Designer, Curator, Creative Director
Living 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’s career ran through Ralph Lauren, Christie’s, IDEO New York, and six years as chief creative officer of a sleep technology company whose products landed in TIME’s Best Inventions and the MoMA Design Store.
She opened Lyle in 2024 with her wife, Magdalena Tyrpien. It began as a gallery in a small Chinatown space and has become a curatorial studio producing exhibitions, films, writing and cultural projects. The work now is about the New York creative economy and the infrastructure required to sustain it.
She teaches in the Spatial Experience Design major at FIT, the program she graduated from, serves on Manhattan Community Board 1, and is a member of the Female Design Council and New Yorkers for Culture & Arts.
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 ↗