Candice Lin

Exhibiting since 2001, Candice Lin works with a variety of media such as drawing, video, sculpture, performance and installation. The practice of the artist is a permanent inquiry into racial and gender issues, and how power structures, especially colonialism and imperialism, are involved in the construction of identities. Traversing her work is always the idea that the construction of identity based on the difference, whether national, racial, religious or of gender, is a kind of magic that denies cultural subjectivity.

Lin builds her projects from an extensive archive composed by texts and images, usually from a repressed past: documents of military records, records of slave plantations, diaries, case studies from psychiatric institutions, paintings and engravings of the New World, the so-called “caste paintings”, which emerged in Eighteenth-century Mexico, the ethnographic photographs of the World Fairs, among many others. What the artist seeks is marginal gestures or expressions, that which is on the background of the image, what is read between the lines, the unsaid, what was silenced.

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Solo Exhibitions (selection)

2007 — Sicknesses of the Spirit, Lisa Dent Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2012 — It makes the patient sees pictures, François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2009 — The Sexual Life of Savages, Chung King Project, Los Angeles, USA
2013 — The long-lasting intimacy of strangers, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Porto, Portugal
2012 — Inanimism, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, USA
2024 — The Animal Husband, Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland UK,
2014 — Present Future, Artissima, Turin, Italy
2019 — Spice, Goethe-Institut Curatorial Residencies Ludlow 38, New York City, USA
2017 — A Hard White Body, Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research, Paris, France
2018 — A Hard White Body, a Soft White Worm, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2010 — The Eternal Telethon, Itinerant project, Los Angeles, USA
2015 — Transformation Marathon, Serpentine Galleries, London, United Kingdom
2016 — Group Show, Galeria Fontes Vilaça, Kiki Mazzucchelli, São Paulo, Brazil
2022 — The Milk of Dreams, 59th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2019 — Meaningless Squiggles, François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2016 — The Thing Quarterly, São Francisco, USA
2015, Two-person exhibition with Martine Syms, Bernard Charnwut Chan Gallery, Pomona College, Claremont, USA
2022 — Pigs and Poison, Spike Island, Bristol, UK
2015 — Syncorax's Garden, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, USA

Group Exhibitions, Performances & Screenings (selection)

