Whitney Lynn employs a wide range of media to create works that reframe narratives of familiar objects, images and events. Mining cultural and political histories, Lynn uses tactics of appropriation to reflect on subjects such as militarized landscapes, historical archetypes, and the role of images in the creation of myth. Born on Williams Air Force Base, she attended the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, received her BFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University and MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute.

Lynn was the first-ever National Artist-in-Residence at The Neon Museum, Las Vegas (2016) and an Artist-in-Residence at the de Young Museum, San Francisco (2017). Exhibition venues include the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SF, CA), Torrance Art Museum (Torrance, CA), Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), RedLine (Denver, CO) and Exit Art (NYC).