WORKS

• Mapping Our Place in the World…, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., 2023

• The Sound We Travel at, USDOT Volpe Exchange, MIT, Cambridge MA, 2022

• Courtyard Sea, Sculpture Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, 2022

• Campo de Ondas – Valle de Bravo, Avandaro, Mexico, 2021

• Decoding the Tree of Life, The Pavilion at UPENN Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 2021

• Ghost Forest, Madison Square Park, New York, NY, 2021

• Neilson Library, Smith College, Northampton, MA, 2021

• Einstein’s Table, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 2019

• Folding the Mississippi (1938), NOMA, New Orleans, LA, 2019

• The Princeton Line, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 2018

• Private Residence, Ridgway, CO, 2017

• Lay of the Land, Bridgehampton, NY, 2016

• Under the Laurentide, Brown University, Providence, RI, 2015

• Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cambridge Campus, Cambridge, MA, 2015

• Chief Timothy Park, Clarkson, WA, 2015

• Silver Upper White River, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AK, 2014

• What is Missing? The Sound Ring, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY 2014

• The Bell Tower, Shantou University, China, 2013

• The Meeting Room, Queen Anne Square, Newport, RI, 2013

• A Fold in the Field, Gibbs Farm, Kaipara, New Zealand, 2013

• Venice Beach House, Private Residence, Venice, CA, 2010

• Story Circles, Sacajawea State Park, Pasco, WA, 2010

• Uplift, The Ellen S. Clark Hope Plaza, BJC Institute of Health, St. Louis, MO, 2010

• Storm King Wavefield, Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY, 2009

• Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA), New York, NY, 2009

• What is Missing? The Empty Room, Beijing Center for the Arts, Beijing, China, 2009

• What is Missing? The Listening Cone, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, 2009

• Bird Blind, Sandy River Delta, Portland, OR, 2008

• Pin River – Yangtze, U.S Consulate, Beijing, China, 2008

• The Kentucky Line, Louisville, KY, 2008

• Where the Land Meets the Sea, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, 2008

• Above and Below, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, 2007

• Manhattanville Sanctuary & Environmental Learning Lab, Manhattanville College, Harrison, NY, 2006

• Cape D, Cape Disappointment State Park, WA, 2006

• The Box House, Telluride, CO, 2006

• By Definition, Jersey City, NJ, 2006

• The Drawing Room (Garden of Perception), University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, 2005

• Flutter, Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. Federal Courthouse, Miami, FL, 2005

• Eleven Minute Line, Wanås Foundation, Wanås, Sweden, 2004

• Input, Ohio University, Athens, OH, 2004

• The Riggio-Lynch Interfaith Chapel, Children’s Defense Fund, Clinton, TN, 2004

• Greyston Bakery, Greyston Foundation, Yonkers, NY, 2003

• SculptureCenter, Long Island City, NY, 2002

• The Character of a Hill, Under Glass, American Express Financial Advisors, Client Service Center, Minneapolis, MN, 2002

• Ecliptic, Rosa Parks Circle, Frey Foundation, Grand Rapids, MI, 2001

• Aveda Headquarters, New York, NY, 2001

• Private Residence, New York, NY, 2001

• Time Table, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, 2000

• Asia/Pacific/American Studies Department, New York University, New York, NY, 1999

• Langston Hughes Library, Children’s Defense Fund, Clinton, TN, 1999

• Private Residence, New York, NY, 1998

• Reading a Garden, Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, OH, 1998

• A Shift in the Stream, Principal Financial Headquarters, Des Moines, IA, 1997

• 10° North, Rockefeller Foundation, New York, NY, 1997

• Sounding Stones, GSA / Federal Courthouse, New York, NY, 1996

• The Wave Field, FXB Building, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1995

