Candice Lin

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Candelabra, 2023
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Candice Lin is an interdisciplinary artist who works with installation, drawing, video, and living materials and processes, such as mold, mushrooms, bacteria, fermentation, and stains. Her work deals with the politics of representation and issues of race, gender, and sexuality through histories of colonialism and diaspora.

Lin has had recent solo exhibitions at Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (2024); Canal Projects, New York (2023); Spike Island, Bristol, UK (2022); the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge (2022), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2021); Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China (2021); and Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand (2020). Lin’s work was included in the 59th Venice Biennale, The Milk of Dreams (2022), Prospect.5 Triennial Yesterday We Said Tomorrow (2022), and both the 13th and 14th Gwangju Biennales (2021, 2023). She is the recipient of the 2024 Ruth Award, the 2023 Arnoldo Pomodoro Sculpture Prize, a 2022 Gold Art Prize, and a 2019 Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, among numerous other recognitions. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Walker Art Center.

Candice Lin lives and works in Los Angeles. She is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of California Los Angeles.
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Installation view, Candice Lin, Lithium Sex Demons in the Factory, 2023
Canal Projects, New York, USA

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