Editing Maya Lin (section)

===Works===
* ''Peace-Chapel'' (completed in 1989), for the Baker Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies and Juniata College. Lin was approached by Elizabeth Evans Baker to design the open-aired chapel, perched on top of a mountain. The chapel represented in one place the connections between peace, art, spirituality, and nature. The site consists of a circle of stones for “pews,” the ground of the earth for a floor, and the boundless sky for a ceiling overhead. Located on Baker-Henry Nature Preserve in Huntingdon, PA.
* ''Wave Field'' (completed in 1995), for the University of Michigan. Lin was inspired by both diagrams of fluids in motion and photographs of ocean waves. She was intrigued by the idea of capturing and freezing the motion of water and wished to capture that movement in the earth rather than through photography. ''Wave Field'' was her first experiment with earthworks.<ref name="deitsch6">{{cite magazine|last=Deitsch|first=Dina|title=Maya Lin's Perpetual Landscapes and Storm King Wavefield|magazine=Woman's Art Journal|volume=30|issue=1|year=2009|page=6}}</ref>
* ''[[Confluence Project]]'' (completed in 2000), a series of outdoor installations at historical points along the [[Columbia River]] and [[Snake River]] in the states of [[Washington (state)|Washington]] and [[Oregon]].<ref>{{cite news|title=A Meeting of Minds|url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/pacificnw06122005/coverstory.html|work=The Seattle Times|date=June 12, 2005|access-date=September 7, 2006|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060507145453/http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/pacificnw06122005/coverstory.html|archive-date=May 7, 2006|df=mdy}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Cipolle |first=Alex |title=Along the Columbia River, Making a Monument of the Land |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/20/arts/maya-lin-tribal-monuments-pacific-northwest.html |date=May 20, 2021 |work=New York Times |access-date=April 30, 2023 |archive-date=February 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221005548/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/20/arts/maya-lin-tribal-monuments-pacific-northwest.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* ''Eleven Minute Line'' (completed in 2004), an earthwork in [[Sweden]] that was designed for the Wanås Foundation. Lin drew inspiration from the [[Serpent Mound]]s (Native American burial mounds) located in her home state, Ohio. It is meant to be a walkway for the viewers to experience, taking eleven minutes to complete.<ref name="deitsch6"/> The work was inspired by [[Robert Smithson]]'s ''[[Spiral Jetty]]''.
* A new [[plaza]] (completed in 2005), at the [[Claire Trevor School of the Arts]] at the [[University of California, Irvine]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0r29r847/|title=Guide to the University of California, Irvine, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, Maya Lin Arts Plaza Project Records AS.123|website=Oac.cdlib.org|access-date=August 15, 2012|archive-date=April 16, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170416044637/http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0r29r847/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.arts.uci.edu/content/facilities-theatres-galleries-venues-rentals-classrooms-and-labs |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20120119194406/http://www.arts.uci.edu/content/facilities-theatres-galleries-venues-rentals-classrooms-and-labs |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 19, 2012 |title=Facilities, theatres, galleries, venues, rentals, classrooms and labs. &#124; Claire Trevor School of Arts |website=Arts.uci.edu |access-date=August 15, 2012 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
* ''Waterline'' (completed in 2006), composed of aluminum tubing and paint. Lin has described the piece as a drawing instead of a sculpture. It is a to-scale representation of the Mid-Atlantic ridge, and it is installed so that viewers may walk on the underwater mountain range. One critic saw in the work a purposeful ambiguity as to where the actual water line was in relation to the mountain range, which highlighted the viewers' relationship to the environment and the effect they had on bodies of water.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Min|first=Susette|title=Entropic Designs: A Review of Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes and Asian/American/Modern Art: Shifting Currents, 1900–1970 at the De Young Museum|magazine=American Quarterly|volume=61|issue=1|year=2009|page=198}}</ref><ref name="TenBrink">{{cite web | last=TenBrink | first=Marisa | title=Maya Lin's Environmental Installations: Bringing the Outside In | url=https://publications.kon.org/urc/v9/Interconnected-Through-Art/tenbrink.pdf | location=South Dakota State University | page=7 | access-date=2025-05-25}}The document has something akin to a watermark saying "The document and the images it contains may not be re-published elsewhere."</ref>
* ''Bodies of Water'' series (completed in 2006), consisting of representations of three bodies of water, "The Black Sea," "The Caspian Sea," and "The Red Sea". Each sculpture is made of layers of birch plywood, and are to-scale representations of three endangered bodies of water. The sculptures are balanced on the deepest point of the sea. Lin wished to call attention to the "unseen ecosystems" that people continue to pollute.<ref>{{cite web | last=TenBrink | first=Marisa | title=Maya Lin's Environmental Installations: Bringing the Outside In | url=https://publications.kon.org/urc/v9/Interconnected-Through-Art/tenbrink.pdf | location=South Dakota State University | page=10 | access-date=2025-05-25}}</ref>
* ''Input'' (with [[Tan Lin]], completed in 2004). Lin was commissioned by [[Ohio University]] to design what is known as ''Input'' in that institution's Bicentennial Park,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ohio.edu/athens/bldgs/bicentennial.html|title=Bicentennial Park at Ohio University|website=www.ohio.edu|access-date=December 1, 2016|archive-date=June 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180617144201/https://www.ohio.edu/athens/bldgs/bicentennial.html|url-status=live}}</ref> a landscape designed to resemble a computer [[punch card]]. The work relates to Lin's first official connection with the university. The daughter of the late Professor Emerita of English Julia Lin and the late Henry Lin, dean emeritus of the College of Fine Arts, Maya Lin studied computer programming at the university while in high school. The installation is located in a 3.5-acre park. It has 21 rectangles, some raised and some depressed, resembling the holes in computer punch cards, a mainstay of early programming courses.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ohio.edu/outlook/390n-034.cfm|title=Ohio University dedicates Bicentennial Park|publisher=[[Ohio University]]|location=Athens, Ohio|date=May 15, 2004|access-date=February 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181121181751/https://www.ohio.edu/outlook/390n-034.cfm|archive-date=November 21, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* ''[[Above and Below]]'' (completed in 2007), an outdoor sculpture at the [[Indianapolis Museum of Art]] in [[Indiana]]. The artwork is made of aluminum tubing that has been electrolytically colored by [[anodization]].
