Maya Lin

Maya Lin was born in Athens, Ohio. Her parents emigrated from China to the United States, her father in 1948 and her mother in 1949, and settled in Ohio before Lin was born.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/05/nyregion/thecity/05maya.html|author=Paul Berger|title=Ancient Echoes in a Modern Space|work=The New York Times|date=November 5, 2006|access-date=January 2, 2009|archive-date=June 16, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180616030902/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/05/nyregion/thecity/05maya.html|url-status=live}} Her father, Henry Huan Lin, born in Fuzhou, Fujian, was a ceramist and dean of the Ohio University College of Fine Arts. Her mother, Julia Chang Lin, born in Shanghai, was a poet and professor of literature at Ohio University. She is the "half" niece of Lin Huiyin, who was an American-educated artist and poet, and said to have been the first female architect in modern China.{{cite book|author=Peter G. Rowe|author2=Seng Kuan|name-list-style=amp|title=Architectural Encounters with Essence and Form in Modern China|publisher=MIT Press|year=2004|isbn=978-0-262-68151-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9irZf11s4NkC}} Lin Juemin and Lin Yin Ming, both of whom were among the 72 martyrs of the Second Guangzhou uprising, were cousins of her grandfather.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S0qHNt3ZU4wC&pg=PA5|title=Maya Lin: A Biography|author=Donald Langmead|year=2011|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-313-37854-6|page=5}} Lin Chang-min, a Hanlin of Qing dynasty and the emperor's teacher, fathered Lin Huiyin with his wife, while Maya Lin's father Henry Huan Lin was Lin Chang-Min’s son by his concubine.{{cite book|page=56|year=2007|publisher=Infobase Publishing|author=Tom Lashnits|title=Maya Lin|series=Asian Americans of Achievement Series|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XcwyNT2DzIsC&pg=PA56|isbn=978-1-4381-0036-4}}

According to Lin, she "didn't even realize" she was ethnically Chinese until later in life, and that only in her 30s did she acquire an interest in her cultural background.{{cite web|url=http://www.aam-us.org/pubs/mn/mayalin.cfm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080915223311/http://www.aam-us.org/pubs/mn/mayalin.cfm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2008-09-15|title=Between Art and Architecture: The Memory Works of Maya Lin|publisher=American Association of Museums|date=July–August 2008|access-date=December 30, 2008}}

Lin has said that she did not have many friends when growing up, stayed home a lot, loved to study, and loved school. While still in high school she took courses at Ohio University where she learned to cast bronze in the school's foundry.{{cite web|title=Maya Lin Biography and Interview|website=www.achievement.org|publisher=American Academy of Achievement|url=https://achievement.org/achiever/maya-lin/#interview|access-date=March 18, 2020|archive-date=November 9, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161109104758/http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/lin0int-1#interview|url-status=live}} She graduated in 1977 from Athens High School in The Plains, Ohio, after which she attended Yale University where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1981 and a Master of Architecture in 1986.

According to Lin, she has been concerned with environmental issues since she was very young, and dedicated much of her time at Yale University to environmental activism.{{cite book|last=Munro|first=Eleanor C.|title=Originals: American women artists|location=Boulder, CO|publisher=Da Capo Press|year=2000}}

She attributes her interest in the environment to her upbringing in rural Ohio: the nearby Hopewell and Adena Native America burial mounds inspired her from an early age.{{cite journal|last=Favorite|first=Jennifer K.|date=2016-07-02|title='We Don't Want Another Vietnam': The Wall, the Mall, History, and Memory in the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Education Center|journal=Public Art Dialogue|volume=6|issue=2|pages=185–205|doi=10.1080/21502552.2016.1205862|issn=2150-2552|doi-access=free}} Noting that much of her later work has focused on the relationship people have with their environment, as expressed in her earthworks, sculptures, and installations, Lin said, "I'm very much a product of the growing awareness about ecology and the environmental movement...I am very drawn to landscape, and my work is about finding a balance in the landscape, respecting nature not trying to dominate it. Even the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is an earthwork. All of my work is about slipping things in, inserting an order or a structuring, yet making an interface so that in the end, rather than a hierarchy, there is a balance and tension between the man-made and the natural."

According to the scholar Susette Min, Lin's work uncovers "hidden histories" to bring attention to landscapes and environments that would otherwise be inaccessible to viewers and "deploys the concept to discuss the inextricable relationship between nature and the built environment".{{cite magazine|last=Min|first=Susette|title=Entropic Designs: A Review of Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes and Asian/American/Modern Art: Shifting Currents, 1900–1970 at the De Young Museum|magazine=American Quarterly|volume=61|issue=1|year=2009|pages=193–215}} Lin's focus on this relationship highlights the impact humanity has on the environment, and draws attention to issues such as global warming, endangered bodies of water, and animal extinction/endangerment. She has explored these issues in her recent memorial, called What Is Missing?

According to one commentator, Lin constructs her works to have a minimal effect on the environment by utilizing recycled and sustainable materials, by minimizing carbon emissions, and by attempting to avoid damaging the landscapes/ecosystems where she works.{{cite magazine|last=Mendelsohn|first=Meredith|title=Maya Lin|magazine=Art+Auction|volume=33|issue=4 (December 2009)|pages=40–90}} Art & Architecture Source, EBSCOhost (accessed April 14, 2017).

