LONG-TERM INSTALLATIONS

Michael Lin

Michael Lin is an artist living and working in Taipei and Brussels. He creates monumental painting not as a meditative space, but as a physical space with boundaries where we can inhabit.
Born in Japan and raised in Taiwan and the U.S., he returned to Taiwan in the early 1990s and began his artistic career there. By enlarging traditional Taiwanese textiles used in everyday life and painting them in public spaces, he has established a form of pictorial expression that transfers the meaning of these patterns. He arrived at this form after exploring his identity and means of expression as an artist living in a different cultural sphere. Through research, Lin incorporates the traditions and cultural motifs of the region he works in into his art, as he does with the characteristics of specific spaces and their relationship to a place.