1962年生於宜蘭，畢業於法國巴黎第八大學造形藝術研究所。現為中國文化大學美術系專任教授，其間林老師辦過十七次個展、數百回國內外聯展，同時成為策展人，在一場「漂流島嶼」的策展，將學生帶到北美館展出，成為當時校園佳話。但林金標認為他最喜歡的還是創作。

林金標的作品本源於超現實主義（Surrealism），卻沒有超現實主義裡最重要的潛意識和夢境等元素，有的話應該是接受基里柯（Giorgio de Chirico）形而上繪畫（Pittura Metafisica）所言：「通過繪畫來構築新物體的形而上心理」的學說影響。這種風格有如美學家詹明信（Fredric Jameson）所辯護的「沒有潛意識的超現實主義」，早已溢出超現實主義與現代主義（Modernism）的範疇，進入到「後現代主義」（Post-modernism）的語意中。

   Current period is a unique era. While people enjoy the convenience in life brought by tech-nology,psychological disturbance and apprehension accompany with advancement of society are seriously threatening survival of human beings.Post-modernism,arising from 70’ in 20th century till today without sings of fading, adds bit favor of reminiscent history into modernism and searches for anciern spirit of humanism to make up shortcomings of western civi-lization of materials.
Such a phenomenon is reflected in the trend of contemporary art. While art forms of all styles were once been through and died out, artists could only expect to find possible right angle to enter and explore by reviewing every pen craft in the history of art. It is to blend per-sonal life experience of the artist into his creation of art in parallel, creating art in such a way that it asserts personal signature as well as presents contemporary spirit and interfaces with history.
Being guided by such thinking, I went from ancient fresco to the adoption of meaning of western and eastern spiritual civilization. And by using symbolic denotations, creatures in Mother Nature and events in daily life are becoming the medium through which personal lan-guage in painting is best expressed. The exhibition”rock, cave, floater, history” held in Provincial Art Gallery Tai-Chung (Now it is renamed National Art Gallery), was based on such a tachniqe in 1999. At the initial stage of improvisation of this series.”endurance, obscurity, reflection, revival”, I was smitten by 911-attack of terrorism and my beloved father’s pass-away. A sense of feeling of suspiration grew out of the transience of life. These emotions down and in depth were naturally transformed and mingled into different scenes of creations in the system, while facing the moment of improvisations. Unclothing the disguise of art form of multi-oriented medium, it points direcly to the loft presentation of contemporary spirits of humanism.
The phrase,”endurance, obscurity, reflection,revival”,was a restructure of a set of words created by myself to correspond to the connotation brewed inside and sophistication of the peri-od embedded in paintings, meaning further, obscure, re-seeable,and rebirth. Through interpre-tation of paintings, these originally mysterious, profound, and abstruse  wordings are surprising-ly able to lucidly present the inner image while in painting.