Recent/Upcoming

 

Recent/Upcoming Exhibitions, Projects and Lectures:

 

Past:

Photo: Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Photo: Francisco Ramos, courtesy of Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston.
  • February 16 – July 9, 2023
    Spirit in the Land, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
  • March 8 – May 14, 2023
    Of Mythic Worlds: Works from the Distant Past through the Present, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
  • November 18, 2022 – March 26, 2023
    Double Take: Mel Chin & Elizabeth Turk, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI
  • November 20, 2021 – March 20, 2022
    Mel Chin: Points of View, Five Points Museum of Contemporary Art, Victoria, TX
  • January 24 – March 30 (Closed for Spring Break March 14-19)
    Inescapable Histories: Mel Chin, The Gallery at UTA, Univ. of Texas, Arlington, TX
    February 17, 12:30 p.m. Gallery at UTA, Gallery talk
    Thursday, February 18, 5:30 – 8 p.m. Gallery at UTA, Reception. Artists Talks during reception beginning 6:30 p.m.
    February 19, 11:30 a.m. Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX, Artist Talk
  • March 5 – July 31, 2022
    Mel Chin: There’s Something Happening Here
    Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA), Main Gallery, Madison, WI
    March 17,  5:00pm Artist Reception + Stephen Fleischman Lectureship |
    March 19,  SGCI ( Southern Graphics Council, International ) keynote on UW-Madison campus
  • ALL OVER THE PLACE, A multi-venue exhibition starting @ the Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows, NY, April 8, 2018 – August 12; Co-Curated by Laura Raicovich and Manon Slome, of No Longer Empty; Exhibition Design by LOT-EK.
  • The exhibition includes additional venues:
  • Broadway/Lafayette Subway Station, SIGNAL, a rededication of the MTA commission of 1998, with the Six Nations, May 13, 2018
  • Times Square, New York City, WAKE and UNMOORED, July 11, 2018, in cooperation with the University of North Carolina, Asheville, Listen, and Times Square Alliance.
  • Multiple Boroughs – FUNDRED PROJECT will be working with multiple organizations including schools, museums, and other cultural institutions throughout in the city.
  • Multiple Boroughs – Trains 1, 5, 7, E & F, SOUNDTRACK, Commissioned compositions creating unique sound works as signatures of the trains.
  • The GALA Committee @ Red Bull Studios, New York, NY, September 29 – November 27, 2016
  • Current: L.A. Water, Summer 2016
  • Art Cologne, Thomas Rehbein Gallery @ Art Cologne, April 2016
  • TELE:Gen, Kunst Museum Bonn, October 2015 – January 2016; Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, February – May 2016
  • The Value of Food, Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, October 2015 – April 2016

    Works by Mel Chin    , Thomas Rehbein Gallery, Cologne, Germany, January – February 2016

Recent Publications:

The Funk & Wag from A to Z
The Menil Collection, Houston, TX, distributed by Yale University Press, 2014. Mel Chin, Nick Flynn, et al. Publication now available on Amazon

Rematch
exhibition catalog, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Hatje Cantz, 2014. Edited by Miranda Lash, Texts by Andrei Codrescu, Lisa A. Crossman, Eleanor Heartney, Patricia Covo Johnson, Miranda Lash, Patricia C. Phillips, Herb Tam, graphic design by Harald Prigdar. Publication now available on Amazon

Do Not Ask Me
167 page exhibition catalog, Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, TX, 2011. Essays by James Harithas, Marcia Brennan, Paul Farmer, James Metcalf, Interview by Eugenie Tsai. Publication now available on Amazon