Candice Lin
Occidental College's 2018/19 Wanlass Artist in Residence
Candice Lin is an interdisciplinary artist who works with installation, drawing, video, and living materials and processes, such as mold, mushrooms, bacteria, fermentation, and stains. She received her MFA in New Genres at the San Francisco art Institute in 2004 and her double BA in Visual Arts and Art Semiotics at Brown University in 2001. Lin’s recent solo exhibitions were at Portikus, Frankfurt; Bétonsalon, Paris; and Gasworks, London, with upcoming solo exhibitions at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago and Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles. Her work was included in recent group exhibitions at the Hammer Museum (2018), LA; Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2017); New Museum, New York (2017); Galeria Fortes Vilaca, Sao Paulo (2017), and will be included in the upcoming Taipei Biennial (Taiwan, 2018, Post-Nature), Athens Biennale (Greece, 2018, ANTI), and Werkleitz (Germany, 2018, Holen und Bringen). She is the recipient of several residencies, grants, and fellowships, including the Davidoff Art Initiative (2018), Louis Comfort Tiffany Award (2017), California Community Foundation Award (2014), Fine Arts Work Center Residency (2012) and Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2009).