Alia Lin was born in Hohhot, China in 1990. She graduated from Parsons the New School for Design in 2015 with a BFA in Architectural Design. From 2015 to 2016, Lin interned at the Design Department of the Metropolitan Museum, where she worked on the exhibition design of many projects. In 2017, she graduated from University College London with a master’s degree in History of Art. In 2018, Lin worked as a curator at Zhuzhong Art Museum in Beijing. She curated and designed the exhibition “Her Kind 创” (2018) which included Xiao Lu, Zhao Yin’ou and Cao Yu.