WORKS
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, 2006Maya 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, 1998Il 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
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 2009Art 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, 2003Women 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, 2000Silver 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, 2000Nature: 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, 1992Ornament: 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