Mel Chin (American, born )

Timeline

1951
Born in Houston, Texas, USA
1982
Visual Arts Commission, Houston Festival
1988
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1988
Founder’s Day Grant, Uranian Phlanstery: The First NY Gnostic Lyceum
1989
Pollock/Krasner Foundation Fellowship
1989
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant
1990–1991
National Endowment for the Arts: Artist’s Projects/New Forms
1991
Joan Mitchell Foundation Award
1991
Penny McCall Foundation Award
1995
Cal Arts Alpert Award in the Visual Arts
1996
Rockefeller Foundation Grant
1997
Englehard Award
2001
Creative Capital Grant
2004
Nancy Graves Foundation Award 1990Art Matters, Inc: Artist’s Fellowship
2006
Honorary Docotrate, Rhode Island School of Design
2007
Pedro Sienna Award, Best Animation, National Council fort he Arts and Cultures, Chile, for 911-911
2007
Creative Capital Grant
2008
Honorary Doctorate, Maryland Institute College of Art
2008
Award: Joan Mitchell Foundation
2008
Award: Transforma Projects / National Performance Network
2008
Nathan Cummings Foundation Award
2008
Cross Currents Foundation
Lives in North Carolina, USA

Exhibitions

2011
Mel Chin, Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Köln (solo)
2010
Mel Chin, Het Domein Museum, Sittard, The Netherlands (solo)
2009
The Flag, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA, USA (group)
2009
No Zoning. Artists Engage Houston, Contemporary Art Musuem, Houston, TX, USA (group)
2008
Close Encounters. Facing The Future, American University Museum, Washington, DC (group)
2008
Wunderkammer. A Century of Curiosities, Museum of Modern Art, New York (group)
2008
Ornithology. Looking at Birds, University of Conneticut (group)
2007
Mel Chin. Lamentations and Drawings, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York (solo)
2006
Do Not Ask Me, Station Museum, Houston, TX, USA (solo)
2005
Road in Sight, Duke University, Durham, NC (group)
2005
Down the Garden Path, Queens Museum of Art, Long Island City, NY (group)
2004
Freedom Salon, Deitch Projects, New York (group)
2004
Botanica. Contemporary Art and the Wolrd of Plants, Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN, USA (group)
2003
Signatures of the Invisible, PS!, New York (group)
2003
Render, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York (solo)
2002
Ecovention, CAC, Cincinnati, OH, USA (solo)
2002
New World Trade Center. Design Proposals, Max Protetch Gallery, New York (group)
2002
Selections from The Collection of Wilhelm Schürmann, Ständehaus Museum K21, Düsseldorf, Germany (group)
2002
The Culture of Violance, Amherst College Museum, Amherst, MASS, USA (group)
2002
Ecoventions, Cincinnati Art Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA (group)
2001
Lyon Biennal, Lyon, France (group)
2001
Tele(Visions), Kunsthalle, Vienna (group)
2001
One Planet Under A Groove, Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY (group)
2001
Knowmad, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York (solo)
2000
Money-Taking. The Fine Art of Currency, The Federal Reserve, Washington, DC, USA (group)
2000
Texas, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX, USA (group)
2000
Money-Making: The Fine Art of Currency, The Federal Reserve, Washington, D.C., traveling
2000
KNOWMAD, Frederieke Taylor gallery New York, NY
1999–2000
Botanica, Contemporary Art and the World of Plants, Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth, MN, traveling
1999
Natural Reality, Artistic Positions Between Nature and Culture, Ludwig Forum for International Art Aachen, Germany (group)
1999
World Views, Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN, USA (group)
1997–1999
Inescapable Histories, Exhibits USA, traveling exhibition (solo)
1997
Uncommon Sense, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, CA, USA (group)
1997
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME, USA (group)
1997
Boston College, Boston, MA, USA (group)
1997
Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, Korea (group)
1997
Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO, USA (group)
1997
Lawing Gallery, Houston, TX, USA (group)
1996
Wesleyan University (group)
1996
Art at the End of the 20th Century, Whitney Museum, New York (group)
1996
National Gallery and Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athen, Greece (group)
1996
Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain (group)
1996
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany (group)
1996
Push/Pause, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA (group)
1996
Thinking Print, Museum of Modern Art, New York (group)
1996
Is It Art?, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY (group)
1996
In Print, Contemporary Artists at the Vinal Haven Press (group)
1996
Embedded Metaphor, Ringling Museum of Art (group)
1996
Western Washington University (group)
1996
Bowdin College Museum of Art (group)
1996
Contemporary Art Center Virginia (group)
1996
Art at the End of the 20th Century, Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY, traveled
1996
Thinking Print, Museum of Modern Art New York, NY (group)
1995
