About the Artist

Assistant Professor of Art and multimedia sculptor Ling-lin Ku’s studio is a playground and an alchemy of the world where she plays in-between digital data and tangible materials through digital fabrication. She uses local references, including food, body parts, and products; yet through proximity, scale, texture, display structures, and material, Ling-lin upends our relationship to the known. The work slips in and out of categorization, creating a new way in which we come to understand objecthood.

Ling-lin has been exhibited her work in cities including Salzburg (Austria), Barcelona (Spain), Paris (France), Gyeonggi-do (South Korea), New York City, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Richmond, Austin, Houston and Pittsburgh. She has been in residence at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in Brooklyn, Summer Academy in at Salzburg, Austria, Haystack Open Studio Residency, L’AiR Atelier 11, Paris, France, and 18th Street Art Center at Los Angeles, CA. Ling-lin is the recipient of Seebacher Prize in Fine Arts awarded by American Austrian Foundation and the winner of Umlauf Extended Prize and Houston Artadia Fellow. She is awarded the Honorable Mention of Innovative Award by International Sculpture Center. Ling-lin received her MFA from University of Texas at Austin and BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University.

School of Art Lecture Series

The Carnegie Mellon School of Art Lecture Series is made possible in part by Elizabeth (Thompson) and Thomas M. Cox (A’29) Distinguished Artists Funds, Robert L. Lepper Distinguished Lecture in Creative Inquiry, and Orville M. Winsand Lecture for Critical Studies. Carnegie Mellon makes every effort to provide accessible facilities and programs for individuals with disabilities. This publication can be made available in an alternate format upon request. For accommodations, contact the School of Art at schoolofart@cmu.edu or 412.268.2409. Lecture and event details are subject to change or cancellation.

Image: “A Fever Called Living” at Visual Art Center, Austin, TX.