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LIN Yi-Chi

Born in 1986, Lin Yi-Chi now lives and works in Taipei. Lin received her Master’s degree in Fine Arts from the Taipei National University of the Arts, and is currently pursuing another Master’s degree in Motion Picture at the National Taiwan University of Arts. With educational backgrounds in both contemporary art and film production, her works take the form of video art, experimental cinema, and video installation.

In recent years, her practice centers on the diaspora experiences in specific historical contexts, as well as the collection of memories and dreams rooted in personal identity. By employing images as the medium of necromancy, Lin reinterprets and re-enacts individual life experiences through enchanting scenarios in contemporary times; also, by summoning the marginal voices in certain regions through her practice, she is devoted to the reproduction of bonds among nation, history, and collective memories.

Lin was recently invited to exhibit works in the 13th Gwangju Biennale - Taiwan C-LAB Pavilion, and the Biennale Jogja 2019 - Taiwan Pavilion; she has participated in numerous domestic and international curatorial projects, film festivals, and artist residencies. Also, she has been selected as a finalist for the 16th Taishin Arts Award and won several awards, including the first prize of the 42th & 40th Golden Harvest Awards for Best Experimental Film (2020 & 2018), the winner of Miami Beach Pulse Prize (2019), the honorable mention of Taipei Arts Awards (2018), MIT (Made in Taiwan) New Artist Award given by the Ministry of Culture of Taiwan (2018), and the first prize of Kaohsiung Award (2018).

Education

2016- M.F.A, Department of Motion Picture, National Taiwan University of Arts,
2016 M.F.A, Department of Fine Arts School of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts.
2010 B.F.A, Department of Sculpture School of Fine Arts, National Taiwan University of Arts.

Solo Exhibitions

2020 Selamat, the messenger over the sea, Hong-gah Museum, Taipei City, Taiwan
2017 Dream of Amber, FreeS Art Space, Taipei City, Taiwan
2016 Across the Tropic of Cancer, Waley Art, Taipei City, Taiwan

