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LIN Shu-Min
LAST UPDATE : 2021.12.16 / EDITOR : avatintern
4 artworks / 29 exhibition / 0 essays

Born in Taipei, he has lived in New York for the past 15 years, serving as an associate professor of art at the New York Institute of Technology; executive director of the United States Arts and Sciences Association; consultant for the Acer Digital Arts Centre, juror of the International Digital Art Competition, and US columnist for the Weekly Times. He has also worked as a consultant artistic director for transnational advertising companies including American-based Mikan Advertising and British-based Sphinx Advertising & Communications, providing services to global clients including Cartier, Davidoff, Citibank, 3M, Coca-Cola and Nestle Coffee. Mr. Lin has won countless advertising and design awards. As an internationally renowned new media artist, he has worked with holographic art and multimedia installations over many years and has exhibited widely in art museums around the world.

Over the years his work has won many major art prizes, these have included Artist of Excellence at ARTEC’95, Japan; Shearwater Foundation Award for Creative Holography, USA (1996); Artist of Excellence at ARTEC’97; participating on behalf of Chinese Taiwan at the Venice Biennale in 2001; Yugoslavia Biennial Award (2002); and two first prizes at The Open Competition, Museum of Public Art, Taiwan, with First Prize from the Science and Technology Museum.

In 2003 he was curator for Chinese Taiwan at the 50th Venice Biennale. In 2004 he was appointed chief executive of International Art Exhibition Planning Company and consultant to the Taiwan IT Strategy Committee, as well as establishing an art broadcasting radio station at the PS1 Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, reporting on Asian art news. In 2006 he was one of the curators of Shanghai Biennial, and in 2007 he was a juror and curator for Ars Electronica Festival.

birth year
1963
Place of Birth
Taipei
Taiwan
Place of Residence
Taipei
Taiwan
experience
2010
Present Position
ShangHai Chi River Art International CEO
2010
Present Position
TaiPei Chi River Art International CEO
2008
Present Position
Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art Board Member
2008
Present Position
National Taiwan Normal University Guest Professor
2006
Resigned
Shanghai Zendai Himalayas Center CEO
2005
Resigned
Institute for Information Industry, Taiwan (Digital Media Art) Consultant
2005
Resigned
Unison Art Association CEO
2004
Resigned
MoMaPS1 art radio station International Correspondent
2003
Resigned
Taishin Prize Designer of Trophy
2000
Present Position
Acer Digital Art Center Juror for the Digital Art Chronicle Consultant
1995
Resigned
Art and Science Collaborations, Inc Board of Director
1991
Resigned
Department of Art, New York Institute of Technology Associate Professor
1990
Resigned
Holographic Inc Creative Director
1986
Resigned
SSC&B LINTAS Advertising agency Art Director
1985
Resigned
McCann-Erickson Advertising agency Art Director
1981
Resigned
Koa-Hua Advertising Limited Designer
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CURRICULUM VITAE
2014
Jumping Joy Main lantern of 2014 Taipei lantern festival
Taipei Expo Park , Taipei , Taiwan
2013
Taipei lantern Festival Main lantern of 2014
Taipei Expo Park , Taipei , Taiwan
2011
Cloud conscious World Design Conference
Taiwan Design Museum , Taipei , Taiwan
2009
Shan ∙Shui
Taipei , Taiwan
2008
Shan ∙Shui, Solo Exhibition of Olympic Opening Series
798 Art , Beijing , China
2003
Sun Gazing
Butler Institute of American Art, Tucson Museum of Art , Ohio, Arizona , USA
2002
Danger Zone
Sunbeam Hall , Taipei , Taiwan
2001
X-ray Gods
Taipei Fine Art Museum , Taipei , Taiwan
2001
The Conqueror
Mitsukoshi culture Hall , Taipei , Taiwan
2000
Scattering the Ashes
Edward Carter Gallery , New York , USA
2000
Overt Voyeurism Project-Windows
Stephen Gang Gallery , New York , USA
1998
The Conqueror
The Alternative Museum , New York , USA
1998
The Reincarnation
Elizabeth Wang Gallery , New York , USA
1996
The Reincarnation
Provincial Taiwan Museum of Fine Art , Taichuang , Taiwan
1996
Glass Ceiling
Taipei Fine Art Museum , Taipei , Taiwan
1994
Trans Figuration
Gallery 456 , New York , USA
2014
Jie (Boundaries): Contemporary Art from Taiwan
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University , Ithaca, New York , USA
2012
Holography from the world
Taipei , Taiwan
2008
Art Beijing
Beijing , China
2007
BeiJing Art fair
Beijing , China
2006
Gwangju Biennale
Gwangju , Korea
2006
Making a new relationship
The Art Ethics, Dimensions Art Center , Beijing , China
2006
ARS’06
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma , Helsinki , Finland
2005
The Elegance of Silence: Contemporary Art from East Asia
Mori Art Museum , Tokyo , Japan
2005
Trading Place: Contemporary Art Museum
Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei , Taipei , Taiwan
2005
Vagskal 2005
Leksands Kommun , Sweden
2005
Strange Heaven, Contemporary Chinese Photography
Helsinki Art Museum , Helsinki , Finland
2004
Art Shenghai
Shenghai , China
2004
90th Contemporary Taiwanese artists
Taipei Fine Arts Museum , Taipei , Taiwan
2004
Hanart Gallery 20th Anniversary Show
Hong Kong
2004
Nexus
Queens Museum , New York , USA
2004
Contemporary Taiwanese Art in the Era of Contention
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University , New York , USA
2007
Exhibition
Austria eArt Festival
 
