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Ling-lin Ku

Oct 27

Written By Baltimore Jewelry Center

Sculpture by Ling-lin Ku

Year:

2024

Materials:

Bronze, sterling silver

Dimensions:

1.25 x 1.5 x 3in

Notable Techniques:

Fabrication

Featured In:

In the Making: A Community Archive Project

Photograph: J Diamond

Ling-lin Ku’s studio is a playground and an alchemy of the world where she plays in-between the digital data and tangible materials through digital fabrication. She uses most local references including food, body parts, and products, 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 has been exhibited her work in cities ranging from Salzburg (Austria), Barcelona (Spain), Paris (France), Gyeonggi-do (South Korea) to New York City, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Richmond, Austin, Houston and Pittsburgh, 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. Ling-lin received her MFA from University of Texas at Austin in 2019 and BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2016. She is currently an assistant professor at Oberlin College.

Learn more about Ling-lin Ku here.

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