Sage Lin


Master of Fine Arts in Studio, Film, Video, New Media, and Animation

Sage (Shu Tzu) Lin is a Taiwanese artist and director based in Chicago, creating animations, installations, and films that utilize dynamic visuals, soundscapes, and dialogue to delve into the realm of memories and their trilingual background built by Mandarin, Taiwanese, and English. They reexamining the cultural, textural, and fragile aspects contained in daily life.

Their works merge elements in 2D media and also with find objects, fiber and paper materials, explore how to gather fragments from personal experiences, reassembling emotions and time through forms such as reorganization, repetition, or extension to create unique ways of reading memories. Using “Autoethnography” as a practice method to understand and embody the relationship between oneself and the external world, which formed as cinema screenings, installations, and live performances, emphasizing the playful and poetic nature of the moving-images process, pushing the boundaries of visual storytelling to create immersive and deeply impactful experiences in space.