• Eclipsed Time, Long Island Railroad, Pennsylvania Station, New York, NY, 1995

• Weber Residence, Williamstown, MA, 1994

• Mock/Sanders Residence, Santa Monica, CA, 1994

• Museum for African Art, New York, NY, 1993

• Groundswell, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, 1993

• The Women’s Table, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1993

• Topo, Charlotte Coliseum, Charlotte, NC, 1991

• Juniata Peace Chapel, Juniata College, Huntington, PA, 1990

• Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY, 1990

• Civil Rights Memorial, The Southern Poverty Law Center, Montgomery, AL, 1989

• Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington D.C., 1982

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

• Maya Lin: Nature Knows No Boundaries, Pace Gallery, Seoul, South Korea, Winter 2023

• One Life: Maya Lin, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Art Museum, Washington D.C. 2022-2023

• Ghost Forest Baseline, Pace Gallery, New York, NY, Summer 2022

• Maya Lin: A Study of Water, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA, Summer 2022

• Maya Lin: Mappings, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, 2022

• Maya Lin: Ghost Forest, Fotografiska, New York, NY, Fall 2021

• Maya Lin: Flow, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI, Summer 2019

• A River is a Drawing, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, Fall 2018

• Ebb and Flow, Pace Gallery, New York NY, Fall 2017

• Maya Lin, Pace Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, Summer 2016

• A History of Water, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL, Spring 2015

• Art/Act: Maya Lin, David Brower Center, Berkeley, CA, Fall 2014

• Rivers and Mountains, Ivorypress Space, Madrid, Spain, Fall 2014

• Platform: Maya Lin, Parrish Art Museum, Long Island, NY, Summer 2014

• Maya Lin: Here and There, Pace Gallery, London, UK, Spring 2013

• Maya Lin: Here and There, Pace Gallery, New York, NY, Spring 2013

• Maya Lin, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, Winter 2012

• Maya Lin, Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Spring 2010

• Maya Lin, In Telluride, Telluride Gallery of Fine Art, CO, Spring 2010

• Maya Lin: Three Ways of Looking at the Earth, PaceWildenstein, New York, NY, Fall 2009

• Recycled Landscapes, Salon 94, New York, NY, Fall 2009

• Bodies of Water, Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, New York, NY, Spring - Fall 2009

• Systematic Landscapes
  Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Spring 2009
  de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA, Fall 2008
  Contemporary Art Museum San Diego, San Diego, CA, 2007 - 2008
  Museum of Contemporary Art St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, 2007
  Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, 2006

• Maya Lin, Wanås Foundation, Wanås, Sweden, 2004

• Maya Lin’s Designs for East Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 2004

• Maya Lin/ Finn Juhl, The Danish Museum of Decorative Art, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2003

• Between Art and Architecture, The Cooper Union, New York, NY, 2000

• Maya Lin: Recent Work, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1999

• Maya Lin: Topologies
  Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, 1999
  Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, 1999
  Grey Art Gallery, NY University, New York, NY, 1998
  Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH, 1998
  SECCA, Winston-Salem, NC, 1998

• Il Cortile Mare, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy, 1998

• Designing Industrial Ecology, Bronx Community Paper Company, Municipal Art Society, New York, NY, 1997

• Public/Private, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, 1993

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• Land Art: Expanding the Atlas, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, Summer 2021

• HERE: Ann Hamilton, Jenny Holzer, Maya Lin, Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus OH, Fall, 2019

• Occupy Colby: Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale That Society Has the Capacity to Destroy, Part II, Colby Museum of Art, Colby ME, Summer 2019

• You Maya Live In Interesting Times, 58th International Art Exhibition Of La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy, Summer 2019

• Natural Wonders: The Sublime in Contemporary Art, Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, PA, Summer 2018

• Indicators: Artists on Climate Change, Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY, Spring 2018

• Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale That Society Has the Capacity to Destroy, Part I, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City NJ, Fall 2017

• Making: Then and Now, Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield MA, Summer 2017

• Vitreous Bodies: Assembled Visions In Glass, Stephen D. Paine Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston MA, Winter 2017

