Yuan Lin graduated from Dickinson College (USA) in 2016, where she double-majored in Studio Art and Theatre (Design and Technology concentration) and minored in music. She received her MFA in Sculpture from Boston University (USA) in 2018.
 
She is a curious dilettante, flâneur and voyeur (and whatever juicy French word that applies here) and has participated in artist residencies in Bulgaria and Spain. She incorporates sound, video and sculpture in her often interactive installations. Sometimes her medium is herself. Her work has been shown in Carlisle, Boston and Shanghai, and often given away as gifts to the local audience and the people that she cherishes.

She has another name "Wendy", which she drew from a lottery in her first-grade English class in Shanghai, China. The teacher had a plastic bag full of names on paper slips and let the pupils who behaved well to draw the lottery first. When it was her turn, she got assigned “Wendy”.

In Chinese, her first name "yuan" (圆) means: a circle, to complete a full circle, or to realize a dream.