Art in the Twenty-First Century Screening: Realms of the Real
Candice Lin
Art21
Thursday, March 5, 2026, 7pm
Free RSVP
We welcome our community to join us for a screening of “Realms of the Real,” the newest episode of the 12th season of Art21’s Art in the Twenty-First Century.
Canal Projects Artist Alumni Candice Lin, is featured in this episode, alongside fellow contemporary artists Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Ragnar Kjartansson, and Tomás Saraceno.
Each of these artists combine historical research with speculative fiction to construct their out-of-this-world-but-also-from-this-world artworks. From the rustic dramaturgy of Kjartansson’s musical ensembles to Lin’s sensorial installations that use imagination and archive as a reference, the “realms” these artists build seem to hold a mirror to the banality, absurdity and the charm of this so-called life.
Lin’s section features the exhibition Lithium Sex Demons in the Factory, which was on view at Canal Projects from September 22–December 16, 2023. Shoutout to the 14th Gwangju Biennale who co-commissioned Lithium Sex Demons in the Factory and the staff at Art21 for putting together this amazing episode!
Candice Lin is an interdisciplinary artist who works with installation, drawing, video, and living materials and processes, such as mold, mushrooms, bacteria, fermentation, and stains. Her work deals with the politics of representation and issues of race, gender, and sexuality through histories of colonialism and diaspora.
Lin has had recent solo exhibitions at Whitechapel Gallery, London; Jameel Arts Center, Dubai; Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland; Canal Projects, New York; Spike Island, Bristol, UK; the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China; and Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand. Lin’s work was included in the 59th Venice Biennale, The Milk of Dreams, Prospect.5 Triennial Yesterday We Said Tomorrow, and both the 13th and 14th Gwangju Biennales. She is the recipient of the 2024 Ruth Award, the 2023 Arnoldo Pomodoro Sculpture Prize, a 2022 Gold Art Prize, and a 2019 Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, among numerous other recognitions. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Walker Art Center.
Candice Lin lives and works in Los Angeles. She is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of California Los Angeles.
Art21 is the world’s leading source to learn directly from the artists of our time.The Mission of Art21 is to educate and expand access to contemporary art through the production of documentary films, resources, and public programs.
The Vision of Art21 is to inspire a more creative and inclusive world through the works and words of contemporary artists.
-
Candice Lin, Lithium Sex Demons in the Factory, 2023. Courtesy the artist and François Ghebaly Gallery. Commissioned by Canal Projects and the 14th Gwangju Biennale. Installation view, Canal Projects (2023). Image courtesy Canal Projects. Photo: Izzy Leung. -
-
