Born
1968 in New York, USA
Artists
Monika LIN
Monika Lin was born in Manhattan NY, USA. She has lived in Shanghai since 2006. Her work deals primarily with social-political themes emphasizing cultural constructs, the Anthropocene, relationality and materiality. Her work is cross-disciplinary, incorporating textual, visual, and social intervention practices.
Lin holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in NYC and an MA in Interactive Media Arts from the Tisch School of the Arts in NYC and has attended residencies in San Francisco, Jingdezhen, Beijing, Chengdu, and Madrid. Monika teaches visual art at NYU Shanghai and previously at the San Francisco and the Kansas City Art Institutes. She conducts ongoing lectures and workshops at the Power Station of Art in Shanghai.
Exhibitions include shows at the Power Station of Art (Shanghai Biennale 2021), Sichuan Fine Art Institute in Chongqing, China, Central Booking Gallery, NYC; the Power Station of Art, Art Labor Gallery, OV Gallery, and the Fine Art Museum in Shanghai; the San Francisco Performance Art Institute and Toomey Tourell Fine Art in San Francisco; the Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall in Taibei; and the Asia Arts Initiative in Philadelphia.
2015 - 2018 Found and repurposed styrofoam, acrylic, vinyl, Tyvek, and acetate posters, and custom made LED signs Dimensions variable 2015 - 2018 Found and repurposed styrofoam, acrylic, vinyl, Tyvek, and acetate posters, and custom made LED signs Dimensions variable 2021 2017 1997 1989 2023-present 2020-23 2019-present 2017-20 2015-17 2008-14 2014 2013-present 2002-05 2017 2012 2010 2010 2005 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2008 2007 2024 2022 2021 2020 2019 2017 2014 2012
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Artist: Monika LIN
River of Plastic
Education
MA, Interactive Media Arts, NYU, NY
MFA, School of Visual Arts, NYC, USA
BFA, Mills College, Oakland, USA
College of Creative Studies, UCSB, Santa Barbara, USATeaching
Associate Arts Professor of Visual Arts, NYU Shanghai, NYU Shanghai
Assistant Arts Professor of Visual Arts, NYU Shanghai, NYU Shanghai
Area Head of Arts, NYU Shanghai, NYU Shanghai
Clinical Assistant Professor of Arts, NYU Shanghai, NYU Shanghai
Owner, Director, Instructor, Art Station 20 Studio Art School/Colorbox Creative Arts Center
Instructor, Fine Arts, Expat Learning Center, Shanghai
Summer Instructor, San Francisco Art Institute
Educational Lecturer and Workshop Instructor, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
Lecturer, painting, drawing, and book arts KCAI, Kansas City, MoSelected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
From the Bones of the Fish, Central Booking, New York City
Tenthousand, Performance Art Institute, San Francisco
Medusa, Art Labor Space, Shanghai
Small Offerings, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco
Child Palace, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai
Double Happiness, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco
Red Shoes, Kidder Smith Gallery, Boston
Untitled, Dennis Morgan Gallery, Kansas City
New Work, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco
Untitled, Light Box Gallery, Kansas City
Objects and Icons, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco
Blue Lotus, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco
Untitled Exhibition, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San FranciscoSelected Group Exhibitions
At the Edge of Lightness and Dark, CFEVA, Philadelphia, PA
Firefly, Qiandaohu, China
No-Mad – Rooted in Becoming, Konzepthauslaboratorium, Thun, Switzerland
Color of Light 2, Public Sculpture, Qiandaohu, China
Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China
Soft City 2.0, Sichuan Fine Art Institute, Chongqing, China
Ponds Among Ponds, ICA Gallery, NYU Shanghai, China
Monochrome Abstraction, Ruili Taidu Center, Taizhou, China
Antonyms, Goethe Center, Shanghai, China
Chengdu Sculpture Park Installation (August, 2020)
International Exhibition, Songyang 789 Art Center, Songyang, China
CCIEU group exhibition, Budapest, Hungary
CCIEU group exhibition, Brussels, Belgium
Growth, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai
Color of Light, Public Sculpture, Nanjing, China
International Art Exhibition, Changsha, China
To Be Like Water?, Why Why Art Center, Hangzhou, China
“On starting another conversation,” Why Why Art Space, Nanjing, China
erutuF, Why Why Art Space, Nanjing, China
10 Years of Love, Art Labor Gallery, Shanghai, China
Time Share, Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
Modern Metropolis, Power Station of Art, Shanghai
Lost Opportunities?, Art Labor Gallery, Shanghai
Intimate Transgressions 4, Chiang Kai Shek Museum, Taipei
Struggle, San Wei Art Center, Shanghai
Intimate Transgressions 3, Hangzhou Library, Hangzhou
Why Why Art Inaugural exhibition, Why Why Art, Shanghai
Intimate Transgressions 2, Art Space, Beijing
Asia Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA
What if Objects Could Talk?, OV Gallery, Shanghai
Excavating Layers, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, USA
Filter the Public, Shanghai World Financial Center, Shanghai
Project Flow, Gramercy Gallery, New York, NY
Learning from the Literati 4, OV Gallery, Shanghai
She Views Herself 4, Esplanade des Invalides, Paris, France
Learning from the Literati 3, OV Gallery, Shanghai
She Views Herself 1, Oddo & Cie Gallery, Paris
Cold Comfort, OV Gallery, Shanghai
Refracted Realities, OV Gallery, Shanghai
Collective Consciousness, OV Gallery, Shanghai
The Birth of a Myth, Yongkang Lu Art, Shanghai
Red, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, USA
Shifting Definitions, OV Gallery, Shanghai
Centennial Celebration of Women in Art, Shanghai Fine Art Museum, Shanghai
2nd Impressions, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai
Re-visioning History, OV Gallery, Shanghai
The New Mainstream II, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
Ten, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, USA
Bridge Art Fair New York, USA
Scope Miami, Miami, Florida
Bridge Art Fair, London, UK
Art Beijing, BeijingResidencies, Grants and Projects
Printmaking by the People, Mural Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Untitled printmaking project, Social Sensibility, Bernard Controls, Beijing, China
Public Art Grant, China Academy of Art and the Hangzhou Park, Public Art Sculpture installed in Qiandaohu, China
Pottery Workshop, Jingdezhen, China
Chengdu City Art Residency and Sculpture Grant, Chengdu, China
Global Research Initiative Fellowship, NYU Madrid
Public Art Grant, China Academy of Art and the City Art Council of Nanjing, installed in Nanjing, China
Pottery Workshop, Jingdezhen, China
Performance Art Institute, San Francisco, USA