Candice Lin

Candice Lin

b. 1979, Concord, Massachusetts
lives in Los Angeles

Candice Lin is an American sculptor and installation artist living and working in Los Angeles. She draws from the cultural legacies of colonialism, slavery, and diaspora to inform her work, which she uses to address themes of race, gender, sexuality, and their representations. Lin's recent solo exhibition cycle, A Hard White Body, was presented from 2017 through 2018 at Betonsalon, Paris; Portikus, Frankfurt; and the Logan Center in Chicago. She has also been featured in several group exhibitions at institutions such as the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2018), and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2017). Lin earned a double BA in visual arts and art semiotics from Brown University, Providence (2001), and an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute (2004). She is an assistant professor in the department of art at the School of Arts and Architecture at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Candice Lin, La Charada China (Tobacco Version), 2019. Cement with casein paint, welded steel table frame, tobacco, ceramics, distillation system (distilling a tincture of tobacco, sugar, tea, poppy and piss), poppy pod putty, sugarcane, white sugar, cacao, sage, ackee, oak gall, Anadenanthera, dong quai, California clay, Dominican Republic clay, dried indigo, glass slides, bottles, drawings, rubber, metal parts, bucket, pumps, tubing, tile, wood. Installation dimensions variable. Courtesy the Artist and François Ghebaly, Los Angeles.