artist based in NYC
Stigmergy - Part Two
Precarity Structures
Throw When Needed
Shift
There is Only After
Hidden Abodes
She Appears To Be a Wooden Table
Election in Which All Cows Are Black
Troubled Games
Cash Flow
The Incentive Performances
Gender Bending, The Game
Releasing the Matriarch from Odysseus
Stigmergy - Older Works
Collaborative Art Project
About + CV
nod@katiechin.com
Biography
Katie Chin is a New York based interdisciplinary artist anchored in sculpture who is concerned with economic and societal transformation. Born in Ohio, she earned her MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design in 2023, where she was awarded a Presidential Scholarship. Chin received a 2025 AIM Fellowship at The Bronx Museum and was recently a fellow in the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program (2024). Her practice has also been supported by residencies at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, The Hambidge Center, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild and Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts.
Artist 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. By holding space for both optimism and pessimism, my sculptures serve as reminders that even within systems of control, moments of rupture and reassembly hold the potential for transformation.
CV
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
| 2026 | (upcoming) Vermont Studio Center Residency, Johnson, VT |
| 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
| 2025 | Vermont Studio Center Full Fellowship Award |
| 2022 | Student Research Award, The New School Office of Research Support |
| 2021-23 | Presidential Scholarship, The New School |
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 |
Hotchkiss, Sarah, 'Funk Ain't Dead,' Long Live Funk Art!, KQED Arts, July 19, 2018