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Maya Lin is an American architect, sculptor, landscape architect, and printmaker. Born in Athens, Ohio, in 1959, she is educated at Yale University. Her professional work is associated with the contemporary art movement and abstract art genre. She has worked in locations including Montgomery, Colorado, New Haven, and Miami.
Lin has received the National Medal of Arts, the National Women's Hall of Fame induction, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the White House Fellows award. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her works are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Her notable works include Poultry Suite, Great Meadows, Maya Lin: Topologies, and Boundaries. She is recognized in the Time 100 collection. Lin speaks English and maintains an official website at mayalin.com and mayalinstudio.com.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Poultry Suite
- Great Meadows
- Maya Lin: Topologies
- Boundaries
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Film & TV
Acting · Athens, Ohio, USA
Maya Ying Lin is an American architect and sculptor. In 1981, while an undergraduate at Yale University, she achieved national recognition when she won a national design competition for the planned Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Lin has designed numerous memorials, public and private buildings, landscapes, and sculptures. Although she is best known for historical memorials, she is…
Known for
- War Paint: Women at War — Self2025
- Finding Your Roots — Self2012
- Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision — Self1995
via TMDB
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows
· 2021 · cited 29,252x
- Microsoft COCO: Common Objects in Context
· 2014 · cited 26,093x
- Focal Loss for Dense Object Detection
· 2017 · cited 24,285x
- Feature Pyramid Networks for Object Detection
· 2017 · cited 24,009x
- LIBSVM
· 2011 · cited 22,395x
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Quotes
- “I’ve always been pretty fixated on water. Maybe it’s because it exists in multiple states, and you can never understand it in nature as a fixed moment in time.”
- “It’s a bit unusual, as you said, to be working between the architecture, the art, and what I would say is a synthesis, the memorials—they’re problem solving, but it’s very symbolic. You get this triangle; I need to be balanced with those three. They’re all equally a part of who I am. I love how different they are, and yet they’re coming out the same thing, whatever it is.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Maya Ying Lin , ( 1959-10-05 ) October 5, 1959 (age 66) , Athens, Ohio , U.S.
- Citizenship
- American
- Education
- Yale University ( BA , MArch )
- Known for
- Land art, architecture, memorials
- Notable work
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial (1982), Civil Rights Memorial (1989)
- Spouse
- Daniel Wolf ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1996 ; died 2021 )
- Awards
- National Medal of Arts Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Website
- mayalin .com
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Official website
MAYA LIN STUDIO
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Maya Lin
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Athens
- Occupation
- printmaker
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- abstract art
- Movement
- contemporary art
- Official website
- www.mayalinstudio.com
- Image
- Maya Lin, 2014 (cropped).jpg
- Work location
- Washington, D.C.
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- Commons category
- Maya Lin
- date of birth
- 1959-10-05
- Commons gallery
- Maya Lin
- Commons Creator page
- Maya Lin
- has works in the collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
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Encyclopedic overview
Maya Ying Lin (Chinese: 林瓔; born October 5, 1959) is an American architect, designer, and sculptor. Born in Athens, Ohio, to Chinese immigrants, she attended Yale University to study architecture. She has an older brother, the poet Tan Lin.
In 1981, while still an undergraduate at Yale, Lin achieved national recognition when she won a national design competition for the planned Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. The memorial was designed in the minimalist architectural style, and it attracted controversy upon its release but went on to become influential.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Maya Lin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.