• Of a Different Nature, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York NY, Spring 2016

• Glass, Pace Gallery, New York NY, Summer 2016

• Utopias/Heterotopias: Wuzhen Art Invitational, Shanghai China, Summer 2016

• Wonder, Renwick Gallery – Smithsonian Art Museum, Washington DC, Fall 2015

• Tahoe: A Visual History, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, Summer 2015

• River Crossings, Olana State Historic Site, Hudson NY, Spring 2015

• Art + Environment Conference, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, Summer 2014

• Beyond Earth Art, Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell NY, Winter 2014

• Grounded, Pace Gallery, New York NY, Winter 2014

• Quiet Earth, Rauschenberg Foundation, New York NY, Fall 2013

• Surveying The Terrain, CAM Raleigh, North Carolina, Fall 2013

• Image and Abstraction, Pace Gallery, New York NY, Summer 2013

• Summer Group Show, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, NY, Summer 2013

• Changing Landscapes, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH, Spring 2012

• EXPO Chicago, Untitled (collaboration with NRDC), Chicago, Fall 2012

• Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 2012

• Art Basel Miami, Miami, FL, 2011

• Festival of Ideas for the New City, New Museum, New York, NY, Earth Day 2011

• Private View: the Piet and Ida Sanders Collection, Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam, NL, Spring 2011

• Water, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ, Fall 2011

• Off the Map, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA, Spring 2010

• Group Exhibition, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX, Summer 2010

• Wall Installations, William Griffin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, Summer 2010

• 50 Years at Pace, The Pace Gallery, New York, NY, Fall 2010

• 13 + 6: Artists and Architects of City Center, Bellagio Art Gallery, Las Vegas, NV, Fall 2009 - Spring 2010

• Animamix Biennial 2009 – 2010:
  Today Art Museum, Beijing, China, 2010
  Museum of Contemporary Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2010
  Museum of Contemporary Arts, Taipei, Taiwan, 2009
  Visual Attract & Attack, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China, Fall 2009

• Art at Colby: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Colby College Museum of Art, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME, Summer 2009 - Winter 2010

• Design for a Living World, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, NY, 2009

• All Over the Map, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, Spring 2009

• Innovations in the Third Dimension: Sculpture of Our Time, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT, Spring 2009

• A Walk on the Beach, PaceWildenstein, New York, NY, Summer 2009

• Shan Shui: The Nature on the Horizon of Art, Beijing Center for the Arts, Beijing, China, Fall 2009

• Time is of the Essence: Contemporary Landscape Art, Asheville Museum of Art, Asheville, NC, 2008

• Mining Glass, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA, 2007 - 2008

• Visions of Concern, David Weinberg Collection, Chicago, IL, Fall 2007

• Group exhibition, Light Box, Los Angeles, CA, 2006

• Summer Sculpture Show, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Summer 2006

• US Design: 1975 – 2000
  Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, 2004
  Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, New York, NY, 2003

• Women Designers in the USA, 1900 - 2000: Diversity and Difference, The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, New York, NY, Winter 2001

• Illusions of Eden: Visions of the American Heartland
  Washington Pavilion, Sioux Falls, WA, 2001
  Madison Art Center, Madison, WI, 2001
  Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary, 2000
  Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, Austria, 2000
  Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, 2000

• Silver and Gold
  Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY, 2001
  Galerie Simonne Sterne, New Orleans, LA, 2001
  Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL, 2001
  Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO, 2000

• Nature: Contemporary Art and the Natural World, Marywood University, Scranton, PA, 2000

• Tomorrow Land, Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago, IL, Fall1999 - Winter 2000

• Capturing Time: The New York Time Capsule, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, Winter 1999 - Spring 2000

• Designing the Future: Three Directions for the New Millennium, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, Winter 1999 - Spring 2000

• Urban Mythologies: The Bronx Represented Since the 1960’s, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY, Spring - Fall 1999

