biografía de Mel CHIN (1951)
Personal data
Birth : 1951 - Houston TX Texas, United States
Sex : M
Nationality/Affiliation : United States
Address
New York NY New York, United StatesRepresentatives
Vinalhaven Press / Graphic Arts Foundation – 565 Broadway – New York NY, United States
Education
1975 : Peabody College – Vanderbilt University (BA) – Nashville TN, United States
Professional data
Other professions
Consultant
Thread Waxing Space – 2nd Floor 476 Broadway – New York NY, United States
Consultant
The Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture – Suite 1116 200 Park Avenue South – New York NY, United States
Professor
Stanford University – Stanford CA, United States
Consultant
Carnegie Mellon University – 5000 Forbes Avenue – Pittsburgh PA, United States
Consultant
Fabric Workshop and Museum – 5th Floor 1315 Cherry Street – Philadelphia PA, United States
Consultant
Creative Time – 307 7th avenue – New York NY, United States
09/1999 – 12/1999 : Professor – Sculpture
Cooper Union Art School – 7e 7th street – New York NY, United States
1994 – 1997 : Professor – Art
Lamar Dodd School of Art – UGA University of Georgia – Athens GA, United States
Work
Categorie and medium
Print-Multiple : Woodcut in colors 
Sculpture-Volume : Assemblage - Installation Subject
mythologyspirituality
Works
| Know Mad | |
| Date of creation : 2000 Medium : Installation Technical data : tribal rugs with tents and console game | |
| The Knowmad Confederacy, Knowmad | |
| Date of creation : 1999-2000 Medium : Installation | |
| Conversation of the Birds | |
| Date of creation : 1996 Process : aquatint-engraving-monotype-soft ground Size : 22 x 30 inch | |
| Revival Ramp | |
| Date of creation : 1996 Medium : Woodcut in colors Process : aquatint-etching-engraving-lithography-soft ground-photoengraving Size : 36 x 36 inch | |
| The Flag of the Agricultural Revolution | |
| Date of creation : 1996 Medium : Woodcut in colors Materials : wood Size : 22 x 30 inch | |
| Addison Road project | |
| Date of creation : 1996 Medium : Installation In collaboration with : Michael Van VALKENBURG, designer | |
| Houston Sesquicentennial Park Monument | |
| Date of creation : 1996 Medium : Installation | |
| Landmind | |
| Date of creation : 1995 Medium : Sculpture Technical data : project, exterior, interior | |
| Spirit | |
| Date of creation : 1994 Medium : Installation Subject : spirituality | |
| Revival Field | |
| Date of creation : 1990 Medium : Installation Materials : vegetation/vegetal material Size : 720 x 720 inch In collaboration with : Rufus L. CHANEY, senior research scientist at the United States Department of Agriculture | |
| The State of Heaven | |
| Medium : Installation Technical data : project | |
Solo Exhibitions (Selected)
Solo exhibitions
2000
Revival Fields
Künstlerhaus Stuttgart – Stuttgart, Germany
10/2000
Knowmad
Frederieke Taylor Gallery – New York NY, United States
2000
1998
Inescapable Histories
Sarah Moody Gallery of Art – Tuscaloosa AL, United States
05/01/1998 – 07/27/1998
1995
Anxious Objects
Hatton Gallery – Fort Collins CO, United States
1995
1991
The Menil Collection – Houston TX, United States
1991
1988
Selected Weapons
Frumkin / Adams Gallery – New York NY, United States
1988
1976
Robinson Galleries – Houston TX, United States
1976
Group Exhibitions (Selected)
Group exhibitions
2003
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2003
Japan
07/20/2003 – 09/07/2003
2001
Connivence – 6ème Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon
Lyon, France
06/23/2001 – 09/23/2001
Bibliography (Selected)
On the artist
Books
2001
art : 21 – Art in the Twenty-first century
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Inc. – 100 Fifth Avenue – New York NY, United States
2001
ISBN : 0810913976
Exhibition catalogues
2001
Connivence, 6ème Biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon
Publisher: RMN Réunion des Musées Nationaux – 49 rue Etienne Marcel – Paris, France
2001
ISBN : 2711842592
1999
Inescapable Histories
Author: Huerta Benito
1999
1994
Visions of America, Landscape as Metaphor in the late 20th century
Author: Friedman Martin
1994
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