In addition to her other activities as an environmentalist, Lin has served on the Natural Resources Defense Council board of trustees.

{{Further|Vietnam Veterans Memorial}}

File:MayaLinsubmission.jpg design competition]]

In 1981, at 21 and still an undergraduate student, Lin won a public design competition to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, to be built on the National Mall in Washington D.C. Her design, one of 1,422 submissions,{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm022.html|title=Vietnam Veterans Memorial|publisher=Library of Congress|access-date=January 3, 2009|archive-date=January 19, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110119101755/http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm022.html|url-status=live}} specified a black granite wall with the names of 57,939 fallen soldiers carved into its face (hundreds more have been added since the dedication),{{Cite web|title=Frequently Asked Questions|url=https://www.vvmf.org/about-vvmf/FAQs/|access-date=2021-05-12|website=Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund|language=en-US|archive-date=June 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200627051849/https://www.vvmf.org/about-vvmf/FAQs/|url-status=live}} to be v-shaped, with one side pointing toward the Lincoln Memorial and the other toward the Washington Monument.{{cite web|url=http://www.vvmf.org/index.cfm?sectionID=539|title=Facts and Figures|publisher=Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund|access-date=January 3, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100304051639/http://www.vvmf.org/index.cfm?sectionID=539|archive-date=March 4, 2010|url-status=dead}} The memorial was designed in the minimalist architectural style, which was in contrast to previous war memorials. The memorial was completed in late October 1982 and dedicated in November 1982.{{cite web|url=http://www.vvmf.org/index.cfm?SectionID=76|title=History|publisher=Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund|access-date=January 3, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100304031234/http://www.vvmf.org/index.cfm?SectionID=76|archive-date=March 4, 2010|url-status=dead}}

According to Lin, her intention was to create an opening or a wound in the earth to symbolize the pain caused by the war and its many casualties. "I imagined taking a knife and cutting into the earth, opening it up, and with the passage of time, that initial violence and pain would heal," she recalled.{{cite web|title=The Woman Who Healed America|url=https://www.theattic.space/home-page-blogs/2019/10/23/the-woman-who-healed-america|website=The Attic|date=October 23, 2019|access-date=5 November 2019|archive-date=November 5, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191105210849/https://www.theattic.space/home-page-blogs/2019/10/23/the-woman-who-healed-america|url-status=live}}

Her winning design was initially controversial for several reasons: its minimalist design,{{cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/2015/04/30/403034599/vietnam-veterans-memorial-founder-monument-almost-never-got-built|title=Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Founder: Monument Almost Never Got Built|newspaper=NPR.org|access-date=April 4, 2018|archive-date=July 7, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170707000640/http://www.npr.org/2015/04/30/403034599/vietnam-veterans-memorial-founder-monument-almost-never-got-built|url-status=live}} her lack of professional experience, and her Asian ethnicity.{{cite web|url=http://www.greenmuseum.org/c/aen/Issues/lin.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100621063353/http://greenmuseum.org/c/aen/Issues/lin.php|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 21, 2010|author=Marla Hochman|title=Maya Lin, Vietnam Memorial|publisher=greenmuseum.org|access-date=December 30, 2008}}{{cite web|url=http://www.jackmagazine.com/issue9/essayksands.html|title=Maya Lin's Wall: A Tribute to Americans|work=Jack Magazine|author=Kristal Sands|access-date=December 30, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120141639/http://www.jackmagazine.com/issue9/essayksands.html|archive-date=November 20, 2008|df=mdy-all}} Some objected to the exclusion of the surviving veterans' names, while others complained about the dark complexion of the granite, claiming that it expressed a negative attitude towards the Vietnam War. Lin defended her design before the US Congress, and a compromise was reached: Three Soldiers, a bronze depiction of a group of soldiers and an American flag were placed to the side of Lin's design.

Notwithstanding the initial controversy, the memorial has become an important pilgrimage site for relatives and friends of the dead soldiers, many of whom leave personal tokens and mementos in memory of their loved ones.{{cite web|url=http://www.gale.com/free_resources/whm/bio/lin_m.htm|title=Free Resources – Women's History – Biographies – Maya Lin|work=Gale|date=March 12, 2002|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020203074950/http://www.gale.com/free_resources/whm/bio/lin_m.htm|access-date=April 25, 2012|archive-date=February 3, 2002}}{{cite web|url=http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Maya_Lin.html|title=Maya Lin – Great Buildings Online|work=Greatbuildings.com|access-date=April 25, 2012|archive-date=July 17, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170717053530/http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Maya_Lin.html|url-status=live}} In 2007, an American Institute of Architects poll ranked the memorial No. 10 on a list of America's Favorite Architecture, and it is now one of the most visited sites on the National Mall. Furthermore, it now serves as a memorial for the veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. There is a collection with items left since 2001 from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, which includes handwritten letters and notes of those who lost loved ones during these wars. There is also a pair of combat boots and a note with it dedicated to the veterans of the Vietnam War, that reads "If your generation of Marines had not come home to jeers, insults, and protests, my generation would not come home to thanks, handshakes and hugs."

