TIFFANY LIN is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Los Angeles working at the cross section of graphic narrative, installation, and social practice. Her work parses through constructions of identity at odds with the natural world. She is compelled by the interplay of flora and fauna, human instincts versus institutions, and new modalities of interdependence.
Lin holds a MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Illustration Practice and a BA in Gender & Women's Studies and Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley.
Lin previously served as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Art at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Photo by Jeff Barnett-Winsby / Wassaic Project
CURRICULUM VITAE
Education
2017 MFA Illustration Practice, Teaching and Critical Studies Concentration, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2011 BA Psychology, Gender & Women’s Studies, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Professional Appointments
2019 – 2023
Visiting Assistant Professor – Department of Art & Design
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Solo Exhibitions
2024 (Forthcoming) THE BRIDLE WILL BREAK, Hasta Siempre Brooks, Las Vegas, NV
2021 A Systems Theory, Left of Center Gallery, North Las Vegas, NV
2021 Proof, Barrick Museum of Art, Las Vegas, NV
2020 24 VIEWS, Clark County Library District, Las Vegas, NV
2019 Excursions, The Growlery, San Francisco, CA
2018 Codes, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 International Exchange, Daegu University Museum of Art, South Korea
2022 Migrate, Clark County Wetlands Nature Preserve, Las Vegas, NV
2021 Bullfrog Biennial, Goldwell Open Air Museum, Beatty, NV
2021 All In, Holland Project, Reno, NV
2021 Zoom Zone, San Jose International Airport, CA
2021 A Common Thread, Barrick Museum of Art, Las Vegas, NV
2020 New Monuments for a Future Las Vegas, Nevada Humanities, Las Vegas, NV
2020 A Claiming, Which Cannot be Tamed, Holland Project, Reno, NV
2020 Now, more than ever, Wassaic Project, NY
2020 Women of Color Arts Festival, Warhol Arts Factory, Las Vegas, NV
2019 100 Block Mural, The Exhibition District, San Jose, CA
2018 OPTIMISM, Endless Editions Biennial, EFA Project Space, New York, NY
2018 Working Conditions, Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA
2018 Reading Room, Life Lessons Garage, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Small Works, Juried by Philip Linhares, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
2018 Blue State of Mind, CUSP NYC Gallery, Sunset Park, Brooklyn, NY
2018 The (anti)valentine show, Works/San Jose, San Jose, CA
2017 Make Room, CUSP NYC Gallery, Sunset Park, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Temporary Allegiance, Knockdown Center, Queens, NY
2017 We the People, Juried by Michelle Legro, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
2017 Blue Show, Juried by Tania Dibbs, Core New Art Space, Denver, CO
2017 Elephant and Castle, Project Space 2025, Hamburg, Germany
2017 Contemporary Print Practices, Black Rock Center, Germantown, MD
2016 Development without Displacement, Chesapeake Art Center, Brooklyn Park, MD
Awards and Residencies
2023 Project Grant for Artists, Nevada Arts Council, Las Vegas, NV
2023 Top 10 Finalist – Visual Arts Fellowship, Nevada Arts Council, Carson City, NV
2021 UNLV Research Award – Forgotten Song Foundation, Las Vegas, NV
2020 Major Project Grantee – UNLV Principal Investigator, Nevada Humanities, NV
2020 Limited Submission Nominee – Summer Stipend, National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, DC
2020 Emerging Professional Nominee, College Art Association Board, New York, NY
2020 State Delegate – Nevada, For Freedoms Congress, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Teaching Fellowship, Department of Art, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
2019 Education Fellowship and Residency, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
2019 Artist Grant and Residency, The Growlery, San Francisco, CA
2019 Artist-in-Residence, Children’s Discovery Museum, San Jose, CA
2017 Juror’s Third Prize, We The People, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
2017 Lithography Artist Grant, Litografiska Akademin, Tidaholm, Sweden
2014 Artist-in-Residence, The Uni Project, New York, NY
Performances and Readings
2021 Abba Zabba Open House, Las Vegas, NV
2020 New Monuments for a Future Las Vegas, Sunset Park/Nevada Humanities, Las Vegas
2019 By the People, Halcyon Arts Lab, Washington, DC
2019 When you will have made him, The Growlery, San Francisco, CA
2019 Openings, fff ensemble, Stanford University, CCRMA, Palo Alto, CA
2019 Tongo & Marshall are ZNH!, Adobe Books, San Francisco, CA
2018 CODES, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA
2018 ForTheCulture x This is Us, Museum of Impact and Brooklyn Public Library, NY
2018 Organizing the Ordinary, STUDIOS-ID Lichtenberg, Berlin, Germany
2016 3:25pm with Gu Wei, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
Curatorial Projects
2022 Eat Your Heart Out, Winchester Cultural Center, Las Vegas NV
2021 WHAT THEY CALL US – web exhibition, 24views.org
2019 At the Pith, Nook Gallery, Oakland, CA
2018 His Story, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, W Hotel, Seattle, WA
Select Client List
11:11 Press
Alameda County Department of Public Health
Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose
Deb Chaney Editions
Interrupt Magazine
National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance
Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport
Stanford University, Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
University of Alabama Press – FC2
UNLV Magazine
Wildsam
Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
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