River Lin
Taipei Performing Arts Center
River Lin is a member of the Selection Committee of the Onassis AiR OPEN CALL 2025/26.
River Lin (b. 1984 Taiwan/ France) is an artist and curator engaged in dance, performance, visual art, and queer culture. He is Curator of the Taipei Arts Festival at the Taipei Performing Arts Center and leads several initiatives, including ADAM (Asia Discovers Asia Meeting for Contemporary Performance), Camping Asia, and Curatoké: Performance Curators Academy.
His artistic work has been presented at the Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, Lafayette Anticipations, Centre National de la Danse (Paris), ANTI Contemporary Art Festival (Kuopio), Live Art Development Agency (London), M+ Museum (Hong Kong), Liveworks Festival (Sydney), and the 2016 Taipei Biennial, among others. He occasionally lectures on curating and live art at Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Tokyo University of the Arts, and Uniarts Helsinki.
As a founding director of ADAM, Lin has facilitated interdisciplinary and cross-cultural collaborations, working with artists from the Asia-Pacific region and beyond to advance creative processes across visual and performing arts. Additionally, he serves as Co-Artistic Director of Something Great, Guest Curator of the 2025 Biennal de la danse de Lyon, Co-Curator of the Indonesian Dance Festival, and Co-Editor of OnCurating Journal.
