Candice Lin (b. 1979, Concord, Massachusetts) works in Altadena, California. She received her BA in Visual Arts and Art Semiotics from Brown University, in 2001, and MFA in New Genres from San Francisco Art Institute, in 2004. Her practice utilizes installation, drawing, video, and living materials and processes, such as mold, mushrooms, bacteria, fermentation, and stains. Lin has had recent solo exhibitions at MUMA, Melbourne, Australia (2024); Canal Projects, New York (2023), Spike Island, Bristol, United Kingdom (2022), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2021), and the Times Museum, Guangzhou, China (2021). Lin has been included in recent group exhibitions including the 24th Biennial of Sydney, the 13th and 14th Gwangju Biennial (2021 and 2023), and the 59th Venice Biennale (2022). She is the recipient of several residencies, grants and fellowships including the inaugural Ruth Award (2024), the Anonymous Was a Woman Award (2023), Gold Art Prize (2021), the 6th Arnaldo Pomodoro Sculpture Prize (2021) and the Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant (2019). She is Associate Professor of Art at UCLA and lives and works in Los Angeles.