Sage (Shu Tzu) Lin 林書慈 is a Taiwanese non-binary artist and director born in New Taipei, Taiwan, and based in Chicago. Working across moving image, sound, light, shadow, sculpture, and performance, their practice reconstructs time and memory through immigration and cross-cultural identity. Their work examines how language, sensory environments, and everyday materials construct experiences of home, belonging, and embodied memory. Originally trained as an animator, Sage extends the logic of animation beyond the screen into tactile installations using cardboard, found objects, fiber, and the body, creating participatory environments where viewers become active collaborators in the ongoing construction of memory, perception, and place.
Sage’s work has been exhibited, performed, and screened in Taiwan, the United States, the United Kingdom, South Korea, Hong Kong, Ireland, and Russia. They hold a BFA in Animation from Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA), Taiwan, and an MFA in Film, Video, New Media, and Animation from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), United States.