Her work examines belonging, cultural perception, and the emotional dynamics of space, drawing inspirations from natural landscapes, Eastern philosophy and symbolic systems.
She employs an organic visual language and structured narrative strategies to translate internal experience into accessible, public-facing forms. Her practice emphasizes the integration of conceptual framing, contextual research, and execution, resulting in work that is both introspective and rigorously constructed.
She currently lives and works between Chengdu and Providence.
Education
Rhode Island School of Design
2024-Present
University of Wisconsin - Madison
2023-2024
她以抽象而有机的视觉语言在具象与非具象之间工作，通过结构化叙事与空间逻辑，将内在感受转译为可被观看、被理解并进入公共语境的艺术呈现。其艺术实践强调从概念建构、语境研究到最终呈现的完整路径，形成兼具精神性、清晰逻辑与执行力的创作结构。
林子焱现学习，生活与工作在于成都与普罗维登斯之间。
Group Exhibitions
2025
Made in__, RISD Museum, Providence, USA
Wan Er Nao, Tree Art Museum, Beijing, China
2024
IDEA! Young Artists Group Exhibition, Xu Liaoyuan Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu, China
Aranya Theater Festival: Migratory Bird 300, Aranya Gold Coast, Hebei, China
Cornerstone, Gallery Seven, Madison, USA
群展
2025
Made in__，罗德岛艺术设计学院美术馆，普罗维登斯，美国
玩儿闹，树美术馆，北京，中国
2024
IDEA！青年艺术家群展，许燎源当代美术馆，成都，中国
阿那亚戏剧节：候鸟300，阿那亚戏剧节，阿那亚黄金海岸，河北，中国
基石，七号画廊，麦迪逊，美国
Public Art
Speak of Tides | Rebirth
Fine Art
Prints | Drawings
Curation
Made In__
Design
Interior & Spatial Projects
Speak of Tides
Aranya Resort, Hebei, China
2024
Installation, Performance
Fiberglass, Silicone, Wool, Quartz Sand, Acrylic
330 x 250 x 320 cm
Description
“Life, Identity, Womanhood, and Homecoming”
Speak of Tides is a public art and multimedia work. It centers on a 3.5-meter-long fiberglass installation and incorporates body movement and musical performance. The piece aims to rewrite traditional mythological narratives about women under patriarchy.
What is home? Is the seashell a shackle that molds and disciplines women’s identities, or a harbor that protects them? The artists seek to reconstruct the narrative of the “woman in the seashell” from Eastern mythology. They envision women as active agents who create new perspectives and discourses that belong to them. The power over the seashell should lie with the women themselves, not with the puppets residing within it.
Collaborating Artists: Shuo Li, Yuhan Zhao, Zichun Cheng (Performance), Ruoxi Feng (Audio)
Press: Art China
ArCollaborating Artists:
Phoebe Shuo Li, Ruoxi Feng, Yuhan Zhao, Zichun Chen
Rebirth
Land of Wilderness, Lijiang, China
2024
Public Art, Installation
Wood, Daily necessaries from Miao women
400 x 200 x 210 cm
Description
Rebirth is a site-specific installation designed to explore the symbiotic relationship between women and nature. The installation incorporates handmade crafts created by Miao women from Fenghuang, using natural materials.
The installation is placed in a triangular white-box space, attempting to bring a closed, systematized context into the "wilderness," thereby expanding the potential of the art creation field and presenting the mutual empowerment and collision between nature and art.
Collaborating Artists: Shuo Li, Yuhan Zhao
Prints
Intaglio print on paper
铜版综合技法，纸本 2025
The Conch 螺语
Intaglio print on paper
铜版综合技法，纸本 2025
Intaglio print on paper
铜版综合技法，纸本 2025
Island (black) 小岛(黑)
Plate Lithograph on Paper
金属版平版画，纸本 202
Intaglio print on paper
铜版综合技法，纸本 2025
Intaglio print on paper
铜版综合技法，纸本 2025
躺下看见的谎言之一
Lithograph on Paper
石版画，纸本 2025
Plate Lithograph on Paper
金属版平版画，纸本 2025
躺下看见的谎言之二
Lithograph on Paper
石版画，纸本 2025
石版画，纸本 2025
Lithograph on Paper
石版画，纸本 2025
Lithograph on Paper
石版画，纸本 2025
Plate Lithograph on Paper
金属版平版画，纸本 2025
Plate Lithograph on Paper
金属版平版画，纸本 2025
Plate Lithograph on Paper
金属版平版画，纸本 2025
Plate Lithograph on Paper
金属版平版画，纸本 2025
Made In__
Curator Gelman Gallery, RISD Museum
Oct 17th - Nov 9th 2025
Exhibition Statement
In this exhibition, “Made in __” goes beyond an indication for the place of production. It fosters into a pathway, where commerce leaves its tracks upon, craft is carried along, and records the meeting ground of culture and material. These labels remind of materials‘ global journey. They cross ports into artists’ studios and stimulate iterative experimentation, leading to potential cultural dialogues that transcends material’s locality.An early example of this statement could be seen in the birth of blue-and-white porcelain. With heavily referencing Islamic geometric patterns, these pieces made with Persian cobalt that arrived in China along the Silk Road in the Tang dynasty, entered glaze labs, and four centuries later found its place in Jingdezhen with high-temperature firing, becoming the form recognized today. The same trajectory appears in all art forms: silk from China reimagines European apparel; Middle Eastern tapestries widely inform world pattern-design; Water-based woodcut, upon arrival in Europe, Japanese ukiyo-e inspired Impressionism painters explore new ways to capture colors and lights.
Materials never carry linear messages. The interpretation is directed by personal background. Where materials are found, how they have been used, and what they are adapting to is the focus of this exhibition. “Made in __” brings together works of foregrounding material as message carriers that visualize either personal or collective narratives. What matters lies beyond the label? We invite you to look past it. Hear in these explorations, the materials used and their origins in interaction with makers from different backgrounds.
Collaborating curators: Cindy Ye, Ran Pang