BIODATA - ARTIST

       

      LIN HSIN HSIN, Artist

      INSPIRATIONS

      Lin Hsin Hsin draws her inspirations from generic sources like music, nature, time and her travels abroad.

        NON-digital Art

        Since the 80s, Lin has been painting by theme and by series. Apart from the "Sun in the Studio Series,
        all her works are oil paintings, oil on canvas or oil on paper. Lin has created unprecedented effects for oil paintings
        as she is able to make the oil paint translucent to look like watercolor, she is also able to make it look like pencil,
        charcoal and even chinese ink.

        Lin specializes in plexiglass sculptures as well as paper sculptures.

        • Man and his Universe (1982)
        • New Waves (1984)
        • Light Waves (1985)
        • Music (1987)
        • Aqua (1989)
        • Memoirs of Deutschland I (1989)
        • Memoirs of Frankfurter Buchmesse (1990)
        • Time (1991)
        • Sun in theStudio (1991)
        • Man and Woman (1991)
        • Back to Nature (1992)
        • Memoirs of Deutschland II (1993)
        • Zoomorph Concerto (1994)
        • Art, Science and Technology Series (1994)
         

        Digital Art

        Lin's digital voyage began with her creation of :

        • 1st digital music on IBM XT PC in 1985
        • 1st digital 3D painting on IBM PHIG in 1987
        • 1st digital animation on IBM AT PC in 1988
        • she continued to research and practise the digital media in 2D and 3D, both static and animated.
        • Lin has pioneered several generes of digital media, including:
        • DigitalArt, Digital Installation Art, MetaphorArt, Net Art, Web Art, Interactive Web Art and PhoneArt
        • Lin first exhibited her digital artworks in 1994 -- the year she:

        • has decided to discard to use the real world paint and brush
        • has built the first virtual museum on the Web in the world
        • has created more than 50,000 digital artworks todate.
       

      ART and MUSIC

        Lin paints with music and creates artworks from of music as seen in the Music Series. The forty five paintings in this series is a testimony of her music from nature (sound of the bird, water, echo in the desert etc) and man-made music (as in music composed by J S Bach, Beethoven etc).
       

      ART and SCIENCE

        -- Aesthetics founded on Scientific Disciplines

        Over the years Lin has created nearly a more than a thousand paintings using mainly oil -- her speciality, on canvas and paper. Her intimate understanding of the medium has lead her into successful implementation of disguising the properties of oil. In 1989, she has discarded the opacity of oil and pioneered the use of oil to look translucent like watercolor. She is well-known for making oil to look like watercolor, pastel, pencil and Chinese ink wash.

        Besides painting, Lin has a large repetoire of work on paper which includes monoprints, papier collés, collages, collographs and paper sculptures using various types of handmade paper including lama paper (Nepalese), Korean paper, sa paper washi and artist handmade paper. In 1992, Lin has pioneered the making of acid-free paper making using papaya, traveller's palm and umbrella plant.

        In 1993, Lin recycled old computer newspaper and make pebbles. This installation art is accompained by her digital video tape and poem. It is to conmemorate the 20th anniversary of the personal computer.

        Lin makes sculptures using plexiglass, a medium she discovered from using the material for framing.

        Lin also makes and paints on ceramics.

       

      ART and POETRY

        Since the mid-80s, quite often her paintings are accompanied by her poems. In her 12th solo, 1992, all the paintings in the thematic exhibition "Back to Nature" were created from the poem of the same title. And, again for the "Zoomorph Concerto", 1994 in her 14th solo
       

      Solo Exhibitions

        1973
        Abstract Art Exhibition, Alpha Gallery

        1980
        Abstract Art Exhibition, National Museum Art Gallery, sponsored by Goethe Institute

        1984
        Creativity -- Abstract Art Exhibltion, Citibank, sponsored by Citibank N.A.

        1987
        Music Observed: The Art Of Lin Hsin Hsin, National Museum Art Gallery

        1989
        Memoirs of Deutschland, Marina Mandarin Hotel (to commemorate the Fortieth Anniversary of the Federal Republic of Germany) Where Water Flows: 120 paintings by Lin Hsin Hsin, National Museum Art Gallery, sponsored by Deutsche Bank AG

        1990
        Lin Hsin Hsin: Werken op papier, Stichting Onderneming & Kunst, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

        The Art of Reading: paintings by Lin Hsin Hsin, British Council Exhibition Hall, sponsored by The British Council

        Paper Works by Lin Hsin Hsin, dp Fong Galleries, San Jose, U.S.A.

