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Nancy P. Lin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History of Art and Visual Studies at Cornell University. She specializes in modern and contemporary Chinese art and architecture, with a particular interest in the relationship between art and urbanism. Her current book project, 'Art On-Site: Situating Global Contemporaneity in 1990s China,' focuses on local, globally oriented site-based art practices in China from the 1990s to the early 2000s. In her work, Lin explores the aesthetic and socio-political stakes of artists from this period who began to work 'on-site' in everyday urban spaces such as city streets, construction sites, and unconventional locations. She is also involved in a series of projects that investigate the history of performance art in China and East Asia, utilizing materials from Cornell’s Wen Pulin Archive related to Chinese Avant-garde Art. Her project examines issues surrounding the (in)visibility, duration, and public impact of performative actions. Additionally, Lin co-curated the exhibition 'Between Performance Documentation: Contemporary Photography and Video in China' at the Johnson Museum of Art in 2023, and her recent publications have appeared in the Art Journal and the Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, as well as in edited volumes and exhibition catalogues.
Department of Architecture