Lin Pang-soong

Over the years, Lin has continually advised Taiwan’s Ministry of Education in finding and developing talent in the field of art and design, and has become known as the Mentor of Design in Taiwan and the Key Artist of the Field of Visual Design. He is currently Honorary Chairman of the Taiwan Cultural and Creative Industry Association, Board Director of the Cross-strait Cultural and Creative Industry Research Alliance, Director of the International Design Competition by the Ministry of Education (since 2008), and Director of the Taiwan International Student Design Competition (since 2008), and Professor Emeritus of Asia University.

Starting in 2005, with the idea of My Homeland, Lin began painting different images of Taiwan with fine dots by the technical pen or the Chinese brush. Since 2007, he began sending Homebound Letters to himself from around the world in an on-going performance piece, which explore the infinite visual possibilities of the shape of Taiwan, and bare witness to his travels in life. Since 2012, Lin extended pointillism to a greater scale with large works of the Dream Island series, and since 2014, he broke through the image of Taiwan with the meticulous landscapes of the Invaluable Mountains series.