Lin Pey-Chwen

Lin Pey-Chwen was born in Ping-tong County, Taiwan in 1959. She received a Doctor of Creative Arts from the University of Wollongong, Australia in 1996. She was chairwoman of the Graduate School of Multimedia and Animation Arts, National Taiwan University of Arts, professor of Dept. Multimedia and Animation Arts, National Taiwan University of Arts, and chair professor and Dean of College of Planning and Design, China University of Technology. Currently, Lin serves as art director of “Lin Pey-Chwen Digital Arts Lab”, director of “Taiwan Art & Technology Association”, and honorary chairwoman of “Taiwan Women's Art Association” (TWAA). She has received many art awards and recognitions, including Taiwan Chung-Shing Award, Taiwan Public Art Award, Taiwan Arts and Business Award, Red Dot Award, One of The Best Asian Artists Selected by Picasso Mio, The First Prize (FELLOWSHIP PRIZE 2020 – Platinum Certificate Award in Art Project category) in Art Woman 2020 International Exhibition, PPLG Project & Services for the Culture and Contemporary Art Italy, and Australian Visa of Distinguished Talent, etc.
Lin’s artworks have gained worldwide recognition including featured artworks in 40 Years Edition of Chronicles of Taiwan Contemporary Art (2012), a report in the Special Column of Global Women’s Museum IGNITE in the USA, exclusive interview with Archive of Digital Art(ADA), and the Special Column of PripheralARTeries Biennial featured artworks in “agideas International Design Forum” in Australia and “The Borders of Digital Art International Symposium” in the University of Oxford in England, 2022 TECHART Conference in Korea etc. In 2019, she became the recipient of Lorenzo il Magnifico, the winner of the first prize in the “new media art” category of Italy XII Florence Biennial of International Award.
After coming back to Taiwan from America in 1989, Lin first had a solo exhibition at American Cultural Center and joined the contemporary art group “Apartment 2” upon invitation. In 1998 she published Women Art Discourse, the first book on Taiwanese female artists. Later she co-founded the “Taiwan Women's Art Association” (TWAA) with other established female artists and became one of the major promoters of Taiwanese women’s art. Since 2010, Lin has initiated contextual research and a series of exhibitions of digital art in Taiwan. She published the first Taiwan digital art book, “Taiwan Digital Art E-Files”, which marks her as the widely-acclaimed pioneer of Taiwan digital art. Her works have been invited to many exhibitions all around the world such as Queens Museum in New York, Exit and Via Art Festival in France, WRO Media Art Biennale in Poland, Ars Electronica 2021: Garden Hong Kong, Taipei Biennial, Taiwan Biennial, etc. Her achievements have been documented in many art journals and art history books internationally, such as n.paradoxa International feminist art journal, East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, International Journal of Cultural and Creative Industries, and History of Contemporary Art in Taiwan, etc.

About
https://linpeychwen.com/cv/
Education
1996 Doctor of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong, Australia
1985 Master of Arts, Central Missouri State University,USA
1984 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Central Missouri State University,USA
Academic Experience
2010~ now Art Director of “Lin Pey-Chwen Digital Arts Lab.”
