Haslin is an artist unafraid of experimentation, continually pushing the boundaries of his practice through diverse techniques and materials. In Self-Portrait, the profusion of blue tones serves as a visual metaphor, subtly revealing his inner emotions and contemplative thoughts beneath the surface of abstraction. Haslin obtained his BFA at the Universiti Mara Institute of Technology in 2005-2007. In 2006, he won the Grand Prize in the In-print competition and received a sponsored two-week trip to study printmaking at Gray’s School of Art and Design. His two major awards are the Young Guns (Hom Art Trans, 2013) and the Major Award in the Young Contemporary Artists (Bakat Muda Sezaman) in 2011, the year he was selected for the Rimbun Dahan art residency. He won 1st Prize in the Manga Artists competition (2008), Visual Art Pitch (My Creative Ventures and Chandan Gallery, 2006), the Visual Art Award at Starhill Gallery, Kuala Lumpur (2010). After his first solo, Exorcismus Persona – Windows Into The Fantasy Worlds Of Haslin Ismail, at RA Fine Arts, Kuala Lumpur, in 2012, he hooked up with G13 gallery, Selangor, for three solos namely Transfiguration (2013), Mindmix (2014); Book Land in the 2014 Art Stage Singapore. The Merdeka! Exhibition at Galeri Petronas featured him and Samsudin Wahab, two of the most exciting young artists, in 2014. Among the notable group exhibitions he was featured in include Un-cut Malaysian Arts Festival in Gallery Shambala in Copenhagen, Absurd(c)ity at the National Art Gallery in 2013, the Kembara Jiwa exhibitions in Yogyakarta and Bandung in Indonesia in 2012, and the Art Expo Malaysia in 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2015. Selfies: A Mixed Media Project by Haslin Ismail was presented by Core Design Gallery at Art Expo Malaysia 2017. His exhibition I'm Going To Need You More Than You Need Me was held in 2021.