Lynn Lu

Lynn Lu received her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University with a major in Sculpture and a minor in Graphic Design. She studied with Christian Boltanski at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts Paris, then earned her MFA in New Genres at the San Francisco Art Institute. She then spent a year as a post-grad researcher in Kawamata Tadashi’s atelier at Tokyo National University of Fine Art and Music (Geidai), and subsequently completed a PhD (ABD) at Musashino Art University in Tokyo on a full scholarship from the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2010 she was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by the University of Newcastle in Australia.

Among other honours, Lynn was awarded Southampton Solent University’s Research and Enterprise Grant, numerous Singapore National Arts Council International Development Grants, the National Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant, and the Lee Foundation Grant. She received the Lois Nellie Gill Award from the Ucross Foundation, and the Samuel Rosenberg Senior Art Award from Carnegie Mellon University. She has also been granted several prestigious artist fellowships, including residencies at the Ucross Foundation, Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, and Dorland Mountain Arts Colony in the United States, Unitec in New Zealand, Floating Platforms in Finland, and CCLAP in the UK.

Lynn exhibits, performs, and lectures extensively worldwide. Recent venues include SFMOMA (2021), National Gallery Singapore (2021), Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden (2019), Framer Framed (2018), Science Gallery London (2017), Saatchi Gallery (2017), Palais de Tokyo (2015), The Barbican (2015), Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (2013), Tate Modern (2010), Beijing 798 Art Zone (2009), and Singapore Art Museum (2007).

Lynn is a Visiting Artist at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, an Associate Lecturer at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, and an Associate Artist at ]performance s p a c e [.