2017~2018 Chair Professor and Dean of College of Planning and Design, China University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan
2003~2017 Professor of Dept. Multimedia and Animation Arts, National Taiwan University of Arts
2001~2002 Chair of Graduate School of Multimedia and Animation Arts, National Taiwan University of Arts
1997~2000 Chair of Dept. of Commercial Design, Chung Yuan University
1996~2001 Associate Professor of Dept. of Commercial Art, Chung Yuan University
Publications
2020 “Revelation of Eve Clone”: Lin Pey-Chwen +Digital Art Lab, Tainan Art Museum, Tainan, Taiwan
2019 “Pey-Chwen Lin: Making of Eve Clone”, B.B.Art/ Taiwanese American Arts Council, Taiwan/New York
2018 “Word and Tech–Revelation and Notification of Pey-Chwen Lin’s Art”, Artist Publisher, Taipei, Taiwan
2012 “Taiwan Digital Art E-Files”, Artist Publisher, Taipei, Taiwan
2012 “Lin Pey-Chwen Eve Clone Series”, Galerie Grand Siecle, Taipei, Taiwan
2004 “Go Out of Civilization, Back to Nature”, National Taiwan University of Arts, New Taipei, Taiwan
1999 “Lin, Pey-Chwen”, Cultural Affairs Bureau of Toayuan, Taiwan
1999 “Lin Pey-Chwen’s Work Concept”, Fembooks Publisher
1998 “Women Art Discourse”, Fembooks Publisher, Taipei
1996 UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG PHD THESIS,“The position of women in Taiwan’s social structure reflected in contemporary arts “ by Pey-Chwen Lin
1995 “Women’s Interpretation –Lin Pey-Chwen Solo Exhibition”, Capital Art, Taichung/National Taiwan Museum of Arts
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021 “Ars Electronica 2021: Garden Hong Kong – Art in the Cloud “, Osage Art Gallery, Hong Kong
2020 “Revelation of Eve Clone”: Lin Pey-Chwen +Digital Art Lab, Tainan Art Museum, Tainan, Taiwan
2020 “Body Manifestation : Pey-Chwen Lin Solo Exhibition”, Da Xiang Art Space, Taichung, Taiwan
2019 “Eve Clone Augmented Reality”, QCC Art Gallery, CUNY, New York, USA
2019 “Making of Eve Clone III”, The Fine Arts Museum of National Defense, Taipei, Taiwan
2018 “Making of Eve Clone II “, B.B.Art, Tainan, Taiwan
2017 “Making of Eve Clone”, Galerie Grand Siècle, Taipei, Taiwan
2015 “Revelation‧Notification –Solo Exhibition by Lin Pey-Chwen”, National Tsing Hua University Arts Center, Hsinchu, Taiwan
2012 “Eve Clone Series III”, Art Stage Singapore, Singapore
2011 “Eve Clone Series II”, Galerie Grand Siecle, Taipei, Taiwan
2011 “Eve Clone Series”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
2006 “Artificial Life”, Art Center of National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
2006 “The Beautiful New World”, 798 Art Village, Dimensions Art Center, Beijing, China
2005 “Fascination & Frustration”, Artist Space of National Hsinchu University of Education/ Art Center of Kao Yuan University, Hsinchu/Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2004 “Catching”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
2004 “Un-Natural “, International Art Center of National Taiwan University of Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
2000 “Patriarchal Deconstruction”, National Taiwan Art Educational Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2000 “Viewing View”, Taoyuan Cultural Art Center, Taoyuan, Taiwan
1999 “Golden Song”, Spazio Diciotto, Florence, Italy
1998 “Classics Works”, Gallerie Pierre Art, Taichung, Taiwan
1998 “Safety Nest”, Taipei City Hal, Taipei, Taiwan
1996 “Reality and Falsehood”, HCTC Artist Space of National Hsinchu University of Education, Hsinchu, Taiwan
1996 “Antithesis and Intertext II”, Project Contemporary Art Space, Wollongong, Australia
1995 “Antithesis and Intertext”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
1993 “Women’s Interpretation”, National Taiwan Museum of Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
1992 “Solo Exhibition of Lin Pey-Chwen”, Space II, Taipei, Taiwan
1991 “Solo Exhibition of Lin Pey-Chwen”, Space II, Taipei, Taiwan
1990 “Solo Exhibition of Lin Pey-Chwen”, Space II, Taipei Taiwan
1989 “Shape, Color and Strokes”, American Cultural Center, Taipei, Taiwan
1984 “Break Through”, Art Center of CMSU, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 “Zong Chiang Audio Visual Concert”, Taipei 101 AMBI Immersive Space ONE, Taipei, Taiwan
2023 ～2024 “Transformation—Body, Gaze, Power”, Asia University Museum of Modern Art, Taichung, Taiwan
