Candice Lin, ghosti, 2025. Installation Photography, Whitechapel Gallery. Photo © Above Ground Studio (Matt Greenwood)
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.
Candice Lin, Detail of 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.
Free entry
8 Oct 2025 – 1 Mar 2026
Gallery 4
| Monday | Closed |
| Tuesday | 11am–6pm |
| Wednesday | 11am–6pm |
| Thursday | 11am–9pm |
| Friday | 11am–6pm |
| Saturday | 11am–6pm |
| Sunday | 11am–6pm |
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Whitechapel Gallery presents a new commission from artist Candice Lin (b. 1979, Concord, Massachusetts, US) featuring an absorbing and disorientating labyrinth.
Candice Lin works across a variety of disciplines and media, including installation, sculpture, painting and video, to create multisensorial environments that tell stories about the historic roots of contemporary political circumstances.
Visitors to g/hosti are plunged into a circular labyrinth made from curved, painted cardboard panels that depict a fantastical world populated by animals and other creatures. The structure towers above head height, while cut-out sections and undulating edges offer glimpses of spaces beyond. Visitors move through the visually lush landscape of brushstrokes and textures as if entering the layers of a painting. Along the way they encounter watchful wolves, tender mice and playing cats – the bright colours, patterns, animal imagery and cardboard materials evoking childhood and play. Yet sinister and sometimes startling images lurk in the detail – including human cadavers that peek out from the shrubbery – creating a relentless environment that threatens to engulf the viewer.
Lin lives in Los Angeles, California, where she developed the work during a period of profound upheaval – notably the inauguration of Donald Trump’s second presidency and the devastating wildfires in her community of Altadena, which coincided in January 2025. Lin is an Associate Professor of Art at UCLA where she continues to witness the ongoing police repression and disciplining of the student protest movement. All these experiences inform the sense of disorientation evoked in the installation.
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Content guidance: This exhibition includes sexual imagery and depictions of death, mourning and war. Please contact us or speak to a staff member for more information.
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.
The Ampersand FoundationWhitechapel Gallery Commissioning CouncilDorota Audemars Erin BellÉmilie De Pauw
Candice Lin Exhibition Circle and Patrons:
Miyoung Lee, Yenn and Alan Lo Foundation
With additional support from the Iwona Blazwick Artistic Ambition Fund and François Ghebaly, Los Angeles, New York
Candice Lin is currently a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.
