Lin, Leah Ying

born 1994 China

lives in New York USA

Leah Lin Ying is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist crafting kinetic sculptural spectacles through metallic ceramics, 3D-printed metal, creative coding, and performance art. Her practice evokes living sculptures in motion, where cosmic mythologies, cutting edge technology, and human longing converge. Visually situated between the futuristic and the ancestral and grounded in the concepts and strategies of future archaeology, her work bridges supernatural mythologies, traditional craft, and East Asian aesthetics and techniques. Lin’s sculptures balance the rigidity of aluminum and metallic ceramics with the ethereal softness of amorphous shapes—expressing a feminine force both steely and sensuous. Weaving breathable kinetic mechanisms with projection mapping, sound, scent, and exotic plants she cultivates, Lin creates immersive realms that challenge and expand how sculpture engages the viewer.

Lin’s work has been exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Rome, and Kyoto, including at Arsenal Contemporary Art NY, Sculpture Space NYC Gallery, and MAAM Museum in Rome. Beyond the gallery, she has appeared in global high-fashion campaigns as the face of Balenciaga, Moncler, and Coach, and she has been featured in Vogue and V Magazine—bridging visual art, performance, and fashion through a singular, evolving lens. Lin received her MA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and further studied lighting design in Rome and ceramic sculpture in Kyoto. She is currently an artist-in-residence at the World Trade Center through Silver Art Projects until May 2026.

In 2025, Post-Natural Oasis in Alisan Fine Arts New York marked the gallery's first collaboration with the artist.

BIOGRAPHY

1994 Born in China
2017 Study Abroad Program of Lighting & Design, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Rome, Italy
2018 Study Abroad Program of Ceramics & Sculpture, Rhode Island School of Design, Kyoto, Japan
2019 Master of Architecture, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA

Artist in Residence, Arts, Letters & Numbers, Albany, New York, USA

2025 Artist in Residence, Silver Art Projects, 4 World Trade Center, New York, USA

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020

Happy Living, Happy Life, LATITUDE Gallery, New York, USA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026

Dallas Art Fair, Alisan Fine Arts New York, Dallas, Texas, USA

2025

Post-Natural Oasis, Alisan Fine Arts, New York, USA
NYC x Design, Sculpture Space NYC Gallery, New York, USA
Group Show x Accent Sisters Gallery, LIC, New York, USA

2024

Theater of Energies, Arsenal Contemporary Art New York, New York, USA
Group Exhibition, Komune Space, New York, USA

2023

Stratigraphy: Celebrating Layering in the Arts, Arts Letters and Numbers Residency, New York, USA
NYC x DESIGN Festival Group Show, Sculpture Space NYC, New York, USA

2022

Meta- Morphosis, Yiwei Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2019

Group Exhibition:Festival, Arts Letters & Numbers Residency Gallery, New York, USA
Third-Thursday Ed.07, Arts Letters & Numbers Residency Gallery, New York, USA
RISD Grad Thesis Show, Thesis:The Absolute Surveillance City, Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, USA
RISD Grad Show - Between Contain & Container, Convention Center Gallery, Providence, USA
Pop-Up Group Sculpture Exhibition, RISD Metcalf Gallery, Providence, USA

SELECTED AWARDS
2026 Art Crossover Figure of the Year Award, Harper's Bazaar Art in China, China

SELECTED PRESS

2025 Impulse Magazine - Interview:Leah Ying Lin’s Ethereal Odyssey

2024 Whitehot Magazine - A New Transcendentalist Movement in the New Age: On Theater of Energies

ArteFuse - When A Philosopher Curates: On Estrangement and Familiarity in Theater of Energies, NYC (Review)

Impulse Magazine - Curatorial Deviations Review for Theater of Energies

2023 The Los Angeles Post - The new pop-up exhibition “Meta-Morphosis” in Venice features five Gen-Z artists

2022 Balenciaga Global Campaign Billboards, prints and social media distribution in China, Singapore, Australia, Japan, Thailand, North America, etc.

2022 Sohu News, Tencent News & Sina News - Leah Ying Lin, A Visual Artist Who Freely Navigates the Front and Back of the Stage

Tencent News - Boundless Experimentations - Multidisciplinary Visual Artist Leah Ying Lin

2020 Artron News - Manifesto of A Pig: A Brief Review of the Solo Exhibition ‘Happy Living Happy Life’