Michael Lin: Pentachrome
About This Event
Live event at Met Museum Exhibitions
About Michael Lin: Pentachrome
“Michael Lin: Pentachrome” is a live, on-site exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, presenting Lin’s work in a setting where the museum itself becomes part of the piece. Known for translating patterns drawn from everyday textiles into large-scale installations, Lin treats ornament as a record of trade, migration, and domestic life. For New York, the project reads as a quiet marker of the city’s layered material cultures, even without a formal NYC-premiere claim. One clear point emerges: the work insists that decoration can carry history, not just style.
About the Artist
Michael Lin
Michael Lin is a Taiwanese contemporary artist whose practice moves between painting and conceptual work, shaped by a life spent across Tokyo, Taiwan, the United States, and his current bases in Brussels and Taipei.