PEY-CHWEN LIN（1959- ）
1996 Doctor of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong, Australia
1984/1985 M.A/B.F.A., Central Missouri State University, USA
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Base in Taipei and Kaohsiung in Taiwan, Pey-Chwen Lin was born in Taiwan in 1959. She has received many art awards and recognitions, including Taiwan Chung-Shing Award, Taiwan Public Art Award, Red Dot Award, Australian Visa of Distinguished Talent, One of The Best Asian Artists Selected by Picasso Mio, The First Prize (FELLOWSHIP PRIZE 2020 – Platinum Certificate Award in Art Project category) in Art Woman 2020 International Exhibition, PPLG Project & Services for the Culture and Contemporary Art Italy, and The First Prize of New Media Art in 2019 Italy XII Florence Biennial of International Award ‘Lorenzo il Magnifico’. Her works have been presented in many major museums and galleries all around the world, such as Queens Museum of Art in New York, CUNY/ QCC Art Gallery in New York, Godwin-Ternbach Art Museum in New York, New York Art Foundation, TAAC Tribeca/ E. Tay/ R Gallery, American University Art Museum in Washington DC, San Francisco State University Art Museum, Moscow Platforma Art Space, WRO ART Center in Poland, Lviv National Art Museum in Ukraine, Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje, Croatia: Galerija AŽ Atelieri Žitnjak in Zagreb, Slovenia: SCCA–Ljubljana Center for Contemporary Arts, Germany: Art Space ‘Rosalux’ in Berlin, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, MOCA Taipei, Kaohsiung Museum of Art, Taidung Museum of Art, Tainan Art Museum, Guandu Art Museum, Fong-Chia Art Museum, MoNTUE Museum, Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai Doland Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing 798 Artist Village, etc. Additionally, her works have been exhibited in many important biennales, exhibitions, festivals and art fairs such as Florence Biennale, Taipei Biennale, Taiwan Biennale, Poland WRO Media Art Biennale, Douro Printmaking Biennial, French Exit and Via Festival, 404 International Technology and Art Festival, Art Woman 2020 Italy PPLG, Asian Women’s Art Exhibition, 40 Years Taiwan Contemporary Art Exhibition, Taipei Art Fair, Taichung Art Fair, Singapore Art Stage Art Fair, among others.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2006 | “The Beautiful New World”, 798 Art Village, Dimensions Art Center, Beijing, China 2005 “Fascination & Frustration”, Artist Space of National Hsinchu University of Education/ Art Center of Kao Yuan University, Hsinchu/Kaohsiung, Taiwan |
| 2006 | “Artificial Life”, Art Center of National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan |
| 2011 | “Eve Clone Series”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2011 | “Eve Clone Series II”, Galerie Grand Siecle, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2012 | “Eve Clone Series III”, Art Stage Singapore, Singapore |
| 2015 | “Revelation‧Notification –Solo Exhibition by Lin Pey-Chwen”, National Tsing Hua University Arts Center, Hsinchu, Taiwan |
| 2017 | “Making of Eve Clone”, Galerie Grand Siècle, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2018 | “Making of Eve Clone II “, B.B.Art, Tainan, Taiwan |
| 2019 | “Making of Eve Clone III”, The Fine Arts Museum of National Defense, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2019 | “Eve Clone Augmented Reality”, QCC Art Gallery, CUNY, New York, USA |
| 2020 | “Body Manifestation : Pey-Chwen Lin Solo Exhibition”, Da Xiang Art Space, Taichung, Taiwan |
SELECTED JOINT EXHIBITIONS
| 2018 | “404 International Festival of Art and Technology”, The University of Massachusetts Lowell Art Center, Massachusetts, USA |
| 2018 | “Douro Printmaking Biennial”, Douro, Portugal |
| 2018 | “XXI Symposium Neuroradiologicum”, Taipei International Convention Center, Taipei |
| 2019 | “GZ-New York”, New York, USA |
| 2018 | “GZ-BASEL” Parallel Exhibition of Art Basel, Basel, Swiss |
| 2019 | “Should We Play?”, Taipei Art District Festival, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2019 | “Being Here as ME: New Media Art Exhibition of Women Artists from Taiwan”, American University Museum, Washington DC, USA |
| 2019 | “GZ-XPO London –Art and Awareness Exhibition”, London, England |
| 2019 | “Light Year 53: From The People To The Land”, Manhattan Bridge Anchorage, New York, USA |
| 2019 | “Urban Tribes”, New York Foundation for the Arts/ El Taller Art Center/TAAC Tribeca/E. Tay/R Gallery, New York, USA |
| 2019 | “Cross-border and Hybrid”, Art Taipei, Taipei |
| 2020 | “XII Florence Biennale”, Florence, Italy |
Revelation of Eve Clone III
Media: 3D Animation, Digital Image and Sound, Interactive System, 3D Printing Object,WebCam, Computer, Projector, Stereo Interactive installation Dimensions Variable
Year: 2011
Revelation of Eve Clone III was created and exhibited at the “Post-Humanist Desire” international art exhibition at MOCA Taipei. I used 3D animation to recreate all the characteristics in Revelation of Eve Clone I, such as reproductivity and the Time Code. Additionally, I added the Whore of Babylon, the Number of the Beast, and Bible verses related to the Great Image in the “The Book of Daniel. In this exhibition, Eve Clone’s body had the texture of a golden head, a silver body, a brass belly, iron legs, and half-iron, half-clay feet. Her body, which looked like a fetus with a bowed head, was now a more attractive female body.
Moreover, to show that she was the worshipped Great Image, I printed the animation file of Eve Clone into a 3D golden head, sticking it in the middle of the image so that the audience could touch the Number of the Beast on her forehead. This act of touching had multiple meanings: having sexual intercourse with her, being imprinted with the Number of the Beast, and raising a hand to worship her. In addition, it triggered Eve Clone to raise her head and dance, as if giving her life. The Time Code that keeps changing on the top of her head and the random Bible passages at the bottom of her feet together with the background music with weird iron rubbing sounds that sound like fake hymns convey a feeling of spookiness to the viewers.
