LIN Yi-Chi
 
Born in 1986, Lin Yi-Chi now works and lives 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 National Taiwan University of Arts. Her artistic practice includes video art, experimental cinema, and video installation.

Lin has been focusing on the diaspora experiences in East Asia’s cold war context. By collecting memories and dreams that are interwoven with personal identities, Lin views images as the medium of necromancy, and represents the re-enchanted status of individual experiences in the contemporary era in her creation. Lin’s video works summon the marginal narratives of national memories as well as the historical and collective ones.         

Lin’s works have been invited to the Taiwan Pavilion – 2019 Biennale Jogja, and several curatorial projects, film festivals and international residency programs. She has been selected as a finalist for the 16th Taishin Arts Award, and won several awards, including the first prize of Miami Pulse Prize (2019), the first prize of Kaohsiung Award (2018), the first prize of the 40th Golden Harvest Awards for Best Experimental Film (2020 & 2018), MIT(Made in Taiwan) New Artist Award given by the Ministry of Culture of Taiwan (2018), and the honorable mention of Taipei Art Awards (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
2017       Dream of Amber, FreeS Art Space, Taipei City, Taiwan
2016       Across the Tropic of Cancer, Waley Art, Taipei City, Taiwan
Group Exhibitions
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
2020       The 42th Golden Harvest Awards for Outstanding Short Films - First Award of Experimental Film
2019 ​      Pulse Prize - First Award
2019 ​      New Taipei City Student Film Awards - First Award of Experimental Film
2019 ​      Next Art Tainan Awards - First Award
2018 ​      Taipei Art Awards - Honorable Mention
2018 ​      MIT Young Artist Discovery Award. 
2018 ​      The 16th Taishin Arts Award - Nominated
2018       The 40th Golden Harvest Awards for Outstanding Short Films - First Award of Experimental Film
2018       Kaohsiung Award - First Award
2017       Kaohsiung Film Festival- Kaohsiung International Short Film Competition - Nominated
2017       National Art Exhibition, ROC. - Silver Award of New Media
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
2015       The 13th Taoyuan Contemporary Art Award - Merit Award
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
​​2019    "Nanyang Express: Trans-drifting and South Sea Crossing", South Taiwan Film Festival, Tainan
              Shin-Kong cinemas, Tainan City, Taiwan​​.
2019    "Nanyang Express: Trans-drifting and South Sea Crossing", Kaohsiung Film Festival, Kaohsiung
              Film Archive, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2019    "Nanyang Express: Trans-drifting and South Sea Crossing", Women Make Waves Film Festival,
              Huashan Spot Theater, Taipei, Taiwan.
​​2019    "Nanyang Express: Trans-drifting and South Sea Crossing", Urban Nomad Film Fest, Wonderful
              Theatre, Taipei, Taiwan.
2019    "Requiem for the dream of Father", "Running Stitch: Bangkok" - Chiayi International Art Doc Film
              Festival, Chaiyi City, Taiwan.​
2019    "Thailand's Patch", Flâneur Film festival, 435 Art Zone, New Taipei City, Taiwan.
​​2018    "Running Stitch: Bangkok" - The 8th Ca'Foscari Short Film Festival, Venice, Italy.
​​2018    "Running Stitch: Bangkok" - The 40th Golden Harvest Awards for Outstanding Short Films, Taiwan  
              Film Institute, Taipei, Taiwan.
2017    "Running Stitch: Bangkok" - 2017 Kaohsiung Film Festival, Kaohsiung Film Archive, Kaohsiung, 
              Taiwan
2017    "Running Stitch: Bangkok" - The 16th Urban Nomad Film Fest, Woolloomooloo, Taipei, Taiwan.
2017    "Running Stitch: Bangkok" - 2017 Youth Film Festival,  Kaohsiung Film Archive, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2015    "Ember Trilogy II- Feast" - The 22th Women Make Waves Film Festival, Huashan Spot Theater,
​              Taipei, Taiwan.
New-Media
Performance
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
2018        Gallery Mcube, Kathmandu, Nepal
2016        Tentacles, Bangkok, Thailand
Published
2019        In Tropical, dmp editions
Lecture
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.