YO-YO LIN
Bleached blonde Taiwanese American femme sitting in front of a window with a basil plant framing the photo, wearing an ombre white and black denim jacket.
Yo-Yo Lin 林友友 is a Taiwanese-American, interdisciplinary media artist who explores the possibilities of self-knowledge in the context of emerging, embodied technologies. She often uses video, animation, live performance, and lush sound design to create meditative ‘memoryscapes.’ Her recent body of work reveals and re-values the complex realities of living with chronic illness and intergenerational trauma.
She creates openings into these realities in the form of spaces, performances, or tools. Her practice often facilitates sites for community-centered abundance, developing into physical and virtual media installations, workshops, accessible nightlife parties, and artist collectives.
She was a 2019 Artist in Residence at Eyebeam, a 2020 Open Call Recipient for The Shed, the 2021 Red Burns Fellow at NYU Tisch ITP/IMA, and a 2022 Sundance Interdisciplinary Lab fellow. She has shown works at international multimedia art galleries (Human Resources, Lincoln Center, La Corte Contemporanea), film festivals (New York Film Festival, SXSW, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival), performance venues (The Shed NYC, Gibney Dance, Ars Nova), and conferences (Allied Media Conference). Her work has been featured on NOWNESS, Art in America, and Surface Magazine. She is a 2022 Disability Futures Fellow, a 2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow for Technology-Centered Arts, and a 2024 United States Artist Fellow for Media.
Yo-Yo is the co-founder of ROTATIONS, a collaborative movement practice working towards deepening our understanding of artistry, disability, and access.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Yo-Yo lived and worked in New York City for 7 years. Currrently she is based in Taipei, Taiwan reconnecting with land, body, and ancestors.
Please send inquiries to: yyl.workshop@gmail.com.
