Jennifer Mien Mien Lin is a Taiwanese-Canadian-American multidisciplinary artist whose 16-year career spans fine art photography, sculpture, mixed media, music composition, cinematography, and large-scale painting.
Trained as a classical pianist from childhood and fluent in Mandarin, English, and French, Lin’s artistry is deeply informed by her early career as an award-winning musician. Her work traverses the intersection of discipline, knowledge, and exploration, forging a distinctive presence in contemporary art and earning international recognition.
Graduating from McGill University with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Art History, Lin’s commitment to storytelling shapes her artistic process. Narrative threads weave through her photography, sculpture, music, and film, reflecting her belief in art’s transformative power.
Her photographic multimedia work delves into themes of identity, femininity, and the body’s relationship with space and nature. Blurring the line between performance and autobiography, Lin’s self-portraits reclaim the female form as a site of agency and self-determination. Each image is in tension between intimacy and distance, personal mythology and universal archetypes.
Lin’s most recent project, "Be Still and Still Moving," is an immersive bioluminescent tree installation that integrates art, technology, and ecological consciousness. This multi-year undertaking transforms environmental advocacy into an experience of wonder while emphasizing the urgency of reforestation. Lin leads a team of designers, fabricators, and engineers to bring this large-scale interactive installation to life. She also composed an original score for the project, enhancing its sensory and emotional impact. Unbound by category, Lin’s work exists where form, material, and meaning converge. Her understanding of rhythm and structure, rooted in her musical background, translates into layered compositions across photography, film, and sculpture.
By age fourteen, she had achieved the Royal Conservatory of Music’s highest distinction and won first place in Canada’s National Piano Competition in the Romantic Composer Division with her performance of a Chopin Nocturne. Her devotion to artistic excellence from youth lends her works a polished, lyrical quality. Lin worked for renowned artists such as Ai Weiwei, Anish Kapoor, and Michelangelo Pistoletto while living in Beijing and Berlin. In Beijing, she led teams of sculptors in realizing large-scale works that deepened her engagement with materiality and conceptual rigor. Beyond fine art, Lin is a dedicated storyteller whose documentary films capture narratives of resilience and displacement. Her projects include chronicling the journey of an Afghan refugee in Germany and documenting education’s transformative power among Dalit “Untouchable” girls in Southern India. Through various platforms, Lin actively engages in critical dialogues about art’s evolving role in society.
As a guest lecturer at ArtCenter College of Design, she emphasizes creativity as a powerful act of resistance and transformation, challenging conventions to reimagine art’s possibilities in the contemporary world. Her contributions extend to international art conferences, where she provokes thought on the intersection of form, material, and meaning. Lin’s voice resonates beyond academic settings. She was featured on the esteemed podcast “Women As/In Art” with Leah Schrager, where she reflected on the dual role of women as both muse and creator, explored the nuances of femininity in art, and shared her personal experiences growing up as a Taiwanese immigrant. Through these conversations, Lin not only addresses the complexities of identity and representation but also underscores art’s potential to inspire dialogue and foster cultural transformation. Her unwavering commitment to social and environmental justice informs every facet of her practice. This is the very heartbeat of “Be Still and Still Moving,” which she looks forward to sharing with the world in 2026.
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2019 July- “I am a woman” Curated by Noah Becker, Lichundfire space, 175 Rivington, New York
2018- Art Basel Miami "Her and Now" Exhibition sponsored by White Wall Magazine
2016-"Ataraxia”, 176 Orchard, New York
2014-Metro Show Art Fair in New York represented by Stephen Romano Fine Arts
2015-Inaugural exhibition at Stephen Romano Gallery at New York,
2015-IFAC 20th anniversary exhibition, Athens, Greece
2015-"Missis Expesis", Stephen Romano Gallery
2015- "New York City Legends", curated by Lee Wells, IFAC, New York
2014-Director’s choice by Dean of Yale School of art in Photography Exhibition at Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, Connecticut
2014-“Memento Mori” Exhibition at Project Gallery, Toronto,Canada
2014-“Girl by Girl” exhibition at Adjunct Gallery, 39 Spring street, New York
2012-Spring Professional Women Photographers Winner adjudicated by Julie Saul
2012-Director’s Choice from Guggenheim Curator Nat Trotman, Juried Photography Competition
Artist in Residency:Espacio Saltamantis Miami 2019
Solo Exhibitions:
2020- Anima solo exhibition at Clifton Yaeger Gallery, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
2020- Anima, Jennifer Mien Mien Lin, Casa De Secretos, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
2019- Mutant Femininity, Jennifer Mien Mien Lin, Espacio Saltamantis, Art Basel Miami
2018- Jennifer Mien Mien Lin, Caden, New York
2016- Rise:Haus am Dom, Frankfurt Germany
2014- Salon, Millennium Towers, San Francisco
2013-SITAWI Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
