Yu Lin Humm is an actress, musician and visual artist born in Milan, Italy.
She has vietnamese, french, chinese and swiss-german origins.
Yu Lin received an ongoing training in theater along music (cello, piano, singing) and dance (ballet, modern, jazz), since she was 5 years old. She performed with many orchestras and chamber music ensembles, and composed soundtracks for theatre and short movies.
Since her teenage she'd keep analog photography as her daily practice, she'd act in different theater companies and in short movies/advertisements.Her modeling career started at 15, cast by Annie Lerner for a shooting with Oliviero Toscani. She worked as a runway, editorial and commercial model, while continuing to perform as a musician and work as a photographer. In 2012, Yu Lin shot the cinematography for "Collected Harmony" directed by Dustin Lynn at Venice Film Festival commissioned by Nowness.
In 2014, Yu Lin moved to New York City to study jazz with Erik Friedlander while working as fashion photographer. Later, she enrolled a BA in Performing Arts at the University of Lisbon.
She has been part of ensembles such as String Theory and released over 10 albums on Creative Sources label.
In 2018 her feat. in iZem remix of Solange’s “Cranes in the sky” was premiered on BBC Radio 6 by Gilles Peterson.
The same year she recorded at the French Pavillion of Venice Art Biennale's Studio Venezia by Xavier Veilhan with Nadah El Shazly, Low Leaf and Tommaso Cappellato.
Yu Lin performed several solo lives at Zaratan Gallery, Damas Bar and in 2019 she premiered her debut solo album, Islas Resonantes at Galeria ZDB.
In the same year Yu Lin had her first personal photography exhibition, "Atrás do Atlas" at Art.Room gallery, Lisbon.
The music she composed and recorded with Núcleo Audio for the Motelx 2020 trailer, got awarded by the Art Director's Club Europe and received a silver award by the Creative Club Portugal.
The short film "Inspiring Melody" starring Yu Lin as protagonist, was premiered at Roma Cinema Fest 2020.
Yu Lin is mostly busy in front and/or behind the cameras, writing and making music.
Skills
- Assistant Cinematographer
- Documentary
- Analog Photography
- Arranging Music
- Dance Performance
- Art Curation
- Acting
- Art
- Content Coordination
- Multilingual Translation