Lin + Lam produce research-based projects that examine how individual and national subjectivities are mediated and defined. Paying close attention to materiality, site, and the specificities of different medium, the collaboration is a productive integration of their individual strengths and backgrounds. Trained in architecture, H. Lan Thao Lam also uses photography, sculpture, and installation to probe the construction of history and lived places. Informed by documentary and experimental film, Lana Lin's art projects interpret different cultural contexts, raising questions about translation and the processes of identification.
The artists have shown their work internationally at venues including the Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and have received awards from the Fulbright Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts, among others.