Lin once said that if the competition had not been held "blind" (with designs submitted by name instead of number), she "never would have won" on account of her ethnicity. Her assertion is supported by the fact that she was harassed after her ethnicity was revealed, as when prominent businessman and later third-party presidential candidate Ross Perot called her an "egg roll."{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/yellowraceinamer00wufr|url-access=registration|title=Yellow: Race In America Beyond Black and White|page=[https://archive.org/details/yellowraceinamer00wufr/page/95 95]|publisher=Basic Books|year=2002|author=Frank H. Wu|isbn=0-465-00639-6}}

File:Maya Lin sculpture.jpg in San Francisco in January 2009]]

File:SMLwithMayaLinWomenatYale.jpg in front of the Sterling Memorial Library, commemorating the role of women at Yale University]]

Lin, who now owns and operates Maya Lin Studio in New York City, has designed numerous projects following the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, including the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama (1989) and the Wave Field outdoor installation at the University of Michigan (1995).{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/lin/card2.html|title=Art:21. Maya Lin's "Wave Field" PBS|work=Pbs.org|access-date=April 25, 2012|archive-date=September 20, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110920233325/http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/lin/card2.html|url-status=live}} Lin is represented by the Pace Gallery in New York City.{{cite news|title='Maya Lin's New Memorial Is a City'|first=Carol|last=Kino|date=April 25, 2013|access-date=September 23, 2013|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/arts/design/maya-lins-here-and-there-at-pace-gallery.html?pagewanted=all|archive-date=June 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180617165142/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/arts/design/maya-lins-here-and-there-at-pace-gallery.html?pagewanted=all|url-status=live}}

