Yulin is an artist, designer, architect to be, and sometimes art curator. She is most interested in projects that culturally and aesthetically shape human experiences through art, writing, content, design and architecture. She has worked on institutional, commercial, and high profile residential projects for clients including: Alice & Olivia, Howard Hughs Corp, MIT, Smith College, Tencent, Marriott, JPMC and Princess Cruise. Projects she worked on have been featured by Artnet, Designboom, Dezeen, Whitewall, Surface Magazine, WSJ, Business Insiders, Architectural Digest.

Born in the Pearl River Delta area by the South China Sea, she thought to become a physicist / engineer but fell back to her natural inclination, art and design, with architecture being the intermediary. She has her Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from Washington University in St. Louis, Master in Architecture from Columbia University GSAPP and certificate in Investment Management from NYU (for some acumen in finance), with work experience for industry leaders & mentors AD 100 Hall of Fame Robert Couturier Inc, Maya Lin Studio, etc.

Growing up reading broadly with an interest in content creations, She edited / published a book on artist Maya Lin in 2016, and hosted Columbia University GSAPP Podcast 2019-2020 on conversations with notable artists, scholars, authors, designers, architects.  She was invited for Columbia GSAPP Advanced VI Studio final reviews in 2022 and 2023. Her monograph, AIRY, can be found here.

Works conserving our planet and contributing to the community have been an important part of her life. She co-founded a website for wildlife advocacy in 2013, produced a documentary on Chincoteague National Park in 2014 and worked with organizations like Red Cross (China), Cat Survival Trust (UK), Habitat for Humanity, Fossil Free, Sierra Club, Women in Architecture + Design and Alberti Architecture for the Young People. 


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