Pam Lins
December 16, 2025
The wonderful Pam Lins joins us to share some favorite studio songs and talk about “Laterness,” her two-person show with Roger White at Uffner and Liu gallery in New York City through January 10, 2026. The title of the exhibition came from a conversation the artists had in the wake of Donald Trump’s second presidential victory: is it too late for action? How can one make work that is both an inflection and reflection of the political moment? What does it mean to be a maker situated in history?
The exhibition features collage works by White and sculptural floor works by Lins comprising quasi-modernist forms made from USPS flat-rate shipping boxes and ceramic birds inspired by John James Audubon’s (imaginary) “Mystery Birds.” A collaborative project by Lins and White inspired by Lins’ research into visionary architect and artist Frederick Kiesler forms the second part of the show. We dive deep into the role that investigations into history and archives play in her work, particularly the idea that bringing concepts and forms from the past into the present can illuminate the political and aesthetic economies of both times.
Looking at past exhibitions and bodies of work as well as past lives—a jeweler!—Lins charts her idiosyncratic relationship to craft, form, subject matter, and the complicated histories of sculpture and painting. With characteristic midwestern humility and wit, Lins talks about other collaborations, cultivating mushrooms, the vagaries of scale, the Vkhutemas school in 1920s Moscow, and whether or not sculpture is based on lying. Truly an enjoyable conversation with a singular artist!
- Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft (The Recognized Anthem Of World Contact Day), Carpenters, 1977
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More Than This, 10,000 Maniacs, 1997
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(Theme From) Valley of the Dolls, Dionne Warwick, 1968
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The Letter, Arthur Russell, 2004
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Everybody's Talkin' - From "Midnight Cowboy", Harry Nilsson, 1968
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La La Love You, Pixies, 1989
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Everybody's Talkin', Iggy Pop, 2022
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Let Love Flow On, Sonya Spence, 1981
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Fast Car, Tracy Chapman, 1988
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Killing Me Softly With His Song, Fugees, Ms. Lauryn Hill, 1996
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Silly Games, Janet Kay, 2016
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Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It), Beyoncé, 2008
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Superstar, Sonic Youth, 1994
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Rockin' Back Inside My Heart, Julee Cruise, 1989
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TNT, Tortoise, 1998
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These Days, Cat Power, 2022
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I'm Easy, Keith Carradine, 1975
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Women of the World: Take Over, Jim O'Rourke, 2025
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Jet Plane, Sonya Spence, 1978
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Waterfalls, TLC, 1994
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I Say a Little Prayer, Aretha Franklin, 1968
- Let the River Run, Carly Simon, 1989
Pam Lins (b. Chicago, IL) earned an MFA from Hunter College, New York, NY in 1995. The artist has been in institutional exhibitions at venues including the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY (2022); Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT (2018); Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI (2017); White Columns, New York, NY (2015); the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (2015); The Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY (2012); The Suburban, Chicago, IL (2012); the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (2012); CCS Bard Galleries, Annadale-on-Hudson, NY (2012); Artists Space, New York, NY (2005); and the Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY (2004). Lins has recently worked with artist-run spaces including Room 3557, Los Angeles, CA (2024) and was recently honored at the the KAJE Annual Benefit (2025). The artist was included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial, and is the recipient of multiple awards and fellowships, including The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, The Anonymous Was A Woman Award, The Brown University Howard Foundation Fellowship, The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship Award and the David and Roberta Logie Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. In 2007, Pam Lins and Trisha Baga cofounded Ceramics Club, an ever-evolving, direct action organization that brings artists together to collaborate and raise money for a variety of progressive causes. Ceramics Club will partner with White Columns for an upcoming benefit exhibition in November 2025. Lins has held teaching positions at The Cooper Union, The Milton Avery MFA Program at Bard College, and Princeton University where she is currently the Interim Director or the Visual Arts Program. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY. Lins lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.