Livien Yin is an artist working primarily in sculpture and photo-based practices. Yin examines artifacts that unsettle the distribution of power among humans and the natural resources we strive to control. Her recent projects center on the imperial legacies of botanical expeditions, guano harvesting and the Chinese coolie trade. Yin received her BA from Reed College and her MFA from Stanford University. She has been awarded a 2019-2020 Graduate Fellowship at Headlands Center for the Arts, the 2019 American Austrian Foundation/Seebacher Prize for Fine Arts and the 2019 Anita Squires Fowler Memorial Award in Photography. Yin lives and works in Berkeley, California.
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Reinterpretation of the Wardian case, a 19th century transport container used by botanist Robert Fortune to smuggle 20,000 tea plants from China to plantations in India.