Mel Chin: Constructing Liberation

The Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) presents artist Mel Chin, known for the broad range of approaches in his art, including works that require multi-disciplinary, collaborative teamwork and works that enlist science as an aesthetic component to developing complex ideas. Chin uses technology, collage, sculpture, and large-scale installations to create a body of work centered around environmental, political, and social issues, inserting art into unlikely places and forms, including video games, destroyed homes, toxic landfills, and popular television. Interested in creating greater social awareness and responsibility, and making a place for possible political transformation, Chin engages wide-ranging communities in the conception, execution, and success of his work.

Chin’s work is in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art, Museum of Modern Art, High Museum of Art, the Menil Collection, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Cantor Art Center at Stanford University. He was the recipient of a 2019 MacArthur Foundation “Genius” grant. Read more about Chin on CIRCA’s event page.

Admission is free, and a reception will follow. Please RSVP for this event.

This event is funded by the Arts+ Initiative and the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.