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Ciwas Tahos Anchi Lin (1989), born and raised in Taiwan (currently in Berlin till May 2027).

EDUCATION


•  Master of Fine Arts majoring in New Media Art from Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA), School of Film and New Media. Taipei, Taiwan. Thesis published Jan 2024: Finding Pathways to Temahahoi – A Series of Art Projects

•  Bachelor of Fine Arts majoring in Visual Art from Simon Fraser University, School for the Contemporary Arts, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Graduated 2015


AWARDS


• DAAD 2026 Visual Arts Fellow. DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program. Berlin, Germany. May 2026 - May 2027. 

• Leslie-Lohman Museum Artist Fellowship. New York, USA. Oct 2024 - May 2025.

• Pulima Art Award Biannual Prize. Supported by the Indigenous Peoples Cultural Foundation. Taiwan. Aug 2023 (work: Finding Pathways to Temahahoi 2020-2022)

• Inaugural Taiwan Artist for the Australia-Taiwan Friendship Year Arts Exchange Partnership. Australian office, Taipei National Culture and Arts Foundation, Australia. May – Jun 2023

• TNUA Genie Lab Art Competition – 1st Prize Award. Taiwan. 2021 (collaboration work)

• TNUA Postgraduate Scholarship Award, Taiwan. 2021

• TNUA Contemporary Art Prize – Merit Award, Taiwan. 2021 (work: Unwanted Exchange 2019-2021)

• Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery Emerging Artist Award, Canada. 2016 (work: To the Shore 2015)

• Bob Rennie Undergraduate Award In Visual Art, Canada. 2015

• Pulima Art Award (Taiwan Indigenous Contemporary Art) – Honourable Mention, Taiwan. 2014 (work: The Mask 2014)

• Takao Tanabe Award in Visual Art, Canada. 2014

• Simon Fraser University Service Award in Contemporary Arts, Canada. 2014


RESIDENCIES


• DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program Visual Arts Fellow provided with Künstlerhaus Bethanien Studio. Berlin, Germany. May 2026 - May 2027. 

• La Trobe Art Institute. Bendigo, VIC. Australia. July 2025

• Bundanon Trust. Supported by Performance Space. NSW, Australia. Nov 2024

• Ba-Bau AIR. Supported by Taipei Open - Contemporary Art Center. Hanoi, Vietnam. Jul 2023

• Portland Institute For Contemporary Art. Portland, USA. Mar 2023

• Kyoto Art Centre Artist in Residence Program. Supported by Taipei Performing Arts Center. Kyoto Art Center. Kyoto, Japan. Sep – Oct 2022

• Tjimur Theatre Artist Residency in conjunction with The 3rd Tjimur Arts Festival. Pingtung, Taiwan. 2020

• Tsung-Yeh Arts and Cultural Centre. Madou, Tainan, Taiwan. 2019


WRITING


• Seeking Gender Identity in the Contexts of Atayal: An Art Project. Pacific Arts Journal. Author: Anchi Lin [Ciwas Tahos]. Published by the University of California. Vol. 22, No. 2. (2022)


INTERVIEW


• BBC World Service - In the Studio: Anchi Lin (Ciwas Tahos). July 2024


SOLO SHOWS


• mgluw tuqiy na Temahahoi Finding Pathways to Temahahoi. Artspace Aotearoa. Curated by Daniel John Corbett Sanders. Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. 10 Jun – 6 Aug 2022

• Unwanted Exchange. Fogstand Gallery & Studio, Hualien, Taiwan. Mar 3 – Apr 30 2021

• Read Between the Lines
. Artist-in-Residence Award, Final Exhibition. Red Brick Craft Centre. Tsung-Yeh Art and Cultural Centre, Tainan, Taiwan. Jul 4 – Aug 25 2019


SELECT GROUP SHOWS


Current:

• Siōng Tshinn at gdm 爍樂 (Galerie du Monde). Taipei, Taiwan

2026


• Breaking Ground: Art and Activism in Indigenous Taiwan. Curated by Nakaw Putun, Manuela Well-Off-Man and Jay Chun-Chieh LAI. Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA). Santa Fe, New Mexico. 15 Aug 2025 – 04 Jan 2026 (including satellite show in the Taiwan Ministry of Culture (MOC) foyer. Taipei, Taiwan)

