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“Lin Utzon intensely feels the mystery of things. She is sensitive to the vibration that animates the world, to this unknown force that leads the universe in its expansion and allows life to emerge into matter. Since her early graphic works, sketches of lichen and plants, up till her recent sculptures, her work attempts to express this mysterious movement that seems to obey the tune of an ‘invisible flute player.’” (Claude d’Anthenaise, Director of Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris)

Born in Copenhagen Denmark, Contemporary artist Lin Utzon attended the Sydney Academy of Fine Arts, Australia and the Academy of Applied Arts, Copenhagen. An internationally renowned artist with a practice spanning over fifty years, Utzon is the recipient of numerous awards including the prestigious Läkerols Cultural Prize, and the cultural minister Niels Mathiasens Prize, Denmark.

Based today in Mallorca, Spain, the artist works in various media including ceramics, sculpture, painting and drawings, and has achieved a considerable reputation for her masterful choreographic expressions of form, pattern and line, a flowing graphic dance of pattern and abstraction. 
 

In this body of work, and an impressive lifetime oeuvre, Utzon’s painterly inscription of calligraphic line and paint reveal a sensibility of great refinement echoing not only the influence of Scandinavian design but as well the artist’s connection to Japanese art. Within this convergence of sources and imagination, Utzon has created a new iconography of contemporary abstraction, based in the biomorphic form, and transformed through the use of line and a reductionist palette, emerging as a body of rigorous yet gracefully modern work. 

Utzon’s work has been published in monographs including the volume entitled Cosmic Dance, Edition Blondal, Denmark, “Lin Utzon” published by three different museums - Kastrupgård Museum, Vendsyssel Kunstmuseum, and Ærø Kunstmuseum. The retrospective catalogue from Ses Voltes, 2007. 

Select museum collections: The Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark; The Holstebro Art Museum, Denmark; The Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark; and the Trapholt Museum, Denmark.

Lin Utzon’s impressive international exhibition record includes over forty solo shows such as:
The Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Architectural Biennale, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice; Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris; CCA Gallery, Andratx, Mallorca; Takashima, Tokyo; Centre Cultural, Felanitx, Mallorca; Museum Frederiks Bastion, Copenhagen; Museum Den Frie, Copenhagen; Museum of Rungstedlund, Denmark; Marienlyst Museum Helsingoer; Museum of  Modern Art Herning, Denmark; Ses Voltes Museum Palma de Mallorca; Trapholt Museum of Modern Art, Denmark.

Commissions of note include designs for Royal Copenhagen; Rosendal Denmark, sets and costumes for The Royal Danish Ballet and New Danish Dancer Theatre Denmark. And Monumental commissions: Porcelain mural San Jose CA; Granite murals, Yerba Buena Park, San Francisco CA; Porcelain mural Capita Building, Sidney, Australia; Jørn Utzon’s Bagsværd Church, Copenhagen; The Volvo Corporate Offices, Göteborg; IBM, Dallas; and many more.