Taiwan
Statement
Jia-Jen Lin creates images of the human body and its surroundings as a reflection of our psyche. Drawing from personal experience and observations, Lin uses sculpture integrated with photography, video, and performance to portray the ongoing negotiation between our latent desires and the manipulated realities in which we find ourselves. Hybrid cultures, shifting identities, and the relationships between our physicality and psychology are subjects Lin has investigated since 2004. Her recent projects explore humanity’s experience of displacement, self-consciousness and loss and how memories change with modified experience and new events.
Jia-Jen Lin is a Taiwanese artist based in New York. Lin received her MFA in sculpture, installation, and multimedia from the joint degree program at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University, and her BFA in Western Painting from National Taiwan Normal University. She has participated in artist residencies at International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York; L’Estruch, Spain; Water Mill Center, New York; Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Nebraska; and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts. Exhibitions include Queens International 4, Queens Museum; Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale, South Korea; Young Artist Discovery, Art Taipei; and Manufractura, Hangar Art, Barcelona. She has received grants from Brooklyn Arts Council, Sculpture Space, Franconia Sculpture Park, National Culture and Arts Foundation of Taiwan, and Ministry of Culture of Taiwan.
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GlogauAIR resident from 01 October 2017 to 30 November 2017
GlogauAIR Project
During my time at this residency, I will develop a new project, “Funes’ Broken Mirror,” and conduct research on related subjects and their visual representations—such as memories, modifications of objects and images, and our cyborg-perceptions and consciousness within this prevailing era of technology. “Funes’ Broken Mirror” explores the process of searching for and reconfiguring memories. It will highlight how we can edit, override, and remap them into new terms and terrains through a variety of physical and visual experiences over time. This project is inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’ “Funes the Memorious” novella, in which he depicts Funes as a man who remembers everything and thus is incapable of thinking. Everything is forever imprinted in Funes’ mind as a vast mirror of the world. His most distant memories are as vivid as those of a moment ago. Based on this character, I start to imagine how the world will look from his perspective. Can we break this vast mirror and recompose the fragments into what we would like to see? In my studio, I will create a series of modular works composed of sculptures, videos, photographs, and sound elements.
I will reedit the images and videos I have collected from different manufacture and post-industrial sites. By transforming them into other formats and structures, I will explore different possibilities and metaphors to recreate both physical memories and the digital memories that I recorded while visiting these sites. Furthermore, I will look at how digital devices become essential to my thinking process and eventually embed them into my body of sensations during the moments of receiving or recalling information. Besides enlarging original images into installations,
I would like to edit those images, along with photographs of artwork, into a photo book. It will reflect how images and their content can be transported and altered throughout the processes and presentations.
CV Summary
Education
- MFA, School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) in affiliation with Tufts University, MA, 2007 Concentration on Sculpture, Installation, and Multimedia
- BFA, National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU), Taiwan, 2002 Major in Western Painting
Solo Exhibitions
- Manufracture Series: Bread, Steel, and Benjamin Moore, Temporary Storage, Brooklyn, NY, 2016
- The Archival Body, Archetype Factory, Taipei, Taiwan, 2015
- We Might Have to Excise Your Lung, chashama 461 Gallery, New York, NY, 2014
- Mirror Therapy, Attic Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, 2013
- Turn Around the Back, tamtamART, Berlin, Germany, 2012
- We Lost Our Arms and Legs in Groups, Black and White Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan, 2011
- Flowing . Circulating, Power Space Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan, 2009
- Manu-fractured, Taipei Cultural Center, New York, NY, 2009
- Bow, Red Mill Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, 2008
- Please Fold Up Along the Line, NTNU, Taipei, Taiwan, 2003
- Display of Furniture, OSO Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, 2002
Selected Group Exhibitions And Performances
- Spring Open Studios, International Studio & Curatorial Program, 2017
- Borderless: In Perspective, Lite-haus Galerie, Berlin, Germany, 2016
- Manufractura, Hangar, Barcelona, Spain, 2015
- Open Studio, chashama Studio at Brooklyn Army Terminal, Brooklyn, NY, 2014
- Open Studio, Sculpture Space, Utica, NY, 2014
- Yǐ Shǔ Yi Shu Yi Shu Yi Shū Yī Shu Yǐ Shū Yi Shu, Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan, 2013
- FSP/ Jerome Fellowship Artists on exhibition, Franconia Sculpture Park, Franconia, MN, 2012-present
- Deep Brain Stimulation, Ruin Academy, Taipei, Taiwan, 2011
- Made in Taiwan-Young Artist Discovery, Art Taipei 2011, Taipei, Taiwan, 2011
- Enter-Exit-Enter-Exit : Experimental Body Exchange Project, Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan, 2011
- Lost in Digi-tration, Nanhai Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, 2011
- Figure of Illusion–Japan Taiwan Exchange Exhibition, Inart Space, Tainan, Taiwan, 2011
- She : Visions of Women by Taiwanese Artists, Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, NY, 2009
- 2009 Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale, Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, South Korea, 2009
- Queens International 4, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY, 2009
- The Paradox of Water, The Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT, 2008
- The 13th Annual International Women’s Exhibition, SOHO20 Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY, 2007
- Viridian 18th National Juried Exhibition, Viridian Artists, New York, NY, 2007
- National Prize Show 2007, Cambridge Art Association, MA, 2007
Selected Grants And Honors
- Brooklyn Arts Fund- Interdisciplinary, Brooklyn Arts Council, USA, 2016
- Creation Grant in Fine Arts, National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan, 2015-16
- International Cultural Exchange Grant, National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan, 2016
- International Cultural Exchange Grant, National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan, 2015
- International Residency and Cultural Exchange Grant, Ministry of Culture, Taiwan, 2014
- Creation Grant in Fine Arts, National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan, 2011
- The Performing Arts Grant, Council for Cultural Affairs, Taiwan, 2011
- FSP/ Jerome Fellowship, Jerome Foundation, USA, 2012
- The First Place, The Paradox of the Water, The Westport Arts Center, USA, 2008
- Jurors’ Recognition, SMFA Student Annual, SMFA, USA, 2007
Selected Residencies
- International Studio & Curatorial Program
- L’Estruch, Sabadell, Spain, 2015
- Sculpture Space, Utica, NY, 2014
- Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN, 2012
- Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, Australia, 2010
- Watermill Center, Watermill, NY, 2010
- Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE, 2010
