Michael Lin (1964) is a Taiwanese artist living and working in Taipei and Brussels. Lin turns away from painting as an object of contemplation toward one of painting as a bounded, physical space, one we can settle into and inhabit (Vivian Rehberg). Lin orchestrates monumental painting installations that re-conceptualize and reconfigure public spaces. Using patterns and designs appropriated from traditional Taiwanese textiles. Transforming the institutional architecture of the public museum, his unconventional paintings invite visitors to reconsider their usual perception of those spaces, and to become an integral part of the work, giving meaning to its potential as an area for interaction, encounter, and re-creation.

His works have been exhibited in major institutions and international Biennials around the world including The Auckland Triennial and the California Pacific Triennial (2013), Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Manila (2016), National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2017), Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei (2019) and most recently at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto and Jumex Museum, Mexico City (2020) and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2022).