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Anchi Lin (Ciwas Tahos)

Anchi Lin (Ciwas Tahos)

Taiwan

林安琪 Anchi Lin, her Atayal tribal name: Ciwas Tahos. She is a visual artist of Taiwanese Atayal/ Itaṟal and Hō-ló descent; she is based between Taipei, Taiwan, and Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. Ciwas's body-centred practice weaves the Indigenous Atayal worldview through performance, moving images, cyberspace, ceramics, and kinetic installation to claim a self-determined queer space, her work is an exploration of cultural and gender identity, using her body as a medium to trace linguistic and cultural experiences of displacement to seek out new forms of understanding.

Recent exhibitions include the Hawai'i Triennale 2025 in the Hawaiian Kingdom, the 16th Sharjah Biennale in UAE, the 2024 Biennial Live Event in the Everyday Digital at Arts House in Australia, the 2023 Ars Electronica Festival in Austria, the 1st Taiwan Austronesian Art Triennial in Taiwan, and Proto-zone13 at Shedhalle in Switzerland, She was also the guest curator for the 2022-2023 ADAM (Asia Discovering Asia Meeting for Contemporary Performance) Artist Lab for the Taipei Performing Art Centre. Ciwas was awarded the 2024-2025 Artist Fellowship from Leslie-Lohman Museum of Arts, (New York), and the 2023 Biannual Prize of Pulima Art Award (Indigenous Taiwanese Contemporary Art Award). She was selected as the inaugural Artist for the 2023 Australia-Taiwan Friendship Year Arts Exchange Partnership.

 

Ciwas completed an MFA in New Media Art at Taipei National University of the Arts (Taiwan) and a BFA in Visual Art at Simon Fraser University (Canada).

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Performance

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