Lin Wang (b. 1985, CN) holds a degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bergen and the China Art Academy. She works mainly with sculpture, installation and performance involving different media, such as food, sound, smell, tattoos etc. Her interdisciplinary practice focuses on how art can use innovative angles and platforms to highligt contemporary personal and social spheres. A number of Wang's works thematize how the West historically has both exchanged and exploited its position to achieve trade in the East. In the long-term project 'Exotic Dreams and Poetic Misunderstandings', begun in 2016, Wang uses installations of porcelain, performance and various other media as a starting point for stories about the meeting between East and West. In the project's second part titled 'Still life', the still life's presentation of transience and beauty, which has fascinated people for centuries, is thematised, and in particular the message that nothing lasts forever.
Wang's work is part of a number of public and private collections, including the National Museum, the National Museum for Decorative Arts and Design in Trondheim, and Oslo Municipality's art collection. Wang lives and works in Oslo.