Monika Lin

Shanghai, China

Well known across the United States, with frequent shows in San Francisco and New York, Monika Lin’s works explore heavy duty social issues through more delicate portrayals. Her shows with Art Labor have explored these issues through multi-layered epoxy resin polymer paintings, while later exhibitions have been produced using (among other things) salvaged acrylic, Styrofoam, cardboard and Tyvek bags to comment on our consumerist impacts on the ecological and environmental state of the planet.

Lin was born in Manhattan, NY in 1968. She began her studies in the arts as a child (piano, violin, dance, painting and drawing) winning numerous local and national awards in the visual arts. During high school, she attended classes at the Academy of Art in San Francisco and Otis Parsons Art Institute in Los Angeles. In 1986 she accepted a scholarship to the College of Creative Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara where she continued to study painting and drawing as well as printmaking and performance art. After college in Southern California, she moved to San Francisco where she lived and worked for 12 years as an exhibiting artist, educator, and activist before heading to New York City and then Kansas City. In Kansas City she taught painting practice and theory at the Kansas City Art Institute for several years before taking the job that would move her to China. She is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor of Art at New York University Shanghai.

Exhibitions Growth September 01, 2018 - October 10, 2018 10 Years of Love February 19, 2017 - March 22, 2017 Lost Opportunities? September 03, 2016 - October 12, 2016 HIGH 5 - Five Years of ART LABOR September 09, 2011 - October 10, 2011 Medusa September 04, 2010 - October 10, 2010 2nd Impressions August 01, 2010 - August 25, 2010 Child Palace February 28, 2009 - March 27, 2009

21 Works

Gokart Racers #3
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Gokart Racers #2
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Girl with Pods #2
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Girl with Pods #1
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Girl with Chrysanthemums
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Biking Girl
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Biking Boys #2
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Biking Boys #1
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Balance Boys #2
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Balance Boys #1
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Medusa Series No.4
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Jumping Girls
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Medusa Series No.7
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Medusa Series No.1
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River of Plastic
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Girl with Pods #3
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Medusa (installation view)
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Fairytales #10
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Fairytales #6
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Fairytales #1
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Fairytales #9
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BORN

1968 in New York, USA

EDUCATION

2017
MFA, School of Visual Arts, NYC, USA

1997
BFA, Mills College, Oakland, USA

1989
College of Creative Studies, UCSB, Santa Barbara, USA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017
From the Bones of the Fish, Central Booking, New York City

2012
Tenthousand, Performance Art Institute, San Francisco

2010
Medusa, Art Labor Space, Shanghai

2010
Small Offerings, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco
Child Palace, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai

2005
Double Happiness, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco

2003
Red Shoes, Kidder Smith Gallery, Boston

2002
Untitled, Dennis Morgan Gallery, Kansas City

2001
New Work, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco
Untitled, Light Box Gallery, Kansas City

2000
Objects and Icons, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco

1999
Blue Lotus, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco

1998
Untitled Exhibition, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018
Growth, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai
2017
Nanjing Land Art Festival, Nanjing
10 Years of Love, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai
Time Share, Brooklyn, NY

2016
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

2015
Why Why Art Inaugural exhibition, Why Why Art, Shanghai
Intimate Transgressions 2, Art Space, Beijing

2014
Asia Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA
What if Objects Could Talk?, OV Gallery, Shanghai

2013
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

2012
Learning from the Literati 3, OV Gallery, Shanghai
She Views Herself 1, Oddo & Cie Gallery, Paris
Cold Comfort, OV Gallery, Shanghai

2011
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

2010
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

2008
The New Mainstream II, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
Ten, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, USA
Bridge Art Fair New York, USA

2007
Scope Miami, Miami, Florida
Bridge Art Fair, London, UK
Art Beijing, Beijing

RESIDENCIES

2015
Vermont College of Fine Art, Vermont, USA

2014
Pottery Workshop, Jingdezhen, China

2012
Performance Art Institute, San Francisco, USA