2022 “Somatosensory Boundary “, Remarkable Cultivation Fine Arts Museum, Tainan, Taiwan
2022 “Women/ From Prehistory to Herstory”, ‘Love and Peace/2022 World Women’s Art Festival’, National Museum of Prehistory, Taitung, Taiwan
2022 “I Am Who I Am/ Artist Self-Constructing Journey “,Shung Ye Museum of Formosa Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
2022 “ID-ENTITY R-EVOLUTION: BODIES-NATURANS, TRANSITS AND CYBERSPACE”, Palmieri Foundation, Vico Dei Sotterranei, Lecce, Italy
2021 “Ars Electronica 2021: Garden Hong Kong – Art in the Cloud “ Exhibition in Osage Gallery and on line program at Linz/Hong Kong
2020 “Art Woman 2020”, PPLG | Project & Services for the Culture and Contemporary Art , Primopiano gallery, Italy
2019 “XII Florence Biennale”, Florence, Italy
2019 “Cross-border and Hybrid”, Art Taipei, Taipei
2019 “Urban Tribes", New York Foundation for the Arts/ El Taller Art Center/TAAC Tribeca/E. Tay/R Gallery, New York, USA
2019 “Cultivation, Link and Expand – 2019 Taoyuan Women’s Art Exhibition", Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts, Taoyuan Cultural Bureau, Taoyuan, Taiwan
2019 “Light Year 53: From The People To The Land”, Manhattan Bridge Anchorage, New York, USA
2019 “GZ-XPO London –Art and Awareness Exhibition”, London, England
2019 “Being Here as ME: New Media Art Exhibition of Women Artists from Taiwan”, American University Museum, Washington DC, USA
2018-9 “Femi–Flow: Creating Female Subjectivity in Art”, National Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institute, Nantou/Taipei, Taiwan
2018 “Should We Play?”, Taipei Art District Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
2018 “Making of Eve Clone I”, Fibering-Eco as a Verb, WRO Art Center, Wroclaw Poland
2018 “GZ-New York”, New York, USA
2018 “GZ-BASEL” Parallel Exhibition of Art Basel, Basel, Swiss
2018 “XXI Symposium Neuroradiologicum”, Taipei International Convention Center, Taipei
2018 “Douro Printmaking Biennial”, Douro, Portugal
2018 “404 International Festival of Art and Technology”, The University of Massachusetts Lowell Art Center, Massachusetts, USA
2017 ” GZ-Venice” Parallel Exhibition of Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2017 “The 3rd Global Print”, Douro, Portugal
2017 ”Fibering–Eco As A Verb” International Video Installation Exhibition , Yo-Chang Art Museum, Taipei
2017 ”Taiwan Videa” 2017 Selection –The Taiwanese Avant-garde Video Screening Project, Republic of Macedonia: Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje/Croatia: Galerija AŽ Atelieri Žitnjak, Zagreb/ Slovenia: SCCA –Ljubliana Center for Contemporary Arts /Germany: art space “Rosalux" , Berlin
2017 “Besides July”, Da Xiang Art Space, Art Taichung, Taichung
2017 “Dramaturgy Body Rewritten Contemporary Art", Lee Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2017 “GZ-KUNST”, Fatamorgana Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2016 “ Like To Loud a Solitude”, MoNTUE Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2016 “ 404 International Festival of Art and Technology”, C++ Gallery, Bogota, Colombia
2016 “Women Social Subjectivity –Taiwan Women Art Exhibition”, Chiayi Cultural Affairs Bureau, Chiayi, Taiwan
2016 “Digital Attraction International Contemporary Art Exhibition”, Fu-Chung 15, New Taipei, Taiwan
2015 “The Apocalyptic Sensibility: The New Media Art from Taiwan”, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2015 “The MOMENT: The Taiwanese Art Projects”, Tenri Cultural Institute, New York City, USA
2015 “404 International Festival of Art and Technology”, Rosario, Argentina
2015 “Dancing with Era –40 Years of Taiwan Contemporary Art”, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2014 “Cultural Capsules”, JCAL, New York, USA
2014 “404 International Festival of Art and Technology”, Platforma, Moscow, Russia
2014 “Progressive Proof: SF State exhibit features women printmakers from Pacific Rim”, San Francisco State University Art Museum, San Francisco, USA
2014 “Raising the Temperature “International Art Exhibition, Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA
2014 “In the Name of Asia female Artist”, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Art, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2014 “Mirage & Aural Beauty”, National Taiwan Science Education Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2013 “Post Humanist Desire International Exhibition”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
