Dennis Lin is a Taiwanese-Canadian artist with an extensive and varied body of work that has been trialed, stretched and honed over a 20+ year long career. He studied at the Ontario College of Art and upon graduating, began cultivating his own studio practice. Today, sculptural works involving lyrical compositions in metal, wood and stone are featured in public and private collections globally.

His studio in Kimberley, Ontario represents a revelatory growth in the development of Lin’s artistic direction and process. The timber frame studio building is powered by solar energy, and as a result artwork created in this space is directly affected by seasonal rhythms. Each kilowatt hour, cut, form and addition to a sculpture is accounted for, marrying the reliance on somatic and environmental energy to generate form. The scale and diversity of Lin’s pieces attest to his highly productive and ambidextrous nature, having an excess of works that showcase a distinctively industrious and energetic praxis. 

His works range in size from the handheld to the monumental. In recent years, new themes have emerged in the way materials are displayed: items are sifted and diarized into a cataloging system that is both reflective of Lin’s personal affinity for collecting and storing, and also speaks to the interdependent relationship between memory, fantasy, and objects. Raw, often castaway or deteriorated, materials define the direction of final pieces.

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