Rice University School of Humanities Campbell Lectures with Mel Chin

Description of Artist:

Mel Chin was born in Houston and is known for taking a broad range of approaches in his practice, creating works often through multidisciplinary collaboration that enlist science as a critical component to developing complex artistic ideas. He is the recipient of many awards, grants, and honorary degrees, including the MacArthur Fellowship in 2019 and election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2021.

The artist will explicate the raison d’être and subplots of diverse works that emerge from dreams, elegiac lamentations to covert missions. All actions that continue to contribute to his “becoming” an artist.