Tuesday Night Lecture Series: Cynthia Lin

As part of the Tuesday Night Lecture Series (TNLS), Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Visual Arts presents a lecture by artist Cynthia Lin, organized by the MFA Painting program.

Cynthia Lin was born in Taiwan and now lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her work develops from slow, attentive looking that eventually leads to strange connections. She traces this back to her first memory: balancing on a hot radiator in Montreal, peering through a fogged window to puzzle at distant figures in a mysterious world below. The vulnerable body, the desire to see despite disruptions, the confusing experience of the dislocated outsider, the enigma that stirs imagination —this was her beginning. Today, she has arrived at a hybrid vision of a precarious but adaptable world.

Lin is the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and recognition as a Finalist from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her work has been exhibited at Satchel Projects, DeCordova Museum, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, Yossi Milo Gallery, The National Academy of Design, Drawing Center, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Michael Steinberg Gallery, and Pierogi Gallery. Collections include Minneapolis Institute of Art and Dallas Museum of Art. She has attended residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, Blue Mountain Center, Dora Maar House, the Visiting Artists and Scholars Program at the American Academy in Rome, and Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus II in Schwandorf, Germany, among others.

She earned her BA from University of California, Berkeley and her MFA from The University of Iowa. Lin currently teaches at Purchase College, State University of New York, as Associate Professor of Painting + Drawing.

Image: Courtesy of the artist

When 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm on 10 February 2026
Building 808 Commonwealth Ave
Room FLR 410/411