Fuchsia Lin
info@fuchsialin.com
fuchsialin.com
futurecosmosflow.com
Education
AAS Fashion Design, Parsons School of Design, New York, New York
BFA University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Grants and Awards
2024 Women in Film PDX Vision Grant Award
2024 Oregon Community Foundation Creative Heights Award
2024 Oregon Arts Commission Photo Documentation Support Grant
2023 CERF + Get Ready Grant
2023 Oregon Arts Commission Career Opportunity Grant
2023 Portland State University Faculty Association Grant
2022 Regional Arts and Culture Council Arts 3C Grant
2021 Regional Arts and Culture Council Make Learn Build Grant
2020 NWFC Co:Laboratory Scholarship for Inclusivity and Your Script Workshop
2019 Regional Arts and Culture Council Professional Development Grant
2018 Aesthetica Short Film Festival Competition for Fashion Filmmaking Course at London College of Fashion Scholarship
2017 Regional Arts and Culture Council Individual Project Grant
2016 Regional Arts and Culture Council Professional Development Grant
2013 Regional Arts and Culture Council Professional Development Grant
2011 Regional Arts and Culture Council Individual Project Grant
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021 Future Cosmos Flow, Costume Installation, Dance Performance and Work in Progress Film Screening, Westwind Estate, Benefit for Future Cosmos Flow, Portland, OR
2020 Future Cosmos Flow, Costume and mask installation, Odessa, Portland Textile Month, Portland, OR
2014 Crystals of Transformation, Textile, Dance Performance and Short Film screening, Light + Sound Gallery, curated by Gavin Shettler, Portland, OR
2011 Fantasy Folklore Freshwater, Textile Installation, Film Screening, Photography and Dance Performance, The Ace Cleaners, Portland, OR
2011 Fantasy Folklore Freshwater, Textile, Dance Performance, Nationale, curated by May Barruel, Portland, OR
Selected Group Exhibitions/Screenings/Live Performance
2023 Bumbershoot Festival, Iridescence, Fashion, Dance and Music performance, curated by Greg Lundgren, Seattle, WA
2022 Cinevox Dance Film Festival, “BIPOC Film Program”, Future Cosmos Flow Work in Progress Film Screening, curated by Jamey Hampton, Portland, OR
2019 NWFC, Portland Art Museum, “Works in Progress Film Screening”, Future Cosmos Flow screening, curated by Ben Popp, Portland, OR
2017 NWFC, Portland Art Museum, “Movement and Flow: Portland Dance Films”, Crystals of Transformation screening, curated by Ben Popp, Portland, OR
2017 Northwest Screendance Exposition Film Festival, Crystals of Transformation screening, curated by John Watson, Eugene, OR
2017 Contact Dance Film Festival presented by NWFC and Bodyvox, Crystals of Transformation screening, curated by Jamey Hampton, Portland, OR
2017 Boathouse Microcinema, “Portland Unknowns: New Local Shorts”, Crystals of Transformation screening, curated by Ben Popp, Portland, OR
2016 “Ten Tiny Dances”, Crystals of Transformation, Textile, Dance Performance, Beaverton, OR
Selected Press and Interviews
Oregon Public Broadcasting, Television Program, Art Beat. Featured Artist. Air date May 4, 2023
Chin, Geneva, Interview, “Inside the busy and colorful world of Portland costume designer Fuchsia Lin”, Oregon Public Broadcasting, May 2023
Dixon, K.B., The Cultural Landscape, Part 7, Oregon Artswatch, February 2023
Design Taxi, “Wieden+Kennedy Designers Create The Mask Equivalents Of Ugly Holiday Sweaters”, December 2020
Textile Exchange, Community Spotlight Interview with Fuchsia Lin, June 2020
Weekend Script, “Going with the Flow with Fuchsia Lin”, Artslandia, May/June 2019
Chiarini, Jamuna, Interview “Movement and Flow: Portland Dance Films: Fuchsia Lin talks about her new film, Crystals of Transformation, in next week’s NW Film Center dance film evening”, Oregon Artswatch, July 2017
Mars, Susannah, Interview “Filmmaker and Textile Artist Fuchsia Lin Discusses Water Environmentalism & Sustainable Art”, Adventures in Artslandia Podcast, April 2017
Lettenmaier, Alfred, “RACC Workshops, Making a Difference One Artist at a Time”, Interview for The Regional Arts and Culture Council Newsletter cover story, Nov 2013
Ritchie, Rowena, Interview, “Environmental Artist Fuchsia Lin’s Crystals of Transformation” Ecosalon, June 2013
Selected Work Experience
2023-2025 Adjunct Instructor Portland State University Art+Design Department, Portland, OR
2022-2024 Design workshop Creator and Leader at PAM CUT’s Co:Laboratory, Portland, OR
2023-2024 Design Workshop Creator and Teaching Artist at Bodecker Foundation, Portland, OR
2022 Wieden+Kennedy Dress Design commission for Quinceañera Dress Campaign
2022 Oregon Ballet Theatre, Costume Designer for World Premiere of Mirror, Mirror, Portland, OR
2020 Wieden+Kennedy and The State of Oregon/Oregon Health Authority, #Uglyholidaymask commission, Portland, OR
Selected Outreach
November 2024 Creative Mornings Speaker, PAM CUT’S Tomorrow Theater, Portland, OR
October 2023 Featured Guest Lecturer for Portland Textile Month Interlaced Communities opening event, Portland, OR
October 2022 Featured Guest Lecturer for Portland Textile Month/Portland Garment Factory Vibrant Spaces event, Portland, OR
2001-2022 Guest Artist Lecturer for Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
2019 Guest Artist for Portland State University School of Art + Design CoLab Discussion Series for Art Wear Talk, Portland, OR