Photo by Carolina Porras Monroy

Bio
Eva Lin Fahey 张雯林 (she/her) was born in Jingmen, China during the One Child Policy (in place from approximately 1979-2016). She is a visual artist with a studio in Holyoke, MA. A transracial adoptee, she became a US citizen at age 3. Eva completed a BFA in Painting from the University of Massachusetts Amherst within the Commonwealth Honors College and is currently an MFA candidate at Clark University. Eva is a 2025 recipient of The Project Evolution Grant from the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts//Assets for Artists and was a 2025 Massachusetts Fellow at The Studios at MASS MoCA Residency. In 2023 Eva was ValleyCreates Capacity-Building grantee through MASS MoCA’s Assets for Artists program. Her work was featured in AGNI’s Afterlives: An AGNI Portfolio of Asian Adoptee Diaspora Writing and is in the collection of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. 


Artist Statement 
My work considers the reverberations of displacement through the creation of personal mythologies and manifestations of past, present, and future ghosts. My visual language shapeshifts like myths that transform across time through repetition and geographic crossing. These imagined narratives function as spaces to connect beyond the restrictions of memory and time, traversing my own “lexical gaps”. My work begins with rupture—of culture, language, and familial lineage—and imagines continuity through cosmology, shared longings, and speculative mythologies in order to construct belonging where inherited narratives fall short. 
While painting remains foundational to my practice, I am increasingly expanding the frame—into space, time, and bodily encounter. Recent inquiries into installation allow my paintings’ fabricated objects to move into the world as embodied experiences that hover between human and cosmological scale. Through these explorations, I aim to bring viewers deeper into the possibility of provisional kinship and collective dreaming—a tender architecture for future belonging.
Photo by Carolina Porras Monroy

CV

b. 1996 Jingmen, China
Education
(current) MFA Visual Arts Candidate at Clark University 
2018 BFA Painting, Art History Minor: University of Massachusetts Amherst, Commonwealth Honors College. Magna Cum Laude
Exhibitions:
Solo
Your Ghost Haunts My Shores, Augusta Savage Gallery, Amherst, MA. April/May 2025 
Lost (Together), Hosmer Gallery, Northampton, MA July 2023
What I Brought (away from the Motherland), ECA Gallery, Easthampton, MA. November 2022
In Lieu of Flowers, ECA Gallery, Easthampton, MA. January 2021
Origins: It Feels Different With You Here, Hampden Gallery, Amherst, MA. AprilMay, 2018
In Flux: The Motion of Change, The Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA. NovemberDecember 2017

Group
Year of the Horse, Pao Arts Center, Boston, MA February - March 2026 (forthcoming)
Works on Paper, palladium/Athena Project Space, Brooklyn, NY. December 2025-January 2026
Scattering/Collecting, Da Vinci Art Alliance (DVAA), Philadelphia, PA. November 2025 
The Power of She, Art for the Soul Gallery, Springfield, MA. September 2025 - January 2026 
RECORDS: Memory as Protest, Split Level Gallery, Northampton, MA. September 2025 
Scattering/Collecting: Both, Neither, The Nook at Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA. May-August 2025 
Works on Paper, Paper Circle, Nelsonville, OH, 2025 Virtual Exhibition 
Cracked Open, Hartford ArtSpace Gallery,  Hartford, CT. March 2025 
Field Trip, Elusie Gallery, Easthampton, MA. July 2024
Blue, ArtWorks Gallery, Ware, MA. January – February, 2024
A Celebration of AWE: Sharing the Artworks of ECA’s Past & Present Studio Residents, MAP Space, Easthampton, MA. November 2022
Motherhood, Small Works Gallery, Gateway City Arts, Holyoke, MA May 2022
Night Shift, MAP Gallery, Eastworks, Easthampton, MA. May 2019
Going Within: Self-Portraiture as Medicine, MAP Space, Eastworks, Easthampton, MA. October 2018
South Arkansas Arts Center Annual Juried Art Competition, Price and Merkle Galleries, El Dorado, AR. July – August 2018
5th Annual Juried Show, Gallery A3, Amherst, MA. June 2018
Junior/Senior Awards Show, Herter Art Gallery, Amherst, MA. May 2018
Science and Art Exhibition, Student Union Art Gallery, Amherst, MA. April 2018
Student Union Art Gallery's 4th Annual POP Show, Student Union Art Gallery, Amherst, MA. March, 2018
Carbon, Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry, Wilmington, MA. FebruaryApril, 2018
Carbon, Herter Art Gallery, Amherst, MA. February, 2018
Manifold Curiosity, Mahar Auditorium, Amherst, MA. December 2017
Small Works Show, Hope and Feathers Gallery, Amherst, MA. November 2017-January 2018
8x8, MAP Space, Eastworks, Easthampton, MA. November 2017
Bound and Unbound Artist Books, Lee Edwards Gallery, Amherst, MA. September 2017
Living Pictures: A Collection of Conversations, Student Union Art Gallery, Amherst, MA. April 2017
HFA Student Showcase 2017, UMass Amherst, April 2017
Covalence, Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry, Wilmington, MA. March-April 2017
Collaborative Aggregates and UMass Art Department Student Scholarship Exhibition, Lee Edwards Gallery, Amherst, MA. December 2016
Residencies, Grants, Scholarships, and Awards
Boston Chinatown Arts, Culture & Community Funding Grant, Funded by  the Culture & Community Power Fund, Asian Community Development Corporation (ACDC), Chinatown Community Land Trust (CCLT), and Pao Arts Center, 2025-2026
The Project Evolution Grant (PEG), funded by the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts’s ValleyCreates Initiative// administered by Assets for Artists. May 2025-May 2026 Cohort
Massachusetts Fellowship, The Studios at MASS MoCA Residency, funded by the Barr Foundation, February 2025 Resident.
ValleyCreates Capacity-Building grant, MASS MoCA's Assets For Artists Program, 2023
Mass Cultural Council’s Cultural Sector Recovery Grant, 2022
Art Workspace Easthampton (AWE): A Residency Program for Visual, Literary & Performing Artists. Easthampton City Arts (ECA) Easthampton, MA. November 2020- January 2021
1st Place Studio Arts Award, juried by Department of Art faculty and awarded to one graduating senior, University of Massachusetts Art Department, May 2018
Art Acquisition Award, juried by the Department of Art Chair, University of Massachusetts Art Department, May 2018
UMass Arts Council Mini-Grant: for the solo show, Origins: It Feels Different With You Here, April 2018
UMass Arts Council Single Project/Event Grant for the group show, "Manifold Curiosity", December 2017
Collaborative Aggregates Studio Art Scholarship, October 2017
Cecelia Siemen Scholarship in the Visual Arts, May 2017
Eleanora Johnson Scholarship – Scholarship from juried Junior/Senior Awards Show, Junior Award First Place, May 2017
UMass Arts Council Mini Grant for the animation, "Planet", December 2016
Collaborative Aggregates Studio Art Scholarship, October 2016
University Museum of Contemporary Art Banner Design Winner, 2016

Collections
The Art Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, It Feels Different With You Here, Amherst, MA

Publications
Looky Here, Looky Here Magazine: Spring 2024 Edition, March 2024
Aisthesis, Volume 9, Dalia in Mill River,  May 2018

Press



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