Ambrin Ling

847-309-3863
ambrin.ling@gmail.com

Education

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2021-present

Masters in the Humanities, with emphases in Race, Culture, and Politics as well as Women and Gender Studies

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 2016-2018

Master of the Fine Arts, Awarded August 2018, Interdisciplinary Visual Arts, Poetics, and Social Justice
Thesis: Remaking Home in the Works of Female Artists of Color

Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, 2012-2016

Bachelor of the Arts, Summa Cum Laude, Awarded June 2016, Studio Art Major with additional courses in Psychology, Education, English, and Chinese Language

Selected Exhibitions

2022

Solo Artist Exhibition (upcoming), Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

Artist-in-Residence Exhibition (upcoming solo exhibition), University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

2021

Moments Like This, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL

43rd Harper College National Juried Exhibition, Palatine, IL

Chronologia Alumni Showcase, Carleton College, Northfield, MN

34th Annual McNeese Works on Paper, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA

2020

Works on Paper (solo show), Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts, Fond du Lac, WI

Tickled Pink, Emergency Gallery, Lawrence, KS

2019

No Real Desire (solo exhibition), Upstate Galleries, Spartanburg, SC

Pop-Up Exhibition (dual exhibition), Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC

A Mosaic Portrait (solo exhibition), Artist Guild, Spartanburg, SC

2018

44st Annual Juried Watercolor Exhibition, 2 Friends Gallery, Anchorage, AK

Masterpieces, Manifest Galleries, Cincinnati, OH

Low-Residency MFA Show, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL

The Art of Care, Marmion Academy, Aurora, IL

Not Just Drawing: A Line With Intent, ARC gallery, Chicago, IL

2017

95th Annual All Media Exhibition, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI

In Transit, Rhode Island Art League, Newport, RI

Rags to Witches, Ragdale Foundation for the Arts, Lake Forest, IL

Always, Sullivan Gallery, Chicago, IL

Open Studios, Sullivan Gallery, Chicago, IL

Opposing Forces, Jackson Junge Gallery, Chicago, IL

Low-Res MFA, Throop Gallery, Chicago, IL

2016

Open Studios, Sullivan Gallery, Chicago, IL

Articulated, Pearlman Teaching Gallery, Northfield, MN

Look At Yourself, Weitz Center White Space, Northfield, MN

2015

Accumulation, Boliou Building, Northfield, MN

South Pacific Artists’ Books, Weitz Center, Northfield, MN

Ekphrasis, Weitz Center, Northfield, MN

Residencies

2022

Vermont Studio Center Residency (upcoming), Johnson, VT

2019-2020

Hashinger Hall Artist-in-Residence at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

2018-2019

HUB-BUB Artist-in-Resident at the Chapman Cultural Center, Spartanburg, SC

2017

Ragdale Foundation Group Residency for exhibition Rags to Witches, Lake Forest, IL

Awards

2020

Purchase Award, McNeese State University

2018

Elizabeth Greenshield’s Foundation Award

2017

Illinois Collegiate Press Association 2nd-Place Award for Comic Strip

Graduate Teaching Fellowships, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

2016

Distinction in the Visual Arts, Carleton College

Ursula Jepson Hemingway Award in the Arts, Carleton College

Phi Beta Kappa (2015-2016)

2015

Mortar Board Scholar

Hyslop-Warnholtz Scholarship

2012-2016

Dean’s Scholar, Carleton College

Relevant Experiences

Hashinger Hall Artist-in-Residence, University of Kansas, Fall 2019-Summer 2020

·Initiated public art and performances in collaboration with Student Housing and Programming and the Department of Visual Art in dialogue with KU “common-book”, Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation

·Presented archival, mixed-media artwork on literature about race, identity formation, gender, and sexuality by Homi Bhabha, Édouard Glissant, Gayatri Gopinath, Lisa Lowe, Elspeth Probyn and José Esteban Muñoz

·Facilitated lectures in Professional Activities Seminar and other classes to discuss relationships between contemporary artists and society

