DEBBIE Y.J. LIN 林晏如 (she/they) is an East Asian Canadian Californian interdisciplinary artist interested in site specific work focused on the architecture of human sound and languages. Having performed as a vocalist at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Hollywood Bowl, and Carnegie Hall, she experiments with the reconciling of performative and reflective, time-based works, often using a hybrid of sound, found, upcycled, video and emerging mediums to transcribe the transience of thought through the lens of Faith and technology. Making their European museum debut at Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe and Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia Spain, she then followed up with “Time Torn (an absence of)” at the LiTE-HAUS Galerie + Projektraum during Berlin Art Week. In 2018, they premiered movement one of “Fine Tooth Combing Through My Short Term Memory (FTCTMSTM)” and was also shown at Loop Barcelona. More recently, she has exhibited at the Neutra Institute Gallery & Museum in Los Angeles, Equity Gallery in New York, A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn, with an Asia solo debut exhibition at CICA Museum in S. Korea. They graduated cum laude from UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music with a Bachelor of Arts in Music Education, summa cum laude from Berklee College of Music with a Master of Music in Production and Technology and received a Master of Arts in Media Studies from The New School of Public Engagement in New York. Their works have either been shown and/or privately collected in the UK, US, Canada, S. Korea, Italy, Germany, Spain, Taiwan, Sweden and Norway. In 2021, she received the inaugural California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship Grant Award and was also a recipient of the Canada Arts Council Travel grant to install her Asian debut solo exhibit. In 2023, she made her lead role debut in the arthouse feature film, Winter in LA and has also directed, composed and produced the art films Q as in Quiet, horizontal sowing, Vivid Dreams Only Happy in Rapid Eye Movement Sleep (VDOHREMS) and cluttermonster. She is the founder and co-curator of V I D E O S O U N D A R CH I V E and splits their time between "Taipei", "Vancouver", "Los Angeles" and "New York," working as an artist-filmmaker and media culture consultant in transdisciplinary equitable creative expressions; she usually exhibits/performs/films once a year somewhere TBD.
I humbly acknowledge that I live and work on the Unceded and Ancestral Territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm,Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and səlilwətaɬ nations and acknowledge the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar
DEBBIE Y.J. LIN 林晏如 (she/they) is an East Asian Canadian Californian interdisciplinary artist interested in site specific work focused on the architecture of human sound and languages. Having performed as a vocalist at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Hollywood Bowl, and Carnegie Hall, she experiments with the reconciling of performative and reflective, time-based works, often using a hybrid of sound, found, upcycled, video and emerging mediums to transcribe the transience of thought through the lens of Faith and technology. Making their European museum debut at Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe and Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia Spain, she then followed up with “Time Torn (an absence of)” at the LiTE-HAUS Galerie + Projektraum during Berlin Art Week. In 2018, they premiered movement one of “Fine Tooth Combing Through My Short Term Memory (FTCTMSTM)” and was also shown at Loop Barcelona. More recently, she has exhibited at the Neutra Institute Gallery & Museum in Los Angeles, Equity Gallery in New York, A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn, with an Asia solo debut exhibition at CICA Museum in S. Korea. They graduated cum laude from UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music with a Bachelor of Arts in Music Education, summa cum laude from Berklee College of Music with a Master of Music in Production and Technology and received a Master of Arts in Media Studies from The New School of Public Engagement in New York. Their works have either been shown and/or privately collected in the UK, US, Canada, S. Korea, Italy, Germany, Spain, Taiwan, Sweden and Norway. In 2021, she received the inaugural California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship Grant Award and was also a recipient of the Canada Arts Council Travel grant to install her Asian debut solo exhibit. In 2023, she made her lead role debut in the arthouse feature film, Winter in LA and has also directed, composed and produced the art films Q as in Quiet, horizontal sowing, Vivid Dreams Only Happy in Rapid Eye Movement Sleep (VDOHREMS) and cluttermonster. She is the founder and co-curator of V I D E O S O U N D A R CH I V E and splits their time between "Taipei", "Vancouver", "Los Angeles" and "New York," working as an artist-filmmaker and media culture consultant in transdisciplinary equitable creative expressions; she usually exhibits/performs/films once a year somewhere TBD.
I humbly acknowledge that I live and work on the Unceded and Ancestral Territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm,Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and səlilwətaɬ nations and acknowledge the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar