Maya Lin’s career has maintained a careful balance between art and architecture, creating a remarkable body of work that includes large-scale, site-specific installations throughout the country and abroad, intimate studio artworks and architectural works such as a chapel and library for the Children’s Defense Fund and an Environmental Learning Lab for Manhattanville College.

In her large-scale environmental artworks, Lin has consistently explored how we experience and relate to the landscape. From her recent works such as Eleven Minute Line (2004, an earthen line 1600 feet long by 12 feet high, traversing a meadow in Sweden) and Flutter (2005, a 20,000-square-foot sculpted earthwork commissioned for a federal courthouse in Miami) back to her very first–the Vietnam Veterans Memorial–she has made works that merge completely with the terrain, blurring the boundaries between two- and three-dimensional space and setting up a systematic ordering of the land that is tied to history, time and language.

Lin’s studio artwork has been exhibited in the U.S., Italy, Denmark and Sweden. She is represented by Gagosian Gallery. The exhibition Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes at Seattle’s Henry Art Gallery was the first to translate the scale and coherence of her outdoor installations to the interior space of a museum. Lin serves on the board of trustees of the Natural Resources Defense Council and is a member of the Yale Corporation. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Presidential Design Award, an AIA Honor Award and the Finn Juhl Prize.

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