        1991
        from Time to Time: 123 paintings and sculptures by Lin Hsin Hsin, National Museum Art Gallery, sponsored by BMW (SEA) Ltd and Performance Motors Ltd

        1992
        back to nature: 60 paintings and sculptures by Lin Hsin Hsin, National Museum

        1993
        Memoirs of Deutschland II: 50 paintings by Lin Hsin Hsin (to commenorate the visit of the German Chancellor), National Museum Art Gallery, presented by the German Embassy, sponsored by Volkswagen Asia Pacific Pte Ltd, Lufthansa German Airlines and Deutsche Bank AG

        1994
        IT's Happening!: 85 artworks by Lin Hsin Hsin, Empress Place Museum, sponsored by BMW Asia Ltd and Performance Motors Ltd

        Selection of paperworks by Lin Hsin Hsin, Tuas Marina Club, sponsored by BMW Asia Ltd and Performance Motors Ltd

        1997
        .@rt -- A Cyberart Show by Lin Hsin Hsin, Caldwell House, Chijmes, sponsored by BMW Asia Pte Ltd, Performance Motors Ltd and Toshiba Singapore Pte Ltd, co-sponsored by Compaq Computers Asia/Pacifc Pte Ltd, Cisco System (USA) Pte Ltd, Lucent Technologies Singapore Pte Ltd (GPS) and ECON AV Concepts Pte Ltd

       

      Selected Group Exhibitions

        Participated in more than 160 group exhibitions in:

      • Asia (Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Bangkok, Manila, Banda Seri Begawan, Colombo, Hong Kong, Japan: Imadate, Kumoto, Oita, Saga, Nagasaki, Miyazaki, Naha, Okinawa, Kagoshima, Yokohama, Kobe, Sapporo; China: Beijing, Shandong, Suzhou, Shanghai, Quanzhou, Xiamen, Guangdong; Seoul)
      • Europe (Paris, Germany: Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Mannheim & Nürnberg, The Netherlands: Amsterdam, Rotterdam & Utrecht, Basel, Glasgow, Brastilava)
      • U.S.A. (Washington D.C., Indianapolis, Dallas Ft Worth, Los Angeles, Honolulu)
      • South America (Bienal Internacional de Arte Valparaíso, Chile Dü sseldorf, Hamburg, Mannheim & Nü rnberg, Germany

