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About Mel Chin  

Mel Chin was born in Houston, Texas in 1951. He created Revival Field (1991), pioneering the field of "green remediation," the use of plants to remove toxic, heavy metals from the soil. From 1995-1998 he formed the collective the GALA Committee that produced In the Name of the Place, a public art project conducted on American prime-time television. His Fundred Project (2008-2021) (see fundred.org) invests in actions to end childhood lead-poisoning through mass public engagement via the creation of art currency as a means for policy-maker education. He continues to produce original films such as 9-11/9-11 (2007), a film to decenter preoccupations that engender nationalism, winning the Pedro Sienna Award for Best Animation, National Council for the Arts and Cultures, Chile, 2007; and L'Arctique est Paris (2015), to deliver the poignant warnings of a Greenlandic subsistence hunter to an international audience for COP21. In the summer of 2018 he filled New York’s Times Square with a massive sculpture, Wake, on the ground, and an AR (Augmented Reality) project, Unmoored, in the air, creating an experiential portal into a past maritime industry and a future of rising waters. All Over the Place, a 40-year survey exhibition at the Queens Museum, was named by Hyperallergic as the best NYC exhibition of 2018. 

Chin is the recipient of many awards, grants, and honorary degrees including a MacArthur Fellowship in 2019 and his election into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2021. 

Mel Chin’s exhibition, Inescapable Histories, will be on view at The Gallery at UTA through March 30.