Prairie Benefit Auction

Lin's Sojourner's Shirt is cut with the words of the Chinese poet Wen Yi Duo's "Laundry Song." The poem laments the conditions of the many immigrant laundrymen who took up residence in Chicago, as Lin did when she moved to the city to attend graduate school. The title draws from Paul C.P. Siu's writing on the "sojourner," a stranger who spends years of his life in a foreign country without assimilating.

Hai-Wen Lin is a Chicago-based Taiwanese-American artist from northern California whose work explores constructions of the body and its relation to the surrounding environment. Skilled in the craft of origami since childhood, Lin has published numerous original origami diagrams and has taught folding workshops at UC Berkeley and MIT. Their art practice has since expanded, with painted, sewn, and sculptural works exhibited at the Pittsburgh Glass Center, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, and the Mosesian Center for the Arts. They have performed at the Chicago Cultural Center and MU Gallery. Their artist books and zines have sold at the Boston Art Book Fair and have received recognition from the New England Book Builders, AIGA, and Design Observer. Lin received a B.A. from UC Davis in Design and Psychology and is a M.Des Candidate in Fashion, Body and Garment at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. They are a recipient of SAIC’s New Artist Society Scholarship and Ox-Bow’s Leroy Neiman Fellowship.

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https://www.haiwenlin.com/about
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