• Peace-Chapel (completed in 1989), for the Baker Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies and Juniata College. Lin was approached by Elizabeth Evans Baker to design the open-aired chapel, perched on top of a mountain. The chapel represented in one place the connections between peace, art, spirituality, and nature. The site consists of a circle of stones for “pews,” the ground of the earth for a floor, and the boundless sky for a ceiling overhead. Located on Baker-Henry Nature Preserve in Huntingdon, PA.
• Wave Field (completed in 1995), for the University of Michigan. Lin was inspired by both diagrams of fluids in motion and photographs of ocean waves. She was intrigued by the idea of capturing and freezing the motion of water and wished to capture that movement in the earth rather than through photography. Wave Field was her first experiment with earthworks.{{cite magazine|last=Deitsch|first=Dina|title=Maya Lin's Perpetual Landscapes and Storm King Wavefield|magazine=Woman's Art Journal|volume=30|issue=1|year=2009|page=6}}
• Confluence Project (completed in 2000), a series of outdoor installations at historical points along the Columbia River and Snake River in the states of Washington and Oregon.{{cite news|title=A Meeting of Minds|url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/pacificnw06122005/coverstory.html|work=The Seattle Times|date=June 12, 2005|access-date=September 7, 2006|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060507145453/http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/pacificnw06122005/coverstory.html|archive-date=May 7, 2006|df=mdy}}{{Cite web |last=Cipolle |first=Alex |title=Along the Columbia River, Making a Monument of the Land |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/20/arts/maya-lin-tribal-monuments-pacific-northwest.html |date=May 20, 2021 |work=New York Times |access-date=April 30, 2023 |archive-date=February 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221005548/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/20/arts/maya-lin-tribal-monuments-pacific-northwest.html |url-status=live }}
• Eleven Minute Line (completed in 2004), an earthwork in Sweden that was designed for the Wanås Foundation. Lin drew inspiration from the Serpent Mounds (Native American burial mounds) located in her home state, Ohio. It is meant to be a walkway for the viewers to experience, taking eleven minutes to complete. The work was inspired by Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty.
• A new plaza (completed in 2005), at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at the University of California, Irvine.{{cite web|url=http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0r29r847/|title=Guide to the University of California, Irvine, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, Maya Lin Arts Plaza Project Records AS.123|website=Oac.cdlib.org|access-date=August 15, 2012|archive-date=April 16, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170416044637/http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0r29r847/|url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=http://www.arts.uci.edu/content/facilities-theatres-galleries-venues-rentals-classrooms-and-labs |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20120119194406/http://www.arts.uci.edu/content/facilities-theatres-galleries-venues-rentals-classrooms-and-labs |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 19, 2012 |title=Facilities, theatres, galleries, venues, rentals, classrooms and labs. | Claire Trevor School of Arts |website=Arts.uci.edu |access-date=August 15, 2012 |df=mdy-all }}
• Waterline (completed in 2006), composed of aluminum tubing and paint. Lin has described the piece as a drawing instead of a sculpture. It is a to-scale representation of the Mid-Atlantic ridge, and it is installed so that viewers may walk on the underwater mountain range. One critic saw in the work a purposeful ambiguity as to where the actual water line was in relation to the mountain range, which highlighted the viewers' relationship to the environment and the effect they had on bodies of water.{{cite magazine|last=Min|first=Susette|title=Entropic Designs: A Review of Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes and Asian/American/Modern Art: Shifting Currents, 1900–1970 at the De Young Museum|magazine=American Quarterly|volume=61|issue=1|year=2009|page=198}}{{cite web | last=TenBrink | first=Marisa | title=Maya Lin's Environmental Installations: Bringing the Outside In | url=https://publications.kon.org/urc/v9/Interconnected-Through-Art/tenbrink.pdf | location=South Dakota State University | page=7 | access-date=2025-05-25}}The document has something akin to a watermark saying "The document and the images it contains may not be re-published elsewhere."
• Bodies of Water series (completed in 2006), consisting of representations of three bodies of water, "The Black Sea," "The Caspian Sea," and "The Red Sea". Each sculpture is made of layers of birch plywood, and are to-scale representations of three endangered bodies of water. The sculptures are balanced on the deepest point of the sea. Lin wished to call attention to the "unseen ecosystems" that people continue to pollute.{{cite web | last=TenBrink | first=Marisa | title=Maya Lin's Environmental Installations: Bringing the Outside In | url=https://publications.kon.org/urc/v9/Interconnected-Through-Art/tenbrink.pdf | location=South Dakota State University | page=10 | access-date=2025-05-25}}
• Input (with Tan Lin, completed in 2004). Lin was commissioned by Ohio University to design what is known as Input in that institution's Bicentennial Park,{{Cite web|url=https://www.ohio.edu/athens/bldgs/bicentennial.html|title=Bicentennial Park at Ohio University|website=www.ohio.edu|access-date=December 1, 2016|archive-date=June 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180617144201/https://www.ohio.edu/athens/bldgs/bicentennial.html|url-status=live}} a landscape designed to resemble a computer punch card. The work relates to Lin's first official connection with the university. The daughter of the late Professor Emerita of English Julia Lin and the late Henry Lin, dean emeritus of the College of Fine Arts, Maya Lin studied computer programming at the university while in high school. The installation is located in a 3.5-acre park. It has 21 rectangles, some raised and some depressed, resembling the holes in computer punch cards, a mainstay of early programming courses.{{cite web|url=https://www.ohio.edu/outlook/390n-034.cfm|title=Ohio University dedicates Bicentennial Park|publisher=Ohio University|location=Athens, Ohio|date=May 15, 2004|access-date=February 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181121181751/https://www.ohio.edu/outlook/390n-034.cfm|archive-date=November 21, 2018|url-status=dead}}
• Above and Below (completed in 2007), an outdoor sculpture at the Indianapolis Museum of Art in Indiana. The artwork is made of aluminum tubing that has been electrolytically colored by anodization.
• 2 × 4 Landscape (completed in 2008), a 30-ton sculpture made of many pieces of wood, which was exhibited at the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, in San Francisco.{{cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/24/DD3713HMF1.DTL|title=Maya Lin looks at nature – from the inside|work=San Francisco Chronicle|date=October 24, 2008|access-date=April 25, 2012|archive-date=October 27, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081027015730/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/24/DD3713HMF1.DTL|url-status=live}} The sculpture itself is evocative of the swelling movement of water, which is juxtaposed with the dry materiality of the lumber pieces. According to Lin, 2 × 4 Landscape was her attempt to bring the experience of Wavefield (1995) indoors. The 2 × 4 pieces are also meant to be reminiscent of pixels, to evoke the "virtual or digital space that we are increasingly occupying."{{cite web | last=TenBrink | first=Marisa | title=Maya Lin's Environmental Installations: Bringing the Outside In | url=https://publications.kon.org/urc/v9/Interconnected-Through-Art/tenbrink.pdf | location=South Dakota State University | page=4 | access-date=2025-05-25}}