• Splitting Ice/Briser la glace. Manif D’art 12: The Québec City Biennial. Manif D’Art 12 La Biennale De Québec. Curated by Didier Morelli. Québec City, Canada. 28 Feb 28 – 19 Apr 2026  (including durational performance)

•  Kindom. Art Basel Hong Kong (Booth 1C46 Discoveries for PTT Space). Curated by Alfonse Chiu. Hong Kong. 25 – 29 Mar 2026

• Yuri - Until We Touch our Emotional Quadrants. Curated by Yung-Lin Wang and Liang-Yin Wang. Hsinchu City Art Gallery and Upgallery. Hsinchu, Taiwan. 26 May – 02 Aug 2026

• The Covenant of Dadu: A Diplomacy of Things between Mountains and Seas. Curated by Yu-Chang Shen. Taichung Art Museum, Taichung, Taiwan. 08 May – 02 Aug 2026


2025

• CHTHONIC CHORUS. Curated by Jake Treacy. Incinerator Gallery. Naarm Melbourne, Australia. 01 Feb - 30 Mar 2025

• TO CARRY. Sharjah Biennial. Alia Swastika, Amal Khalaf, Megan Tamati-Quennell, Natasha Ginwala, and Zeynep Öz. Sharjah, UAE. 06 Feb – 15 Jun 2025

• ALOHA NŌ. Hawai‘i Triennial. Co-curated by Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Binna Choi, and Noelle M.K.Y. Kahanu. Hawai'i. 15 Feb – 4 May 2025  (including durational performance)

• BA’ZINZILE: A REHEARSAL FOR BREATHING. Stellenbosch Triennial. Curated by Khanyisile Mbongwa. Stellenbosch, South Africa. 19 Feb – 30 Apr 2025 (including durational performance)

• Sticky Hands, Stitched Mountains. In collaboration with Nanako Matsumoto. Curated by River Lin. Taipei Arts Festival. Taipei Performing Arts Center (TPAC). Taipei, Taiwan. 12 – 14 Sep 2025  (performances)

• Sticky Hands, Stitched Mountains. In collaboration with Nanako Matsumoto. Curated by Kate Britton. Liveworks Festival for Performance Space, Carriageworks. Sydney, Australia. 22 – 26 Oct 2025 (performances)

• Le Ceol. Curated by Jacqui Shelton. La Trobe Art Institute. Bendigo, Victoria, Australia. 19 Nov – 15 Feb 2026


2024

• 1st Taiwan International Austronesian Art Triennial: RamiS. Co-curated by Nakaw Putun and Etan Pavavalung.Taiwan Indigenous Culture Park. Pingtung, Taiwan. 17 Oct 2023  – 18 Feb 2024

• Feels like... ProtoZone13. Curated by Phila Bergmann & Thea Reifler. Shedhalle. Zurich, Switzerland. 17 Nov 2023 – 14 Jan 2024

• Landscapes of memories. Curated by Marta Trotsiuk. Digital Art Center. Taipei, Taiwan. 13 – 21 Jan 2024

• Squish! In the Forest. Curated by Eunha Chang. Insa Art Space, Seoul, Korea. 18 – 30 Jun 2024 

• Finding Pathways to Temahahoi. BLEED festival, Arts House. Naarm Melbourne, Australia. 30 Aug  – 28 Sep 2024 (including durational performances)

• Sticky Hands, Stitched Mountains. In collaboration with Nanako Matsumoto. Kyōto Experiment (world premiere). Kyōto, Japan. 12 – 14 Oct 2024 (Performances)

• Commoning 4. Curated by Emily Hsiang-Yun Huang. Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM) Net.Open Program. Taipei, Taiwan. (featuring net-art and live performance on 20 Oct 2024) 05 Oct – 10 Nov 2024

• Mythic Space: Back to the Beginning. Curated by Akuanx Poiconx. Ketagalan Culture Center. Taipei, Taiwan.


