Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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RESUME
Helen Lin is a Chinese-American artist born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. She produces soft sculpture, interactive digital spaces, and confessional zines that cry out to be seen, touched, held, comforted. Through labor-intensive stitching of physical and digital forms, she drenches her work in melancholic cuteness, bringing ugly feelings to the surface of endearing, approachable fictional characters and worlds. Born and raised in a first-generation immigrant family in Brooklyn, she earned a scholarship degree in Visual Arts at Princeton University with a minor in East Asian Studies. In 2023, she participated in Jiggle’n’Juice Collective’s Digital Residency, where she created a 77-page relational aesthetic zine about mending broken friendships through proxy relationships. More recently, Lin has been developing ways to translate illustrations and sculptures into new media, creating virtual mascot interactions hosted through web experiments and 3d immersive environments. In Fall 2024, she will be pursuing a master’s degree with NYU ITP.