Mel Chin
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Mel Chin | |
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Peabody College | |
Known for | Environmental art Social practice art Installation art |
Notable work | Revival Field |
Awards | MacArthur Foundation Grant Guggenheim Grant |
Mel Chin (born 1951 in
Career
1970s-1980s
In 1975, Chin graduated from
In 1983, Chin moved to New York City. He created MYRRHA P.I.A. (Post Industrial Age) (1984), site specific to
In 1989, Chin had a one-person exhibition at the
Also in this exhibition were three major pieces with political content; The Extraction of Plenty from What Remains: 1823- (1989) is composed of two replicated
Chin conceptually developed the
1990s-2000s
In 1992, Chin created Degrees of Paradise to be shown at the
After a series of successful gallery and museum exhibits, Chin abandoned object making to pursue an activist, ecological artwork. He began Revival Field in 1990. As a conceptual and scientifically grounded work Revival Field was developed with the intention of green remediation and ecological consciousness. In this landscape art project, Chin, with scientist, Dr
Blueprints at Addison Circle is a steel sculpture located in Addison, Texas designed in conjunction landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh dedicated on April 13, 2000.[6][7]
Chin was featured on the
In 2004, Mel Chin was invited as a visiting artist at East Tennessee State University. While there, he completed the W.M.D. ("Warehouse of Mass Distribution"), which was driven to Houston, Texas in May, 2005, to participate in the Houston Art Car Parade.
The
In 2006 the Frederieke Taylor Gallery in New York City featured a selection of pieces from the "Do Not Ask Me" exhibit, originally shown at the Station Museum, as well as new drawings. Chin exhibited "KNOWMAD" as well as "Render" at Frederieke Taylor Gallery in 2000 and 2003.
9/11-9/11 (2006) is Chin's first animated film. Based on a graphic novella of the same name, which he wrote in 2002, it is a fictional love story set in
In 2008 Chin proposed the idea of CLI- mate (climate linked individual- mate). CLI- mate is an app that is accessible in any language and free for its users. The idea is that it will personalize anyone's relationship with climate change. Users input their daily habits, the app combines their information with every single users and it calculates their impact on the planet. Users will be able to combine their faces with the worlds. The app is missing information on climate changes.[8]
Chin is compelled to make art in spite of his dark world view which is in keeping with his philosophy of “taking action as resistance to insignificance."[4]
Mel Chin has also exhibited in numerous group shows including the Fifth Biennial of
In 2006 Mel Chin visited New Orleans after hurricane Katrina to evaluate with fellow artists creative solutions to cure the aftermath of destruction as result of the storm. Chin began Operation Paydirt to find a solution for the high lead contimination in the soil of New Orleans, a problem that existed before Katrina. To assist the funding of Operation Paydirt, the Fundred Dollar Bill Project was implemented in schools across the United States to symbolically raise 300,000,000 dollars to propose to Congress for an exchange of real dollars in the Summer of 2010.
2010s-Present
Chin has been included in the Asian American Arts Centre's art Asia America digital archive.[9] In 2018, Chin created work for Philadelphia Contemporary's Festival for the People, that also included works by artists Michel Auder, Erlin Geffrard and Rikrit Tiravanija.[10]
Mel Chin's work was featured in the Spirit in the Land exhibition and catalog presented by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University and published by Duke University Press, respectively, in 2023. In 2024, the exhibition is traveling to the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida.[11][12][13]
Awards
Mel Chin is the recipient of multiple awards including the US
References
- ^ Ned Rifkin. Directions: Mel Chin, February 1- April 23, 1989. Hishorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Brochure, 1989.
- ^ Anderson, Susan Heller; Bird, David (August 14, 1984). "The See-Through Woman Of Bryant Park". New York Times. Retrieved February 2, 2011.
- ^ Tom Finkelpearl.Interview: Mel Chin on Revival Field, in Dialogues in Public Art, Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2000.
- ^ a b Interview with artist, 2006.
- ^ "Plot Marker, used in Revival Field – mel chin". melchin.org.
- ^ Emam, Hoda. "6 Ways to Absorb Addison, Texas' Arts and Culture". Atlas Obscura.
- ^ "The "Blueprints" steel sculpture in Addison Circle, an urban park in Addison, Texas, a Dallas suburb". Library of Congress. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
- ^ "CLI-Mate – mel chin". melchin.org.
- ^ "Chin, Mel - Profile - artasiamerica - A Digital Archive for Asian / Asian American Contemporary Art History". artasiamerica.org.
- ^ Jia, Olivia (2018-10-26). "Philadelphia's "Festival for the People" Is Short on Locals". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
- ^ "Spirit in the Land". Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Retrieved 2024-02-28.
- ^ "Spirit in the Land • Pérez Art Museum Miami". Pérez Art Museum Miami. Retrieved 2024-02-28.
- ISBN 978-0-938989-45-5.
- ^ Mel Chin brings The Fundred Project to Charlotte Knight Foundation, October 2, 2012
- ^ United States Artists Official Website Archived November 10, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Museum Het Domein, Sittard, Official Website [1]
External links
- Biography, interviews, essays, artwork images and video clips from Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century- Season 1 (2001).
- Station Museum of Contemporary Art
- Recolecciones: The King Library Public Art Collections at the San José Public Library
- WMD Project at ETSU
- WMD Found