< CV

Kara Chin

*1994 in Singapur Lives and works in Berlin

 

Education

2014 - 2018 Slade School of Art, Ba Fine Art Sculpture

2013 - 2014 City and Guilds Art Foundation

 

Workshops

2021 Firstsite Holiday Fun: Children's Puppet Making Workshop. Firstsite, Colchester.

2019 Collective Studio: Introduction to ceramics, The Newbridge Project, Gateshead.

2019 Sunday Spot Sessions, South London Gallery, London

2019 Dialogues: Characters in Clay ceramic workshop, Northumbria University, Newcastle

 

Awards & Grants

2018 The Duveen Travel Scholarship | UCL

2018 The Woon Prize | The Woon Foundation

2017 The Alfred W Rich Prize | Slade

2015 Max Werner Drawing Prize | Slade

2013 The Piron Strange Award | National Open Art Competition

 

 

Selected Exhibitions (solo)

 

2025

Mapping The Wasteland: PAY AND DISPLAY, FACT - The Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool

Mapping The Wasteland, Berry Street - The Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool

 

2024

Twisting the air with unseen tendrils, Basel Social Club with LINSEED, Basel

Shh The Film is Starting, Art Basel HK with LINSEED, Hong Kong

 

2023

Concerned Dogs, Goldsmiths CCA, London

Flames Painted on the Backcloth, Frieze with VITRINE, London

 

2022

Showreel, Humber Street Gallery, Hull

 

2021

Fountain of Youth, Huxley-Parlour Gallery, London

You Will Knead, VITRINE, London

You Will Knead, VITRINE Digital

 

2020 Blue Screen of Death, Off-Site Project, digital

Sentient Mecha Furniture, BALTIC39, Newcastle

Subsequent Hotchpotch, DKUK, London

 

2019

Sentient Home Devices, Gallery North, Newcastle

 

 

Selected Exhibitions (group)

 

2026

1, 2, Glissade et Changement, Hatch, Paris

Break The Mould, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham UK

Bling! , Soup Gallery, London UK

 

2025

Airtime, Åplus, Berlin

2025 Whose Technology, Whose Future? AVEC, University of Bologne and Asia Institute

2025 Under The Talking Tree, Kunsthal n, Copenhagen

2025 SCI-FI: Mythologies Transformed, Science Gallery, Melbourne

2025 Soft Robotics, Polytech University, Lille

 

2024

The Equal Right to Live and Blossom, Kate MacGarry, London

In Aviaries, Åplus, Berlin

life-bestowing cadaverous soooooooooooooooooooot, CCA, Glasgow

Nurturing Nodes in the Nook of an Old Sock, Gallery Miyauchi, Hiroshima

New Eden: Science Fiction Mythologies Transformed, ArtScience Museum, Singapore

 

2023

Wailing Moon, Staffordshire Street Studios, London

Swallow Mountain Drain Sea, Linseed Projects, Shanghai

The Splendour of the Sun, Gallerie du Monde, Hong Kong

Art SG 2023, Linseed Projects, Singapore

 

2022

The Sound of a Fallen Tree, Tuesday to Friday Gallery, Valencia

Garage Band: Architects of the Future, HATCH, Paris

Information Wants to Be Free?, ADM Gallery, Singapore

What's For Tea?, BALTIC & Travelling Gallery, The North East of England

 

2021

Acting on Behalf of Thinking, PINK, Manchester

Remedial Works, Quench Gallery, Margate

The Sun and the Moon, VITRINE, Basel

A Letter to the Future, EKO 8 International Triennial of Art and Environment, Maribor

 

2020

Springseason, Fieldworks Gallery, London

Sounding Off 2.0, VITRINE Digital

This is a Not Me, IMT Gallery, digital

 

2019

Online Presents, Skelf, digital

London Art Fair with IMT Gallery, Business Design Centre, London

Bloomberg New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, London

 

2018

Manchester Contemporary Art Fair, Manchester Central, Manchester

Chop Leisure, IMT Gallery, London

Opolis, 93 Baker Street, London

The Woon Foundation Painting and Sculpture Prize, Gallery North, Newcastle

Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Liverpool Biennial 2018, Liverpool