• Wave Field, (completed in 2008), at the Storm King Art Center in New York state.{{cite news|first=Carol|last=Kino|title=Once Inspired by a War, Now by the Land|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/arts/design/09kino.html|work=The New York Times|date=November 7, 2008|access-date=November 9, 2008|archive-date=November 9, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081109082744/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/arts/design/09kino.html|url-status=live}}{{cite news|title=Art Review {{!}} 'Storm King Wavefield': Where the Ocean Meets the Catskills|first=Holland|last=Cotter|date=May 7, 2009|access-date=May 8, 2009|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/08/arts/design/08lin.html|archive-date=October 9, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111009064046/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/08/arts/design/08lin.html|url-status=live}} It is the center's first earthwork, spanning 4 acres of land, and is a larger version of her original Wave Field (1995) that focuses on the "fusion of opposites,"{{cite magazine|last=Deitsch|first=Dina|title=Maya Lin's Perpetual Landscapes and Storm King Wavefield|magazine=Woman's Art Journal|volume=30|issue=1|year=2009|page=3}} comparing the motion of water to the material of the earth.
• Design of a building (2009) for the Museum of Chinese in America, near New York City's Chinatown. Lin said that she found the project to be personally significant, explaining that she wants her two daughters to "know that part of their heritage".
• Silver River (2009), her first work of art in the Las Vegas Strip. It is part of a public fine art collection at MGM Mirage's CityCenter, which opened December 2009. Lin created an {{convert|84|ft|m|adj=on}} cast of the Colorado River made entirely of reclaimed silver. With the sculpture, Lin wanted to make a statement about water conservation and the importance of the Colorado River to Nevada in terms of energy and water.{{cite news|title=Artist Maya Lin Provides 'Silver River' for Vegas' CityCenter Megaresort|first=Steve|last=Friess|date=December 16, 2009|access-date=January 1, 2010|work=Sphere News|url=http://www.sphere.com/nation/article/artist-maya-lin-provides-silver-river-for-vegas-citycenter-megaresort/19283624|df=mdy}}{{dead link|date=September 2016|bot=medic|fix-attempted=yes}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}{{cite web|url=https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2010/01/24/big-gamble-will-citycenter-mega-resort-pay-off-for-las-vegas/|title=Big gamble: Will CityCenter mega resort pay off for Las Vegas?|work=East Bay Times|date=January 24, 2010|access-date=November 3, 2021|archive-date=November 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211103194040/https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2010/01/24/big-gamble-will-citycenter-mega-resort-pay-off-for-las-vegas/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www2.citycenter.com/press_room/press_room_items.aspx?ID=845|title=Press Releases - CityCenter Las Vegas - Press Room|access-date=November 3, 2021|archive-date=November 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211103195110/http://www2.citycenter.com/press_room/press_room_items.aspx?ID=845|url-status=dead}} The sculpture is displayed behind the front desk of the Aria Resort and Casino.
• Pin River - Sandy (completed in 2013) Was a work Lin created in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Displayed in the Pace Gallery of New York, it stands at 114 × 120 × 1 1/2 in. The work was meant to represent the flood zone of Hurricane Sandy. She wants this piece to raise awareness of how New York City used to be, and how the natural oyster beds and salt marshes would protect from the storm surges.{{cite web|url=https://art21.org/theme/climate-crisis/#/9|title=New York, Maya Lin - Extended Play |access-date=August 7, 2024}}
• A Fold in the Field (completed in 2013). Her largest work to date, it was built from 105,000m cubic meters of earth, covering 3 hectares. It forms part of a private collection within a sculpture park, owned by Alan Gibbs, north of Auckland, New Zealand.{{Cite web|url=http://www.gibbsfarm.org.nz/lin.php|title=Maya Lin, A Fold in the Field - Gibbs Farm|access-date=May 13, 2014|archive-date=October 5, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171005110404/http://gibbsfarm.org.nz/lin.php|url-status=live}}
• Since around 2010, Lin has been working on what she calls "her final memorial,"{{cite web|title=About the Project|url=http://whatismissing.net/#/home|website=What Is Missing?|access-date=March 7, 2015|archive-date=September 23, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923131739/http://whatismissing.net/#/home|url-status=dead}} the What Is Missing? Foundation, to commemorate the biodiversity that has been lost in the planet's sixth mass extinction. She aims to raise awareness about the loss of biodiversity and natural habitats by using sound, media, science, and art for temporary installations and a web-based project. What Is Missing? exists not in one specific site but in many forms and in many places simultaneously.{{cite web|last1=Reed|first1=Amanda|title=What Is Missing?: Maya Lin's Memorial on the Sixth Extinction|url=http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/011645.html|website=World Changing|access-date=March 7, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150120234705/http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/011645.html|archive-date=January 20, 2015|df=mdy-all}}
• From 2015 to 2021, Lin worked on the renovation and reconfiguration of the Neilson Library and its grounds at Smith College.{{Cite news|last=Sokol|first=Brett|date=2021-03-17|title=For Maya Lin, a Victory Lap Gives Way to Mourning|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/17/arts/design/maya-lin-smith-college-daniel-wolf.html|access-date=2021-03-26|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=March 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210324214537/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/17/arts/design/maya-lin-smith-college-daniel-wolf.html|url-status=live}} A project in Madison Square Park, "Ghost Forest," was postponed until 2021.{{Cite web|last=Angeleti|first=Gabriella|date=February 9, 2021|title=Maya Lin's 'ghost forest' will rise in Madison Square Park this spring|url=http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/maya-lin-s-ghost-forest-an-immersive-installation-of-desiccated-trees-will-rise-in-new-york-this-spring-after-postponement-due-to-covid-19|access-date=2021-03-26|website=www.theartnewspaper.com|archive-date=March 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210317160625/https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/maya-lin-s-ghost-forest-an-immersive-installation-of-desiccated-trees-will-rise-in-new-york-this-spring-after-postponement-due-to-covid-19|url-status=live}}
• Both What is Missing and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial were referred to by the White House in its press release that announced Lin as one of the 2016 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Nature and the environment have been central concerns for Lin in both her art and architecture: "As an artist I often work in series, and so for me, I wanted my last memorial to be on a subject that I have personally been concerned with and connected to since I was a child. The last memorial is "What Is Missing?" And encompasses multiple platforms, with temporary and permanent physical installations as well as an interactive online component."{{Cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/speechless-vietnam-veterans-memorial-architect-maya-lin-receive-medal-freedom-n686966|title='Speechless': Vietnam Veterans Memorial architect Maya Lin to receive Medal of Freedom|publisher=NBC News|access-date=31 March 2017|archive-date=April 15, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190415075435/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/speechless-vietnam-veterans-memorial-architect-maya-lin-receive-medal-freedom-n686966|url-status=live}} She has expressed her concerns for the goals of the Trump administration: "I think nature is resilient— if we protect it—and with my background I wanted to lend a voice to the incredible threat we are under from climate change and species and habitat loss."

