Candice Lin is an interdisciplinary artist and Associate Professor of Art at the University of California, Los Angeles. She holds a double BA in Semiotics and Visual Arts from Brown University and an MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute. Incorporating installation, drawing, video, as well as living materials and processes, Lin’s work deals with the politics of representation with a focus on histories of colonialism and diaspora vis-à-vis race, gender, and sexuality. Lin has had recent solo exhibitions at Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (2024); Canal Projects, New York (2023); Spike Island, Bristol, UK (2022); 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 showed at 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, 2023 Arnoldo Pomodoro Sculpture Prize, a 2022 Gold Art Prize, and a 2019 Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, among others. Her work is part of the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and Walker Art Center.