Le Lin - Atelier Circulaire Mentor
Le Lin is our Atelier Circulaire mentor. Le's mentee will benefit from a one-year membership with l'Atelier Circulaire and access to 20 "Fridays at the Studio". This can also include meetings with the co-directors to further support the mentee in the development of their practice/career.
Le is the mentor for you, if you are interested in: Printmaking, risograph, bookbinding, running a small press, freelance graphic design, hosting workshops, event organizing, participating in art book fairs, working at artist-run centres, applying to artist residencies.
Born in China, Le is a trans Teochew-Canadian multi-disciplinary artist, activist, and researcher based in Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal, Quebec. He graduated from his BFA at Concordia University in 2021 with a focus in Printmaking, Bookbinding, and Graphic Design. Since then, he has worked for BookArt, Quartier des Spectacles, District 3, and various non-profits. He spent a couple years in Japan where he did the JET Programme and worked at Hand Saw Press, a DIY Risograph Printing Press in Tokyo. In 2024, he became the recipient of the 6th Louis-Pierre Bougie Grant in Printmaking at Atelier Circulaire. Currently he works at Atelier Circulaire as the new 2025 DémART-Mtl Programming Assistant.
Le’s art practice is oriented towards experiences of joy, empathy, and connection, and informed by thoughts and ideas that are authentic to their diasporic experience; these include gender, racialization, queerness, language, and identity. He is a firm believer that art/design should be tools of resistance, acts of vulnerability, and uplifting one another.
