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Lin, Maya Ying

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Lin, Maya Ying (mī`ə), 1959–, American architect and sculptor, b. Athens, Ohio. From an artistically distinguished Chinese family that immigrated to the United States in the 1940s, Lin was catapulted to prominence while a Yale undergraduate when her magisterially simple design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Vietnam Veterans Memorial, war memorial in Washington, D.C., built 1982. Designed by the American sculptor and architect Maya Ying Lin, it is a sloping, V-shaped, 493-ft (150-m) wall of highly polished black granite that descends 10 feet (3.
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 in Washington, D.C. (completed 1982) won a national competition. She cemented her status as a major figure with her sculptural design for the Civil Rights Memorial, Montgomery, Alabama (1989), and a monument commemorating coeducation at Yale (1991). More recently she has also executed other kinds of architectural projects, e.g., several private houses, and the Museum of African Art (1993) and a huge clock at Pennsylvania Station (1994), both in New York City. In 2001 she began an ecology-based seven-part installation along the Columbia River in Washington and Oregon that commemorates the Lewis and Clark expedition Lewis and Clark expedition, 1803–6, U.S. expedition that explored the territory of the Louisiana Purchase and the country beyond as far as the Pacific Ocean.
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. She also designs furniture, and her sculpture has been widely exhibited. Lin is known for her visual poetry and sensitive mingling of highly abstract form with meaning.

Bibliography

See her Boundaries (2000); Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision (documentary film, 1995).



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