Shue Chin Lin

Shue Chin Lin (Lin Hsueh-Ching; 林雪卿; born 1952, Taipei County, Taiwan) is a senior Taiwanese printmaker, educator, and arts administrator whose decades-long career has helped institutionalize contemporary printmaking education in Taiwan. She holds professorial appointments at two universities, serves as Director of the Taiwan Printmaking Society and President of the Association of Taiwan Artist Today, and is a founding member of the Evergreen Graphic Art Association — among the principal print-related organizations in twenty-first-century Taiwan.

Lin earned a B.F.A. from National Taiwan Normal University in 1975 and then traveled to Japan for graduate study, completing an M.F.A. at the University of Tsukuba in 1989. After graduate school she returned to Taiwan and built her academic career; she currently holds professorial appointments at the University of Taipei — in both its Graduate School and its Department of Visual Arts — and in the Graduate School of Printmaking at the National Taiwan University of Arts.

Her studio practice centers on printmaking, and across her career she has developed a recognizable visual vocabulary marked by fine white lines that twist and meander across the printed surface, lending her compositions an ordered, spacious calm within seemingly plain arrangements.

Lin's record of awards in Taiwan is substantial. She received the Golden Seal Prize from the Printmaking Society of the Republic of China in 2000, the Golden Tripod Medal from the ROC Painting Association in 1991, and the Grand Award from the Printmaking Society of the ROC in 1987. Her earlier honors include First Prize in Printmaking at the Taiwan Provincial Art Exhibition in 1977, Second Prize in Printmaking at the ROC National Art Exhibition (1977 and again in 1992), and Second Prize in Printmaking at the Art Exhibition of the Taipei International Women's Club in 1975. Her work has also been recognized internationally, with an Honorable Mention at the 1st NBC Meshtec Tokyo International Screen Print Biennial in 2007 and a Jury Award at the 2nd Biennial in 2009.

As a curator she has organized major exhibitions of contemporary Taiwanese print, including Printmaking Grace of Ancient Taipei at the Taipei Zhongshan Hall (2013), Interface • Imprint – International Biennial Print Exhibition at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (2012), and the Monumental Ideas in Miniature Books series at the National Taiwan University of Arts (2010 and 2011). Her solo exhibitions have been held in Taiwan, Japan, and the United States since the 1990s — among them the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (2005), the 456 Gallery in New York (2002), and Gallery Shin in Tokyo (1999) — and her work is held in public and private collections, including the Taipei Fine Arts Museum.

Within the Taiwanese contemporary printmaking landscape Lin occupies a distinctive senior-administrator position: an artist whose teaching, professional-society leadership, and curatorial work have helped shape how printmaking is taught and exhibited in Taiwan, while she has continued to maintain a recognizable print practice of her own.