Opening Reception — Candice Lin: Interspecies Imbibements

Candice Lin: Interspecies Imbibements (December 14, 2024 – March 16, 2025) explores interspecies intimacy, kinship, and power dynamics through acts of exchange and cohabitation. Lin’s practice engages the entangled histories of humans and non-humans within imperial contexts, examining relationships of camaraderie, empathy, codependence, and domination. Central to the exhibition is Broth Soda, a canned drink blending seltzer and fish sauce, created to entice a cat named Roger, playfully questioning human-animal companionship and anthropomorphism. Other works reimagine domestic spaces as shared domains, highlighting the flux of control and consumption. This exhibition concludes the Commodities series, featuring artists Kameelah Janan Rasheed and Ken Lum. ABOUT CANDICE LINCandice Lin works in Altadena, California. She received her BA in Visual Arts and Art Semiotics from Brown University, in 2001, and MFA in New Genres from San Francisco Art Institute, in 2004. Her practice utilizes installation, drawing, video, and living materials and processes, such as mold, mushrooms, bacteria, fermentation, and stains. Lin has had recent solo exhibitions at Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE (2024), MUMA, Melbourne, Australia (2024); Canal Projects, New York (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 and lives and works in Los Angeles. More Info below.