Contact
For private commissions or to request further information:
email | wanrulin@rurubombltd.co.uk
instagram | @rurubombart
email | wanrulin@rurubombltd.co.uk
instagram | @rurubombart
Lin, Wan Ru
ABOUT
Lin, Wan-Ru 林宛儒 is a lens-based artist, graphic designer and curator. She was born in Taiwan but lives and works in London. She holds both MA and MRES in Photography from Goldsmith University of London. Currently her studio is based at Thames-Side Studios, and she has been worked as an artist for over 5 years.
Wan-Ru has been a Royal Academy exhibitor both in Scotland (RSA) in 2021 and Ireland (RHA) in 2022 and 2025. Her work has exhibited extensively in the UK and Internationally with private and public collection in UK, Ireland, Scotland, Rome, Switzerland and Taiwan.
Fascinated by the possibilities of photography and videography, Wan-Ru has engaged analogue dark-room techniques alongside digital images and documentary videos. With a focus on process and aesthetics, Wan-Ru has approached topics including dream, time, environment and manipulation of materials, light and photographic technologies, always questioning the possibility of the image.
STUDIO
2022 Oct- now Thames-Side Studios
2022 Aug- now The Gate Darkroom
Lin, Wan-Ru 林宛儒 is a lens-based artist, graphic designer and curator. She was born in Taiwan but lives and works in London. She holds both MA and MRES in Photography from Goldsmith University of London. Currently her studio is based at Thames-Side Studios, and she has been worked as an artist for over 5 years.
Wan-Ru has been a Royal Academy exhibitor both in Scotland (RSA) in 2021 and Ireland (RHA) in 2022 and 2025. Her work has exhibited extensively in the UK and Internationally with private and public collection in UK, Ireland, Scotland, Rome, Switzerland and Taiwan.
Fascinated by the possibilities of photography and videography, Wan-Ru has engaged analogue dark-room techniques alongside digital images and documentary videos. With a focus on process and aesthetics, Wan-Ru has approached topics including dream, time, environment and manipulation of materials, light and photographic technologies, always questioning the possibility of the image.
STUDIO
2022 Oct- now Thames-Side Studios
2022 Aug- now The Gate Darkroom
Exhibitions
CURRENT & UPCOMING
︎ 7th- 8th Jun Thames-Side Studios “Open Studio”, Woolwich, London
︎ 5th-15th Jun Woolwich Open, Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024~2025 Light, Time and Riverbank, solo Exhibiiton, Themes Side Studios: Lounge, London , UK
2017 Un- Consciousness Perceiver, 2 People Solo Exhibition, St James Hatcham Church, London, UK
2012 憶。聲 Episodic Sound Story, 2 People Solo Exhibition, Ku Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan (Extend by Gallery for one ore week)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023-2025 Annually; Woolwich Open, Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London, UK
2021 17th Athens Digital Arts Festival, */ ADAF 2021, Athens, Greece
2021 Environmental Alterations, Loosen Art, Rome, Italy
2021 Re:store Re:new Re:imagine - Finding balance through art, Willesden Gallery, London, UK
2021 195th RSA Annual Exhibition, The Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture, Virtual Gallery Group Exhibition, Edinburgh, Scotland
2021 Re:store Re:new Re:imagine - Finding balance through art, Virtual Gallery Group Exhibition, Willesden Gallery, Wembley, UK ︎
2017 13th Athens Digital Arts Festival, */ ADAF 2017, Video Art, Post Utopia Collection, Athens, Greece
2017 The Spring Salon, Candid Art Trust, London
2017 The Spring Collection, curated by Focus LDN, Menier Gallery, London, UK ︎
2016 XV Degree Show, Visual Design & Group Exhibition, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK
2012 10 The Ten Degree Show, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, TW
2011 DuPont™ Home 2050: Tyvek®+Corian®+Kevlar®; Ms Helene Löfman; DuPont™, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
2011 From Analogue to Digital and Back Again, Mr Scott Hessels + Mr Jen-Hui Liao; Worshop, Group Exhibition: Lost & Found™, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
2010 Tangible Interfaces, Ms Alessia Giardino X Professor Pey-Chwen Lin, Workshop, Group Exhibition, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
2010 Ty…What ?, Workshop, Group Exhibition, Tyvek®; DuPont ™ Tyvek®, Workshop, Group Exhibition, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
2010 AiQ Smart Cloth, Workshop, Group Exhibition, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan,
GUEST ARTIST
2023 eye4change X Arts Council England, London
PUBLISHED WORK
2025 Book: Gatedarkroom Bare/ Bear
2020 Issue 8- Exhibition-The Environment Issue, Haus_A_Rest ︎
INTERVIEW
2023 eye4change X Arts Council England︎
2021 Environmental Alterations, Loosen Art ︎
