Aether Lin

Born in Tainan, Taiwan, in 1987, Lin, Yi-Wei attended the fine arts department of Taipei National University of the Arts, majoring in painting and minoring in ink and wash painting. Presently, 2016 graduated from the Graduate Institute of Trans-Disciplinary Arts in Taipei National University of Arts. Lin is skilled at investigating the relationship between migration and immigrant by following threads such as waterways, river trekking, subway cars, and foreign residents.

From 2016 to 2019, Lin lived in Germany for more than two years, worked and lived in Frankfurt. Lin accumulated a lot of diaries that are inspired by the events in daily life. He published and named the selected diaries. 

For Lin, looking back and sorting through these diaries is like a screenwriter's role, and paintings and works are actors who interpret these diaries. The solo exhibition "Hourglass" in 2018 was composed of 11 diaries. The show in One Art Taipei in 2020 is back to the place where Lin wrote his diary in Germany, a small room coexisting with bees.

Awards: 2013 Taipei Arts Awards / Selected Award, 2012 Outstanding Art Prize of School of Fine Arts, TNUA; 2008 The 3rd Long Yen Foundation Creative Arts Award. Recent exhibitions include 2013 Taipei Arts Awards (Taipei Fine Arts Museum), 8 Hours (Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts), 2012 Compound eyes: Killing Image Lost in Taipei (Hong-gah Museum). 

Lin currently resides and works in Germany.

2017 moved to Germany. Now living and working in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

2006-2016 studied in Taipei, Taiwan and served in the National Immigration Agency.

1987 Born in Tainan city, Taiwan.

Experience
2014-2015 Alternative military service, National Immigration Agency.
2008-2009 Chairman of Student Association, Taipei National University of the Arts.

Education
2016 M.F.A Graduate Institute of Trans-disciplinary art, Taipei National University of the Arts.
2010 B.F.A in fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts.

Solo Exhibition
2018 Hourglass, GaiArt, Taipei
2016 Riverlike Narrative, Michael Ku Gallery, Taipei

Group Exhibition
2020 One Art Taipei 2020, Donna Art & Consulting, Taipei
2016 Taipei Biennial 2016, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
2013 Taipei Arts Awards, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
2013 Take Martian to an Exhibition, Nanhai Gallery, Taipei
2013 8 Hours, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei
2012 Compound eyes : Killing Image Lost in Taipei, Hong-gah Museum, Taipei
2012 Artistic Dimwit, Taipei Artist Village, Taipei
2010 The Generation of Pursuance – The Lost and Found of Painting Language,
Industrial Bank of Taiwan Gallery, Taipei

Grant
2018「2018-1 Regular Grants for Visual Arts Exhibition」，National Culture and Arts

Foundation
2016 Ministry of Culture : My First Show, Exhibition Fund, Taiwan

Awards
2013 Taipei Arts Awards, Selected Award, Taipei
2013 Outstanding Art Prize of School of Fine Arts, TNUA, Taipei
2008 The 3nd Long Yen Foundation Creative Arts Award, Taipei