Community Artist-in-Residence, Chapman Cultural Center, Fall 2018-Summer 2019

·Collaborated with cultural center, philanthropic organizations, and community-led groups in upstate South Carolina, including the Mary Black Foundation, the United Way of the Piedmont, and Speaking Down Barriers to create social painting, photography, and interview project about home, belonging, and representation among Spartanburg’s marginalized communities

·Installed painting project at emerging center in Highland neighborhood

Experimental Artist, Spartanburg Art Museum, Spring 2019

·Responded to Spartanburg Art Museum exhibition Traditions: Compounded with performance of live mixed-media, installation-based drawing in graphite, grass stains, and wet-media to unsettle mappings of the queer, female of color body in space

“New Bodies, Changed Forms” Artist, Ballet Spartanburg, Spring 2019

·Collaborated with Ballet Spartanburg Creative Director Carlos Aguedelo and Philharmonic Orchestra Composer-in-Residence Peter B. Kay to design narrative, costumes, and life-sized figurative props for women’s month retelling of classical Greek myth Apollo and Daphne in Ovid’s Metamorphosis

Visiting Artist, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Summer 2018

·Discussed practice with Experimental Drawing class in relation to drawing as a concept-driven, multi-media approach to mark-making, identity formation, memory, and space, referencing theorists Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy

Visiting Artist, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Fall 2017

·Presented project using grass clippings from neighborhoods in the Chicago area in paper installations in Sustainable Art course led by interdisciplinary artist and designer D. Denenge Duyst-Akpem in the sculpture department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Teaching Experiences

Lecturer, University of Kansas

Professional Activities Seminar, Spring 2020

·Conducted in-class workshops, arranged visiting artist talks, and designed lectures about writing successful artist statements, resumes, and grant applications for upper-level undergraduate students’ portfolio developments

·Created COVID-19 specific and collaborative final project, an Artist’s Survival Kit, responding to Audre Lorde’s essay “The Transformation of Silence in Language and Action” and Homi Bhabha’s contention in The Location of Culture (1994) that “a state of emergency is also always a state of emergence”

Graduate Student Seminar, Spring 2020

·Co-led first experimental paper-making workshop with graduate student

·Engaged regularly with graduate students through individual studio visits and group critiques with other faculty members in the Department of Visual Art

Drawing II, Spring 2020

·Instructed upper-level undergraduate students in refining drawing techniques, including multi-point perspective, anatomy, and composition, as well as utilizing experimental methods, including drawing in natural materials, alcohol, and on recycled surfaces

·Discussed essays about contemporary drawers with social practices, including Mark Bradford, Toyin Ojih Odutola, and Tatiana Trouve

Arts Concepts and Practice, Fall 2019

·Guided incoming arts students through basic principles and elements of two-dimensional and three-dimensional art with attention to process, revision, and multi-media approaches, including sculpting with wood and wire, as well as traditional painting and drawing

·Oversaw student research during visits to Watson Library, Spencer Museum of Art, and the Works on Paper Collections

Instructor of Record, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

E Pluribus Unum, Fall 2017-Spring 2018

·Developed and taught interdisciplinary visuals arts and writing course on the nation, the self, and the notion of citizenship to enable students to hone critical consciousness of their dual roles as artists and citizens

·Guided students through drafting papers, analyzing works of visual art, and working collaboratively with their peers to develop students’ abilities to understand broader contexts, communicate effectively, and construct a strong, original voice

·Instructed students of different backgrounds, including international students, English language learners, students with learning disabilities, and students from non-traditional high schools

Head Writing Center Peer Tutor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Fall 2016-Summer 2018

·Assisted students in developing claims, cultivating research questions, and refining artist statements so students can effectively and confidently communicate their artistic practices

·Worked with students in various stages of the writing process, including brainstorming, applying for grant and working through drafts of thesis projects

·Instructed writing center tutors how to conduct generative sessions with students through demos and observing

Writing Fellow, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, June-July 2017

·Guided students to clarify writing, strengthen arguments, and revise grammar in essays and exams in English course on writer Denis Johnson