2017 Wan-Ru Lin: Finding Light in the Dark, Focus LDN︎
TEACHING
2020 - now Online Teacher, SkillShare,
Staff Pick : Illuminating Films: How to Create Compelling Abstract Art at Home ︎Staff Pick : Futuristic Imaging: Photoshopping Your Pictures into Abstract Art︎ Yes! You Can: Churning Out Unstoppable Art Ideas ︎
EDUCATION
2016 – 2017 MRes in Filmmaking , Photography & Electronic Arts
Goldsmiths , University of London, London, UK
2015 – 2016 MA in Photography : The Image & Electronic Art,
Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK
2008 – 2013 BA in Media and Visual Communication Design,
Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
︎ 7th- 8th Jun Thames-Side Studios “Open Studio”, Woolwich, London
︎ 5th-15th Jun Woolwich Open, Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London
︎ 25th May- 3rd Aug 195nd RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Dublin, Ireland
︎ 12th Nov- 20th Dec Friends Together 2, House of Denna, London
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024~2025 Light, Time and Riverbank, solo Exhibiiton, Themes Side Studios: Lounge, London , UK
2017 Un- Consciousness Perceiver, 2 People Solo Exhibition, St James Hatcham Church, London, UK
2012 憶。聲 Episodic Sound Story, 2 People Solo Exhibition, Ku Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan (Extend by Gallery for one ore week)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023-2025 Annually; Woolwich Open, Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London, UK
2025 195nd RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Dublin, Ireland
2025 Friends Together (Co-curated with Frank Creber), House of Denna, London, UK 2024 2nd edition of the ECO Feminism Festival, The Art Pavilion, Mile End Park London, UK
2024 “Bear/ Bare”, Group Exhibition with members from The Gate Darkroom, Thames-Side Studios: Lounge, London, UK
2023 NEW WAVE, Group Exhibition, part of Whitechapel Gallery First Thursdays, Spitalfields Studios, London, UK 2022 192nd RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Dublin, Ireland
2024 “Bear/ Bare”, Group Exhibition with members from The Gate Darkroom, Thames-Side Studios: Lounge, London, UK
2023 NEW WAVE, Group Exhibition, part of Whitechapel Gallery First Thursdays, Spitalfields Studios, London, UK 2022 192nd RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Dublin, Ireland
2021 Environmental Alterations, Loosen Art, Rome, Italy
2021 Re:store Re:new Re:imagine - Finding balance through art, Willesden Gallery, London, UK
2021 195th RSA Annual Exhibition, The Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture, Virtual Gallery Group Exhibition, Edinburgh, Scotland
2021 Re:store Re:new Re:imagine - Finding balance through art, Virtual Gallery Group Exhibition, Willesden Gallery, Wembley, UK ︎
2017 13th Athens Digital Arts Festival, */ ADAF 2017, Video Art, Post Utopia Collection, Athens, Greece
2017 The Spring Salon, Candid Art Trust, London
2017 The Spring Collection, curated by Focus LDN, Menier Gallery, London, UK ︎
2016 XV Degree Show, Visual Design & Group Exhibition, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK
2012 10 The Ten Degree Show, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, TW
2011 DuPont™ Home 2050: Tyvek®+Corian®+Kevlar®; Ms Helene Löfman; DuPont™, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
2011 From Analogue to Digital and Back Again, Mr Scott Hessels + Mr Jen-Hui Liao; Worshop, Group Exhibition: Lost & Found™, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
2010 Tangible Interfaces, Ms Alessia Giardino X Professor Pey-Chwen Lin, Workshop, Group Exhibition, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
2010 Ty…What ?, Workshop, Group Exhibition, Tyvek®; DuPont ™ Tyvek®, Workshop, Group Exhibition, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
2010 AiQ Smart Cloth, Workshop, Group Exhibition, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan,
GUEST ARTIST
2023 eye4change X Arts Council England, London
PUBLISHED WORK
2025 Book: Gatedarkroom Bare/ Bear
2020 Issue 8- Exhibition-The Environment Issue, Haus_A_Rest ︎
INTERVIEW
2023 eye4change X Arts Council England︎
2021 Environmental Alterations, Loosen Art ︎
2017 Wan-Ru Lin: Finding Light in the Dark, Focus LDN︎
TEACHING
2020 - now Online Teacher, SkillShare,
Staff Pick : Illuminating Films: How to Create Compelling Abstract Art at Home ︎Staff Pick : Futuristic Imaging: Photoshopping Your Pictures into Abstract Art︎ Yes! You Can: Churning Out Unstoppable Art Ideas ︎
EDUCATION
2016 – 2017 MRes in Filmmaking , Photography & Electronic Arts
Goldsmiths , University of London, London, UK
2015 – 2016 MA in Photography : The Image & Electronic Art,
Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK
2008 – 2013 BA in Media and Visual Communication Design,
Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan