Pam Lins is an artist based in

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. She refers to all of her work primarily as sculpture, although she uses the term expansively. Through it she contemplates the social, the political, and the historical by constructing situations inquisitive and equivocal to sculpture and the making of it. Her range of adoptive methods includes painting, producing jewelry, drawing cartoons, and growing mushrooms. She currently teaches at

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and

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the n ...

Work and exhibitions

Lins’ work explores the space and connections between painting and sculpture, sometimes with a focus on ceramics, leading her to found Ceramics Club with

Trisha Baga Trisha Baga (born 1985 Venice, Florida) is an American artist living and working in New York City. Her work is installation based and incorporates video, performance, and found objects. Career Beginning in 2012 Baga began to use 3D projectors an ...

. Previously, Lins’ work was included in the 2014

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, in a collaboration with

Amy Sillman Amy Sillman (born 1955) is a New York-based artist, known for process-based paintings that move between abstraction and figuration, and engage nontraditional media including animation, zines and installation.Farago, Jason''The New York Times'', ...

, and has been exhibited at the Tang Museum of Art, The Suburban, the CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, and the

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. She is represented b
Rachel Uffner Gallery
in New York. A

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review of her 2015 show 'model, model, model' describes her exploration of the links between painting and photography.

Teaching

Lins is an adjunct professor at

where she has taught 3D design, sculpture, and drawing. She is the associate director of the Visual Arts program at

’s Lewis Center for the Arts, teaches at

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, and has taught in the past at various institutions in various capacities.

Awards

Lins is the recipient of multiple awards and fellowships, including

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Award, The

Anonymous Was a Woman Award The Anonymous Was A Woman Award is a grant program for women artists who are over 40 years of age, in part to counter sexism in the art world. It began in 1996 in direct response to the National Endowment for the Arts' decision to stop funding in ...

, The

Radcliffe Institute Fellowship The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University—also known as the Harvard Radcliffe Institute—is a part of Harvard University that fosters interdisciplinary research across the humanities, sciences, social sciences, arts, a ...

, the Brown University Howard Foundation Fellowship, and the

John Simon Guggenheim Foundation The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was founded in 1925 by Olga and Simon Guggenheim in memory of their son, who died on April 26, 1922. The organization awards Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have bee ...

Fellowship Award.

References

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