Texas Myths and Realities, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX, USA (group)
1995
Anxious Objects, Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO (solo)
1995
Centre Gallery, Florida, USA (group)
1995
Magic Objects, München, Germany (group)
1995
Grounded, ART/OMI, Omi, NY, USA (group)
1995
Murder, Bergamot Station Art Center, Santa Monica, CA, USA (group)
1995
Thread Waxing Space, New York (group)
1994
New York Artists, Prague (group)
1994
Out of This World, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, USA (group)
1994
The Lure of the Local, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA (group)
1994
The Garbage Show, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, USA (group)
1994
Public Interventions, ICA, Boston, MA, USA (group)
1994
Landscape As Metaphor, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, USA (group)
1994
Equal Rights and Justice, High Museum, Atlanta, GA, USA (group)
1994
Refuse/Refuse, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawaii (group)
1994
Old Glory. The American Flag in Contemporary Art, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, OH, USA (group)
1994
Armand Hammer Collection, Los Angeles, CA, USA (group)
1994
Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY (group)
1994
Fifth Biennial of Havana, National Museum of Fine Arts, Centro Wifredo Lam Havana, Cuba (group)
1993
Kunst-Kultur-Okologie, Bea Voigt Gallery Munich, Germany (group)
1993
From Destrucion to Reclamation. Art and the Environment in the Nineties, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, USA (group)
1993
Exposition Differentes Natures, La Defense, Paris, France (group)
1993
Natural Unnatural, TZ Art & Company, New York (group)
1992
Beyond Glory. Re-Presenting Terrorism, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, USA (group)
1992
The Retangled Bank, E. M. Donahue Gallery, New York (group)
1992
Allocations. Art for a Natural and Artificial Environment, Floriadepark, Zoetermeer, The Netherlands (group)
1992
Fragile Ecologies, Smithsonian Museum (ursprünglich The Queens Museum of Art), New York (group)
1992
Markets of Resistance, White Columns, New York (group)
1992
Putt Modernism, Artists Space New York, NY (group)
1992
Soil and Sky, The Fabric Workshop and Swarthmore College Philadelphia, PA (solo)
1991
The Subversive Stitch, Simon Watson Gallery New York, NY (group)
1991
Mel Chin, Menil Collection Houston, TX (solo)
1991
Degrees of Paradise, Storefront for Art and Architecture New York, NY (solo)
1991
Glass. Material in the Service of Meaning, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, USA (group)
1991
Salvage Utopia, A/C Projekt Room, New York (group)
1990
Tradition and Innovation. A Museum Celebration of Texas Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA (group)
1990
The Fifth Essence, Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York (group)
1990
This Land. The State of Texas, Lawndale Art and Performance Center, Houston, TX, USA (group)
1990
The Conceptual Impulse, Security Pacific Gallery, Costa Mensa, CA, USA (group)
1990
Garbage Out Front. A New Era of Public Design, The Municipal Art Society, New York (group)
1990
Diverse Representations, Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey, USA (group)
1990
Viewpoints: Mel Chin, Walker Art Center Minneapolis, MN, traveling exhibition (solo)
1990
International Memorial Arts Festival: China: June 4, ICA (P.S.1) Long Island City, NY (group)
1989
Directions: Mel Chin, Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Washington, D.C. (solo)
1989
Sculpture. Part II, Frumkin/Admas Gallery, New York (group)
1989
China, June 4, 1989, Blum Helman Warehouse, New York (group)
1988
Texas Art. Selections from the Menil Collection, the Museum of Fine Arts and the Trustees’ Collections of the Contemporary Arts Museum, Menil Collection, Houston, TX, USA (group)
1988
Art Against Aids, Benefit Exhibition and Auction, Houston, TX, USA (group)
1988
Public Art in Chinatown, Asian American Arts Center, New York, USA (group)
1988
Selected Weapons, Frumkin/Adams Gallery New York, NY (solo)
1988
Spectrum: New Developments in Three Dimensions, Frumkin/Adams Gallery New York (group)
1987
The Operation of the Sun through the Cult of the Hand, Loughelton Gallery New York (solo)
1987
The Double Bind, Loughelton Gallery, New York (group)
1987
Notes on the Virtual, Loughelton Gallery, New York (group)
1986
The Texas Landscape 1900 – 1986, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA (group)
1985
Modus Operandi: 1974-1985, Diverse Works Houston, TX, USA (solo)
1983
Showdown/Lowdown. Art of the Southwest, Alternative Museum, New York (group)
1983
Seen/Unseen, Diverse Works, Houston, TX, USA (group)
1983
Benefit for Amnesty International, USA, Diverse Works, Houston, TX, USA (group)
1982
Prisoners of Conscience, Org. by Amnesty International, Studio One Houston, TX, USA (group)
1979
Fire, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, USA (group)
1977
Houston Area, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, TX, USA (group)
1976–1977
Robinson Galleries Houston, TX, USA (solo)
1976
Robinson Galleries, Houston TX, USA (solo)