Group Exhibitions

2021 4.3 Art Exhibition "A Certain Scenery", Art Space IAa, Jeju, Korea.
2021 13th Gwangju Biennale Taiwan C-LAB Pavilion: Double Echoing, ACC Space5, Gwangju, Korea.
2020 Taipei Art Awards, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.
2020 Perforated City, MOCA Taipei, Taipei City, Taiwan
2020 Green Island Human Rights Art Festival - If on the margin, draw a coordinate, Green Island, Taiwan
2019 Biennale Jogja - Bilik Taiwan, Jogja contemporary, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2019 Letter．Callus．Post-war, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei Taiwan
2019 Next Art Tainan, 182 Art Space, Tainan City, Taiwan.
2019 Madou Sugar Industry Art Triennial, Tsung-Yeh Arts and Cultural Center, Tainan Taiwan.
2019 Boom boom the Spring, 435 Art Zone, New Taipei City, Taiwan.
2018 Taipei Art Awards, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.
2018 Malaystar vs. nesoul | Malaysia x Nepal AIR co-exhibition, Waley Art, Taipei City, Taiwan
2018 Cemetery of Object, YIRI Arts Pier-2 Space, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
2018 ART Taipei - MIT Young Artist Discovery, Taipei World Trade Center Hall 1, Taipei, Taiwan.
2018 Finding the Roots, Gallery Mcube, Kathmandu, Nepal
2018 Sisyphus Version 20.18, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts- Digiark, Taichung, Taiwan.
2018 We can’t come from nothing” – eight strategies for undoing borders and rethinking identities,
Haohaus, Taipei City, Taiwan
2018 Kaohsiung Award, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
2018 IAFT17/18 Transparent Nets, Koganei Art Spot Chateau 2F, Tokyo, Japan
2018 “ I just phoned The Grand Macondon Hotel. ” She said., pon ding 2F, Taipei City, Taiwan
2017 Art Kaohsiung: Container video area, The Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
2017 Public Hazardous Materials, Szczecin Art Academy, Szczecin, Poland.
2017 The Aftermath: The Lift of Martial Law, Liang Gallery, Taipei City, Taiwan.
2017 The Utopia Of Access: GradCAM@Research Pavilion 2017, Venice Biennale, Italy.
2017 National Art Exhibition, ROC , National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan.
2017 The 15th Taoyuan Contemporary Art Award, Taoyuan City Performing Arts Center, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
2017 Garari Nehiora, Space One, Seoul, Korea.
2016 Never Try Never Know: Thailand's Patch, Waley Art, Taipei City, Taiwan
2016 "Sync" - As a Sputnik incident, San-Tin-Hái-Bī Studio, New Taipei City, Taiwan
2016 Gara Art Festival, Waley Art, Taipei City, Taiwan
2016 Free Art Fair, Huashan 1914 Creative Park, Taipei, Taiwan.
2016 Taiwan Annual, Taipei Expo Park Expo Dome, Taipei, Taiwan.
2016 Fine (Rebel) Art Video Night, Tentacles Contemporary Art Space, Bangkok, Thailand.
2016 Asia Kula Kula-ring, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea
2016 Five Years of Subtropical Zone, 182 Art Space, Tainan City, Taiwan.
2015 Artist Fair Taiwan, Taipei Expo Park Expo Dome, Taipei, Taiwan.
2015 Young Art Kaohsiung, The Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
2015 National Art Exhibition, ROC , National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan.
2015 The 13th Taoyuan Contemporary Art Award, Taoyuan City Performing Arts Center, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
2014 Video Art Film Festival, Fotoaura Space, Tainan, Taiwan.
2014 Art Kaohsiung, CHATEAU de CHINE, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
2014 What We Are Mapping, The Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
2014 Tainan Art Fair, Tayih Landis Hotel Tainan, Tainan, Taiwan.
2014 Kaohsiung Award, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
2013 LURK: nether world of the city, 182 Art Space, Tainan, Taiwan.
2012 More than eight quarters of expectation, Taipei National University of the Arts Underground Art
Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.

Awards

Art Awards
2020 Taipei Art Awards - Nominated
2019 Pulse Prize - First Award
2019 Next Art Tainan Awards - First Award
2018 Taipei Art Awards - Honorable Mention
2018 Ministry of Culture - MIT Young Artist Discovery Award
2018 The 16th Taishin Arts Award - Nominated
2018 Kaohsiung Award - First Award
2017 National Art Exhibition, ROC. - Silver Award of New Media
2015 The 13th Taoyuan Contemporary Art Award - Merit Award

Film Awards
2020 The 42th Golden Harvest Short Films Festival - First Award of Experimental Film
2019 New Taipei City Student Film Awards - First Award of Experimental Film
2018 The 40th Golden Harvest Short Films Festival - First Award of Experimental Film
2017 Kaohsiung Film Festival- Kaohsiung International Short Film Competition - Nominated
2017 The 16th Urban Nomad Film Fest - Honorable Award of Taiwan Competition
2017 Youth Film Festival - Silver Award
2015 The 22nd Women Make Waves Film Festival - Excellence Award of Taiwan Competition

Collections

2019 Requiem for the dream of Father, edition 2/3, Personal Collection.
2018 Running Stitch: Bangkok, DCP, Taiwan Film Institute, Taiwan.
2018 Requiem for the dream of Father, edition 1/3, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan.

