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Maya Ying Lin

Born: 1959 | Athens, Ohio

Practice: Maya Lin Studio

Awards: National Medal of Arts (2009), Presidential Medal of Freedom (2016)

Projects: Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Civil Rights Memorial

Vietnam Memorial, Washington, D.C. (1982)

Vietnam Memorial by Maya Ying Lin photo by Carol M. Highsmith (public domain) via Wikimedia Commons

Southern Poverty Law Center Civil Rights Memorial, Montgomery, Alabama (1989)

Civil Rights Memorial by Maya Lin photo by Carol M. Highsmith (public domain) via Wikimedia Commons

University of Michigan Wave Field, Ann Arbor, Michigan (1995)

Wave Field by Maya Ying Lin photo by Balthazar Korab (public domain) via Wikimedia Commons

Langston Hughes Library, Clinton, Tennessee (1999)

Langston Hughes Library by Maya Ying Lin © Tdorante10 CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Confluence Project Bird Blind at Sandy Delta, Troutdale, Oregon (2008)

Bird Blind at Sandy Delta by Maya Ying Lin photo by U.S. Forest-Service (public domain) via Wikimedia Commons

Novartis Global Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2015)

Novartis Global Research by Maya Ying Lin © Beyond My Ken CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons