Biography
Ling-lin ku is a multimedia sculptor making sculptures, installations, and three-dimensional objects. Her studio is a playground and an alchemy of the world where she plays in between the digital data and tangible materials through both hands-on processes and digital fabrication. She draws inspirations from language, architecture, food, and body parts yet through proximity, scale, texture, display structures, and material, Ling-lin upends our relationship to the known. The work slip in and out of categorization, creating a new way in which we come to understand objecthood.
Ling-lin earned an MFA in studio art at the University of Texas at Austin and a BFA in sculpture and extended media at Virginia Commonwealth University. Prior to arriving at Oberlin College, she was a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University School of Art.
Ling-lin has been exhibited her work nationally and internationally in cities ranging from Salzburg (Austria), Barcelona (Spain), Paris (France), Gyeonggi-do (South Korea) to New York City, Los Angeles, CA, Baltimore, MD, Richmond, VA, Austin, TX, Houston, TX, and Pittsburgh, PA, and selected into residencies including International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in Brooklyn, Summer Academy in at Salzburg, Austria, Haystack Open Studio Residency, L’AiR Atelier 11, Paris, France, and 18th Street Art Center at Los Angeles, CA. Ling-lin is the recipient of Seebacher Prize in Fine Arts awarded by American Austrian Foundation and the winner of Umlauf Extended Prize and Houston Artadia Fellow. She is awarded the Honorable Mention of Innovative Award by International Sculpture Center.
