bio

Yen-Chao Lin 林延昭 is a Taipei-born Montreal-based multidisciplinary artist. A self-described postmodern archivist and natural history enthusiast, her work explores divination arts, occult sciences, oral history, religion, power and social permaculture through means of intuitive play, craft techniques, collaboration, scavenging and collecting. Her current research is focused on dowsing, psychic mapping and resource extraction.

Yen-Chao has been invited to give public presentations at Artexte (Montreal), Centre A (Vancouver), GAX Asian Indigenous Relations in Contemporary Art (Montreal), PHI Foundation (Montreal), among others. Her works have been shown at  Art Metropole (Toronto), Berlinale (Berlin), Edinburgh International Film Festival (Edinburgh), Hong-gah Museum (Taipei), OBORO (Montreal), SAVVY Contemporary (Berlin), SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art (Montreal), among others. Yen-Chao currently serves on the Board of articule (Montreal), her most recent installation The Eroding Garden is featured at Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal until April 2021.