Candice Lin
{{short description|American sculptor (born 1979)}}
Candice Lin (born 1979) is an American interdisciplinary artist who works in installation, sculpture, drawing, ceramics, and video. Her work is multi-sensorial and often includes living and organic materials and processes.{{Cite web|url=https://www.art.ucla.edu/faculty/lin.html|title=UCLA Department of Art {{!}} Faculty|website=www.art.ucla.edu|access-date=2020-04-02}}
Lin lives and works in Los Angeles, California. She is co-founder and co-director of the artist-run collective and space [http://www.montevistaprojects.com/ Monte Vista Projects]{{Cite web|url=http://www.montevistaprojects.com/|title=Current|website=MONTE VISTA PROJECTS|language=en-US|access-date=2018-02-24}}{{Cite web|url=https://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2019/08/anne-ellegood-jack-halberstam-candice-lin-jenni-sorkin|title=Anne Ellegood, Jack Halberstam, Candice Lin & Jenni Sorkin {{!}} Hammer Museum|website=hammer.ucla.edu|language=en|access-date=2020-04-02}} and is an associate professor in the Department of Art at the UCLA School of Arts and Architecture.{{Cite web|url=http://arts.ucla.edu/|title=UCLA Arts: School of the Arts and Architecture|website=UCLA Arts: School of the Arts and Architecture|language=en|access-date=2019-03-19}}{{Cite web |title=Faculty : UCLA Department of Art |url=https://www.art.ucla.edu/faculty/ |access-date=2025-03-06 |website=www.art.ucla.edu}}
Early life
Lin was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1979. She graduated from Brown University in 2001, where she received a dual BA in Visual Arts and Art Semiotics.{{Cite web|url = http://www.pomona.edu/events/candice-lin-martine-syms-art-exhibition-reception|title = Candice Lin {{!}} Martine Syms Art Exhibition Reception|date = 2015-08-25|website = Pomona College|last = Avant|first = Tricia}} She then attended and graduated from San Francisco Art Institute in 2004, where she received an MFA in New Genres.{{Cite web|url = http://www.flashartonline.com/article/candice-lin/|title = Candice Lin|date = June 2013|website = Flash Art|last = Steffen|first = Patrick}}
Work
Lin is known for her ethnographic approach to art-making alongside crude fantasy scenes.{{Cite journal|last=Steffen|first=Patrick|date=May 2013|title=Candice Lin|journal=Flash International|volume=46|issue=290|pages=133|via=Art & Architecture Source}} A strong interest in the history of slavery and the cultural implications of colonialism informs her work.{{Cite journal|last=Florian|first=Federico|date=February 1, 2017|title=Candice Lin|journal=Art in America|volume=105|pages=108–109}}{{Cite web|url=https://aaa.org.hk/en/ideas/ideas/yellow-skin-white-gold|title=Yellow Skin, White Gold|author1-link=Anne Anlin Cheng|last=Cheng|first=Anne Anlin|date=9 Jan 2020|website=Asia Art Archive, IDEAS Journal}} The post-colonial critique behind Lin's work can be seen in her piece, Dildos (Corn Hill, Queen Victoria, Bird in Space) (2012) first shown at a solo show at [http://ghebaly.com/ Francois Ghebaly Gallery].{{Cite web|url = https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-xpm-2012-oct-15-la-et-cm-candice-lin-at-franois-ghebaly-gallery-20121008-story.html|title = Review: Candice Lin's unsettling take on contemporary society|date = October 15, 2012|website = Los Angeles Times|last = Mizota|first = Sharon}} Here, dildos encased in bell jars are made from molds of corn and are either pink, white, or black—hyperbolic "skin tones."{{Cite journal|url = http://ghebaly.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/diehl_artforum.pdf|title = Reviews: Candice Lin|last = Diehl|first = Travis|date = December 2012|journal = Art Forum|volume = 51|issue = 4|pages = 285–286|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140209105705/http://ghebaly.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/diehl_artforum.pdf|archive-date = 2014-02-09|url-status = dead}}
The list of materials in Lin's work is extensive. One piece, as described by art critic Michael Ned Holte, includes "cochineal (a prized red dye made from crushed insects), poppy seeds, metal castings, water, tea, sugar, a copper still, a hot plate, ceramic vessels, a mortar and pestle, mud from the Thames, and something called a 'microbial mud battery.'"{{Cite journal|last=Holte|first=Michael Ned|date=Nov 2018|title=Openings: Candice Lin|url=https://www.artforum.com/print/201809/michael-ned-holte-on-candice-lin-77278|journal=Artforum|volume=57}} These materials often are multi-sensorial and intangible. In 2017, Lin collaborated with artist Patrick Staff to create the piece Hormonal Fog, a smoke machine that pumped testosterone-lowering, plant-based tinctures into the gallery space.
