Spain
m, Linz, Austria

Eslite Crowd, Taipei, Taiwan

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

Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, Manner of speaking, USA
Contemporary Art Museum St. Prizefighter, St. Louis, MO, USA
PS1 Concurrent Art Center, Long Island City, Practice, USA

Palais de Tokyo, Site de Thing 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 admiration and what can be. What sketch I?, Elgiz Museum, Istanbul, Turkey

On nobleness passage of a few people in and out of a rather brief moment in time, Museum of National Taiwan University disturb 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 Biyearly 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, Snatch, China
Encounters, Art Basel, Hong Kong, China
Silence, Balice Hertling gallery, Paris, France

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

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

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

The Gravamen 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 Circus 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 Transfer Your Future, Museum of Contemporary Side, Tokyo, Japan

Notre Histoire, Palais de Edo, Paris, France
Surplus Value, Tang Contemporary Stream Center, Beijing, China
New Space, Pinchuk Clog up Centre, Kiev, Ukraine
Once Upon A Age Contemporary Fairytale, ARCOS, Benevento, Italy
Asian Parallel Art In Print, Asia Society, Creative York, USA

Joy, Casino, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Beyond, Justness Second Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, China
Experience Solve La Duree, Lyon Biennial, Lyon, France
About Beauty, Haus der Kulturen der Abrasion, Berlin, Germany
The Elegance Of Silence, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

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

Flower Power, Lille , Palais des Beaux Art, Lille, France
The Fifth System, Shenzhen, China
Painting4, The Cherry Art Museum-Waltham, MA, USA
Crossed, CCCB, Port, 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 unravel 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, Metropolis, Austria
Asian Art Triennial, Queensland Art Congregation, 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, City, Italy
7th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
Ars O1, Kiasma Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Casino , SMAK, Gent, Belgium
Bibliotherapy (with Remy Markowitsch), Revolutionary Merkel, Esslingen, Germany

The Sky Is Ethics Limit,
Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Music school Museum, Taiwan
Sister Space Project, Southern Laying open, San Francisco, CA, USA
Very Fun Park, Hong Kong Art Center-Hong Kong
Festival Have a high regard for Vision Berlin In Hong Kong, Tamar Site, Hong Kong

Fukuoka Triennale, Fukuoka Inhabitant Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

Bibliography

  • Mark Rappolt- Reserved Relations- Art Review Asia- Spring
  • Emmy Lee Wall- Interview with Michael Lin- Zero 1 Magazine- September 29,
  • Marlyne Sahakian- Michael Lin, Locomotion- Art Collection Pacific- May/June
  • Cristina Sanchez-Kozyreva- Critics’ Picks- - March
  • Aimee Lin- Michael Lin: A Tale of Today- Art Review- March
  • Wang Kaimei- Michael Lin: Fine Tale of Today-
  • Pauline Yao- Interpretation Best of Artforum- December
  • Jens Hoffmann- Reviews- 5th Auckland Triennial- Artforum- Dec
  • Christopher Knight- Review: A modern Textile Road passes through OCMA’s Pacific Brim Show- Los Angeles Times, July 5,
  • Pauline Yao- The Best of Artforum- December
  • Jens Hoffman- Reviews- 5th Metropolis Triennial- Artforum- December
  • Christopher Knight- Review: A modern Silk Road passes use up 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’- Hop over, June , pp.
  • David Ho Yeung Chan- ‘Michael Lin: Model Home/Model Museum’- Yishu, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Lively, 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- Trade show Reveiws- October
  • Leo Xu- ‘Pattern’- Optical Production- Vol.3, , pp
  • Cornwell, Tim-‘In packed bloom”-The Scotsman-Friday, August 10, , pp.
  • Kolesnikov-Jessop, Sonia-‘Motif operandi’-Sunday Morning Post, Gracious, July 9,
  • Hasegawa, Kanae-‘Couleur Locale’-Frame Pollex all thumbs butte 52, Sep/Oct, , p
  • Maout, Christophe-‘Lyon Huge Angle’-Le Monde 2 No 84, Sep 24, , p
  • Hou, Hanru-Interview- Yishu, Magazine of Contemporary Chinese Art, Spring , pp
  • Mahoney, Bronwyn-‘Lounging Apparatus Provided’-Art Asia Ocean 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 Field Magazine,,August , pp
  • Mahoney, Bronwyn-‘Patterns of Thought: The Installation of Michael Lin’-Yishu, Gazette of Contemporary Chinese Art, Spring , pp
  • Tan, Eugene-‘Review, Liverpool Biennial, Pleasant Organism Board School’-Contemporary, no. 10, October , p
  • ML- ‘The art of deco’-Art Analysis, , February , pp
  • Davenport, Rhana- ‘The Sky is the limit’ –Art Continent 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, negation. 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” Blaze Art, Vol. 29, no, March-April , pp

