Icey Lin

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. She also gained professional experience at the Guggenheim Museum, the Legal Aid Society, and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. Icey's research considers both the visible and invisible aspects of art and attends to the cognitive models behind creating and perceiving artistic experiences.

Beyond academia, Icey works as a filmmaker, curator, and producer. The feature-length film SILENCIO (2022), which she produced alongside director Liujiyi Zuo, received the Special Jury Prize at the 20th IFFBoston. The art film TO THE MOON (forthcoming), for which she co-wrote the screenplay with Professor Eugene Wang, has been screened at the Kaohsiung Art Museum and the National Gallery of Singapore. Other exhibitions and art projects 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.