Whitney Lynn works across a wide range of media to explore the role of images in the construction of myth, illusion, power, and desire. Her projects investigate perceptual traps, overlaps between military and civilian cultures, and shifting depictions of forbidden knowledge.

Lynn has exhibited internationally at venues that include the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, El Espacio 23, Centro Bahía, and Listasafn Árnesinga Art Museum. She has created site-responsive public art for the San Diego International Airport,  the city of Reno, and the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture. She was an Artist-in-Residence at the de Young Museum, The Neon Museum, Las Vegas, and Internet Archive. She is currently an Artist Fellow with Black Cube Nomadic Art Museum, completing a monumental installation that reflects on the history of nuclear testing in Nevada.

Lynn started teaching at the University of Washington in 2018. She previously taught at Stanford University, the San Francisco Art Institute, and the University of California, Berkeley.