VISIT | EXHIBITION
Hai-Wen Lin – bittersun
Hai-Wen Lin – bittersun
Exhibition NOTES
Hai-Wen Lin – bittersun
Hai-Wen Lin – bittersun | October 2026 through February 2027
In this forthcoming exhibition, Taiwanese-American artist Hai-Wen Lin fashions garments as kites: creating sculptures that move between the body and the environment. Made with the intimacy of clothing and the logic of flight, the works draw on visual traditions from Buddhist jiasha robes to Appalachian quilts, becoming a practice of “tending”—a way, as the artist says “to clothe the wind.” With delicacy and desire, these works also care for bodies and landscapes that shift as constantly as the seasons. Moving between field and sky, Lin’s work asks how we carry one another forward and what it means to belong—to the living, the land, and the cycles that tie them together.
Exhibition Programming:
KITEMAKING WORKSHOP & ARTIST TALK
Exhibition Gallery
Meet the Artist(s)
Hai-Wen Lin
Hai-Wen Lin is an artist from Elk Grove, California, currently working somewhere beneath the sky. Their work addresses autobiographical narrative and constructions of the body, often moving through metaphor, etymology, sunlight, wind, and the way time passes perfectly when you are out walking on a beautiful day in your favorite dress. Lin is an alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, received a M.Des in Fashion, Body and Garment from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a BA from the University of California, Davis. They are a recipient of the Museum of Art and Design’s Burke Prize, the Ellis-Beauregard Visual Arts Award, and a Luminarts Visual Arts Fellow. Lin has been an artist-in-residence at MacDowell, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Lighthouse Works, Ox-Bow School of Art, the Grand Canyon National Park, among many others. Recent solo exhibitions of their work have been held at the Museum of Art and Design (2026), Chinese American Museum of Chicago (2025), the Centre for Cultural and Artistic Practices (2025), and Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis (2025). Lin is one half of medium-sized, a collaborative practice with the poet Margaret Wright. You can often find their work by looking up.