2013 “The Tetramatyka Audio Visual Art Festival”, Lviv National Art Museum, Ukraine
2013 “15th WRO Media Art Biennale”, Wroclaw, Poland
2012 “Body and Interface”, Taipei Digital Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2012 “404 International Festival of Art and Technology”, Rosario, Argentina
2012 “Taiwan Biennial –YES, Taiwan”, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2012 “Transjourney –2012 Future Media Festival”, Kuandu Museum of Fine Art, Taiwan
2011 “Next Body Digital Art Exhibition”, Huashan1914 Creative Park, Taipei, Taiwan 2010 “Body, Gender, Technology”, Taipei Digital Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2010 “0&1: Digital Space and Gender Myths”, 501 Contemporary Art Center, Chungking, China
2009 “Her First Solo Review and Perspective of Contemporary Women Artists in Taiwan”, National Chang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall, Taipei, Taiwan
2009 “Virtual Fantasy”, Taidong Museum of Arts, Taidong, Taiwan
2009 “VT Report”, VT Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
2009 “Interdisciplinary Horizon – Exhibition of Lin Pey-Chwen Digital Art Lab”, Providence University Art Center, Taichung, Taiwan
2008 “Meditation in Contemporary Chinese Landscape”, International Exhibition, Godwin-Ternbach Museum, New York, USA
2008 “Back to the Garden”, Queens Art Pavilion, New York, USA
2007 “BOOM: Interplay of Fast and Frozen Permutation in New Media, Taiwan –Australia New Media Art Exhibition”, NTUA Art Museum/ Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
2007 “Exit and Via Art Festival”, Creteil, France
2006 “Morning Dew”, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
2006 “Pingtung International Peninsula Art Festival”, Pingtung, Taiwan
2006 “Imaginary Number in Art”, Art Center of Kao Yuan University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2006 “Animation Originality”, Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
2005 “Border Crossing –The Shadow Dance of Cities “, Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan and Shanghai, China
2005 “Shanghai Cool: Creative Reproduction”, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
2005 “Motion with Time”, Gallerie Pierre Art, Taichung, Taiwan
2004 “Taiwan Avant-Garde Documenta”, Huashan1914 Creative Park, Taipei, Taiwan
2004 “Nexus: Taiwan in Queens”, Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA
2003 “Passing 13”, Gallerie Pierre Art, Taichung, Taiwan
2003 “Contemporary Art in Taiwan”, Fong Chia Museum of Art, Taipei, Taiwan
2002 “Sour and Sweet Yeast”, Woman Art Exhibition, Huashan 1914, Creative Park/ Kio- A-Thau Sugar Factory, Taipei/ Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2001 “Journey of the Spirit”, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan 2001 “Treasure –Back to Nature Series”, Chingjing Farm, Nantou, Taiwan
1998 “Taiwan Female Art Exhibition –Image and Aesthetics”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
1998 “Reflection and Reconsideration –228 Commemorative Exhibition”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
1998 “Sadness Transformed –228 Commemorative Exhibition”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
1996 “1996 Taipei Biennial: The Quest For Identity”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
1994 “Space II Group Exhibition”, National Taiwan Art Museum, Taichung, Taiwan
1993 “Space II Group Exhibition”, UP Gallery, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
1993 “Colorful Abstract Art”, Home Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
1993 “Space II Group Exhibition”, SPACE II Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
1992 “Space II Group Exhibition”, SPACE II Gallery/GO GO Gallery/ Up Gallery, Taipei /Tainan/Kaohsiung, Taiwan
1992 “Individualism, Third Party”, Capital Art Center, Taichung, Taiwan
1991 “Female, Me, Exhibition”, Dimension Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
1991 “Space II Group Experimental Exhibition”, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
1991 “Space II Group Exhibition”, Space II, Taipei, Taiwan
1990 “Space II Group Exhibition”, Space II, Taipei, Taiwan