"Mel Chin"

From Rice University School of Humanities: Description of Artist: Mel Chin was born in Houston and is known for taking a broad range of approaches in his practice, creating works…

Houston-born, internationally renowned conceptual artist Mel Chin will speak as part of Rice University’s Campbell Lecture Series on November 12 and 13.

Prospect New Orleans, a citywide contemporary art triennial, has announced the 49 artists that will be included in its 2024 iteration, including Houston-born artist Mel Chin.

From Five Points Museum of Contemporary Art: “Five Points Museum of Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the opening of WAKE, a public art installation by Mel Chin, on May…

From the Gallery at UTA: “Mel Chin: Inescapable Histories, a solo exhibition of twenty works ranging in date from 1988 through 2022, will be on view in The Gallery at…

From Five Points Museum of Contemporary Art: “Five Points Museum of Contemporary Art is honored to announce the opening of a solo exhibition by world renowned artist Mel Chin. With…

From the Dallas Museum of Art: “In support of Black Lives Matter and to confirm commitment and solidarity against the attacks on Asian Americans and the harassment and homicide of…

Houston-born artist Mel Chin is named one of 26 MacArthur Fellows this year, and among the three visual artists chosen from a list that honors some of the top minds in their fields.

Launched by Chin after a visit to New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, the project was a way to give people a voice in responding to issues of lead contamination.

Glasstire is proud to report on Houston native Mel Chin and his various art projects across the globe (here, here, here, and here) and now he’s taken over Times Square…

A few weeks ago, conceptual and visual artist Mel Chin was honored by Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of Education and Human Development with the 2017 Distinguished Alumnus Award, reports the…

Houston native Mel Chin’s Kickstarter campaign, “The Arctic is Paris,” has three days left to reach its goal. The conceptual/visual/sculptural/surrealist/political activist artist is making a short film “connecting the Arctic,…

Mel Chin (Houston native and prolific artist) in his project currently on view at 516 Arts, a non-profit in Albuquerque, NM, is proposing a renewable energy plan based on solar energy,…

Cities cling in perpetuity to a hometown boy made good. Mel Chin left Houston in 1983, and was clearly influenced by the time he spent in our diverse, surreal and polluted swampland.

For those who have yet to fully react with Stendhal syndrome at the Mel Chin fest that’s been going on in Houston, there’s one more must-see. Speed Art Museum’s Curator…

Part of the multi-venue Mel Chin retrospective, the Station presents his 1991 installation Degrees of Paradise, and hosts the opening night party. (The group show degrees of separation paying homage…

Part of the expansive, multi-venue survey of artist Mel Chin, the Blaffer presents 31 works, including documentation of numerous projects, selections from Chin’s Erased Currency (1997) and Drawn Currency (2006-08)…

Part of the multi-venue survey of Houston artist Mel Chin, the six works on view at Asia Society Texas Center extends the artist’s connection to Asian culture, history, and aesthetics.

Part of a multi-venue retrospective of work the Houston-born artist Mel Chin, the CAMH presents 19 of Chin’s discrete works made between the early 1970s and late 2000s, as well…