24 Facts About Mel Chin

Mel Chin was born on 1951 in Houston, Texas, USA and is a conceptual visual artist.

Mel Chin once stated: “Making objects and marks is about making possibilities, making choices—and that is one of the last freedoms we have.

In 1975, Mel Chin graduated from Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee.

Mel Chin created a three-dimensional figurative sculpture employing 19th century fabrication techniques, conjoined with space-age materials.

Mel Chin investigated mythological constructions, and scientific information to contradict personal interpretations in the formulations of these works.

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Mel Chin used nine planets of the solar system to launch this elaborate construction.

Mel Chin conceptually developed the GALA Committee for the project called In the Name of the Place.

Mel Chin claimed, “I realized that somewhere in those industries was where I wanted to develop this conceptual public art project.

In 1992, Mel Chin created Degrees of Paradise to be shown at the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York City.

Mel Chin commissioned Kurdish weavers to create a 9 foot by 23 foot carpet with patterns based on satellite telemetry.

Mel Chin envisioned a massive carpet 66 feet by 66 feet that would represent the entire atmospheric envelope with each knot equating 5 square miles.

Mel Chin's project was located in the Pig's Eye Landfill in St Paul, Minnesota for three years.

Mel Chin looked at neglected homes that once thrived as a starting point for community development.

Mel Chin developed this project collaboratively with computer software engineers, with the hope of shedding light upon forgotten cultures and forgotten people.

In 2004, Mel Chin was invited as a visiting artist at East Tennessee State University.

Solo exhibitions of Mel Chin's art have appeared the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, and The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA.

Mel Chin exhibited "KNOWMAD" as well as "Render" at Frederieke Taylor Gallery in 2000 and 2003.

Mel 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.

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.

Mel 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.

Mel Chin has been included in the Asian American Arts Centre's art Asia America digital archive.

In 2018, Mel Chin created work for Philadelphia Contemporary's Festival for the People, that included works by artists Michel Auder, Erlin Geffrard and Rikrit Tiravanija.

Mel Chin was a 2013 Artist-in-Residence at the McColl Center for Art + Innovation in Charlotte, NC.

In 2010 Mel Chin received the biennial Fritschy Culture Award from the museum Het Domein, Sittard the Netherlands.