Maya Ying Lin

Architect/Artist – New York, NY. Designed the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial in Washington, D.C. Accomplished both in the field of art and architecture, creating large-scale environmental art installations and works of architecture. Landscape is the context and the source of inspiration for Ms. Lin's art. She peers curiously at the landscape through a twenty-first century lens, merging rational and technological order with notions of beauty and the transcendental. Utilizing technological methods to study and visualize the natural world, Ms. Lin takes micro and macro views of the earth, sonar resonance scans, aerial and satellite mapping devices and translates that information into sculptures, drawings and environmental installations. Her works address how we relate and respond to the environment, and presents new ways of looking at the world around us. Ms. Lin is a Yale graduate serving on the boards of the Bloomberg Foundation, What is Missing? Foundation, the Museum of Chinese in America, and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Recipient of a National Medal of Arts, the Presidential Design Award, and several honorary doctorates. Ms. Lin is represented by Pace Gallery.