Anchi Lin, whose Atayal tribal name is Ciwas Tahos, is a Taiwanese visual artist of Atayal/Itaṟal and Hō-ló descent, currently based between Taipei, Taiwan and Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. Working across performance, moving image, cyberspace, ceramics, and kinetic installation, her body-centered practice interweaves Atayal worldviews to claim self-determined space and presence.

Ciwas holds an MFA in New Media Art from Taipei National University of the Arts (Taiwan) and a BFA in Visual Art from Simon Fraser University (Canada). Her work explores cultural and gender identity, using the body as a vessel to trace linguistic and cultural experiences of displacement—opening pathways toward new ways of understanding, remembering, and relating.

Her most notable project, Finding Pathways to Temahahoi, is a multifaceted, ongoing series that reimagines and seeks the potential spaces of Temahahoi—an oral Atayal story about a group of queer women who once lived deep within the mountains, who could communicate with bees, sustain themselves by eating smoke, and become pregnant by gusts of wind. Through this work, Ciwas activates the cultural, and geographic dimensions of queer belonging, using the oral story as a lens to imagine life beyond the heteronormative world. Ultimately, she intends to activate a sense of belonging for diasporic Temahahoi descendants across time and place.



Currently, Ciwas is exhibiting work at Sharjah Biennial 16: TO CARRY, Hawai‘i Triennial 2025: ALOHA NŌ, Stellenbosch Triennale 2: B'ZINZILE, and CHTHONIC CHORUS (2025) at Incinerator Gallery in Naarm/Melbourne. Ciwas has exhibited, presented, and performed internationally, with recent artist residencies at Ba-Bau AIR (Vietnam), the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (USA), and Kyoto Art Centre (Japan). In 2023, she was awarded the Biannual Prize of the Pulima Art Award and selected as the inaugural artist for the Australia–Taiwan Friendship Year Arts Exchange Partnership.

Her work was featured at the 2023 Ars Electronica Festival in Austria, the Taiwan Austronesian Art Triennial, and Proto-zone13 at Shedhalle in Switzerland. Ciwas served as guest curator for the 2022 and 2023 ADAM Artist Lab at the Taipei Performing Arts Centre.

In 2022, Pswagi Temahahoi was shown concurrently at Documenta 15 in collaboration with Wagiwagi Art Labs, a project attached to Jatiwangi Art Factory (Indonesia), and as part of her solo exhibition Finding Pathways to Temahahoi at Artspace Aotearoa (New Zealand). Pswagi Temahahoi is the most recent work from her ongoing project mgluw tuqiy na Temahahoi, which continues to explore the oral story of Temahahoi. Ciwas’s writing on this body of work was published in the Pacific Arts Journal.

Earlier, she was awarded First Prize in the 2021 TNUA Genie Lab Art Competition. That same year, her work The Land in the Middle of the Pond was commissioned by the Green Island Human Rights Art Festival. The piece employs ritual practices—such as tracing veins, carrying water from the reservoir, and exchanging names with plants—to respond to the Qara Atayal community’s history of forced relocation, environmental degradation, and illness, reweaving these experiences through a relational and embodied approach.


林安琪，族名 Ciwas Tahos，台灣視覺藝術家，現居於台灣台北與澳洲墨爾本之間。她的創作橫跨表演、動態影像、網路空間、陶藝與動力裝置，透過以身體為核心的實踐，交織出泰雅族的世界觀，以主體性的姿態開闢屬於自己的存在空間。

Ciwas 擁有台北藝術大學的新媒體藝術碩士學位，以及加拿大西門菲莎大學的視覺藝術學士學位。她的創作關注文化與性別認同，並以身體作為媒介，追索語言與文化位移的經驗，從中開展出嶄新的理解、記憶與連結的方式。



她最具代表性的計畫 《找尋迭瑪哈霍伊的路徑》 是一個多面向且持續進行中的創作系列，重構並探索 Temahahoi 的潛在所在——這是來自泰雅族的口述故事，講述一群居住在深山中的酷兒女性，她們能與蜜蜂溝通，以煙霧維生，並可由風孕育後代。透過這項創作，Ciwas試圖激活酷兒歸屬感的文化與地理層面，並以這段口述故事作為想像超越異性戀主流世界的透鏡。最終，她期望喚起對於散居各地、真實或虛構的 Temahahoi 後裔們（性少數族群們）的歸屬感，穿越時空，建立連結。


Ciwas目前展於第16屆沙迦雙年展、2025夏威夷三年展、2025斯泰倫博斯三年展，以及墨爾本的 Incinerator Gallery 所舉辦的 CHTHONIC CHORUS 展覽中展出作品。Ciwas的創作遍及國際，曾於越南 Ba-Bau AIR、美國波特蘭當代藝術中心、以及日本京都藝術中心參與駐村計畫。2023年，她榮獲Pulima藝術獎 雙年大獎，並獲選為首位 澳洲－台灣友好年藝術交流夥伴計畫藝術家。

她的作品曾於奧地利的2023林芝電子藝術節、台灣第一屆南島藝術三年展，以及瑞士 Shedhalle 的 Proto-zone13 展出。Ciwas 亦於 2022 與 2023 年擔任台北表演藝術中心 ADAM 藝術實驗室 客座策展人。

2022年，《Pswagi Temahahoi》作品與印尼Jatiwangi 藝術工廠和台灣瓦集瓦籍計劃同時於第15屆德國卡賽爾文件展合作展出，同件作品也在紐西蘭Artspace Aotearoa的個展《找尋迭瑪哈霍伊的路徑》中展出，Ciwas關於此系列的創作書寫亦發表於Pacific Arts Journal。

她於2021年獲得國立臺北藝術大學妖山盃藝術競賽 首獎。同年，其作品《水池中的土地》獲綠島人權藝術季委託製作。作品透過如描繪血管紋理、從水庫取水、與植物交換名字等儀式，回應泰雅族卡拉社群因遷村、污染與疾病所經歷的歷史，以關係性與身體性的方式重新編織這些創傷經驗。