* ''2&nbsp;×&nbsp;4 Landscape'' (completed in 2008), a 30-ton sculpture made of many pieces of wood, which was exhibited at the [[M.H. de Young Memorial Museum]], in San Francisco.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/24/DD3713HMF1.DTL|title=Maya Lin looks at nature – from the inside|work=San Francisco Chronicle|date=October 24, 2008|access-date=April 25, 2012|archive-date=October 27, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081027015730/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/24/DD3713HMF1.DTL|url-status=live}}</ref> The sculpture itself is evocative of the swelling movement of water, which is juxtaposed with the dry materiality of the lumber pieces. According to Lin, ''2&nbsp;×&nbsp;4 Landscape'' was her attempt to bring the experience of ''Wavefield'' (1995) indoors. The 2&nbsp;×&nbsp;4 pieces are also meant to be reminiscent of pixels, to evoke the "virtual or digital space that we are increasingly occupying."<ref>{{cite web | last=TenBrink | first=Marisa | title=Maya Lin's Environmental Installations: Bringing the Outside In | url=https://publications.kon.org/urc/v9/Interconnected-Through-Art/tenbrink.pdf | location=South Dakota State University | page=4 | access-date=2025-05-25}}</ref>
* ''Wave Field,'' (completed in 2008), at the [[Storm King Art Center]] in New York state.<ref>{{cite news|first=Carol|last=Kino|title=Once Inspired by a War, Now by the Land|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/arts/design/09kino.html|work=The New York Times|date=November 7, 2008|access-date=November 9, 2008|archive-date=November 9, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081109082744/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/arts/design/09kino.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Art Review {{!}} 'Storm King Wavefield': Where the Ocean Meets the Catskills|first=Holland|last=Cotter|date=May 7, 2009|access-date=May 8, 2009|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/08/arts/design/08lin.html|archive-date=October 9, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111009064046/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/08/arts/design/08lin.html|url-status=live}}</ref> It is the center's first earthwork, spanning 4 acres of land, and is a larger version of her original ''Wave Field'' (1995) that focuses on the "fusion of opposites,"<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Deitsch|first=Dina|title=Maya Lin's Perpetual Landscapes and Storm King Wavefield|magazine=Woman's Art Journal|volume=30|issue=1|year=2009|page=3}}</ref> comparing the motion of water to the material of the earth.
* Design of a building (2009) for the [[Museum of Chinese in America]], near New York City's [[Chinatown, Manhattan|Chinatown]]. Lin said that she found the project to be personally significant, explaining that she wants her two daughters to "know that part of their heritage".<ref name="NYTimes2006"/>
* ''Silver River'' (2009), her first work of art in the [[Las Vegas Strip]]. It is part of a public fine art collection at [[MGM Mirage]]'s [[CityCenter]], which opened December 2009. Lin created an {{convert|84|ft|m|adj=on}} cast of the [[Colorado River]] made entirely of reclaimed silver. With the sculpture, Lin wanted to make a statement about water conservation and the importance of the [[Colorado River]] to [[Nevada]] in terms of energy and water.<ref>{{cite news|title=Artist Maya Lin Provides 'Silver River' for Vegas' CityCenter Megaresort|first=Steve|last=Friess|date=December 16, 2009|access-date=January 1, 2010|work=Sphere News|url=http://www.sphere.com/nation/article/artist-maya-lin-provides-silver-river-for-vegas-citycenter-megaresort/19283624|df=mdy}}{{dead link|date=September 2016|bot=medic|fix-attempted=yes}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2010/01/24/big-gamble-will-citycenter-mega-resort-pay-off-for-las-vegas/|title=Big gamble: Will CityCenter mega resort pay off for Las Vegas?|work=East Bay Times|date=January 24, 2010|access-date=November 3, 2021|archive-date=November 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211103194040/https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2010/01/24/big-gamble-will-citycenter-mega-resort-pay-off-for-las-vegas/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2.citycenter.com/press_room/press_room_items.aspx?ID=845|title=Press Releases - CityCenter Las Vegas - Press Room|access-date=November 3, 2021|archive-date=November 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211103195110/http://www2.citycenter.com/press_room/press_room_items.aspx?ID=845|url-status=dead}}</ref> The sculpture is displayed behind the front desk of the [[Aria Resort and Casino]].
