Justine Lin is a Taiwanese-American painter whose work investigates the psychological, spatial, and cultural dynamics that shape contemporary subjectivity. Born and raised in Feng-Yuan, Taiwan, she received her BFA from the National Institute of the Arts in Taipei. In 1999, she moved to Boston to pursue graduate studies in painting and later earned her MFA from the University of Georgia in 2005. Her transnational experience, plus living across Massachusetts, Georgia, California, and Virginia—and navigating shifting linguistic, cultural, and geographic frameworks—forms a critical axis of her studio practice.

Drawing on metaphors of architecture, kaleidoscopic perception, and tangram- or origami-like folding, Lin constructs hybrid visual fields that oscillate between structure and fragmentation. Her compositional strategies examine the instability of identity, the fluidity of memory, and the complex negotiations of belonging across cultures.

Now based in Andover, Massachusetts, she develops a body of work that positions abstraction as a site for investigating cultural difference while proposing new vocabularies for psychological and spatial mapping. Lin’s practice contributes to ongoing dialogues surrounding diasporic aesthetics and contemporary abstraction.