Literature

2005
American Art A Cultural History, Prentice Hall
2004
Imagining Ground Zero, Rizzoli &
Architectural Record
2003
Neuer Aachener Kunstverein (vol. 38. Nr.10)
2002
Art History, second edition, Harry N. Abrams, Prentice Hall
2002
ERDE, Elemente des Naturhaushalts III, Schriftenreihe Forum Band 11, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Hrsg.)
2001
Art of the 21st Century, PBS Documentary, airing Fall, Abrams book pub.
2001
JOSEPH BEUYS Mapping the Legacy Gene Ray (Hrsg.), The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, D.A.P., New York, NY
2001
Nature, Art, Paysage, Actes Sud/Ecole Nationale Superieure Du Paysage/Centre Du Paysage
2000
Trans/Plant, LIVING VEGETATION IN CONTEMPORARY ART, Hatje Cantz
2000
Three Houston History Lessons, Good, Toni Beauchamp (Hrsg.), Houston, TX
2000
Texas, Ausst. Kat., The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
2000
Botanica, Contemporary Art and the World of Plants, Ausst. Kat., Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN
1999
Natural Reality, The Unity of Man and Nature: Between Desire and Reality, Ausst. Kat., Daco, Verlag, Stuttgart
1999
ECO-TEC Architecture of the In-Between, 
Princeton Architectural Press, Amerigo Marras, (Hrsg)
1999
On the Beaten Track: tourism, art, and place, The New Press
1998
Prime Time: In the Name of the Place of Art and Television, In the Name of the Place, Ausst. Kat., Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO
1998
Jeffrey Kastner (Hrsg.), Land and Environmental Art, Phaidon
1997
Subverting Landscape, Public Art Review, Vol. 8, No.2
1997
Negotiating Art: The Artist and the Museum, Ausst. Kat., Uncommon Sense MOCA, Los Angeles
1997
Getting Graphic: Experimentation at the Vinalhaven Press, In Print - Contemporary Artists at the Vinalhaven Press, Ausst. Kat., traveling exhibition, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine
1997
The Lure of the Local, senses of place in a multi-centered society, The New Press
1996
The Edge That Cuts . . . , Ausst. Kat.
1996
INESCAPABLE HISTORIES, SCRATCH, Ausst. Kat., Thread Waxing Space, New York
1996
Inescapable Histories, Inward Gaze to the World, Ausst. Kat. Inescapable Histories, Exhibits, USA
1996
Art On the Edge and Over, Art Insights, Inc., Exhibits, USA
1995
Myth-Making and Myth-Breaking: Multiple Meanings in Mel Chin's Revival Field, 
Art Criticism, Vol. 10, No. 2
1995
Viewpoints: Mel Chin, Ausst. Kat., Walker Art Center, Minneapolis , MN
1995
Murder, Ausst. Kat., Bergamot Station Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA
1994
Visions of America: Landscape As Metaphor in the Late Twentieth Century, Ausst. Kat., Denver Art Museum and Columbus Art Museum
1994
Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art, 
Ausst. Kat., Whitney Museum of American Art
1994
Visions of America: Landscape As Metaphor in the Late Twentieth Century, 
Ausst. Kat., Denver Art Museum and Columbus Art Museum
1994
Equal Rights & Justice, Ausst. Kat., High Museum of Art
1994
Visions of America: Landscape As Metaphor in the Late Twentieth Century, 
Ausst. Kat., Denver Art Museum and Columbus Art Museum
1994
Equal Rights & Justice, Ausst. Kat., High Museum of Art
1993
SOIL & SKY, Ausst. Kat., The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia
1993
SOIL & SKY, Ausst. Kat., The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia
1992
ALLOCATIONS - Art For a Natural 
and Artificial Environment, Ausst. Kat., Dutch and English editions
Fragile Ecologies, Ausst. Kat., Rizzoli
1992
ALLOCATIONS - Art For a Natural 
and Artificial Environment, Ausst. Kat., Dutch and English editions
Fragile Ecologies, Ausst. Kat., Rizzoli
1990
Diverse Representations, Ausst. Kat., Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey
1990
Diverse Representations, Ausst. Kat., Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey
1989
Directions: Mel Chin, Ausst. Kat., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
1989
Directions: Mel Chin, Ausst. Kat., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
1988
To Propose, To Provoke, Ausst. Kat., Public Art in Chinatown, Asian American Arts Centre, New York, NY
1988
To Propose, To Provoke, Ausst. Kat., Public Art in Chinatown, Asian American Arts Centre, New York, NY
1987
Mel Chin: The Operation of the Sun Through the Cult of the Hand, Ausst. Kat., Loughelton Gallery, New York, NY
1987
Mel Chin: The Operation of the Sun Through the Cult of the Hand, Ausst. Kat., Loughelton Gallery, New York, NY
English (US)

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