2014 — Une machine désire de l'instruction comme un jardin désire de la discipline, FRAC, Lorraine, France
2013 — MexiCali Biennial 2013, Vincent Price Art Museum, Monterey Park, USA
2019 — Le jour des esprits est notre nuit, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, France
2011, Artist Resource Completion Grant, Center for Cultural Innovation, Los Angeles, USA
2017 — Manipulate the World, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
2012 — Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers, KChung, Cottage Home, Los Angeles, USA
2010, Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Cultural Exchange International Pilot Program Awardee, USA
2015 — You are a spacious fluid sac, François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2016 — The mountain, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, USA
2018 — Blessed be: Mysticism, Spirituality, and the Occult in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tuscon Arizona, USA
2021 — Flamboyanzinho, Flor-de-pavão, Flamboyant-mirim, Barba-de-barata, Galeria da Boavista, Lisbon, Portugal
2022 — Meia Noite, Ano Zero, Bienal de Coimbra, Portugal
2007 — Sundowners, Happy Lion Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2009 — Because the Night, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman College, Orange, USA
2008 — The Ups & Downs: Nest, with Marcus Civin, Betalevel, Los Angeles, USA
2006 — A Warning Shouldn’t be Pleasant, West Los Angeles College Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2013 — New Stories from the Edge of Asia: This/That, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, USA
2019 — Ghost in the ghost, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, New York City, USA
2014 — Spectacular Subdivision, High Desert Test Sities, Wonder Valley, USA
2011 — ARTLAB+Film Forum: Women Empowered, Hirshhorn Museum and Transformer Gallery, Washington DC, USA
2010 — The Mystics Circle, Human Resources, Los Angeles, USA
2015 — It was only a moment for you, CAAA - Centro para os Assuntos da Arte e Arquitectura, Guimarães, Portugal
2016 — A Body Reduced to Brilliant Colour, Gasworks, London, United Kingdom
2018 — Bounty, Los Angeles, California, USA
2021 — Possibility Made Real: Drawing & Clay, 12.26 Gallery, Dallas, US
2012 — Deep Space, François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2014 — Unruly, Wignall Museum, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, USA
2009 — Glue, Paper, Scissors, Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, USA
2008 — The Mystical, Scatological, and the Occult, Monte Vista, Los Angeles, USA
2007 — Humor Us, LA Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2006 — Beautiful Deceptions, Studio Avenue 50, Los Angeles, USA
2016 — Adult Swim, Machine Project exhibition around the Annenberg Beach House Swimming Pool, Los Angeles, USA
2015 — Plants in Transition, (collaboration with Patrick Staff), 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, USA
2013 — True Believers, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, USA
2011 — Black is the Color of True, Co/Lab & Monte Vista, Los Angeles, USA
2010 — Nor Or, Pieter, Los Angeles, USA
2018 — Made in L.A. 2018, The Hammer, Los Angeles, USA
2012 — shapes and forces, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Porto, Portugal
2007 — The Pyramid Show, Monte Vista, Los Angeles, USA
2009 — 1999, China Art Objects, Los Angeles, USA
2008 — Alternative Places, LAX airport, Los Angeles, USA
2006 — Video Picnic, Variety Candy, Los Angeles, USA
2014 — The Politics of Food, Delfina Foundation, London, United Kingdom
2016 — The Wicked Tongue, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2015 — Plants in Transition, (collaboration with Patrick Staff), CAAA (Centro para os Assuntos da Arte e Arquitectura), Guimarães, Portugal
2013 — Folding Time Rhymes, Greene Exhibitions, Los Angeles, USA
2011 — Suggested Reading, The Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
2010 — Dream-In, Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
2018 — Hyperobjects, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, USA
2012 — Los Angeles – Contemporary Tendencies, Helene Bailly Gallery, Paris, France
2010 — Monte Vista, 12 Gauge series, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, USA
2007 — American Symposium, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, USA
2006 — Halloweird, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco/ Central Cinema, Seattle/ Axiom Theater, Houston/ Out North, Anchorage/ Project 101, Paris/ CHOAS Studios, Colorado Springs/ Indie Memphis, Memphis
2016 — The First Horizons of Juno, MASS Gallery, Austin, USA; TEOR/éTica, Costa Rica
2015 — Cumuli II, Trading Places, L40, Berlim, Germany; Kunsthalle Memmingen, Germany
2011 — Eslov Wide Shut, Eslövs Kommun and Mallorca Landings, Bloomberg's Warehouse, Eslöv, Sweden
2012 — Cave-In, Cueva Arcillas, Puerto Rico
2010 — Bad Thing, Sea and Space, Los Angeles, USA
2006 — Video-Drive-IN: OK. Quoi?!, Contemporary Arts Festival, Struts Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada
2011 — Whole New Animal, Intimate Theater, Luckman Fine Arts Complex, California State University, Los Angeles, USA
2007 — The Ordinary Fantastic, Milliken Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2016 — A Kingdom of Hours, Gasworks, London, United Kingdom
2015 — Canibalia, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France
2011 — Becoming Animal, Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, USA
2007 — Tall Totem Pole, 1269 E. 6th Street, Los Angeles, USA
2006 — Sean Horchy, Candice Lin and Tim Sullivan, Lisa Dent Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2006 — Brave New World, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2012 — Beached, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, USA
2016 — Please Have Enough Acid on the Dish!, M+B, Los Angeles, USA
2015 — Off-Road Expo, Machine Project and High Desert Test Sites
2012 — Plus ou moins sorcières, La Maison Populaire, Montreuil, France
2011 — Gathered in a Clearing, LEVEL, Brisbane, Australia
2016 — Cumuli II, Trading Places, Gallery 5020, Salzburg, Austria
2011 — Bodies and/as Things, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Cerritos, USA
2016 — Mushrooms & Honey, metro pcs e Eitherway LA, Los Angeles, USA
2011 — The Open Daybook Exhibition, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, USA
2016 — The Wedding Project, Art Dubai Projects and Delfina Foundation, Mina A'Salam Hotel, Dubai, UAE
2016 — Albert Herter, Caitlin Keogh and Candice Lin, Koenig & Clinton, New York, USA

Awards

2004, San Francisco Art Institute Annual Artist Book Contest Award, San Francisco, USA
2009, Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, USA
2011 — Ghetto Biennial 2, Port au Prince, Haiti
2010 — Holograms, François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Collections

, Swedish Arts Council, Sweden

Works

Exhibitions

The long-lasting intimacy of strangers

21 September 2013 — 5 November 2013

Candice Lin

shapes and forces

29 June 2012 — 31 July 2012

Susana Mendes Silva, António Bolota, Zulmiro de Carvalho, Alexandre Estrela, Fernando Lanhas, Candice Lin, João Queiroz, Isabel Ribeiro, Arlindo Silva, Ângelo de Sousa, Sérgio Taborda, Pedro Tropa, Willem Weismann, Christine Fowler