• Il Cortile Mare (1998-1999), an exhibition of furniture design, maquettes and photos of works at the American Academy in Rome.{{cite web|author=R.J. Preece|year=1999|url=http://www.artdesigncafe.com/Maya-Lin-American-Academy-Rome-1999|title=Maya Lin at American Academy, Rome|work=World Sculpture News / artdesigncafe|access-date=December 30, 2011|archive-date=February 2, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120202173101/http://www.artdesigncafe.com/Maya-Lin-American-Academy-Rome-1999|url-status=live}}

• Maya Lin, Boundaries (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000).{{Cite book|title=Maya Lin: Boundaries|publisher=WorldCat|oclc=470354593}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.seattlepi.com/visualart/maya.shtml|title=Maya Lin emerges from the shadows|access-date=February 13, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021120003051/http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/visualart/maya.shtml|archive-date=November 20, 2002|first=Regina|last=Hackett|work=Seattle Post-Intelligencer|date=October 19, 2000}}

Maya Lin calls herself a "designer," rather than an "architect".In a 2008 interview, she said, "I'm not licensed as an architect, so I technically cannot label myself as an architect, although I would say that we pretty much produce with architects of record supervising. I love architecture and I love building architecture, but technically, legally, I'm not licensed, so I'm a designer." {{cite web|url=http://www.aam-us.org/pubs/mn/mayalin.cfm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080915223311/http://www.aam-us.org/pubs/mn/mayalin.cfm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2008-09-15|title=Between Art and Architecture: The Memory Works of Maya Lin|publisher=American Association of Museums|date=July–August 2008|access-date=October 27, 2011}} Her vision and her focus are always on how space needs to be in the future, the balance and relationship with the nature and what it means to people. She has tried to focus less on how politics influences design and more on what emotions the space would create and what it would symbolize to the user. Her belief in a space being connected and the transition from inside to outside being fluid, coupled with what a space means, has led her to create some very memorable designs. She has also worked on sculptures and landscape installations, such as “Input” artwork at Ohio University. In doing so, Lin focuses on memorializing concepts of time periods instead of direct representations of figures, creating an abstract sculptures and installations.{{citation needed|date=February 2018}}

Lin believes that art should be an act of any individual who is willing to say something that is new and not quite familiar. In her own words, Lin's work "originates from a simple desire to make people aware of their surroundings, not just the physical world but also the psychological world we live in."{{Cite book|title=Boundaries|last=Lin|first=Maya Ying|date=2000|publisher=Simon & Schuster|isbn=0684834170|location=New York|oclc=43591075|url=https://archive.org/details/boundaries00linm}} Lin describes her creative process as having a very important writing and verbal component. She first imagines an artwork verbally to understand its concepts and meanings. She believes that gathering ideas and information is especially vital in architecture, which focuses on humanity and life and requires a well-rounded mind.{{cite news|last1=Campbell|first1=Robert|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8625723.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924201534/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8625723.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 24, 2015|title=Rock, Paper, Vision Artist and Architect Maya Lin Goes Beyond her Powerful Vietnam Veterans Memorial|access-date=March 7, 2015|work=The Boston Globe|date=November 30, 2000}} When a project comes her way, she tries to "understand the definition (of the site) in a verbal before finding the form to understand what a piece is conceptually and what its nature should be even before visiting the site". After she completely understands the definition of the site, Lin finalizes her designs by creating numerous renditions of her project in model form. In her historical memorials, such as the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the Women's Table, and the Civil Rights Memorial, Lin tries to focus on the chronological aspect of what she is memorializing. That theme is shown in her art memorializing the changing environment and in charting the depletion of bodies of water.{{cite web | last=TenBrink | first=Marisa | title=Maya Lin's Environmental Installations: Bringing the Outside In | url=https://publications.kon.org/urc/v9/Interconnected-Through-Art/tenbrink.pdf | location=South Dakota State University | page=2 | access-date=2025-05-25}} Lin also explores themes of juxtaposing materials and a fusion of opposites: "I feel I exist on the boundaries. Somewhere between science and art, art and architecture, public and private, east and west.... I am always trying to find a balance between these opposing forces, finding the place where opposites meet... existing not on either side but on the line that divides."{{cite magazine|last=Deitsch|first=Dina|title=Maya Lin's Perpetual Landscapes and Storm King Wavefield|magazine=Woman's Art Journal|volume=30|issue=1|year=2009|page=4}}

Lin was married to Daniel Wolf (1955–2021), a photography dealer and collector.{{Cite news|last=Risen|first=Clay|date=March 24, 2021|title=Daniel Wolf, 65, Dies; Helped Create a Market for Art Photography|language=en-US|volume=120|page=A21|work=The New York Times|issue=59009|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/24/arts/daniel-wolf-dead.html|access-date=March 26, 2021|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=March 25, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210325195117/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/24/arts/daniel-wolf-dead.html|url-status=live}} Her sister-in-law was the philanthropist Diane R. Wolf (1954–2008). She has homes in New York and rural Colorado, and is the mother of two daughters, India and Rachel. She has an older brother, the poet Tan Lin.

Lin has been awarded honorary doctorate degrees from Yale University, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Williams College, and Smith College.{{cite web|url=http://72.5.117.194/content.asp?key=139|title=Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes|publisher=Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco|access-date=January 2, 2009}}{{dead link|date=July 2017|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}} In 1987, she was among the youngest to be awarded an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts by Yale University.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110480/|title=Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision|date=November 10, 1995|work=IMDb|access-date=July 1, 2018|archive-date=October 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171014111230/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110480/|url-status=live}}

In 1994, she was the subject of the Academy Award-winning{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1995|title=The 67th Academy Awards (1995) Nominees and Winners|accessdate=2015-05-12|work=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|date=October 5, 2014|publisher=AMPAS|archive-date=November 2, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171102051957/https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1995|url-status=live}} documentary Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision. Its title comes from an address she gave at Juniata College in which she spoke of the monument design process in the origin of her work; "My work originates from a simple desire to make people aware of their surroundings and this can include not just the physical but the psychological world that we live in."

