Yo-Yo Lin

Yo-Yo Lin is a Taiwanese American, interdisciplinary artist who uses animation, performance, and sound to create memoryscapes. Her recent body of work reveals and re-values complex realities of living with a chronic illness, and in her work, she investigates ideologies of healing, resilience, and care. Her work goes into developing physical and virtual installations, workshops, and various artist collectives.

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She debuted her multimedia performance "Channels" in 2022, which was sold out. She was selected for the Sundance Interdisciplinary lab, and various other fellowships as well. She is currently in Taiwan working on a project.

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When I first encountered Yo-Yo Lin’s work, it felt like someone had finally articulated an emotional landscape I’d been circling around but never fully understood. Her approach to chronic illness, disability, and embodiment isn’t just expressive. It’s deeply intimate in a way that made me want to pause and sit with my own body for a moment. Watching her pieces, I felt this mixture of softness and strength, like she gives form to the things we often push away: pain, vulnerability, memory, and all the quiet negotiations we have with ourselves daily.

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In her performances and installations, I felt this sense of reclamation. like she’s taking back narrative agency over her body, her history, and her care. That resonated with me because it reminded me how powerful it is when an artist insists on defining their own terms of existence. Yo-Yo Lin’s work isn’t just about disability; it’s about re imagining what presence feels like, what healing can look like, and how art can hold the parts of ourselves we usually keep hidden.

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