Film Festival

2021 Chiayi International Art Doc Film Festival, Chaiyi City, Taiwan.
2020   The 42th Golden Harvest Short Films Festival, Fuzhong 15, Taipei, Taiwan.
2020 Chiayi International Art Doc Film Festival, Chaiyi City, Taiwan.
2019 South Taiwan Film Festival, Tainan Shin-Kong cinemas, Tainan City, Taiwan.
2019 Kaohsiung Film Festival, Kaohsiung Film Archive, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2019   The 26th Women Make Waves Film Festival, Huashan Spot Theater, Taipei, Taiwan.
2019 Urban Nomad Film Fest, Wonderful Theatre, Taipei, Taiwan.
2019 Chiayi International Art Doc Film Festival, Chaiyi City, Taiwan.
2019 Flâneur Film festival, 435 Art Zone, New Taipei City, Taiwan.
2018   The 8th Ca'Foscari Short Film Festival, Venice, Italy.
2018 The 40th Golden Harvest Short Films Festival, Taiwan Film Institute, Taipei, Taiwan.
2017   Kaohsiung Film Festival, Kaohsiung Film Archive, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2017 Urban Nomad Film Fest, Woolloomooloo, Taipei, Taiwan.
2017 Youth Film Festival,  Kaohsiung Film Archive, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2015 The 22th Women Make Waves Film Festival, Huashan Spot Theater, Taipei, Taiwan.

New-Media
Performance

2020   Re-Public：Your Relation is My Politics, 435 Art Zone, New Taipei City, Taiwan.
2018   LIVEing image: Insomnia Collective, REVOLVER, Taipei, Taiwan.
2017   Minelectro Annual Party 2017, Long Shan Community Center, Tainan, Taiwan.
2017   The Other Cinema: Magic Image Labs., Venue, Taipei, Taiwan.
2017 VHS- Variation of Memory II, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan.
2017 VHS- Variation of Memory I, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan.
2017   here is NOT Utopia, Acid House, New Taipei City, Taiwan
2016   BYOB Taipei, Woolloomooloo, Taipei, Taiwan.
2016   Fine (Rebel) Art Video Night, Tentacles Contemporary Art Space, Bangkok, Thailand

Arts Residency

2020 Tsung-Yeh Arts and Cultural Center, Tainan, Taiwan
2018 Gallery Mcube, Kathmandu, Nepal
2016 Tentacles, Bangkok, Thailand

Published

2021 Between Screenings, dmp editions
2019 In Tropical, dmp editions

Lecture

2020 Artistic practice in video – Yi-Chi Lin’s creation sharing. Lecture of the Graduate Institute of
Trans-disciplinary Arts of TNUA
2020 Wandering in unfamiliar areas of image, belonging to videos and films. Keynote speaker:
Lin Yi-Chi, ASA Salon.
2020 Lin Yi-Chi X Artistic practice in video. Keynote speaker: Lin Yi-Chi, Acid House.
2020 Talking about international connections in the history of Kinmen, Indonesia and Taiwan from
the exhibition "Selamat, the messenger over the sea". Keynote speaker: Lai Ying-Tai, Zoe Yeh,
Lin Yi-Chi, Hong-gah Museum.
2020 "Selamat, the messenger over the sea"- the gap among images, films and theaters.
Keynote speaker: Uî-tiȯk Sú, Lin Yi-Chi. Discussant: Zoe Yeh, Hsu Hua-Chien, Wang Chao-Yang,
Dolly Chen, Hong-gah Museum.
2019 Photo Talks 2019 S2. Lightbox Photo Library.
2019 Artist Talk 4 – Letter・Callus・Post-War. Etat Forum.
2019 Séance III - Memory vehicle and image dissociation. Department of Fine Arts, NCUE.
2018 Muddy Studio: Lin Yi-Chi her works and Video as a Spiritual Medium. Lecturer: Ping-Hao Chen.
2017 Double dissociation - abandoned image's resurrection and summon.
Lecturer: Chien-Hung Huang, Yi-Lun Lu.
2017 Séance II - Dream, memory, dissociation and defense again. Lecturer: Hsiang-Wen Chen.
2017 Séance I - Video as a Spiritual Medium. Etat Forum.
2016 Artist’s view: The opinion of Art-in-residence. Lecturer: Chia-Ming Yeh, Chih-Chung Chang
2016 Self study of the artist: an open perspective as the foundation of identity.
Lecturer: Fei-Hao Chen, Soma Liang.
2016 Where images from? Dark necromantic arts and requiem of history. Lecturer: Hong-John Lin,
Tai-Sung Chen.