Lin uses a variety of fluids, like tea, collected and distilled urine, and moisture.{{Cite web|url=http://moussemagazine.it/candice-lin-robert-leckie-2019/|title=Cochineal, Tobacco and Piss: Candice Lin •|date=2019-06-06|website=Mousse Magazine|language=it-IT|access-date=2020-04-03}} These fluids, as Holte suggests, "perform a 'wet potential' to seep into and erode the stabilizing forces and categorical imperatives that define a colonialist imaginary, one that shamefully continues into the present."
Recently, Lin has been characterized as one of the most radical artists in terms of the deconstruction of androcentric images of the female body. Lin's work often "resist the sovereignty of the [masculine] eye" and exposes "the violence of the gyneco-scopic regime" that "cuts the [female] body into pieces, making visual, anatomical, and aesthetic cuts to produce territories or genital organs. These chunks of the body are recodified as synecdoches (that is, the part represents the whole: woman is represented by a piece of herself, genitals represent gender, etc.)" Uparella, Paola and Jáuregui, Carlos A. “The Vagina and the Eye of Power (Essay on Genitalia and Visual Sovereignty)”. H-ART. Revista de historia, teoría y crítica de arte, nº 3 (2018): 79-114. https://dx.doi.org/10.25025/ hart03.2018.04
Exhibitions
From 2004 to 2011 Lin was awarded several residencies, grants, and fellowships. These include the Frankfurter Kunstverein Deutsche Borse Residency, Sacatar Foundation Artist Residency in Brazil in 2011. In 2010, she was invited to the Banff Centre Artist Residency in Canada and the Department of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs CEI grant. The Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship was awarded to her in 2009, and AIR at CESTA located in the Czech Republic, in 2004.
In 2016 Lin's A Body Reduced to Brilliant Colour{{Cite web|url=https://www.gasworks.org.uk/exhibitions/candice-lin-a-body-reduced-to-brilliant-colour-2016-09-22/|title=Exhibitions {{!}} Gasworks|website=www.gasworks.org.uk|access-date=2018-02-24}} show at Gasworks Gallery in London was reviewed in Art in America.{{Cite news|url=https://www.artinamericamagazine.com/reviews/candice-lin/|title=Candice Lin - Art in America|work=Art in America|access-date=2018-02-24|language=en-US}} Lin also participated in a residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts.{{Cite news|url=http://www.headlands.org/artist/candice-lin/|title=Candice Lin - Headlands Center for the Arts|work=Headlands Center for the Arts|access-date=2018-02-24|language=en-US}}
In 2017 Lin was included in Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon at the New Museum.{{Cite web|url=https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/trigger-gender-as-a-tool-and-as-a-weapon|title=Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon|website=www.newmuseum.org|language=en|access-date=2018-02-24}} The show, which featured the work of over 40 artists, was the largest show to date at a major museum dealing with the theme of gender fluidity. Lin's collaboration with artist Patrick Staff, Hormonal Fog, was displayed and pumped into the museum's lobby.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/15/arts/design/gender-fluid-artists-new-museum-transgender.html|title=Gender-Fluid Artists Come Out of the Gray Zone|last=Sheets|first=Hilarie M.|date=2017-09-15|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-03-19|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}
In 2017 Lin was included in The Sharjah Biennial 13: Upon a Shifting Plate.{{Cite web|url=http://sharjahart.org/sharjah-art-foundation/people/lin-candice|title=Sharjah Art Foundation|website=sharjahart.org|access-date=2018-02-24}}
In 2018 Lin was included in Made in L.A. 2018 at the Hammer Museum.{{Cite web|url=https://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2018/made-in-la-2018/candice-lin/|title=Candice Lin - Hammer Museum|website=The Hammer Museum|language=en|access-date=2018-02-24}}
In 2018 Lin had her first solo exhibition in Chicago, A Hard White Body, a Porous Slip, at Logan Center Exhibitions.{{Cite web|url=https://arts.uchicago.edu/logan-center/logan-center-exhibitions/exhibitions-projects/candice-lin-hard-white-body-porous-slip|title=Candice Lin: A Hard White Body, a Porous Slip {{!}} UChicago Arts {{!}} The University of Chicago|website=arts.uchicago.edu|access-date=2019-03-19}} One installation incorporated biographical references to writer James Baldwin and French botanist Jeanne Baret.{{Cite journal|last=Draganova|first=Viktoria|date=April 2018|title=CANDICE LIN|journal=Frieze|volume=194|pages=152}}
In 2024 an exhibition of Lin's work, 'The Animal Husband', was held at the Talbot Rice Gallery in Edinburgh. This was her first solo exhibition in Scotland.{{Cite web |title=Candice Lin / The Animal Husband |url=https://www.trg.ed.ac.uk/exhibition/candice-lin-animal-husband |access-date=4 May 2024 |website=Talbot Rice Gallery}}
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