POV Tour: Candice Lin on Samar al Summary’s Excavating the Sky
Artist Candice Lin guides a walkthrough of Samar Al Summary: Excavating the Sky, bringing her perspective as a multifaceted and research-driven artist to the exhibition and offering reflections informed by her investigations into colonial legacies, material histories, and systems of power.
Candice Lin is a visual artist and Associate Professor in Art at UCLA who lives and works in Altadena, California. Her work examines the ongoing legacies of colonialism through her installations, sculptures and drawings. She often uses loaded materials like porcelain, sugar, indigo, and living or entropic processes, such as mold, mushrooms, bacteria, fermentation, and stains. Lin had recent solo exhibitions at Talbot Rice Gallery (Edinburgh, UK, 2025), Jameel Arts Centre (Dubai, UAE, 2024), MUMA (Melbourne, Australia, 2024); and Canal Projects (New York, 2023). Lin also participated in the 24th Biennale of Sydney (2024), the 59th Venice Biennale (2022), and the 13th and 14th Gwangju Biennial (2021, 2023).
