2023-2024 AALANA & BIPOC Inclusion Fellowship Winner:
Hai-Wen Lin

Hai-Wen Lin received a MDes in Fashion, Body and Garment from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2023 and is currently an artist in residence at The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. They have shown work nationally and internationally from 2015 to the present.

Lin's practice walks the motions of daily life and invites the company of naturally occurring phenomena. It is an act of being present in the world around them. It is an act of reorienting. It is an attempt to attune one’s body to the environment, to unsettle static markers of identity, to offer instead the wind, sun, and sky as constantly shifting relational anchors to gather and situate oneself.