Candice Lin

Candice Lin is an artist whose practice utilizes installation, drawing, video, and living materials and processes, such as mold, mushrooms, bacteria, fermentation, and stains. Her recent solo exhibitions have been presented at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2021); Times Museum, Guangzhou, China (2021); Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand (2020); ICA, NYU Shanghai (2020); Pitzer Galleries, Claremont, CA (2020); the Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Art Center, Canada (2019); and the exhibition cycle A Hard White Body at Bétonsalon, Paris; Portikus, Frankfurt; and the Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago (2017-2018). Lin has been included in numerous prominent group exhibitions including the 2021 Prospect New Orleans Biennial; 2021 Gwangju Biennial; 2018 Taipei Biennale; the 2018 Athens Biennale; and Made in L.A, 2018, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. She is the recipient of several residencies, grants and fellowships, such as the Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant (2019), The Artists Project Award (2018), Louis Comfort Tiffany Award (2017), the Davidoff Art Residency (2018) and Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2009). She received her BA in Visual Arts and Art Semiotics from Brown University, in 2001, and MFA in New Genres from San Francisco Art Institute, in 2004. She is currently Assistant Professor of Art at UCLA and lives and works in Los Angeles.