Candice Lin (born 1979) is an American interdisciplinary artist who works in installation, sculpture, drawing, ceramics, and video.
[8][9] The post-colonial critique behind Lin's work can be seen in her piece, Dildos (Corn Hill, Queen Victoria, Bird in Space) (2012) first shown at a solo show at Francois Ghebaly Gallery.
One piece, as described by art critic Michael Ned Holte, includes "cochineal (a prized red dye made from crushed insects), poppy seeds, metal castings, water, tea, sugar, a copper still, a hot plate, ceramic vessels, a mortar and pestle, mud from the Thames, and something called a 'microbial mud battery.
In 2017, Lin collaborated with artist Patrick Staff to create the piece Hormonal Fog, a smoke machine that pumped testosterone-lowering, plant-based tinctures into the gallery space.
[14] These fluids, as Holte suggests, "perform a 'wet potential' to seep into and erode the stabilizing forces and categorical imperatives that define a colonialist imaginary, one that shamefully continues into the present.
In 2010, she was invited to the Banff Centre Artist Residency in Canada and the Department of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs CEI grant.
In 2016 Lin's A Body Reduced to Brilliant Colour[16] show at Gasworks Gallery in London was reviewed in Art in America.