Candice Lin

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View works. Candice Lin, Candelabra, 2023
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 Jameel Arts Center, Dubai (2024); 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. Lin will present a solo exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery in London in October 2025.

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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Works
  • Candice Lin, Candelabra, 2023
    Candelabra, 2023
  • Candice Lin, Learning (Lithium Sex Demon Scene 3), 2023
    Learning (Lithium Sex Demon Scene 3), 2023
  • Candice Lin, Castration Is Still Possible, 2023
    Castration Is Still Possible, 2023
  • Candice Lin, Xternesta, 2022
    Xternesta, 2022
  • Candice Lin, Piss Protection Demon, 2022
    Piss Protection Demon, 2022
  • Candice Lin, Sorting the Rats, 2020
    Sorting the Rats, 2020
  • Candice Lin, Gonads Vessel (Striped Cat Demon), 2020
    Gonads Vessel (Striped Cat Demon), 2020
  • Candice Lin, Future Sarcophagus, 2020
    Future Sarcophagus, 2020
  • Candice Lin, Chinatown, San Francisco, 1907, 2020
    Chinatown, San Francisco, 1907, 2020
  • Candice Lin, Witness (Yellow Version), 2019
    Witness (Yellow Version), 2019
  • Candice Lin, Minoritarian Medicine, 2019
    Minoritarian Medicine, 2019
  • Candice Lin, On Being Human (The slow erosion of a hard white body), 2018
    On Being Human (The slow erosion of a hard white body), 2018
  • Candice Lin, Map to an Unknown Sea, 2018
    Map to an Unknown Sea, 2018
  • Candice Lin, Fouquieria splendens, 2018
    Fouquieria splendens, 2018
  • Candice Lin, Memory (Study #2), 2016
    Memory (Study #2), 2016
  • Candice Lin, Recipe for Spontaneous Generation: Baby Mice, 2015
    Recipe for Spontaneous Generation: Baby Mice, 2015
  • Candice Lin, Metamorphosis in space, 2013
    Metamorphosis in space, 2013
  • Candice Lin, Failed Matriarchy, 2009
    Failed Matriarchy, 2009
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Candice Lin, Soul of the World (Iron Ouroboros), 2025
Installation view, Shuyi Cao and Candice Lin, Underwater, on Fire, UCCA Clay, Yixing City, China, 2025

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