Nearly all of the people who have received biographical exhibitions at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery — Sylvia Plath, Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Junior, to name a few — are ...

Maya Ying Lin is an American architect and sculptor. In 1981, while an undergraduate at Yale University, she achieved national recognition when she won a national design competition for the planned ...

Maya Lin is a contemporary Asian-American artist and architect best known for her powerful Vietnam Veterans Memorial (1982) in Washington, D.C. Incorporating both industrial materials and altercations ...