Maya Lin
Architect and sculptor Maya Lin (1959–) grew up in Ohio and studied at Yale University where, as an undergraduate, she won the national competition to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. Lin is known for her large-scale environmental artworks, her architectural works, and her memorial designs. Her art explores how we experience and relate to landscape, and it sets up a systematic ordering of the land that is tied to history, memory, time, and language. An interest in landscape has led to works influenced by topographies and geographic phenomena. Her approach to artmaking often finds its origins in science rather than art, demonstrated in her application of satellite technology and cartographic techniques.
Lin’s artwork has been featured in numerous solo exhibitions at museums and galleries worldwide, with works in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, both in Washington, DC; The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; and the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, among others. She is represented by the Pace Gallery in New York.