• American Academy in Rome Annual Exhibition 1999, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy, Summer 1999

• Group exhibition, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY, 1999

• Powder, curated by Julie Graham and Maria Friedrich, The Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, 1999

• Stung by Splendor: Working Drawings and the Creative Movement, The Cooper Union, New York, NY, Fall1997

• The Private Eye in Public Art, curated by Joyce Pommeroy-Schwartz, La Salle Partners at Nations Bank Plaza Gallery, Charlotte, NC, 1997

• Extended Minimalism, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY, 1996

• Critical Mass, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1994

• Presence, Ramnarine Gallery, Long Island City, NY, 1993

• Culture Bites
  Connecticut College, New London, CT, 1992
  Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA, 1992

• Ornament: Ho Hum All Ye Faithful, John Post Lee Gallery, New York, NY, 1991 - 1992

• Social Sculpture, Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York, NY, 1991

• Working with Wax, Tibor di Nagy Gallery, New York, NY, 1991

• 60’s to 80’s Sculpture Parallels, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY, 1988

• Avant-Garde in the Eighties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, 1987

• Sites and Solution: Recent Public Art, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA, 1985

• American Women Artists: The Younger Generation, Sydney Janis Gallery, New York, NY, 1984

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

• Brown University, Providence, RI

• California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA

• Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

• Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA

• Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, MN

• Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH

• Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL

• Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR

• Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA

• Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN

• Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

• Juniata College Museum of Art, Huntington, PA

• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

• Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis , MN

• Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY

• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

• The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

• Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO

• Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, Purchase, NY

• Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV

• Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH

• Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

• Smith College Museum of Art, Smith College, Northampton, MA

• Spencer Collection, New York Public Library, New York, NY

• Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY

• Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH

• The Wanås Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden

• Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

HONORS AND AWARDS

• America’s Great Places for 2017: Ecliptic at Rosa Parks Circle, American Planning Association, Grand Rapids, MI, 2017

• Presidential Medal of Freedom, The White House, Washington DC, 2016

• Portrait of a Nation Award, National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC, 2015

• US Department Medal of Arts, Art in Embassies, Washington DC, 2015

• Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, New York, NY, 2014

• Mayor’s Award for Arts and Culture, Mayor’s Office, New York, NY, 2011

• The Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture, University of Virginia, 2011

• The Americans for the Arts, Public Art Year in Review Award for What is Missing?, 2010

• National Medal of Arts, The White House, Washington, D.C., 2010

• The Rockefeller Foundation, New York City Cultural Innovation Fund, Global Residency, 2010

• New York Prize Senior Fellowship, Van Alen Institute, New York, NY, 2008

• AIA Twenty-Five Year Award for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 2007

• National Endowment for the Arts Grant Award for The Confluence Project, 2007

• Good Design Award from the Chicago Athenaeum for Stones, 2006

• National Women’s Hall of Fame, inducted 2005

• Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2005

• Member of the American Academy of Arts and Science, 2005

• Anderson Ranch Artist Award, 2004

• AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Project for Greyston Bakery, 2004

• Aveda Corporation, Corporate Achievement Award Winner Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, 2004

• Finn Juhl Prize, 2003

• Frank Annunzio Award Winner for the Arts, Christopher Columbus Foundation, 2000

• Industrial Designers Society of America, The Industrial Designers Excellence Awards, for The Earth is (Not) Flat, or the Knoll series, 1999

• American Academy of Arts and Letters, Award in Architecture, 1996

• LVMH, Science pour L’Art Award, 1996

• Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision, Academy Award Winner, Best Documentary (1995 Frieda Mock, Director, American Film Foundation Production)

• Time Magazine, Fifty for the Future, 1994

• Presidential Design Award, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 1988

• NEA Visual Artists Fellowship, Sculpture, 1988

• American Institute of Architects Honor Award, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 1984

• AIA Henry Bacon Memorial Award, 1984