artist based in NYC
Sabotage as Labor Resistance
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 focused on sculpture. Born in Ohio, she earned her MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design in 2023, where she was awarded a Presidential Scholarship. She is currently an AIM Fellow at the Bronx Museum. Residencies and grants from Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Hambidge Center, Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency by Collar Works, Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program, Greater Columbus Arts Council, Joseph Robert Foundation, among others, have supported her practice. She has exhibited nationally, including at Frisson Gallery, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Collar Works, MC Gallery, Midway Gallery and Root Division.
Artist Statement
My sculpture practice centers around ceramics. But I also use performance, metal, found objects, and industrial materials. My work ranges from large-scale installations that span gallery walls to life-sized sculptures modeled after familiar tools and infrastructure, such as wrenches, shovels, and subway turnstiles.
Central to my practice is an attention to quiet gestures that destabilize social hierarchies. My current research explores stigmergy and sabotage as forms of collective action. Stigmergy is a communication system observed in both bees and humans. It describes how tiny, indirect signals accumulate into coordinated group behavior. Sabotage demonstrates how discreet acts of labor resistance can disrupt power and reconfigure systems from within. My ongoing series on sabotage traces this tactic throughout history. It highlights examples from early labor movements, wartime strategies, and modern digital resistance.
Through sculpture and installation, my work aims to surface these signals and remind us how minor interventions can lead to larger structural shifts. I am fascinated by how individual agency creates collective possibility and ignites broader social imagination.
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 |
Exhibitions
| 2026 | The Seventh AIM Biennial: Forms of Connection, The Bronx Museum, New York City, NY |
| 2025 | NANNYCAM, Frisson Gallery, New York, NY |
Women of Appalachia Project: 16th Biennale, The Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH | |
Beecoming Home, 700 Bryden, Columbus, OH | |
Heatmaps: Bodies in Motion, curated by Oorja Garg, Long Island City, NY | |
Telephone, Base Camp Studios, Seattle, WA | |
Worlds Within Worlds, Context Collective, Troy, NY | |
Summer Salon at Malenka Room, curated by Abbas Malakar, New York City, NY | |
| 2024 | Porous Alternatives, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
Zero Art Fair, curated by Jennifer Dalton and William Powhida, Elizaville, NY | |
Lightfast, Collar Works, Troy, NY | |
JCAST Exhibition, Project Studios, Jersey City, NJ | |
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 |
There is Only After, MC Gallery, New York, NY | |
Don't be Chicken: Fear is the Mind Killer, 25 East Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 2022 | ALGO(RYTHM), curated by Daniel Kuzinez, New York, NY |
Fever Dreams Let Me Play Bright and Dark, 25 East Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 2019 | Space Between Space, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, CA |
| 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 |
(upcoming) Stove Works’ Artist Residency, Chattanooga, TN | |
| 2025 | The Bronx Museum AIM Fellowship, New York City, NY |
Haystack Open Studio Residency, Deer Isle, ME | |
Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency by Collar Works, Granville, NY | |
Notes from the Artist's Studio, The New Art School Modality, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY | |
Craft 101 by Arts Letters and Numbers, Averill Park, 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
| 2026 | Vermont Studio Center Full Fellowship Award |
| 2025 | Visual Arts Grant, Joseph Robert Foundation |
Artist Projects Grant, Greater Columbus Arts Council | |
| 2022 | Research Award, The New School Office of Research Support |
| 2021-23 | Presidential Merit Scholarship, The New School |
Publications & Lectures
| 2026 | Carollo, Elisa, The Most Important Art Biennials of 2026, Observer, January 14, 2026 |
Kailath, Ryan, 8 must-see 2026 NYC art shows, Gothamist, January 2, 2026 | |
| 2025 | Otero, Liam, Recent NYC Exhibition Highlights: Beverly Fishman, NANNYCAM, Dena Novak, and more, Whitehot Magazine, June 28, 2025 |
Stone Canoe: A Journal of Arts, Literature and Social Commentary, Edition 19, October, 2025 | |
Worlds Within Worlds, Exhibition Catalog, July 25, 2025 | |
| 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 |
Thesis Panel: Abstraction & Empathy moderated by Alyssa Alexander, 2023, 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 | Aggregate Animated Shorts Exhibition, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, CA |
| 2018 | Aggregate Animated Shorts Exhibition, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, CA |
Altered: First There Was The Form, Minnesota Street Project (OFFSpace), San Francisco, CA |
Carollo, Elisa, The Most Important Art Biennials of 2026, Observer, January 14, 2026
Otero, Liam, Recent NYC Exhibition Highlights, Whitehot Magazine, June 28, 2025
Hotchkiss, Sarah, 'Funk Ain't Dead,' Long Live Funk Art!, KQED Arts, July 19, 2018