Linz , Austria
2006
Exhibition
Shanghai Biennial
Shanghai Museum of Art
Shanghai , China
2003
Exhibition
Limbo Zone, the 50th Venice Biennial Taiwan Pavilion
 
Venice , Italy
2003
Exhibition
Tangible Unreality, Public art Project
Nangang Software Industrial Park
Taipei , Taiwan
2003
Short Film Contest Nominee
The 2nd Echigo-Tsumari Triennia
 
Japan
2001
First Prize
Yugoslavia Biennial
 
Yugoslavia
1997
Prize for the Artist of Excellence
Japan ARTEC’97 Biennial
 
Japan
1996
First prize
Shearwater Foundation Artistic Creation Prize
 
USA
1995
Prize for the Artist of Excellence
Japan ARTEC’95 Biennial
 
Japan
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01 / 10
Water.Streams
It is the water of streams. The flows of mobile phones’ text messages create a waterfall. The electric waves are flowing and intertwining, connecting texts and messages as the streams pass through time and space. It is the stream of modern people’s subconsciousness. With the help of technological operation, the message flows gather here. People reach each other in the crystal clear water of subconsciousness. The private messages on the phones become naked, flowing into the public spher ...
New Media Art , Installation Art , Video Art ,





01 / 10
Mountain.Water
It can be the karma stone of everlasting love, Soul Mountain for a reclusive life, or the microcosm of eternal peace. It is a garden scene rooted in silence, the microcosmic landscape reflecting my inner self, and the theatre of landscape where stories of dynasties are staged.
New Media Art , Installation Art , Video Art ,



01 / 10
Mountain.River
The light is painted with ink, while the black becomes the white. The detailed image projected is the landscape painting Ode on Red Cliff (in Five Dynasties): a little boat immersed in the glimmering light, enjoying the company of the birds and the butterflies. A construction site in China, a common scene in China nowadays while it also reflects the artist’s current life, becomes part of the image. The real scene of the urban jungle and the misty landscape in the traditional painting c ...
New Media Art , Installation Art , Video Art ,


01 / 10
Mountain.Energy
Human beings are given visible bodies as well as invisible spirit and energy. Mountain is the same. It has its own spirit and emotions. Humans exchange their energy in subconsciousness. Similar communication exists between humans and Nature that they can share emotions and energy. The illusionary light points toward the Natural energy. The path symbolizes the relationship between humans and Nature. It is the energy field of the power of Nature, evoking our memories of the natural lands ...
New Media Art , Installation Art , Video Art ,
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