Maya Lin

American | 1959

Maya Lin is an American Postwar & Contemporary sculptor who was born in 1959. Her work is currently being shown at Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Pace New York (540 West 25th Street) have featured Maya Lin's work in the past.Maya Lin's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 200 USD to 35,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2004 the record price for this artist at auction is 35,000 USD for NERVOUS, sold at Sotheby's New York in 2009. Maya Lin has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for The Guardian in March 2025.

Artist's alternative names: Maya Ying Lin

At Auction

Notable Lots

Drop of Silver

By Maya Lin

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Ecliptic ,1999

By Maya Lin

Longitude Chaise ,1998

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Recent Auction Results

Ecliptic, 1999 ,1999

By Maya Lin

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MAYA LIN (NY

By Maya Lin

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Blue Ice ,1996

By Maya Lin

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Current Exhibitions

Shifting Landscapes

Whitney Museum of American Art

Greenwich Village | New York | USA

Nov 01,2024 - Jan 01,2026

Past Exhibitions

SITE, School Invitational Theme Exhibition

Garrison Art Center

Garrison | New York | USA

Mar 15,2025 - Mar 30,2025

Grace Under Fire: Curated by Kyle DeWoody, Laura Dvorkin, and Maynard Monrow

Library Street Collective (the Shepherd)

Detroit | Michigan | USA

Oct 24,2024 - Jan 11,2025

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Articles

The Guardian 29/03/2025

From quilting in Japanese prisoner camps to graffiti in Sudan via Rachel Whiteread, Maggi Hambling and Lee Miller, this documentary covers myriad artistic responses to conflict

ARTnews 12/03/2025

The Trump administration has moved to fire federal employees who care for the more than 26,000 artworks and artifacts owned by the US government, potentially imperiling the collection, which contains pieces dating back to the 1800s.

Observer 21/02/2025

But first, masterworks from the collection of Leonard Riggio and Louise Riggio will embark on a global tour, hopping from London to Hong Kong in March and then heading to Paris, Dubai and Los Angeles in April before returning to New York.

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Coverage

鈥� ..By revealing aspects of the natural world that are normally invisible to us鈥攖he topography of the globe from ocean floor to mountain top, the evolving shape of coastlines and waterways鈥攖he artist highlights... 鈥�
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The Parrish Art Museum

鈥� ..Employing technological methods to study and visualize topographies and geographic phenomena, Lin creates sculptures that interpret the natural world through a twenty-first century lens... 鈥�
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Pace New York (32 East 57th Street)

鈥� ..Created in recycled silver, steel pins, and common building materials, Lin conceives these sculptures with the use of charting, mapping, and scientific research to determine each work鈥檚 ultimate design,... 鈥�
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Grand Rapids Art Museum

鈥� ..Lin`s pieces are massive and invite the visitor literally to become a part of her invented and real landscapes walking under, upon, and through them... 鈥�
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CAM, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis

鈥� ..By categorizing and re-arranging them into larger sculptural accretions, Lin opens them up to critique, while simultaneously re-investing these forms with new cultural meaning... 鈥�
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