Kara Chin (b. 1994, Singapore) is an artist working across ceramics, animation, sculpture, and installation. Her work explores technological, ecological, and emotional systems, where they break down and collapse into each other. Chaotic layers of fragmented references mirror the frantic, non-linear ways that we consume information today, Drawing on speculative fiction, internet detritus, cinema tropes, and domestic media, her installations often suggest quasi-religious ceremonies, where everyday objects and mundane encounters are transformed into artefacts, misfiring rituals, or theatrical hybrid creatures.
Chin holds a BA in Fine Art from The Slade School of Fine Art (2018). She was featured in Bloomberg New Contemporaries (2018) and has received the Woon Foundation Painting and Sculpture Prize (2018), the Duveen Travel Scholarship (2018), the Alfred W Rich Prize (2017), and the Max Werner Drawing Prize (2015). Her work is held in the Arts Council Collection and the Government Art Collection, UK.
Contact: studio@karachin.co.uk
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Mapping The Wasteland: PAY AND DISPLAY, FACT - The Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool
2025 Mapping The Wasteland, Berry Street - The Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool
2024 Twisting the air with unseen tendrils, Basel Social Club with LINSEED, Basel
2024 Shh The Film is Starting, Art Basel HK with LINSEED, Hong Kong
2023 Concerned Dogs, Goldsmiths CCA, London
2023 Flames Painted on the Backcloth, Frieze with VITRINE, London
2022 Showreel, Humber Street Gallery, Hull.
2021 Fountain of Youth, Huxley-Parlour Gallery, London
2021 You Will Knead, VITRINE, London
2021 You Will Knead, VITRINE Digital
2020 Blue Screen of Death, Off-Site Project, digital
2020 Sentient Mecha Furniture, BALTIC39, Newcastle
2020 Subsequent Hotchpotch, DKUK, London
2019 Sentient Home Devices, Gallery North, Newcastle
Group Exhibitions
2025 Under The Talking Tree, Kunsthal n, Copenhagen
2025 SCI-FI: Mythologies Transformed, Science Gallery, Melbourne
2024 The Equal Right to Live and Blossom, Kate MacGarry, London
2024 In Aviaries, Åplus, Berlin
2024 life-bestowing cadaverous soooooooooooooooooooot, CCA, Glasgow
2024 Nurturing Nodes in the Nook of an Old Sock, Gallery Miyauchi, Hiroshima
2024 New Eden: Science Fiction Mythologies Transformed, ArtScience Museum, Singapore
2023 Wailing Moon, Staffordshire Street Studios, London
2023 Player Piano, The Art Station, Saxmundham
2023 Swallow Mountain Drain Sea, Linseed Projects, Shanghai
2023 The Splendour of the Sun, Gallerie du Monde, Hong Kong
2023 Art SG 2023, Linseed Projects, Singapore
2022 The Sound of a Fallen Tree, Tuesday to Friday Gallery, Valencia
2022 Garage Band: Architects of the Future, HATCH, Paris
2022 Information Wants to Be Free?, ADM Gallery, Singapore
2022 What's For Tea?, BALTIC & Travelling Gallery, The North East of England
2021 Acting on Behalf of Thinking, PINK, Manchester
2021 Remedial Works, Quench Gallery, Margate
2021 The Sun and the Moon, VITRINE, Basel
2021 A Letter to the Future, EKO 8 International Triennial of Art and Environment, Maribor
2020 Re-enchanted Matter, Hot Desque at APT Gallery, London
2020 Springseason, Fieldworks Gallery, London
2020 Sounding Off 2.0, VITRINE Digital
2020 This is a Not Me, IMT Gallery, digital
2020 Scramble, Pineapple Black, Middlesbrough
2020 The Potion Room, Subsidiary Projects, London
2019 Online Presents, Skelf, digital
2019 Five Pound Poster Party, CBS Gallery, Liverpool.
2019 Up is a Relative Concept: Launch of Fold(Lab), Fold, London
2019 London Art Fair with IMT Gallery, Business Design Centre, London
2019 Bloomberg New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, London
2018 Manchester Contemporary Art Fair, Manchester Central, Manchester
2018 Chop Leisure, IMT Gallery, London
2018 Opolis, 93 Baker Street, London
2018 The Woon Foundation Painting and Sculpture Prize, Gallery North, Newcastle
2018 Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Liverpool Biennial 2018, Liverpool
2017 Carnival of the Animals and Danse Macabre, San Mei Gallery, London
2017 Chain by 15, Papa Bear, London
2017 Slade Print Fair, UCL, London
2016 Vault, UCL Art Museum, London
2016 Long Distance Song Effects, The Milton Gallery, London
2015 Les Etudiants, Salon, London
2015 Rose, Lemons, Okra or Goutweed, The Embassy Tea Gallery, London
2013 Works on Paper Fair, Science Museum, London
2013 National Open Art Competition, The Pallent House Gallery, London
2013 National Open Art Competition, The Royal College of Art Galleries, London
Awards
2018 The Duveen Travel Scholarship | UCL
2018 The Woon Prize | The Woon Foundation
2017 The Alfred W Rich Prize | Slade
2015 Max Werner Drawing Prize | Slade
2013 The Piron Strange Award | National Open Art Competition
Workshops
2021 Firstsite Holiday Fun: Children's Puppet Making Workshop. Firstsite, Colchester.
2019 Collective Studio: Introduction to ceramics, The Newbridge Project, Gateshead.
2019 Sunday Spot Sessions, South London Gallery, London
2019 Dialogues: Characters in Clay ceramic workshop, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Education
2014 - 2018 Slade School of Art, Ba Fine Art Sculpture
2013 - 2014 City and Guilds Art Foundation