Michael Lin is a multi-disciplinary artist, with his art having been shown at venues across the world. Whilst he has worked as an artist in everywhere from Paris to Shanghai, he now splits his time between Brussels and Taipei.

Born in Tokyo in 1964 and raised in Taiwan, he and his family moved to the United States in 1973 – with the multiculturalism of Southern California having an impact on Lin’s teenage years. In 1990, Lin graduated from the Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles and received an MFA from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena in 1993.

It was from here that Lin would move to Taipei. His earliest solo exhibitions in 1994 and 1996 were at an independent artist-run gallery in Taipei – IT Park Gallery. However, from the 2000s onwards, Michael Lin began to grow an increasing international portfolio, with an exhibition in Paris in 2000 and then again along with in Germany and the Netherlands in 2002, and Switzerland and Italy in 2003. He also represented Taiwan at the 2001 Venice Biennale, as well as participating in the 2001 Istanbul and 2002 Gwangju Biennales.

Lin’s most famous artworks are often questioned the nature of the “readymade” and the socio-economic histories behind it. Many of his works incorporate the floral patterns that would once be seen on furnishings in Taiwan, though radically enlarged and imposed on architectural surfaces – using everyday domesticity in his questioning of public and private spaces.

One of his most notable projects came during the 2020 Taipei Dangdai Art Fair, where his artwork – a traditional Taiwanese window pattern resembling ancient coins, was projected onto the side of Taipei 101, the tallest building in Taiwan. Highly visible, the artwork showcased change from history to modern times.