10/16/2026
We are proud to announce the acquisition of “The Hudson Bight” by acclaimed artist, architectural designer, and environmental advocate Maya Lin, recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, and the National Medal of Arts. Widely regarded as one of the most influential American artists of her generation, Lin has cultivated a multidisciplinary practice that bridges art, architecture, science, and environmental stewardship.
“The Hudson Bight” is now suspended dramatically in the Museum’s Atrium, with the wire-mesh sculpture cascading into the galleries below, translating advanced topographic imaging and sonar mapping into an immersive work of art. Inspired by a 2018 U.S. Geological Survey expedition, the artwork, which Lin conceived as a “drawing in space,” maps an underwater plateau that extends more than 100 miles offshore before descending into the Hudson Canyon.
Maya Lin stated: “My work has always been finding the art in the natural world and my focus on rivers is because, from an environmental view, they are our lifeblood; without them we couldn’t survive. I’m trying to get you to see things that are quite literally under your feet but you had no idea were there. Having ‘The Hudson Bight’ find its home at the Hudson River Museum is the perfect continuum for the work we began with my exhibition ‘A River Is a Drawing,’ for which ‘The Hudson Bight’ was originally erected and to which it has now returned as part of the Museum’s permanent collection.”
Learn more at hrm.org/maya-lin
Pace Gallery
Images: 1–4: Maya Lin (American, b. 1959). “The Hudson Bight,” 2018. Aluminum. Collection of the Hudson River Museum. Gift of the artist and Pace Gallery, 2026 (2026.2). Photos 2–4 by Kris Graves. 5: Portrait of Maya Lin by Jesse Frohman.
