Recent/Upcoming

Recent/Upcoming Exhibitions and Projects:

November 12 + 13, 2024
2024 Campbell Lectures, Rice University, Houston, TX (in person and online) 

November 6, 2024 – February 9, 2025
Spirit in the Land, Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL

November 2, 2024 – February 2, 2025
Prospect 6: the future is present, the harbinger is home, New Orleans, LA

September 15, 2024
Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, Hammer Museum, part of PST ART: Art & Science Collide, Los Angeles, CA

March 24 – May 25, 2024
Le Contre-Ciel, Empty Gallery, Hong Kong

March 21 – September 8, 2024
Spirit in the Land, Pérez Art Museum, Miam, FL

March 13 – May 31, 2024
Malta Biennale, Malta

June 15, 2023 – Summer 2024
Longing, Grief, and Spirituality: Art Since 1980, Menil Collection, Houston, TX

Extraction of Plenty from What Remains: 1823-, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

Past:

January 17 – March 16, 2024
Godzilla: Echoes from the 1990s Asian American Arts Network, Eric Firestone Gallery, New York, NY

October 27, 2023 – March 17th 2024
Six Scenes From Our Future, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX

February 16 – July 9, 2023
Spirit in the Land, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

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