2023

• Persistence / Resistance: Taiwan and Canada Indigenous Art Exhibition. Tainan Fine Arts Museum. Tainan, Taiwan. Sep 2022 – Jan 2023

• Relic of the Future Temu Basaw & Ciwas Tahos Joint Exhibition. Islander Art Force. Hualien, Taiwan. Dec 2022 – Feb 2023

•
 : Balancing Between Indigeneity and Modernity. Vancouver Art Gallery. Vancouver, Canada. 02 Apr 2023 (Performance)

• Humus. Curated by Lu Wei & Tuan Mu. MoCA Studio. Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art. Taipei, Taiwan. 19 Aug – 15 Oct 2023

• Supersensible. Digital Art Center. Taipei, Taiwan. 26 Aug – 17 Sep 2023

• The Video, the Island and Difficulties of Re-Identity: Taiwan. Curated by Nobuo Takamori. Stacion Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina. Prishtina, Kosovo. 07 Aug – 06 Sep 2023

• Epicentrum Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA), Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria. (including live performance) 06 – 10 Sep 2023

• Amourous Mountains, Erotic Seas: Queer, Indigene, and the Hidden History as part of 2023 Pulima Art Festival. Curated by Wei-lun Lu.  Hualien, Taiwan. 01 Sep – 03 Dec 2023


2022


• Asia Art Biennale 2021: Phantasmapolis. Archive and Research Project: Beyond Time and Sex: An Opsis of Queer Sci-Fi in Asia. Curated and researched by Nicole Wong. National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. Taichung, Taiwan. Oct 2021 – Mar 2022

• Becoming Visible. Curated by Ariana Lombardi. Artpartment. Taipei, Taiwan. 19 - 29 Mar 2022

• Rehearsing 2057 (with hiṟing). Curated by River Lin. Experimental Theatre black box at the National Theater & National Concert Hall (NTNCH). Taipei, Taiwan. 22 Mar 2022 (Performance)

• Tides in Bodies. Curated by Hung-Fei Wu. Solid Art Gallery. Taipei, Taiwan. 21 May – 16 Jul 2022

• documenta 15. Wagiwagi - Greeting to Nature curated by SUAVEART & Jatiwangi Art Factory. Jatiwangi, Indonesia & Kassel, Germany. 18 Jun – 25 Sep 2022

• Perceiving Nature. Curated by Szu-Ju Wu. Hsinchu City Art Gallery. Hsinchu, Taiwan. 2022


2021

• The Green Island Human Rights Art Festival: Through the Reflection of Green Island. Curated by Jun-Honn Kao. National Human Rights Museum. Green Island, Taiwan. 2021

• Contemporary Art Prize Exhibition. Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA). Taipei, Taiwan. May 2021

• A Lingering Shadow. Curated by Henry Heng Lu, Helga Pakasaar, and Justin Ramsey. Co-presented by The Polygon Gallery and Centre A. Vancouver, Canada. Jul – Aug 2021 (Performance)

• Undercover Routes. Co-curated by Daniella Romano, John Stephenson, Alejandra Sánchez Mack, Daria Prygunova, and Fernanda Hsueh. Nanhai Gallery. Taipei, Taiwan. 20 Nov – 3 Dec 2021

• Borderless Shelter. Curated by Hsiang-Wen Chen. 16th Taipei Digital Art Festival. The Red House, Taipei, Taiwan. 2021


2020

• Phpah Art Festival - Mtukuy Seeder Project. Curated by Dondon Hounwn, Elug Art Corner. 2020 Pulima Art Festival in association with the Taiwan Indigenous Peoples Cultural Foundation. Hualien, Taiwan. 2020 (Performance)

• Real People Series - Action Intuition Exhibition. 2020 Pulima Art Festival in association with the Taiwan Indigenous Peoples Cultural Foundation. Curated by Hao-Yi Chen (Akac Orat). Taitung, Taiwan. 2020 (including Performance)

• 「」 Solo performance and collaboration with Ljaucu Tapurakac. 3rd Tjimur Arts Festival. Curated by Ljuzem Madiljim. Tjimur Dance Theatre. Pingtung, Taiwan. 2020 (Performance)

