Lana Lin

Lana Lin
Born1966 (age 57–58)
Montreal, Canada
EducationBA (University of Iowa, 1988);
MFA (Bard College, 1996);
PhD (New York University, 2015)
Known forExperimental film, video art, documentary, mixed media
MovementContemporary art
Awards2000–01: Studio Program Fellow, Whitney ISP
2019: Best Feature Documentary, San Diego Asian Film Festival
2019: Favorite Experimental Film, BlackStar Film Festival
Websitehttps://www.lanalin.com/

Lana Lin (b. 1966) is a filmmaker, artist, and scholar based in New York City.[1][2][3][4]: 67–69  Since the early 1990s, she has made experimental films, videos, and documentaries that examine the politics of identity and cultural translation, informed by the poetic and conceptual qualities of moving image media.[2][3]

Lin's film The Cancer Journals Revisited (2018) won Best Feature Documentary at the 2019 San Diego Asian Film Festival and Favorite Experimental Film at the 2019 BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia.[5][6] Lin is also the author of Freud's Jaw and Other Lost Objects: Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer (New York: Fordham University Press, 2017).[7]

Her works have been screened and exhibited internationally, including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Whitney Museum, New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Chinese Taipei Film Archive, BAMcinemaFest in Brooklyn, and the Gasworks Gallery in London.[1][2] Lin was a fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program (ISP) from 2000 to 2001.[8]

Since 2001, Lin has worked collaboratively with artist H. Lan Thao Lam as the artist team Lin + Lam, developing mixed media research-based projects concerning the construction of history and collective memory.[1][2]

Lin is a professor at The New School, New York City.[2]

  1. ^ a b c "Feminist Art Base: Lana Lin". The Brooklyn Museum. Archived from the original on November 15, 2010. Retrieved June 8, 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Lana Lin". The New School. Archived from the original on June 3, 2023. Retrieved June 3, 2023.
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  5. ^ Anelli, Don (November 16, 2019). "Asian Cinema's Top Filmmakers and Celebrities Receive Awards at 20th Anniversary San Diego Asian Film Festival Gala". Asian Movie Pulse. Retrieved June 3, 2023.
  6. ^ "2019 Festival Award Winners Announced". BlackStar Projects. August 6, 2019. Archived from the original on June 8, 2023. Retrieved June 8, 2023.
  7. ^ "New Book by Media Studies Professor Lana Lin Explores the Psychic Impact of Living With Illness". New School News. December 12, 2017. Retrieved June 3, 2023.
  8. ^ Liu Clinton, Margaret (2008). Independent Study Program: 40 Years, 1968–2008 (PDF). New York: Whitney Museum of American Art. p. 108. ISBN 978-0-87427-158-4.