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Mel Chin PAYDIRT

Mel Chin

Mel Chin’s Revival Field has been presented in Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and the Netherlands. His other solo exhibitions include Anxious Objects at Colorado State University, Inescapable Histories, which traveled to several U.S. cities, and Soil and Sky, at Swarthmore College. Chin’s work has been shown at group exhibitions in Istanbul, New York, and Kwangju, Korea. He was selected to participate in Art 21: Art in the 21st Century, a four-part PBS series, which was broadcast nationally in September 2001. Chin is the recipient of the Cal Arts Herb Alpert Award in the Visual Arts, a Rockefeller Grant, and an NEA Fellowship, among others.


Awards & Accomplishments

  • 2010

    Award

    Chin is a finalist for the new International Award for Participatory Art and is invited to spend a research period in Bologna, Italy, to develop a site-specific project

  • 2001

    Fellowship

    Chin receives Pollock-Krasner Fellowship

  • 2001

    Television feature

    Chin is a subject of the PBS television series ART:21 profiling defining artists of the twenty-first century

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