Art Education and Graduate Programs Present an Artist Talk with Hai-Wen Lin

Hai-Wen will trace the recent trajectory of their artistic practice and research, as it is shaped by being in and with the world. They will discuss influences such as birds, bats, books, and Boston.

Hai-Wen Lin is an artist from Elk Grove, California, currently working somewhere beneath the sky. Their work addresses, undresses, and redresses their body and the world around it. Lin is an alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, received a M.Des in Fashion, Body and Garment from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. They are a recipient of the Museum of Art and Design’s Burke Prize, the Ellis-Beauregard Visual Arts Award, and a Luminarts Visual Arts Fellowship. Lin has been an artist-in-residence at MacDowell, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Lighthouse Works, the Grand Canyon National Park, among many others. Recent solo exhibitions of their work have been held at the Museum of Art and Design in New York City (2026), the Chinese American Museum of Chicago (2025), and Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis (2025). Lin is one half of medium-sized, a collaborative practice with the poet Margaret Wright.

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