lin.tyrpien@gmail.com
She is the founder of Lyle Gallery, a studio producing exhibitions and cultural projects the arts.
Her work spans products, environments, and cultural systems across both independent and institutional context
lin.tyrpien@gmail.com
She is the founder of Lyle Gallery, a studio producing exhibitions and cultural projects the arts.
Her work spans products, environments, and cultural systems across both independent and institutional context
It began as a physical gallery space in Chinatown, where I produced a range of exhibitions and collaborative projects across art and design, working directly with artists. The space functioned as both a public gallery and a working studio, allowing new approaches to exhibition-making, sales models, and audience engagement to be developed through practice.
Today, Lyle operates as an independent studio, producing a small number of focused projects each year. The work takes shape across physical exhibitions, film, writing, and digital platforms, using different formats to explore how art and design circulate and sustain themselves beyond fixed institutional models.
Lyle is an evolving project, continuing to test and refine new models in real time. Current exhibitions, collaborations, and ongoing work can be found at thelyle.gallery.
Photography by Kristina Shakht.
ONNI was a collaborative exhibition and market developed to explore alternative ways galleries can engage with the holiday season.
Co-curated with Isabel Sullivan Gallery, the project brought together over 40 international artists and designers presenting collectible art and design objects intended to be lived with, gifted, and kept. The format combined the structure of a gallery exhibition with the openness of a holiday market, creating a setting that sat between exhibition, fair, and retail.
The project drew inspiration from Nordic holiday market traditions, where art, design, and craft are part of seasonal rituals. ONNI tested how galleries might work more collaboratively, experiment with scale and pricing, and connect with audiences during a time of gathering that is often avoided by the contemporary art world.
Hosted at Isabel Sullivan Gallery in Tribeca, the project operated as a live experiment in exhibition format, sales structure, and audience engagement.
An exhibition presented during NYCxDesign 2025
OUTSIDE/IN was an exhibition presented during NYCxDesign 2025, developed in collaboration with Hello Human.
The project brought together twelve independent artists and designers working outside traditional institutional pipelines. Rather than framing this position as marginal, the exhibition focused on self-directed practices shaped by lived experience, material knowledge, and alternative modes of production.
The works ranged from therapeutic furniture and sculptural lighting to objects rooted in diasporic traditions and self-taught practices. The exhibition emphasized process, authorship, and the conditions under which work is made and circulated.
Storytelling was integrated into the exhibition through content-led distribution, allowing the work to reach audiences beyond the gallery and testing how exhibitions can circulate through digital platforms alongside physical space.
Gathered was an exhibition developed around the idea of home, inviting artists to interpret the concept through small, functional objects.
Thirty-two artists from fourteen countries were asked to create a single object that held their personal understanding of home. Rather than working from a shared aesthetic or geography, the exhibition was built from individual responses shaped by lived experience, material knowledge, and everyday use.
The resulting works explored how home is carried through objects, rituals, and memory, especially in contexts shaped by movement, migration, and change. Developed in collaboration with Errria, the exhibition emphasized intimacy, scale, and function as ways of connecting personal narratives to shared experience.