Lana Lin is a multidisciplinary artist and writer based in New York and Connecticut. She is the author of two books, The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam (Dorothy, a publishing project, 2025), which was longlisted for the National Book Award in Nonfiction, and Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects: Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer (Fordham University Press, 2017). Her writing has been published in Portable Gray, Like a Fever, World Records, Millennium Film Journal, ASAP/Journal, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and Asian American Literary Review.
Lin has produced a body of experimental films and videos that interrogate the politics of identity and cultural translation through attention to the formal capacities and historical contingencies of moving image media. Since 2001, she has engaged in collaborative projects (as Lin + Lam) that examine the construction of history and collective memory. Her works have been screened and exhibited at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, REDCAT contemporary arts center, LA, China Taipei Film Archive, BAMcinemaFest, Brooklyn, Gasworks, London, among others. Lin has received awards from the Javits Foundation, Fulbright Foundation, Jerome Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and has been a fellow at MacDowell artist residency, Civitella Ranieri, and GIDEST at The New School.
Lin is an Associate Professor of Media Studies at The New School, New York.