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Mel Chin
Mel Chin in 2023 speaking in Santa Fe, NM
Born
1951
Houston, Texas
Nationality
American
Education
Vanderbilt Peabody College of Education and Human Development
Known for
Environmental art Social practice art Installation art
Notable work
Revival Field
Awards
MacArthur Foundation Grant Guggenheim Grant
Mel Chin (born 1951 in Houston, Texas, USA) is a conceptual visual artist. Motivated largely by political, cultural, and social circumstances, Chin works in a variety of art media to calculate meaning in modern life. Chin places art in landscapes, in public spaces, and in gallery and museum exhibitions, but his work is not limited to specific venues. Chin once stated: “Making objects and marks is also about making possibilities, making choices—and that is one of the last freedoms we have. To provide that is one of the functions of art.”[1] His work may be found in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.[2]
^Ned Rifkin. Directions: Mel Chin, February 1- April 23, 1989. Hishorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Brochure, 1989.
MelChin (born 1951 in Houston, Texas, USA) is a conceptual visual artist. Motivated largely by political, cultural, and social circumstances, Chin works...
Arbus, Ryan McGinley, Zoe Leonard, Mark Adams, Bill Schuck, Guy Barash, MelChin, M. P. Landis, Jared Handelsman, Alix Lambert, Gabriel Martinez, Douglas...
Dollar Bill Project was an art project implemented by the American artist MelChin to draw awareness to and propose a funding solution for the lead contamination...
among many others. She was instrumental in launching the art careers of MelChin and Jesse Lott. In 1974, she met James "Jim" Harithas, the newly arrived...
and Melrose Place producers formed the GALA Committee, headed by artist MelChin, to bring artworks out of galleries and into primetime television. GALA...
Booth (born 1948) Eberhard Bosslet (born 1953) Alberto Burri (1915–1995) MelChin (born 1951) Christo and Jeanne Claude Christo (1935–2020) Jeanne (1935–2009)...
than 4 stories high and 140 feet (43 m) across. It was designed by artist MelChin in conjunction with landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh and with...
as medium. Exhibitions included artists from emerging to Tony Oursler, MelChin, Keith Sonnier and Robert Rauschenberg. The Life is Art Foundation was...
Claude Monet, Edward Hopper, and Norman Rockwell, and installations by MelChin, Josiah McElheny, Susan Philipsz, and Allan Sekula. Also in Columbus, the...
Wonders, a set of seven pillars illuminated from within by Houston native MelChin and several sculptures titled The Big Bubble, Site Seeing, and Sounds from...
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (English: Old Masters Picture Gallery). In 1984, artist MelChin created a sculpture based on Doré's illustration of Myrrha for the Divine...
interventions. Artists associated with ecovention include: Joseph Beuys, MelChin, Agnes Denes, Helen and Newton Harrison, Ocean Earth, Robert Smithson,...
artist/inker for Marvel Comics and DC Comics. Ching Ho Cheng – artist Alan Chin – artist MelChin – artist Cai Guo-Qiang (蔡國強) – artist and gunpowder works designer...
feature on the album, as he did on "Chin Check", as an official member of the group, filling in for Eazy-E, with Mel-Man, Dr. Dre's production partner at...
with visiting artists including Steve Locke, Doron Langberg, Tom Sachs, MelChin, Allison Miller, Nina Katchadourian, and Laurie Anderson. One of the lithographs...
others. Past exhibitions include the art of many Texas artists, including MelChin, James Drake, Dick Wray, Jesse Lott, George Smith, as well as group exhibits...
Connecticut. She curated public art projects with such now acclaimed artists as MelChin and Mark Dion as well as the groundbreaking exhibition "Hip Hop Nation"...
U.S.-based artists have received grants from the Foundation, including MelChin (1995), Amy Sillman (1999), Mark Bradford (2002), Wangechi Mutu (2007)...
stars Christopher de Leon, Aga Muhlach and ChinChin Gutierrez. The screenplay written by Ricky Lee, Mel Mendoza-Del Rosario, and Benjou Elgincolin was...
Claude Monet, Edward Hopper, and Norman Rockwell, and installations by MelChin, Josiah McElheny, Susan Philipsz, and Allan Sekula. Sculptures include:...
in Philly. The exhibition also included works by artists Michel Auder, MelChin and Rikrit Tiravanija. His work has been exhibited in the Luggage Store...
works by Sol LeWitt, Buckminster Fuller, Scott Burton, Marcel Breuer, MelChin, and Tobias Putrih. Protetch played a pioneering role in introducing Chinese...
Godwin sculpture by artist MelChin outside the Science Library. One side of the head represents Charles Darwin; the other side is God as depicted in the...
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