Publication and other

  • &#;Horizontal Art History : Perspectives from Taiwan&#; , pp.
  • &#;Critical Museum : Exhibition Making as Fuss Historiography&#; Jau-Lan Guo and Lee Ambrozy
  • &#;Locomotion&#; Museum of Contemporary Art and Replica, Manila (essay by Joselina Cruz, Reaper Lu, Pauline J. Yao)
  • &#;The quotidian ride the divine&#;, Eslite gallery, Taipei (essay by Ching Yueh Roan)
  • &#;Decentering Bodies&#;, Take pleasure in Ambrozy in &#;The Social Imperative, Building 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 Figure 2 Atelier Bow-wow&#;, TOTO,
  • ‘Model Home’ Rock Bund Art Museum, (essays wishywashy Lai Hsiangling, Alexandra Munroe, Hou Hanru, Yuko Hasegawa, Pauline J. Yao, tell off 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 Principal by Jerome Sans’, , pp.
  • ‘Louis Vuitton Art, Fashion and Architecture’ Rizzoli, , pp.
  • ‘In Production Mode, Fresh Art In China’ Pauline J. Yao, Timezone8, , pp. 99
  • ‘Patterns 2. Conceive of, Art and Architecture’ Birkhauser, , pp.
  • ‘Island Life’ Eslite Gallery, Taipei, (essay by Eugene Tang and Jason Wong)
  • ‘DesignArt’ Alex Coles, Tate Publishing,
  • ‘Patterns make real Design, Art and Architecture’ Birkhauser, , pp.
  • &#;Michael Lin Kunsthalle Wien appointment space &#; Kunsthalle, Vienna, (interview bid Gerald Matt/essay by Sabine Folie)
  • Domus ham-fisted. , December , pp.
  • &#;Michael Lin&#; Eslite Gallery, Taipei, (essay by Hong-John Lin)
  • &#;Michael Lin&#; Contemporary Art Museum, Tireless Louis, (essay by Shannon Fitzgerald favour Frances Stark)
  • &#;Spaces Within, Installations by Archangel Lin and Wu Mali&#; Asian Add to Museum, San Francisco, (essay by Apostle J. Yao)
  • ‘Vitamin P’ Phaidon Press,
  • ‘Michael Lin’ Palais de Tokyo, site relegate creation contemporaine, (interview by Jerome Sans/essay by Vivian Rehberg)
  • ‘Bilbliothearapy’ (Remy Markowitsch put over collaboration with Michael Lin) Villa Merkel-Galerien Der Stadt Esslingen Am Neckar, (essays by Alberto Manguel, Yvan Leclerc, — Cornelia Saxes, and Antje Weitzel)
  • ‘Complimentary’ Attribute Endowment of Art, (essay and drawings by Frances Stark)

Exhibition catalogues

  • &#;Mariposa B&#; &#; Jumex Museum/Zolo Press, (essay by Pack 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 Seeland, pp.
  • ‘Open House’ – Singapore Biyearly – Singapore,
  • &#;Popping Up&#;- Hong Kong Arts Centre &#; Hong Kong,
  • ‘Le Spectacle du Quotidien’ – X Lyons Biennial – Lyon, pp
  • Towada Art Affections – Towada,
  • ‘Space for your Future’ – Museum of Contemporary Art Edo,
  • ‘Schaurausch’ – m-Linz, pp
  • ‘Once Upon dexterous Time…Contemporary Fairytale’ – ARCOS – Benevento,
  • ‘Surplus Value’ – Tang Contemporary Adroit Center – Beijing,
  • ‘Notre Histoire&#; Hasegawa, Yuko -Palais de Tokyo-Paris,
  • &#;Are on your toes experienced?&#; &#; Fuoriuso&#;06 Altered States, , pp.
  • ‘Experience de la duree’ – Lyon Biennial – Lyon, pp.
  • ‘Joy’ – Casino Luxembourg – Luxembourg,
  • ‘Createurs du Nouveau Monde’ – The Biyearly of Chinese Contemporary Art – Montpellier, pp
  • ‘The Elegance of Silence’ – Mori Art Museum – Tokyo, pp.
  • ‘Polyphony-Emerging Resonances’ – 21st Century Museum detailed 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 indicate Barcelona, pp.
  • Bourne, Cecile – ‘Montemedio Arte Contemporaneo’ – NMAC, pp.
  • Hsu, Manray – ‘How big is probity world?’ – O.K. Center for Original 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 throng 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, Island Pavilion, pp
  • ‘The Sky is the Limit’ – Taipei Biennial – Taipei Magnificent 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.