Lin Yu-Hsuan (b. 1994) is an independent curator based in Taipei, Taiwan. He graduated from Taipei National University of the Arts with an MFA in producing culture and curating. Yu-Hsuan currently lives and works in Taipei as an independent curator. His past curatorial projects have focused on the ecological structure of art and social issues. In recent years, he has been thinking about how we coexist with disasters (natural, man-made, and political) through curation, the planning and imagination of different places, and the political relationships between people and spaces in this context.
Major curated exhibitions and projects include Safe Room (Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, 2025); Passing Through (New Taipei City Art Museum Outdoor Park, 2025); The 25-Hour Days (Keelung Museum of Art, 2024); Measured in Feet (Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, 2023); I Use My Body to Draw an Island (Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts, 2023); Into a Compound Scene (New Taipei Gallery, 2023); Notes for Tomorrow (TheCube Project Space, Taipei, 2022); Detour (Taipei Artist Village, 2021); Guerrillas (VT Artsalon, Taipei, 2018); Aerobraking (The Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung, 2017); Inexpressible Signs of Subjects and Mediums Archeology(Yo-Chang Art Museum, Taipei, 2017); The Taipei Dream (Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2018).
Lin has led several research initiatives, including The Aftermath of Disaster: Art, Audiences, and Society and Curating and Art Organizations in Taiwan: A Proposal for Curatorial Empowerment. He also initiated the forum The Practical Needs of Young Artists, fostering dialogue on structural conditions within the contemporary art ecosystem. His writings have been published on ARTouch, the National Culture and Arts Foundation’s online journal, and CLABO.
In 2024, he published the book The Path Ahead: Common Practices through Three Curations, reflecting on collective curatorial methodologies and collaborative practice.He is a recipient of the EXPO CHICAGO Taiwan Curatorial Exchange Program (2026), the Curator Academy International Exchange Program (NCAF, C-LAB, NCAR Japan, 2025), the 500young Third Curatorial Award (2024), the Curator’s Incubator Program @ Museums (NCAF), the Taoyuan Children’s Art Center Open Call for Curatorial Proposals, and the Curator Residency Program at Tokyo Arts and Space.