        1980 -84, 88 Singapore Festival of Arts, National Museum Art Gallery
        1980 5th Festival of Asian Arts, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
        1980, 1985 Festival of Contemporary Asian Art Show: Fukuoka Art Musuem, Fukuoka, Japan
        1984 Singapore Art: A Decade, National Museum Art Gallery
        1985 4th ASEAN Exhibition of Painting & Photography, Singapore,
        Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Bangkok, Manila, Banda Seri Bega
        1985 - 1986 Traveling Exhibition in Japan (Kumoto, Oita, Saga, Nagasaki,
        Miyazaki, Naha, Okinawa, Kagoshima)
        1985, 1986 Salon des Artistes Française, Grand Palais, Paris, France
        1986 Salon Comparaisons Grand Palais, Paris, France
        1986 Salon du Dessin et de la Peinture à l'eau, Grand Palais, Paris, France
        1986 Seoul Contemporary Asian Art Show National Museum of Modern
        1987 IBM Singapore Art Award Exhibition, IBM Towers, Singapore
        1988 Japan Art Exhibition, Sogo Art Gallery, Yokohama, Kobe, Sappo
        1987, 1989 Bienal Internacional de Arte Valparaíso, Chile
        1989 Hong Art Exhibition, Hong Art Center, Hong Kong
        1989 First Bru-Sin Art Exhibition, National Museum Brunei Darussalum
        1989 - 1990 Contemporary Singapore Painting: Where East meets West:
        Tropen Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
        Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Mannheim & Nürnberg, Germany
        1990 Corporate Collections Travel East - West, World Trade Centre,
        1990 Corporate Collections Travel East - West, Empress Place Museum
        1990 Urban Artists -- 25 Years of Singapore Art, National Museum Art
        1990 Internationale Kunstmesse, Hamburg, Germany
        1991 Many in one -- 25 Years of Art in Singapore, National Museum
        1991 - 1993 Many in one -- 25 Years of Art in Singapore, National Museum Art Gallery, Washington D.C., New York, Indianapolis, Dallas, Los Angeles, Honolulu, U.S.A.
        1992 11th International Exhibition, Imadate Art Museum, Imadate, Japan
        1992 Singapore Contemporary Art, Colombo, Sri Lanka
        1993 ASEAN Indigenious Art Conference Exhibition, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines
        1993 Art in Asia, World Trade Center, Singapore
        1993 Sony Art in Singapore, The Space, Isetan Scotts
        1993 Strategies -- Inauguration Art Exhibition for Takashimaya
        Singapore, Takashimaya Art Gallery, Singapore
        1994 Window on Singapore Art:
        1994 Travelling exhibition in China: Beijing, Shandong, Suzhou, Shanghai, Quanzhou, Xiamen, Guangdong
        1995 COFAX '95 E-mail 2 Art show, Bratislava, Slovakia
        1995 freeSpace Art Show, Royal College of Art, London, United kingdom
        1995 SIGGRAPH 1995, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, USA
        1995 Ost-West Festival, Warsaw, Poland
        1995 BEECAMP'95 Festival, Slovak Radio Corporation, Bratislava, Slovakia
        1995 FIVA ONLINE 95, Montréal, Canada
        1995 Springtij Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands
        1996 COFAX '96 E-mail 3 Art show, Bratislava, Slovakia
        1997 COFAX '97 E-mail 4 Art show, Bratislava, Slovakia
        1997 Springtij Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands
        1998 Virtual Worlds, Leonardo di Vinci, La Defense, Paris, France
        1998 "As Worlds Collide", SIGGRAPH 1998, Orlando, USA
        1999 "InterSculpt 99", Mairie du VIeme, Paris, France
        1999 "ArtNet 1999", Machida City Art of Graphic Arts, Tokyo, Japan
        2000 ......

        Art Awards & Fellowships

        1976 Special Award, Ministry of Culture
        1979 Dr Tan Tsze Chor Art Award
        1985 Silver Medal, Société des Artistes Française, Paris
        1987 First Prize, IBM Singapore Art Award
        1988 Testimonies of European Cultural Epochs Visiting Fellowship, Federal Republic of Germany
        1991 Japan Foundation Fellowship
        1995 Top 5% of All Web Sites Award, Point Communication, USA
        1996 Top 1000 Web Sites Award, Point Communication, USA
        1996 Virtuocity Award, VXR Corporation, USA
        1997 Editor's Choice Award, NBNews Corporation, USA

      Publications

        Besides publishing poems and papers in information technology, she has published several papers and articles and has given lectures on art and art-related topics such as holography, and computer and the arts.

      Collections

        Her works are in private, public and museum collections in 28 cities across Asia, Australia, Europe and U.S.A.

      Memberships

        Lin is a member of the International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists (IAPMA) based in Switzerland.

        She a member of the International Society of the Arts, Science and Technology (ISAST) based in U.S.A.

        She is a member of the Discovery Art Exhibition Advisory Commmittee, Shell Eastern Petroleum since 1986.
        She was an advisor on Art Resource Program, National Arts Council.

       

      See also:

      Lin as an information technologist
      Lin as a poet
      Lin as a composer