Candice Lin, Crucifixion, 2025, Oil pastel, oil paint and coloured pencil on casein gesso on cardboard, iron bailing wire, painted, marbled, silkscreened, and woven textile pieces, copper sheet metal, lion dance costume sequin pants, 133 × 183 × 8 cm. Image courtesy the artist and François Ghebaly, Los Angeles, New York. Photo: Paul Salveson.
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About This Event
This event takes place in the Café breakout space at Whitechapel Gallery, located on the ground floor.
This event lasts approximately 2 hours.
Entry is free, but RSVP using the book now button to let us know you’re coming.
This event is suitable for those over the age of 16 .
We are unable to provide British Sign Language interpretation for this event .
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Transport
To the best of our knowledge, there are no planned disruptions to local transport on the date of the event.
Our nearest train station – Aldgate East Underground (1 min) is not wheelchair accessible. The closest wheelchair accessible stations are Whitechapel (15 min), Shoreditch High Street (15 min) or Liverpool Street (15 min).
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This event is now fully booked. Please contact infodesk@whitechapelgallery.org or call +44 (0)20 7522 7888 to be added to the waitlist.
Coinciding with her exhibition at the gallery, celebrate the release of Candice Lin’s new publication g/hosti with signed copies of the book, a walkthrough of the exhibition, and a limited-edition sensory drink, inspired by the themes of the show.
For one day only, Alba Caffe will have a specially crafted, sensory drink available to purchase, inspired by the herbal, springy, and salty imagery conjured up by the show. Rooted in the ritualistic act of consuming, through the drink, we invite visitors into a multi-sensory experience of collective ingestion and a tangible, tasty way to engage with Lin’s artistic practice and ethos.
The afternoon will include an artist-led walkthrough of the exhibition to gain deeper insights into the research, thinking, and development of Lin’s new commission at the gallery.
Signed copies of Candice Lin: g/hosti will also be available to purchase – a fully illustrated new publication, featuring writing by Lin, a creative text by novelist and critic Lucy Ives, and an interview with the artist.
This book celebration will take place in Alba Caffe’s ground floor PDR breakout space, directly opposite the main café. Entry is free, but please RSVP using the book now button to let us know you are coming.
This event accompanies our exhibition Candice Lin: g/hosti.
Candice Lin was born in 1979 in Concord, Massachusetts and now lives and works in Altadena, California. Her multi-disciplinary artwork often engages with marginalised histories, legacies of colonialism and issues of race, gender and sexuality.
Through a research-based practice, she investigates the materials and processes that connect contemporary concerns with deeper histories. Her layered installations bring these histories to life with eclectic materials – such as tobacco, lard, opium poppies or cochineal bugs – and with room-sized interventions that choreograph the movements of audiences within her work.
Lin received her BA in Visual Arts and Art Semiotics from Brown University in 2001, and an MFA in New Genres from San Francisco Art Institute in 2004. She has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at venues including Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (2024); Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE (2024); MUMA, Melbourne, Australia (2024); Canal Projects, New York, USA (2023), Spike Island, Bristol, United Kingdom (2022); and the Times Museum, Guangzhou, China (2021). Lin has also participated in group exhibitions including the 24th Biennale of Sydney (2024), the 59th Venice Biennale (2022), the 13th and 14th Gwangju Biennial (2021 and 2023). She is the recipient of several residencies, grants and fellowships including the inaugural Ruth Award (2024); the Anonymous Was a Woman Award (2023); Gold Art Prize (2021); the 6th Arnaldo Pomodoro Sculpture Prize (2021); and the Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant (2019). She is Associate Professor of Art at UCLA in Los Angeles.
