Candice Lin (b. 1979, Concord, Massachusetts) lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Lin obtained her BA from Brown University in 2001 and her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2004. She is currently an Associate Professor of Art at the University of California, Los Angeles.

An interdisciplinary artist, Lin works across installation, drawing, and video in addition to living materials and processes such as mold, mushrooms, bacteria, fermentation, and stains. Her practice explores and examines the politics of representation and histories of colonialism and diaspora, addressing issues of race, gender, and sexuality.
Her recent solo exhibitions include “g/hosti” (Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2025); “The Animal Husband” (Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, 2024); “Lithium Sex Demons in the Factory” (Canal Projects, New York, 2023); “Seeping, Rotting, Resting, Weeping” (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2021), which traveled to Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University (Cambridge, 2021) and Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley, 2022); “Pigs and Poison” (Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, 2020), later presented at the Guangdong Times Museum (Guangzhou, 2021) and Spike Island (Bristol, 2022).

Select group exhibitions include “The Milk of Dreams” (59th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, 2022); “Yesterday We Said Tomorrow” (Prospect.5 Triennal, New Orleans, 2021); “soft and weak like water” (14th Gwangju Biennale, 2023); “Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning” (13th Gwangju Biennale, 2021).