In 2002, Lin was elected Alumni Fellow of the Yale Corporation, the governing body of Yale University (upon whose campus sits another of Lin's designs, the Women's Table, designed to commemorate the role of women at Yale University), in an unusually public contest. Her opponent was W. David Lee, a local New Haven minister and graduate of the Yale Divinity School, who was running on a platform to build ties to the community with the support of Yale's unionized employees. Lin was supported by Yale President Richard Levin and other members of the Yale Corporation, and she was the officially endorsed candidate of the Association of Yale Alumni.{{Cite magazine

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In 2003, Lin was chosen to serve on the selection jury of the World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition. A trend toward minimalism and abstraction was noted among the entrants and the finalists as well as in the chosen design for the World Trade Center Memorial.

In 2005, Lin was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York.

President Barack Obama awarded Lin the National Medal of Arts in 2009{{cite web|url=http://www.nea.gov/news/news10/Medals.html|title=White House Announces 2009 National Medal of Arts Recipients|work=Nea.gov|date=February 25, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100301095545/http://www.nea.gov/news/news10/Medals.html|access-date=April 25, 2012|archive-date=March 1, 2010}} and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016.{{cite web|title=President Obama Names Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom|author=Office of the Press Secretary, The White House|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/11/16/president-obama-names-recipients-presidential-medal-freedom|date=November 16, 2016|access-date=3 June 2018|archive-date=January 18, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118210055/https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/11/16/president-obama-names-recipients-presidential-medal-freedom|url-status=live}}

In 2022, the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. announced the first biographical exhibition, "One Life: Maya Lin",{{Cite news |title=Maya Lin on Art, Architecture, Landscape and Memory |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-11-18/maya-lin-looks-back-and-ahead-at-her-life-in-monuments |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221209171918/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-11-18/maya-lin-looks-back-and-ahead-at-her-life-in-monuments |archive-date=December 9, 2022 |access-date=2025-05-08 |work=Bloomberg.com |language=en |url-status=live }} dedicated to Lin, noting her contributions as architect, sculptor, environmentalist, and designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.{{Cite web |title=National Portrait Gallery Presents "One Life: Maya Lin" {{!}} Smithsonian Institution |url=https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/national-portrait-gallery-presents-one-life-maya-lin |access-date=2022-11-08 |website=Smithsonian Institution |language=en |archive-date=November 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221108174445/https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/national-portrait-gallery-presents-one-life-maya-lin |url-status=live }}

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• 1999: Rome Prize
• 2000: Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement{{cite web|title=Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement|website=www.achievement.org|publisher=American Academy of Achievement|url=https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/#the-arts|access-date=March 18, 2020|archive-date=December 15, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161215023909/https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/#the-arts|url-status=live}}
• 2003: Finn Juhl Prize
• 2005: Elected to The American Academy of Arts and Letters
• 2005: Elected to National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York
• 2007: AIA Twenty-five Year Award
• 2009: National Medal of Arts{{Cite news|url=https://www.arts.gov/honors/medals/maya-lin|title=Maya Lin|date=2013-04-17|work=NEA|access-date=2018-10-27|archive-date=October 28, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181028033602/https://www.arts.gov/honors/medals/maya-lin|url-status=live}}
• 2011: Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture, awarded jointly by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation and the University of Virginia
• 2014: The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, a $300,000 art prize{{cite web|url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/07/maya-lin-wins-300000-gish-prize/|title=Maya Lin Wins $300,000 Gish Prize|work=The New York Times|author=Graham Bowly|date=October 7, 2014|access-date=November 12, 2014|archive-date=November 9, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141109211331/http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/07/maya-lin-wins-300000-gish-prize/|url-status=live}}
• 2016: Presidential Medal of Freedom
• 2024: Received honorary Doctor of Arts from University of Pennsylvania{{Cite web |title=Penn's 2024 Commencement Speaker and Honorary Degree Recipients Announced |url=https://almanac.upenn.edu/articles/penns-2024-commencement-speaker-and-honorary-degree-recipients-announced |access-date=2024-03-26 |website=almanac.upenn.edu |language=en |archive-date=March 26, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240326070425/https://almanac.upenn.edu/articles/penns-2024-commencement-speaker-and-honorary-degree-recipients-announced |url-status=live }}
• 2024: Received honorary degree from Johns Hopkins University{{Cite web |date=2023-09-18 |title=Maya Lin Receives Honorary Degrees {{!}} Pace Gallery |url=https://www.pacegallery.com/journal/maya-lin-receives-honorary-degrees/ |access-date=2024-10-30 |website=www.pacegallery.com |language=en}}

