ARTIST BIO

Lin is a Chinese artist who uses a variety of media, including painting, photography and video. She graduated from China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), the most well known Art School in China, majoring in Painting & Media Arts. During her undergraduate studies, her works focus on the changes experienced by Chinese women; private space is becomes public. One of her digital media Installations named Present 00:00 won the Award of the Best Creative Art Works, 2007 Graduation Art Exhibition, CAFA School of Design.

She started painting when she was four, winning her first award when she was eight. This was followed by many others, including the Prize of Gold, 1st International Children’s Painting Competition, London UK, sponsored by Bloomsbury College, in 1993 when she was Eleven. Since the age of twelve, she had been an apprentice of Professor Di'an Fan, former Vice President of CAFA, and now the President of China National Gallery.

Since 2008, she has been studying the interdisciplinary environment in the Department of Digital+Media, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Lin creates never-ending loop installations in the new media genre, creating new works within the context of interactive contemporary everyday existence; the use of new computer technologies in gallery spaces via animated video; and also in digital performances, she explores the meanings between human actions and digital projections by using sounds, lights, videos and images. Lin draws from her experiences living throughout China, Canada and the United States.