• LIPAF - The 2nd Langasan International Performance Art Festival. Curated by Adaw Palaf Langasan. Hualien, Taiwan. 2020 (Performances)

• Silent Carnival: The Sight of Gender In Taiwan Indigenous Contemporary Art - Myth Garden. Curated by Wei Lun Lu. Taoyuan City Indigenous Culture Centre. Taoyuan, Taiwan. 2020


2019

• Un-Ripening: Recipes for De-Colonisation. Curated by Tyler Russell. Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, Kelowna Art Gallery. Kelowna, BC, Canada. 2019 (including Performance)

• 5th Pangkor Island Festival. In partnership with the Indigenous Peoples Cultural Foundation of Taiwan. Pangkor Island, Malaysia. 2019  (including Siliq Performance)

• Negotiating “Asian-ness” in Canada. Curated by Yang Lam. In Conjunction with The Works Art and Design Festival, Norquest College Singhmar Centre. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. 2019

• LIPAF - The 1st Langasan International Performance Art Festival. Curated by Adaw Palaf Langasan. Hualien, Taiwan. 2019 (Performances)

• Trace-Series II performance responding artwork to Nirvana by Legacy Lab International.  Treasure Hill Light Festival. Frontier Gallery No.71. Treasure Hill Artist Village. Taipei, Taiwan. 2019 (Performance)

• The Mundane Obsessions of My Existence. NIPAF - 24th Nippon International Performance Art Festival. Curated by Seiji Shimoda. 3331 Chiyoda Arts, Matsumoto Art Centre. Tokyo, Kyōto, Osaka, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan. 2019 (Performances)

• Contributed to Ana Iti’s ‘Like everywhere, words come one foot after another’ exhibited in Strands. Curated by Melanie Oliver. The Dowse Art Museum. Te Awakairangi Lower Hutt, Aotearoa New Zealand. 2019


2018

• WAWA: Art in the Contemporary Pacific. Curated by Cheng-Yi Chien and Mei-Chen Tseng. Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts. Kaohsiung, Taiwan. 07 Oct 2017 — 20 Feb 2018 (work: To the Shore/Canoe and The Mask)


2017

• Eternal Return. Curated by Sunshine Frère. Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, Canada. Sep – Nov, 2017

• A Glass of Wine and Performance with Alanna Ho. Heavy As a Feather: En-Man Chang Exhibition. Curated by Tyler Russell and Makiko Hara. Centre A - Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. Vancouver, Canada. Nov 2016 – Feb 2017 (Performance)


2016

• Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery Emerging Artist Award Exhibition: To The Shore. Curated by Nigel Prince and Shaun Dacey. Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada. 2016 

• Digital Carnival Richmond World Festival: Water. Curated by Wynne PALMER in conjunction with Convolution Media Arts Society. Richmond Minoru Community Park. Richmond, Canada. 2016 (Performance)

• Condensation: A Stage with Quiet Applause in conjunction with Cinevolution Media Arts Society. National Asian Heritage Month: Your Kontinent Pop-up Media Festival. Lansdowne Centre. Richmond, Canada. 2016

• A Message Without a Code. Curated by Peripheral Review: Adriana Lademann and Lauren Lavery. Dynamo Arts Association. Vancouver, Canada. 2016


2015

• Nuit Blanche Toronto: Memory Lane. Curated by Che Kothari. Bata Shoe Museum. Toronto, Canada. 2015 (work: I, Pave)

• f(body): Entropic Filter. Anvil Centre, New Westminister, Canada. 2015

• Asinabka Film and Media Arts Festival. Co-Curated by Chris Wong and Howard Adler. Galerie SAW Gallery. Ottawa, Canada. 2015

• ANTICS. Curated by Matthew Wise and Zandi Dandizette. James Black Gallery. Vancouver, Canada. 2015

• 6th Finger: SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts Visual Arts program. Curated by Curtis Grahauer & Lucien Durey. Interurban Gallery. Vancouver, Canada. 2015

• Froot Zalad: Graduation Show. Curated by the students of SFU School of Contemporary Arts' FPA 461. Audain Gallery. Vancouver, Canada. 2015

