Hai-Wen Lin

Artworks
  • Hai-Wen Lin, Back to the Clouds, 2026
    Back to the Clouds, 2026$ 1400.00 (from $ 2100.00 framed)
    Hai-Wen Lin, Back to the Clouds, 2026
    $ 1400.00 (from $ 2100.00 framed)
Biography
Photo by Christian Hall
Photo by Christian Hall
Hai-Wen Lin is an artist from Elk Grove, California, currently working somewhere beneath the sky. Their work addresses autobiographical narrative and constructions of the body, often moving through metaphor, etymology, sunlight, wind, and the way time passes perfectly when you are out walking on a beautiful day in your favorite dress. Lin is an alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, received a M.Des in Fashion, Body and Garment from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a BA from the University of California, Davis. They are a recipient of the Museum of Art and Design’s Burke Prize, the Ellis-Beauregard Visual Arts Award, and a Luminarts Visual Arts Fellow. Lin has been an artist-in-residence at MacDowell, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Lighthouse Works, Ox-Bow School of Art, the Grand Canyon National Park, among many others. Recent solo exhibitions of their work have been held at the Museum of Art and Design (2026), Chinese American Museum of Chicago (2025), the Centre for Cultural and Artistic Practices (2025), and Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis (2025). Lin is one half of medium-sized, a collaborative practice with the poet Margaret Wright. You can often find their work by looking up.
Select Collections & Exhibitions
Hai-Wen Lin
Solo

2026 Burke Prize exhibition, Museum of Arts and Design, New. York (2026)
Drobe, Chinese American Museum of Chicago (2025)
FuFuFuFuFu, C’cap, Winnipeg, Manitoba (2025)
Orientation, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (2025)
Petal Fold, Rabbit Ear, Outside Reverse, Compound Yellow, Chicago (2025)
Craning the Neck, FACILITY, Chicago (2025)

Changeroom, Queen, Bellingham, (2023)
如意 As You Wish, Prairie Gallery, Chicago, (2023)



Group

So It Goes, Wassaic Project, Wassaic (2025)
Luminarts Finalists Exhibition, John David Mooney Foundation, Chicago (2025)
Drifting Timelines 流动时序, Cochrane Woods Art Center, Chicago (2025)
Everything We Can Possibly Hold, Friends Gallery, Houston (2025)
Indirect Address, White Columns Online Exhibition (2025)
Ground Floor, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago (2025)
In Residence 17, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston  (2024)

Pride Month Special Show, Chinese American Museum of Chicago, (2024)
The Strangely Bent, Ox-Bow Print Studio Gallery, Saugatuck (2024)

Graduate Exhibition, SAIC Galleries, Chicago (2023)
Let Me Be No Nearer, The Plan, Chicago (2023)



Residencies

McColl Center,
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art
Grand Canyon Artist in Residence
Lighthouse Works
MacDowell

Haystack Open Studio Residency
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
Vermont Studio Center
Wassaic Project
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
Ox-Bow LeRoy Neiman Fellowship