Monika Lin
Book Making
Principles of Drawing and Painting
Drawing and Painting II
Drawing and Painting III
Mixed Media Art

Monika Lin was born in Manhattan, NY in 1968.  She spent her early years in New Jersey before moving with her parents and brothers to the San Francisco Bay Area.  She began her studies in the arts as a child (piano, violin, dance, painting and drawing) winning numerous local and national awards in the visual arts.  During high school, she attended classes at the Academy of Art in San Francisco and Otis Parsons Art Institute in Los Angeles.  In 1986 she accepted a scholarship to the College of Creative Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara where she continued to study painting and drawing as well as printmaking and performance art.  After college in Southern California, she moved to San Francisco where she lived and worked for 12 years as an exhibiting artist, educator, and activist before heading to New York City and then Kansas City.  In Kansas City she taught painting practice and theory at the Kansas City Art Institute for several years before taking the job that would move her to China.  She now lives in Shanghai with her husband.  Her work is exhibited across the United States and Europe (in galleries, art centers and museums), and recently at Art Beijing.  She is represented by galleries in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and Kansas City.

Some examples of Monika's work; click on any image to enlarge.

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Book Making
Principles of Drawing and Painting
Drawing and Painting II
Drawing and Painting III
Mixed Media Art