CV

Education
2021 – 2023 MFA Textiles, Parsons School of Design, New York, USA

2010 – 2014 BA Journalism, Wuhan University, China

Residencies
2025 New York Foundations for the Arts, Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program(IAP)
2025 Peter Bullough Foundation, Virginia
2025 Residency Unlimited, Governors Island, New York
2024 Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild Artists-in-Residence program with fellowship, New York
2024 Residency Unlimited, New York
2023 Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Texas

Solo Exhibitions
2025 Every Fiber of Their Bodies, Art League Houston Exhibition, Houston, Texas

Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 Everything and Nothing At All, Field Projects, New York
2026 Traces and Memories, Textile Study Group of New York, Ceres Gallery, New York
2025 So It Goes, Wassaic Project Summer Exhibition, Wassaic, New York
2025 In/Between, New York Live Arts, NYFA IAP Exhibition, New York
2025 Brooklyn Now, Art Gotham Gallery, New York
2025 Nude, Psychic Readings, New York
2025 Living Room Portfolio III, Residency Unlimited, Governors Island, New York
2025 A.i.R. Show at Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock, New York
2024 The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, New York
2024 Nature of Being, All Street Gallery, New York, New York
2024 In Residence(17th Edition), Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Texas
2023 Safe Keeping, Surface Design Association&108 Contemporary, Tulsa, Oklahoma
2023 Threadscape, New York Textile Month, New York
2023 Portal, Parsons MFA Textile Graduation Show, New York
2022 Coping Mechanisms, At The Venue, New York
2022 Zero Draft, Downtown Yarns, New York

Awards
2026 What Can We Do? Grant, Asian American Arts Alliance (A4)
2025&2026 Brooklyn Arts Council, Creative Aging SU-CASA Award
2023 Crafting the Future BIPOC Supplement Support Fund Award
2023 Finalist for the Dorothy Waxman International Textile Design Prize
2023 Tilly Marchwinski Scholarship for Excellence in Handweaving
2023 Dieu Donné Summer Paper Institute Scholarship
2023 Penland School of Craft, Summer Partial Scholarship for Papermaking
2023 CERF+ Artists Get Ready Grant
2022 New York Studio School, Painting Marathon Scholarship

2021 The Pulitzer Prizes, Winner for Public Service
(Staff of The New York Times; COVID-19 coverage)
2018 Society of Publishers in Asia Awards, Winner for Excellence in Explanatory Reporting

Artist Talks and Workshops
2026 Artist talk moderator, Galerie Shibumi, New York
2025 Artist talk, So It Goes Exhibition, Wassaic Project, New York
2025 Artist talk, Textiles&Tea, Handweavers Guild of America
2025 Tapestry Weaving Workshops, Queens Botanical Garden, New York
2025 Ceramic Fortune Cookie Workshop, Chinese Street Market, Washington, DC
2024 Mug Rug Weaving Workshop, New York Chinese Cultural Salon, New York
2024 Tapestry Weaving Workshop With Natural Fibers, La Plaza Cultural, New York Textile Month
2024 Artist talk, Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center, New York
2023 Artist talk, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, Texas
2023 Artist talk, Contemporary Handweavers of Houston, Houston, Texas
2022 Tapestry Workshop of Paper Yarn and Natural Fibers, New York Textile Month
2022 Workshop of Paper Yarn and Tapestry Weaving, Make It Mend It Club, New York

Press
2025 Suboart Magazine, Issue 51, “On Paper Yarn, Weaving and the Diaspora Experience”
2024 Harper's BAZAAR art, Oct 2024, Japanese issue, “Weaving the Life: Lin Qiqing ”
2024 Beyond Noise, New York, “By Hand with Lin Qiqing”
2024 Glasstire(Texas), “Talking with Artists Terumi Saito and Qiqing Lin at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft”
2024 Rice University, “Interview with Qiqing Lin, Houston Asian American Archive - Oral History Collection”
2023 WhyNot, “Lin Qiqing: To Express Feelings and Ideas Through Textiles”
2023 Whynot, “The Melting Wok: Chinese Foods’ American Dream” documentary
2023 NewsLab Podcast, “From Journalist To Textile Artist”

Professional Experience
2025 – Present Teaching Artist & Grant Panelist, Brooklyn Arts Council, New York
2024 – Present Board Member, Textile Study Group of New York
2023 – Present Teaching Artist, Intertwine Arts, New York
2025 – Present Teaching Artist, ProjectArt, New York
2024 Weaving Instructor, Museum of Arts and Design, New York

2018 – 2021 Reporter & Researcher, The New York Times, Shanghai, China 

2016 – 2018 Reporter, Sixth Tone, Shanghai, China 

2014 – 2016 Assistant Researcher, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China

Writing
2023 – Present, Art Columnist, Ming Pao, Hong Kong
2024 “The Subversive Cloth: Weaving in Sonya Clark’s Exhibition,” Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot, Handweavers Guild of America Journal
2021 “Spicy Noodles for Immigrants' Lonely Hearts”, You Stir The Pot: Recipes for Change
www.youstirthepot.com

Selected Publications
“重新看到女性藝術家的故事”，明报观点，2023年6月30日
“逃離微信”，端傳媒，2020年6月19日
“China Blocks American Books as Trade War Simmers”, New York Times, December 27, 2019.
“Hong Kong Takes Symbolic Stand Against China’s High-Tech Controls”, New York Times, October 3, 2019.
“Spilled Milk: How China Failed Its Dairy Farmers”, Sixth Tone, December 19, 2017.

Languages
Mandarin (native), Cantonese (native), Zhangjiabianese 张家边话 (native), English (bilingual)