2025 Burke Prize: Hai Wen Lin

Winner of MAD’s biannual prize, Hai-Wen Lin explores the attunement of the body to the environment through fashion, sculpture, and kite making.

Their works—described as “couture for the wind”—merge garment construction with flight engineering, resulting in textiles and sculptural kites that can be both worn and flown.

Dyeing fabrics with sunlight and designing kites that double as garments, Lin collapses boundaries between art, design, and performance through poetic encounters with the elements.