• Dress Code In Effect: Group Exhibition. Curated by the students of Emily Carr University of Art and Design’s AHIS 401 Topics in Curatorial Projects. Access Gallery & Avenue Gallery. Vancouver, Canada. 2015


2014

• Pulima Art Award. Curated by Wendy Wo. Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei (MoCA). Taipei. Taipei, Taiwan. 2014

• ::SKIN:: VIVO Media Arts Centre. Vancouver, Canada. 2014

• Maiden Mother Crone: The Economy of Women’s Bodies. Curated by Adriana Lademann and Leah Tottenham. Toast Collective. Vancouver, Canada. 2014

• OTHER WORLDS: SFU Visual Arts' Collaborative Experiment. Audain Gallery, Vancouver, Canada. 2014


ART FAIR


• Art Basel Hong Kong (Booth 1C46 Discoveries for PTT Space). Kindom curated by Alfonse Chiu. Hong Kong. 25 - 29 Mar 2026

• Art Taipei 2024: Indigenous Arts Program. Curated by Eva Lin. Partner gallery: Asia Art Center. Art Taipei. Taiwan

• SWAB Barcelona. Curated by Yipei Lee. Partner SUAVEART: Video Box. Barcelona, Spain. 2024

• Asia NOW Paris Asian Art Fair. Wagiwagi - Greeting to Nature curated by SUAVEART. Public Project. Curated by Yipei Lee. Paris, France. 2022


COLLECTION


• Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
• Private collections, East Asia and Southeast Asia


CURATION


• Guest Curator, Watering Intimacy - Asia Discover Asia Meeting Artist Lab.Taipei Performing Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan. 2023

• Guest Curator, Landing - Asia Discover Asia Meeting Artist Lab. Taipei Performing Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan. 2022



SELECT TALKS/SYMPOSIUM


• Artist talk with Ciwas Tahos. Mental Health Arts Space, Berlin, 12th June 2026

• Art and Resistance in Taiwan. BBC Radio 4, London. March, 2023

• Yuma Taru and Anchi Lin Artist Talks. Institute of Modern Art. Brisbane. July, 2023

• Cairns Indigenous Art Fair 2023 Symposium. Conversation Group E. Cairns, Australia. July, 2023

• In-Dialoue: Balancing Between Indigeneity and Modernity, Performance. Vancouver Art Gallery. Vancouver. Apr, 2023

• BLEED (Biennial Live Event in the Everyday Digital) Symposium Panel: On the Threshold of Landing, with Clothilde Bullen, Anchi Lin and Tamsen Hopkinson. Moderated by Nithya Nagarajan. Presented by Arts House, Campbelltown Arts Centre and Taipei Performing Arts Center as part of BLEED. Australia and Taiwan. 2022

• Yapit, Moon(s), and Temahahoi: Episode 6. Island kaleidoscope - Stories from Islands Podcast by SUAVEART. Oct, 2022

• Grounded in Place: Indigenous Art from Taiwan, Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand online Symposium. Co-organised by Sophie McIntyre, Leah King-Smith and Juliana McLaughlin, Zara Stanhope, Megan Tamati-Quennell and Fang Chun-wei. Taiwan/Australia/Aotearoa New Zealand. 2021

• Video work rhyal maku' (my land). Online screening and Artist talk. Digital Shift Virtual Media Arts Gathering. In Conjunction with Cinevolution, FLUX Media Gallery, Independent Media Art Alliance (IMAA). Vancouver/Victoria/Montreal. 2020

• Discovering my Indigeneity in Canada. Online Mandarin Lecture. Hosted by the Institute of Asian Art (IAA) in The Vancouver Art Gallery. In conjunction with TaiwanFest. Vancouver, Canada. 2020

• Curating Indigeneity in Taiwan. Edinburgh Fringe 2020 Online Symposium. Edinburgh, Scotland/ Taipei, Taiwan. 2020

• The Great Ocean Dialogues affiliated with Vancouver Art Gallery. Vancouver, Canada. 2019

• Artist Talk with Barb Choit, and Kevin Day. Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, Canada. 2017

• Spark: Fireside Artist Talk No. 12 feat. Anchi Lin. Native Education College. Hosted by Grunt Gallery. Vancouver, Canada. 2017