“Kudzu Series,” 2025, wood, found lamp, kudzu vine, epoxy, steel, paint, variable dimensions. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Joyce Lin
Teaching Artist Cohort
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2026
Joyce Lin is a Houston-based artist and furniture maker whose practice investigates the relationship between surface and structure and the eroding boundaries between the natural and human-made. Merging meticulous craftsmanship with experimental processes in wood, found materials, fiberglass, and more, she reimagines familiar forms—chairs, tables, and other functional archetypes—as studies on dissection, reconstruction, and mimicry.
Raised in Birmingham, Alabama, Lin earned degrees in Furniture Design and Geology-Biology through the Brown/RISD Dual Degree Program, an interdisciplinary foundation which continues to inform her work today. She has presented solo exhibitions such as Material Autopsy (2023) and Hypernatural (2025) at R & Company in New York, and her work has been exhibited at institutions including the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft.
Lin’s pieces are held in the permanent collections of the RISD Museum, the Mint Museum, Carnegie Museum of Art, Munson Museum of Art, Houston Civic Art Collection, New Orleans Museum of Art, Peabody Essex Museum, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and SFMOMA. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, the Architect’s Newspaper, Dwell, PaperCity Magazine, and Objects: USA 2020 and Objects: USA 2024.
In addition to her studio practice, Lin has taught in the Rhode Island School of Design’s Furniture Design Department and TXRX Labs in Houston. She is the recipient of the 2025 John D. Mineck Fellowship from the Society of Arts and Crafts.
Selected works
“Wood Chair on Grass,” 2025, oil, acrylic paint, epoxy clay, raffia fiber, wood, 38 × 38 × 23.5 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Surfaces All the Way Down,” 2025, fiberglass, mixed media, 22 × 19.5 × 29.25 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Root Chair,” 2023, found driftwood, walnut stain, 29 × 30 × 34 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Log Chair,” 2023, Douglas fir slices, wood, acrylic, auto paint, 21 × 17 × 45 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“1-800-Get Pink,” 2023, XPS foam, fiberglass, acrylic, 19 × 21.5 × 35 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Red Oak Roast,” 2025, wood, oil paint, epoxy, stainless steel, 15.5 × 10.5 × 5.25 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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