biography
Angela Lyn was born in Windsor, England in 1955 to a Chinese father and an English mother.
In 1968 her family emigrated to the USA. In 1972 she travelled to Taiwan to explore her Asian heritage, pursuing studies in Chinese and painting at Fu-Jen University. She then returned to England to study fine art at Southampton College of Art and Byam Shaw, now Central St Martins college of Arts and Design in London. She moved to Switzerland in 1978 and attended the Master Class in painting, led by Franz Fedier at the Kunstgewerbeschule, Basel. Since 1994 she lives and works in Ticino, southern Switzerland. Her dialogue with the surrounding nature has become a major reference in her work.
Lyn’s cultural diversity is core to who she is and the work she does. Combining her eastern and western heritage into a unique and engaging language as a painter, she strives to examine the universal, bringing the viewer into contemplation about the complexity of the world in which we live. Through careful observation, articulate composition and the attentive use of her medium, Lyn’s paintings resonate from within.
“Amidst an ever-faster consume of visual information in a world increasingly driven by technology, I am interested in what fundamentally touches us as human beings. What makes a difference? What draws us to an image over time? What furthers the duration of experience such that we can build a relationship with what we see, hear, touch and smell? Where there is no relationship, there is no meaning.”
Angela Lyn is the mother of three children. In her recent work she reflects on the uncertain world they face: placing her paintings in site specific installations with various media including text, sculpture and sound she succeeds to convey an empathy that is both powerful and poetic at once.
Her works can be found in public, corporate and private collections in Europe, Asia and the United States.
In a globalising world, where cultural diversity is ever increasing, I am interested in what touches us
regardless of who we are or where we are from. My close observations of the expansive nature
surrounding my studio on Lake Lugano serve as a basis through which I explore and reflect on human
response, nature being the essential common denominator of us all. I consciously choose traditional
media: oil painting, drawing and bronze sculpture for my practice; examining their resonance in a world
dominated by technology and an ever-faster production of the new.
A. Lyn
Solo Exhibitions
2020 in the blue, Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
2018 floating gardens, Cortesi Gallery, London, Great Britain
2017 the long journey home, Artrue Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2017 un quadro, una musica, event, Museo d’Arte della Svizzera Italiana (MASI), LAC, Lugano, Switzerland
2015 cedaring, main hall presentation, MASI, LAC, Lugano, Switzerland
2015 building site, artist’s initiative, Shoreditch, London, Great Britain,
with support of the British Arts Council and the Swiss Embassy
2014 Thursday, with Manu Wurch, Freitags Galerie, Solothurn, Switzerland
2012 giving way, artist’s initiative, curated by Max Koss, Cork Street Gallery, London, Great Britain,
2011 stringing pearls, Semina Rerum Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
2010 meet me there for tea, Galerie Hufschmid, Zurich, Switzerland
2009 my china, Haus der Kunst St Josef, Solothurn, Switzerland
2007 living here, Museo Cantonale d’Arte ala Est, Lugano, Switzerland
2007 living here, Galerie Ursula Huber, Basel, Switzerland
2006 landscapes and portraits, Galerie Hufschmid, Zurich, Switzerland
2005 blossom blossom, with Martin Kasper, Haus der Kunst St Josef, Solothurn, Switzerland
2002 Galerie Esther Hufschmid, Zurich, Switzerland
2000 Kunsthalle Burgdorf, Burgdorf, Switzerland
1996 Kunstraum La Baracca, Harry Zellweger, Carabietta, Switzerland
1994 Galerie Catherine Maurer, Bern, Switzerland
1992 stirring the folds of a well-kept lawn, Galerie Loeb, Bern, Switzerland
1991 Galerie Catherine Maurer, Bern, Switzerland
1987 Galerie Marie-Louise Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
1987 laut und leise, Galerie Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland
1984 Galerie Brigitta Rosenberg, Zurich, Switzerland
1982 Galerie Mattheus, Basel, Switzerland
1980 Galerie Arrigo, Zurich, Switzerland
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2021 Im Wald, Kunsthaus Grenchen, Grenchen, Switzerland
2018 time, Swiss Forum, Taipei 101, exhibition and key note speaker, Taipei, Taiwan
2018 Cortesi Gallery, Lugano, Switzerland
2018 Wopart, Lugano, Switzerland
2018 Artmonte-carlo, Monte-Carlo, Monaco
2017 in the public eye, MASI at EOC, Lugano, Switzerland
2017 Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy
2017 Art Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
2017 Artgenève, Geneva, Switzerland
2017 Wopart, Lugano, Switzerland
2013 Raum geben, Schloss Biberist, Biberist, Switzerland
2008 Haus der Kunst St Josef, Solothurn, Switzerland
2007 voce e immagine al femminile, Casa Pellanda, Biasca, Switzerland
2006 Kunst 06 Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
2005 Kunst 05 Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
2004 Im Nu, Kunstraum Riehen, im Berowergut, Riehen, Switzerland
2004 anniversary show, Galerie Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland
1996 Semina Rerum, Zurich, Switzerland
1995 senza biglietto, Lugano, Switzerland
1993 Weihnachtsausstellung, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
1992 Kunstraum Riehen, im Berowergut, Riehen, Switzerland
1991 Louise Aeschlimann Grant, Bern, Switzerland
1990 Swiss Federal Arts Grant, Basel, Switzerland
1989 Louise Aeschlimann Grant, Bern, Switzerland
1987 Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
1886 Gegenverkehr, Kulturhaus Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland
1986 Weihnachtsausstellung, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
1985 Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
1984 Weihnachtsausstellung, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
1984 Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
1982 Swiss Federal Arts Grant, Maison de Congrès, Montreux, Switzerland
1982 Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland