Monika Lin is an Assistant Arts Professor of Visual Arts and serves as Area Head of Arts at NYU Shanghai. She holds an MFA in Art Practice from the School of Visual Arts in New York City and a BFA from Mills College in Oakland, California. She has attended residencies in San Francisco, Jindezhen, and […]
Marcela Godoy works as an Associate Arts Professor at the Interactive Media Arts program at NYU Shanghai. As a practice-based researcher, she applies critical making and use fabrication technologies to investigate new possibilities in architecture, open up social reflection, and to propose unique solutions to environmental issues. With a background in architecture and interaction design, […]
Erin Smith is a Research Assistant at the Re-Makerspace. Erin is an aspiring industrial designer whose design areas include assistive and sustainable products. Her personal research interests include discovering the design potential of bio-materials and learning how they fit into our practical future. She is completing her B.S. in Interactive Media Arts at […]
Ziqi (Lydia) Yan is Research Assistant at the Re-Makerspace. Lydia is a new media artist, designer, and media studies researcher with a concentration in the human-nonhuman relationships from the ecological perspective and speculative design. She is completing her B.S. in Interactive Media Arts and Humanities degrees at NYU Shanghai. Lydia is interested in bio […]
Jiani Yang is Research Assistant at the Re-Makerspace and an Interactive Media Art student at NYU Shanghai.
Monika Lin is an Assistant Arts Professor of Visual Arts and serves as Area Head of Arts at NYU Shanghai. She holds an MFA in Art Practice from the School of Visual Arts in New York City and a BFA from Mills College in Oakland, California. She has attended residencies in San Francisco, Jindezhen, and Vermont.
Recent exhibitions include shows at Central Booking Gallery in NYC; the Power Station of Art, Art Labor Gallery, the Shanghai World Financial Center, OV Gallery, and the Shanghai Fine Art Museum in Shanghai; the San Francisco Performance Art Institute and Toomey Tourell Fine Art in San Francisco; the Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall in Taibei; WW Art in Nanjing; the Hangzhou Public Library; the Richmond Art Center in Richmond, California; and the Asia Arts Initiative in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Upcoming projects include a site-specific outdoor installation in Ningbo and a group exhibition in Chongqing.
Prior to joining NYU Shanghai, Monika taught painting and printmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute and 2-D Design (painting, drawing, and graphics) at the Kansas City Art Institute. In Shanghai, she has conducted educational programs at the Power Station of Art, the Minsheng Museum, and the Rock Bund Museum as well as community-, participant-based projects in Shanghai and New York.