• Vietnam Veterans Memorial (VVM) (1980–82), Washington, D.C.{{Cite news|url=http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/lin/|title=Presidential Lectures: Maya Lin|work=Prelectur.stanford.edu|date=November 5, 1989|access-date=April 25, 2012|archive-date=November 17, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161117191325/http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/lin/|url-status=live}}
• Aligning Reeds (1985), New Haven, Connecticut
• Civil Rights Memorial (1988–89), Montgomery, Alabama
• Open-Air Peace Chapel (1988–89), Juniata College, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania
• Topo (1989–91), Charlotte Sports Coliseum, Charlotte, North Carolina
• Eclipsed Time (1989–95), Pennsylvania Station, New York City
• The Women's Table (1990–93), Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
• Weber House (1991–93), Williamstown, Massachusetts
• Groundswell (1992–93), Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
• Museum for African Art (1992–93), New York City
• Wave Field (1993–95), FXB Aerospace Engineering Building, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
• 10 Degrees North (1993–96), Rockefeller Foundation Headquarters, New York City
• A Shift in the Stream (1995–97), Principal Financial Group Headquarters, Des Moines, Iowa
• Reading a Garden (1996–98), Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, Ohio
• Private Duplex Apartment, New York City (1996–98), New York
• Topographic Landscape (1997) (Portable sculpture)
• Phases of the Moon (1998) (Portable sculpture)
• Avalanche (1998) (Portable sculpture)
• Langston Hughes Library (1999), Clinton, Tennessee
• Timetable (2000), Stanford University, Stanford, California
• The character of a hill, under glass (2000–01), American Express Client Services Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Ecliptic (2001), Grand Rapids, Michigan
• Input (2004), Bicentennial Park, Athens, Ohio
• Riggio-Lynch Chapel (2004), Clinton, Tennessee
• Arts Plaza, Claire Trevor School of the Arts (2005), Irvine, California
• Confluence Project: Cape Disappointment State Park (2006)
• Above and Below, Indianapolis Museum of Art (2007)
• Confluence Project: Vancouver Land Bridge (2008)
• Confluence Project: Sandy River Delta (2008)
• Confluence Project: Sacajawea State Park (2010)
• Ellen S. Clark Hope Plaza, Washington University in St. Louis (2010)
• Confluence Project: Chief Timothy Park (2011)
• A Fold in the Field (2013), The Gibbs Farm, Kaipara Harbour, New Zealand
• "What is Missing? (2009–present), (Various locations, web project)
• Under the Laurentide, Brown University (2015){{cite news|last1=Coelho|first1=Courtney|title=Under the Laurentide installed at BERT|url=https://news.brown.edu/articles/2015/04/laurentide|access-date=April 26, 2015|work=News from Brown|date=April 22, 2015|archive-date=August 30, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160830231151/https://news.brown.edu/articles/2015/04/laurentide|url-status=live}}
• Folding the Chesapeake (part of Wonder exhibit): Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC (2015)
• Neilson Library (2021), Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts (redesign){{cite web |last1=Stevens |first1=Philip |title=Maya Lin Completes New Neilson Library at Smith College in Massachusetts |url=https://www.designboom.com/architecture/maya-lin-new-neilson-library-smith-college-massachusetts-03-19-2021/ |website=designboom |date=March 19, 2021 |access-date=30 March 2021 |archive-date=March 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210327000322/https://www.designboom.com/architecture/maya-lin-new-neilson-library-smith-college-massachusetts-03-19-2021/ |url-status=live }}
• Ghost Forest (2021), Madison Square Park, New York, New York{{Cite web|title=Maya Lin: Ghost Forest|url=https://madisonsquarepark.org/art/exhibitions/maya-lin-ghost-forest/|access-date=2021-06-10|website=Madison Square Park Conservancy|language=en-US|archive-date=June 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210610161636/https://madisonsquarepark.org/art/exhibitions/maya-lin-ghost-forest/|url-status=live}}

• {{cite book|title=Maya Lin: Topologies (Artist and the community)|year=1998|isbn=1-888826-05-3|last1=Lin|first1=Maya Ying|last2=Fleming|first2=Jeff|last3=Brenson|first3=Michael|last4=Dowell-Dennis|first4=Terri|publisher=Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art }}
• Maya Lin: [American Academy in Rome, 10 dicembre 1998-21 febbraio 1999] (1998) {{ISBN|88-435-6832-9}}
• Timetable: Maya Lin (2000) ASIN B000PT331Y (2002, {{ISBN|0-937031-19-4}})
• {{cite book|title=Boundaries|year=2000|isbn=0-684-83417-0|last1=Lin|first1=Maya Ying|last2=MacArio|first2=Carla|publisher=Simon & Schuster }} (2006, {{ISBN|0-7432-9959-0}})
• Landscape Architecture (2/2007), page 110–115, by Susan Hines
• {{cite book|last=Sinnott|first=Susan|title=Extraordinary Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders |date=2003 |publisher=Children's Press |location=New York |isbn=9780516226552 |edition=Rev.}}

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• [https://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/lin/ Biography, interviews, essays, artwork images and video clips] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111028084128/http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/lin/ |date=October 28, 2011 }} from PBS series Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 1 (2001)
• [http://www.pacegallery.com/artists/266/maya-lin Pace Gallery] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170517011532/http://www.pacegallery.com/artists/266/maya-lin |date=May 17, 2017 }}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20180617165136/https://www.makers.com/profiles/591f28914d21a8046c3a6392 Maya Lin] video produced by Makers: Women Who Make America
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