Whitney Lynn | |
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Born | Maricopa County, Arizona, U.S. |
Academic background | |
Education | Virginia Commonwealth University (BFA) San Francisco Art Institute (MFA) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Art |
Sub-discipline | Visual art Sculpture Performance art |
Institutions | University of Washington |
Whitney Lynn is an American contemporary artist and academic. Much of her work is sculptural and performance-based,incorporating found objects and materials from various cultural and historical sources. [1] Her work deals with topics of boundaries and containment, [2] issues of power and control,concepts of perception and value, [3] and relationships of art history and vernacular forms.
Lynn was born on Williams Air Force Base in Maricopa County,Arizona. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the VCU School of the Arts in 2004 and Master of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute. [4] [5]
She has taught at Stanford University [6] and is currently an Assistant Professor in Interdisciplinary Visual Art at the University of Washington. [7]
Lynn has produced exhibitions,installations,performances,and artist-led participatory projects for the de Young Museum, [8] The Neon Museum, [9] San Diego International Airport, [10] the Internet Archive, [11] and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. [12]
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