Maya Lin: A River Is a Drawing accompanies an exhibition of the same name, on view October 12, 2018 through January 20, 2019 at the Hudson River Museum. Featured in this groundbreaking exhibition, and illustrated in this catalog, is a series of new works and site-specific installations inspired by the Hudson River and installed throughout the Museum's campus. Foreword by Director Masha Turchinsky, with essays by artist Maya Lin, exhibition curator Miwako Tezuka, and art historian Peter Boswell. MIWAKO TEZUKA is a modern and contemporary Asian art specialist with a focus on Japan and is consulting curator at Arakawa and Madeline Gins Reversible Destiny Foundation, New York. Dr. Tezuka previously served as gallery director of the Japan Society, New York, and curator at the Asia Society Museum, New York. She has organized numerous exhibitions, including Love Long: Robert Indiana and Asia (2018), Points of Departure: Treasures of Japan from the Brooklyn Museum (2014), Rebirth: Recent Work by Mariko Mori (2013), and Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody s Fool (2010). PETER BOSWELL was on the curatorial staff of the Walker Art Center from 1986 to 1996. After leaving the Walker, he served as Heiskell Arts Director at the American Academy in Rome from 1996 to 1999 (where he curated a 1998 exhibition of Maya Lin s work) and Assistant Director for Programs/Senior Curator at the Miami Art Museum from 1999 to 2012. Since 2012, he has been an independent curator and essayist. MAYA LIN is an internationally renowned artist whose work encompasses large-scale environmental installations, intimate studio artworks, architectural projects, and memorials. Her artwork interprets the world through science, history, politics, and culture, utilizing twenty-first century technological methods of study and data visualization. Her works merge the physical and psychological environment, presenting a new way of seeing the world around us. A committed environmentalist, Lin established the What is Missing? Foundation in 2003 to fund her fifth and last memorial project, What is Missing?, raising awareness about habitat loss and biodiversity. The recipient of the 2014 Gish Prize and the 2016 Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contributions to art, environmental activism, and social change, Maya Lin has been the subject of solo museum exhibitions and has created outdoor installations for public and private collections from New York to New Zealand. Her works are in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; Nevada Museum of Art; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; and the California Academy of Sciences.