* ''Pin River - Sandy'' (completed in 2013) Was a work Lin created in the aftermath of [[Hurricane Sandy]]. Displayed in the Pace Gallery of New York, it stands at 114 × 120 × 1 1/2 in. The work was meant to represent the flood zone of Hurricane Sandy. She wants this piece to raise awareness of how New York City used to be, and how the natural [[oyster reef|oyster beds]] and [[salt marsh]]es would protect from the storm surges.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://art21.org/theme/climate-crisis/#/9|title=New York, Maya Lin - Extended Play |access-date=August 7, 2024}}</ref>
* ''A Fold in the Field'' (completed in 2013). Her largest work to date, it was built from 105,000m cubic meters of earth, covering 3 hectares. It forms part of a private collection within a sculpture park, owned by [[Alan Gibbs]], north of [[Auckland]], New Zealand.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gibbsfarm.org.nz/lin.php|title=Maya Lin, A Fold in the Field - Gibbs Farm|access-date=May 13, 2014|archive-date=October 5, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171005110404/http://gibbsfarm.org.nz/lin.php|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Since around 2010, Lin has been working on what she calls "her final memorial,"<ref>{{cite web|title=About the Project|url=http://whatismissing.net/#/home|website=What Is Missing?|access-date=March 7, 2015|archive-date=September 23, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923131739/http://whatismissing.net/#/home|url-status=dead}}</ref> the What Is Missing? Foundation, to commemorate the biodiversity that has been lost in the planet's sixth mass extinction. She aims to raise awareness about the [[loss of biodiversity]] and natural habitats by using sound, media, science, and art for temporary installations and a web-based project. ''What Is Missing?'' exists not in one specific site but in many forms and in many places simultaneously.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Reed|first1=Amanda|title=What Is Missing?: Maya Lin's Memorial on the Sixth Extinction|url=http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/011645.html|website=World Changing|access-date=March 7, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150120234705/http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/011645.html|archive-date=January 20, 2015|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* From 2015 to 2021, Lin worked on the renovation and reconfiguration of the Neilson Library and its grounds at [[Smith College]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|last=Sokol|first=Brett|date=2021-03-17|title=For Maya Lin, a Victory Lap Gives Way to Mourning|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/17/arts/design/maya-lin-smith-college-daniel-wolf.html|access-date=2021-03-26|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=March 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210324214537/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/17/arts/design/maya-lin-smith-college-daniel-wolf.html|url-status=live}}</ref> A project in Madison Square Park, "[[Ghost Forest]]," was postponed until 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Angeleti|first=Gabriella|date=February 9, 2021|title=Maya Lin's 'ghost forest' will rise in Madison Square Park this spring|url=http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/maya-lin-s-ghost-forest-an-immersive-installation-of-desiccated-trees-will-rise-in-new-york-this-spring-after-postponement-due-to-covid-19|access-date=2021-03-26|website=www.theartnewspaper.com|archive-date=March 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210317160625/https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/maya-lin-s-ghost-forest-an-immersive-installation-of-desiccated-trees-will-rise-in-new-york-this-spring-after-postponement-due-to-covid-19|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Both ''What is Missing'' and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial were referred to by the White House in its press release that announced Lin as one of the 2016 recipients of the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]]. Nature and the environment have been central concerns for Lin in both her art and architecture: "As an artist I often work in series, and so for me, I wanted my last memorial to be on a subject that I have personally been concerned with and connected to since I was a child. The last memorial is "What Is Missing?" And encompasses multiple platforms, with temporary and permanent physical installations as well as an interactive online component."<ref name="NBC News">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/speechless-vietnam-veterans-memorial-architect-maya-lin-receive-medal-freedom-n686966|title='Speechless': Vietnam Veterans Memorial architect Maya Lin to receive Medal of Freedom|publisher=NBC News|access-date=31 March 2017|archive-date=April 15, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190415075435/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/speechless-vietnam-veterans-memorial-architect-maya-lin-receive-medal-freedom-n686966|url-status=live}}</ref> She has expressed her concerns for the goals of the [[First presidency of Donald Trump|Trump administration]]: "I think nature is resilient— if we protect it—and with my background I wanted to lend a voice to the incredible threat we are under from [[climate change]] and species and [[habitat loss]]."<ref name="NBC News" />