HAA Teaching Fellow

A Teaching Fellow in the Department of History of Art and Architecture (HAA) at Harvard University, Icey Lin specializes in East Asian art, especially Buddhist art and architecture. She is currently researching and writing about pagodas in medieval East Asia for her PhD dissertation. Prior to joining Harvard, Icey studied Art History and East Asian Religion at Columbia University and worked at the Guggenheim Museum and the Legal Aid Society.

Beyond academia, Icey produces films and curates exhibitions. Among her works are SILENCIO (2022), a feature film and recipient of the Special Jury Prize at the 20th IFFBoston, and TO THE MOON (in progress), an art film directed by Eugene Wang that was screened at the Kaohsiung Art Museum and the National Gallery of Singapore. Exhibitions in which Icey plays a key role include "Art of Life: Mawangdui Tombs" (Hunan Museum, Changsha, 2024), "Digital Kaihuasi" (CAMLab Cave, Cambridge, 2023), "Liao Pagodas" (CAMLab Cave, Cambridge, 2022), "Fire Dream" (UNO Gallery, Shanghai, 2020), and "Who Let Those Kids In" (3137 Gallery, Athens, 2018).

Icey's work has been supported by the Courtney Ross Arts in Education Fellowship (2022), the Khyentse Award for Excellence in Buddhist Studies (2021), the Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship of Nippon Foundation (2020), and the Columbia GSAS full-tuition scholarship (2019-2020), among others. Icey holds the positions of Executive Producer and Assistant to the Director at Harvard CAMLab.