Biography


Katie Chin is a New York based interdisciplinary artist anchored in sculpture who is concerned with economic and societal transformation. Born in Ohio, Chin earned her MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design in 2023. She is currently an AIM Fellow at The Bronx Museum and was recently a fellow in the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program. Her practice has also been supported by residencies at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, The Hambidge Center, and several others.

Statement


By reflecting on the instability of inherited economic structures and their influence on collective and individual agency, I make work that considers how social structures change over time, specifically within the conditions of capitalism. Primarily using ceramic, but also found objects and industrial mixed media, my works vary in size from metal installations that scale the gallery walls from floor to ceiling, to stand alone sculptures of life sized objects like shopping baskets and wrenches. I make work that holds space for both optimism and pessimism, and serves as a reminder that states of assemblage hold the possibility of transformation.

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Education

2023
MFA, Fine Art, Departmental Honors, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
2012
BS, Information Systems Management, Studio Art Minor, Boston College, Boston, MA 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024
Porous Alternatives, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Zero Art Fair, Elizaville, NY

Lightfast, Collar Works, Troy, NY

Minimal|Maximal, Lichtundfire, New York, NY

Unyielding Sonder, The Arts Council, Fayetteville, NC
2023
Matter as Fallen Light, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery, New York, NY

Don't be Chicken: Fear is the Mind Killer, 25 East Gallery, New York, NY

There is Only After, MC Gallery, New York, NY
2018
Funk Ain't Dead, Root Division, San Francisco, CA

All Welcome: The Clay Days Experiment, Embark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017
stARTup Art Fair, San Francisco, CA

Not Your Pussy, ATAK Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016
Wallpaper: Mirrored Identities, The Midway Gallery, San Francisco, CA

RAW, SPACE 151 Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Residencies & Fellowships

2025
The Bronx Museum AIM Fellowship, Bronx, NY
(upcoming) Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency by Collar Works, Granville, NY
2024
Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program, New York, NY

Anderson Ranch Arts Center: Artists-in-Residence, Snowmass Village, CO

The Hambidge Center Residency, Rabun Gap, GA

Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild Artist in Residence, Woodstock, NY
2023
Watershed Summer Residency: Research & Practice, Edgecomb, ME
2018
Exhibitions & Communications Fellow, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, CA

Awards

2022
Student Research Award, The New School Office of Research Support, New York, NY
2021-23
Presidential Scholarship, The New School, New York, NY

Publications & Lectures

2024
Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program Symposium, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY

Meet the Residents, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO
2023
Parsons School of Design, Parsons Fine Arts 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition: Matter As Fallen Light, Hyperallergic, April 19, 2023

Parsons Fine Arts 2023 Thesis Panel, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
2019
Craig, Sarah, One Way To Save San Francisco's Historic Buildings — Sell Air, KQED Bay Curious, February 14, 2019
2018
Hotchkiss, Sarah, 'Funk Ain't Dead,' Long Live Funk Art!, KQED Arts, July 19, 2018
2017
Gray, Katie, Not Your Pussy: Lessons in Modern Body Autonomy, Juxtapoz Magazine, March 31, 2017

Curatorial Experience

2024
Human in the Loop, The Lost & Found Project Space, Toronto, CA
2023
There is Only After, MC Gallery, NY
2019
Video Open Call, Aggregate Animated Shorts, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, CA
2018
Video Open Call, Aggregate Animated Shorts, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, CA

Altered: First There Was The Form, Minnesota Street Project (OFFSpace), San Francisco, CA

Volunteer Experience

2025
Volunteer, Queer Atmosphere, United States
2018-19
Board of Directors, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, CA