Mel Chin

Mel Chin is a Houston born artist known for collaborative works that conjoin cross-cultural aesthetics with complex ideas. Chin insinuates art into unlikely places, including destroyed homes, toxic landfills, and even popular television, investigating how art can provoke greater social awareness and responsibility. He developed Revival Field (1989-ongoing), a pioneering project in green remediation, using plants to remove toxic, heavy metals from the soil. Chin also promotes “works of art” that benefit science more broadly, as in the recent Operation Paydirt/Fundred Dollar Bill Project, an attempt to make New Orleans a lead-safe city. Chin received the MacArthur Genius grant in 2019, and  his work has exhibited at the Whitney, MOMA, and the Smithsonian among others.

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