Visiting Artist Talk: Hai-Wen Lin

Description

The Center for Visual Arts at Johns Hopkins University hosts a Visiting Artist Talk with contemporary artist Hai-Wen Lin. Refreshments to follow.

Hai-Wen Lin is a Taiwanese American artist whose work explores constructions of the body and its surrounding environment. They are an alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, a MacDowell fellow, a LeRoy Neiman fellow at the Ox-Bow School of Art, and they earned a Master of Design in fashion, body, and garment from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where they were selected as a Fashion Future Graduate by the Council of Fashion Designers of America Inc. upon graduating. Lin has published research on smart textiles and taught workshops at UC Davis, UC Berkeley, and MIT. They have performed publicly at the Chicago Cultural Center and MU Gallery and have exhibited work in a variety of places, including the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, 3S Artspace in New Hampshire, the Pittsburgh Glass Center, the walls of their home, their friend's home, on a plate, on a lake, and in the sky.