中国上海
Monika Lin的作品在美国广为人知，经常在旧金山和纽约的各大展馆展出。她以更加精细的刻画手法，深入探索了一系列沉重的社会问题。在与ART LABOR合作的展览中，她运用多层环氧树脂聚合物绘画技巧，深入剖析了这些问题。而在随后的展览中，她更是别出心裁地使用了回收的丙烯酸、泡沫塑料、纸板和特卫强包装袋等材料，以此来评论消费主义对地球生态和环境状态的影响。
Monika Lin于1968年出生于纽约曼哈顿，自幼便展现出对艺术的浓厚兴趣。她涉猎广泛，从钢琴、小提琴到舞蹈、绘画，无一不精，并在视觉艺术领域斩获了诸多地方和国家级的奖项。高中时期，她先后在旧金山艺术学院和洛杉矶奥蒂斯•帕森斯艺术学院深造。1986年，她凭借优异的成绩获得了加州大学圣巴巴拉分校创意研究学院的奖学金，继续深造绘画、版画和行为艺术。
南加州大学毕业后，Monika Lin移居旧金山，在那里生活了十二年，期间她不仅致力于艺术创作，还积极参与社会活动。之后，她前往纽约市和堪萨斯城，继续拓展自己的艺术视野。在堪萨斯城，她曾在艺术学院执教数年，传授绘画实践与理论。后来，她接受了一份将她带到中国的工作邀请，目前担任上海纽约大学艺术系的临床助理教授。
1968 in New York, USA
2017
MFA, School of Visual Arts, NYC, USA
1997
BFA, Mills College, Oakland, USA
1989
College of Creative Studies, UCSB, Santa Barbara, USA
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
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
2015
Vermont College of Fine Art, Vermont, USA
2014
Pottery Workshop, Jingdezhen, China
2012
Performance Art Institute, San Francisco, USA
