b.1994 Singapore
Based in Newcastle, UK.
Solo Exhibitions
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
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, Solevenia.
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 School of Art Foundation
Kara Chin is a British-Singaporean artist working across animation, ceramics, sculpture and installation. Chin’s work explores our relationship to increasingly digitised environments and everyday devices. Recent works have explored the extremities of transhumanist ideologies, biohacking and wellness culture; presenting future technocratic premonitions through fictional archaic objects and ceremonies. Chin chronicles the ominous looming impacts of these subjects with injections of humour, delivered through bizarre narratives, chaotic configurations of objects, and unconventional materials.
Chin lives and works in Newcastle, UK. She holds a BA in Fine Art from The Slade School of Fine Art (2018). She was featured in Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2018, and has been awarded the Woon Foundation Painting and Sculpture Prize (2018); The Duveen Travel Scholarship, UCL (2018); The Alfred W Rich Prize, Slade (2017); Max Werner Drawing Prize, Slade (2015).
Chin has exhibited at galleries and museums including: Humber Street Gallery, Hull, UK; The 8th International Triennial of Art and Ecology, Maribor, SI; BALTIC39, Newcastle, UK; South London Gallery, London, UK; ADM Gallery, Singapore; DKUK, London, UK; Gallery North, Newcastle, UK; CBS Gallery, Liverpool, UK; Science Museum, London, UK; APT Gallery, London, UK; Fieldworks, London, UK; Quench, Margate, UK; VITRINE, London, UK; VITRINE, Basel, UK; VITRINE, Digital; The Embassy Tea Gallery, London, UK; Subsidiary Projects, London, UK; Pineapple Black, Middlesbrough, UK; The Milton Gallery, London, UK; UCL Art Museum, London, UK; San Mei Gallery, London, UK; IMT Gallery, London, UK; Fold, London, UK; The Pallent House Gallery, London, UK; Off Site Project, Online; Huxley Parlour, London, UK.
Current and forthcoming exhibitions include: 'What’s for Tea?' a traveling exhibition by BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK (until 18 July 2022); Garage Band: Architects of the Future, a group exhibition by HATCH, Paris; and the artist's first exhibition in China at Linseed Projects in Shanghai, CN (Summer 2022).