Designer, Curator, Creative DirectorLiving and working in New York City
She founded Lyle, a gallery turned independent curatorial studio, producing exhibitions, films, writing and cultural projects.
Career
Lyle
Founder and artistic director
Creative director
Design and development
Production design
Exhibition design
Arcosanti
Independent study, Arcology Immersion Program
Showrooms
Fashion Institute of Technology
AAS Visual Presentation and Exhibition Design
BS Home Products Development
Lyle
Founder and artistic directorLyle began as a gallery on Rutgers Street in Chinatown and has since become a nomadic curatorial studio. A queer, women-led space showing artists and designers who work outside the establishment.
Exhibitions
Curated, designed and installed, from the wall text to the lighting. OUTSIDE/IN reclaimed the outsider as a position of agency, and the New York Times ran it as a story about heritage.
OUTSIDE/IN, 2025
Events
Rooms where the people who work in art and culture meet the people who love them. Lyle, in the Garden was a sapphic night during Design Week, in a Chelsea sculpture garden.
Lyle, in the Garden, 2026
Open Calls
An open call answered by hundreds. Gathered brought thirty two objects from makers on six continents.
Gathered, 2025
Collaborations
Building with other galleries what neither could build alone. ONNI was co-produced with Isabel Sullivan Gallery, a holiday market at exhibition level borrowed from the Nordics, held in Tribeca through December.
ONNI, 2025Films
Produced, directed and hosted by LinTwo of these are about creative life in New York: Design Week from Tribeca to Red Hook, and two galleries building a market in a Lispenard Street storefront. Marfa is the first chapter of a series on the creative pulse of cities and communities around the world.
A Week in May
New York’s design community gathers for its biggest week of the year, from Tribeca to Red Hook.
2026 · 24 min
The Making of ONNI
How two galleries built an art and design market in Tribeca, and a new generation of queer, women-led galleries.
2025 · 23 min
Marfa
A town of two thousand in West Texas with its own independent art and design scene.
2025 · 13 minWritings
- But if it’s just sitting there?July 2026
- From Open Call to Museum Collection2025
- Inside New York’s Collectible Design Fair2025
- New York PigeonMay 2026
About
Lin Tyrpien is the founder and creative director of Lyle, an independent curatorial studio producing exhibitions, films, and cultural projects in New York. Her career has spanned brands, startups, commerce, and cultural institutions, and she brings a design-thinking lens to arts and culture. Throughout, she has supported independent creatives and spaces, especially women and queer artists and designers.
She began her career creating brand environments at Ralph Lauren and designing exhibitions for live auctions at Christie's. At IDEO, she was the New York office's first dedicated maker and prototyper, and she joined Loftie as its first creative hire, becoming Chief Creative Officer and growing the brand over six years from a crowdfunded idea into products sold at the MoMA Design Store and named to TIME's Best Inventions.
Tyrpien teaches Spatial Experience Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology and serves on Manhattan Community Board 1, where she advocates for arts and culture as public infrastructure. She is a member of the Female Design Council, and her work has been featured in The New York Times, Wallpaper*, and Dezeen. Wallpaper* named her to its USA 400: The People Shaping Creative America in 2025 and 2026.
Originally from rural Pennsylvania. A New Yorker since 2008.
Recognition
Wallpaper* USA 400, among the four hundred people shaping Creative America2025, 2026The New York Times, on OUTSIDE/IN at Lyle2025Denver Art Museum, a work from a Lyle open call into the permanent collection2025Marie Claire, on opening Lyle2024References
“Stunningly produced and successful.” IDEO
“I would take this talented individual along my entire career journey if she’d let me.” Ralph Lauren
“Respected across marketing, design, operational and art departments.” Christie’s
Lin takes on a small number of consulting and creative collaborations alongside her own work, in creative direction, experiential and spatial design, and brand and cultural strategy.
lin@thelyle.gallery