Lili Chin



Lives and works in New York, NY


Education

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 2010
University of California at San Diego, MFA 2010
Pratt Institute, BFA 2002


Selected Solo & Two Person Exhibitions

“Istoria’s Garden,” Microscope Gallery, New York, NY 2024
“Transfigured Elements,” Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT 2018
“Closed Paradise,”Abrazo Interno Gallery, Clemente Soto Velez, New York, NY 2015
“Sphere of Exchange,” Little Victories, Shanghai, CN 2015

 “Natural Resources,” Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, CN 2013
“Pail of Air,” Bazaar Compatible Project Space, Shanghai, CN 2013
“Akedah,” Weir Art Farm, Nod Hill Refuge, Wilton, CT 2012
“Wind Reflection,” All Things Projects, New York, NY 2011
“Nocturne Etudes,” UCSD Visual Art Gallery, La Jolla, CA 2010
“Containers of Suspension and Gravity,” University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 2009


Selected Group Exhibitions

2023
“Green Bridges, Transient Walls,” curated by Salome Kokaladze, Houston, Texas
“ Picnic Store,” curated by Gregory Ruppe, Galveston, Texas
“Altar,” Island Gallery, New York, NY
“Resident Exhibition 2022-23,” Galveston Artist Residency, Galveston, TX
“Open Studio: 350 million years in the blink of an eye,” Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Japan

2022
“Artist group show,” Bronx River Art Center, NY
“Numinous Pools,” Rochester Contemporary, Rochester, NY
“Singing in Unison,” curated by Phong Bui for the Brooklyn Rail, Below Grand, New York, NY
“PSOS,” Clemente Soto Velez, New York, NY

2021
“Faculty Exhibition,” Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
“Viewing Program,” curated by Lisa Sigal, The Drawing Center, New York, NY

2020
“Flat Files 2020,” curated by Jes Cannon Collar Works, Troy, NY
“Food Matters,”Cyrus M Running Gallery, Concordia College, Moorehead, MN
“So Close,” Side x Side Contemporary, Pullman, WA (online exhibition)
“Printmakers Assembly,” STPI Creative Workshop and Gallery, Singapore
“Transcendent Fragments,” Outpost Artists Resources, Queens, New York, NY
“Framed: Landscape & Architecture,” Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR

2019
“Transcendent Fragments,” Outpost Artists Resources, Queens, New York, NY
Artist Showcase, Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY, NY

2018
Open Door, The Clemente, New York, NY
“Silence Breakers,” Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT

2017
Filmmakers’ Coop Annual Auction, Next to Nothing Gallery, New York, NY
“Personals, a small objects sculpture show,” Skowhegan Art, New York, NY

2016
ØY Festival, curated by Jonathan Ford, Papa Westray, Orkney, United Kingdom
Lost and Found, Abrazo Interno Gallery, Clemente Soto Velez, New York, NY

2014
Double Vision, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, CN
Song, M Art Center, Shanghai, CN
African Heritage Social Justice, Laguardia Community College, Long Island City, NY

2013
Pursuing Perfection, curated by Thomas C. Chung, Bloom Art Space, Shanghai, CN
Collective Show with HKJB, Mexico City, Mexico

2012
GO Open Studios, for the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn NY

2010
“SK10.2,” Tompkins Projects, Brooklyn, NY
“SK10,” Skowhegan, ME

2009
“The Dark Tower,” curated by Cauleen Smith, Compact Space, Los Angeles, CA


Selected Screenings

YES: Lili Chin / Gautam Kansara, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, NY 2018
Laelaps, Lunarfest18, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT 2018
“Cure the Night,” curated by Bradley Eros, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2015
“This is not the Sun,” 601 Artspace, New York, NY 2014
Redhook Cine Soiree, Brooklyn, NY 2009
“Extremely shorts,” Aurora Picture Show, Austin, TX 2009
Platform China, Beijing, China 2007
Collective Unconscious, New York, NY 2007
Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY 2006
Millennium, New York, NY 2006
Oxford Digital Festival, United Kingdom
2006
“May Mad Gab,” Monkeytown, Brooklyn, NY
2006
“Untitled Space #1,” NY Underground Film Festival, New York, NY 2004


Artist Talks and Guest Lectures

Artist Talk: Lili Chin in conversation with Pawel Wojtasik, Microscope Gallery, New York, NY 2024
Artist Talk, Sculpture Department, Rhode Island School of Art & Design (RISD), Providence, RI 2023
University of Buffalo Artist Lecture Series, Buffalo, NY 2023
Visual Studies Workshop, Artist process, Podcast, Rochester, NY 2022
“Numinous Pools,” Rochester Contemporary, Rochester, NY 2022
Artist Lecture, Graduate MFA guest critic, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA 2021
DongnanxiBei, K11 Art Space, Shanghai, CN 2013
Art in Shanghai, NYU Shanghai, Department of Literature, Lena Sheen, Shanghai, CN
Studio Visit, Art Academy of Stuttgart w/ Rainer Ganhai, Shanghai, CN


Selected Awards / Grants / Residencies

Wave Hill, Bronx, NY 2024
Tides Institute and Museum of Art, Eastport, ME
Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico 2023
Lightpress Grant, Seattle, WA 2023
Akiyoshidai Artist Village, Yamaguchi, Japan 2023
Galveston Artist Residency, Galveston, TX 2023
Cove Park, Argyll & Bute, Scotland, UK 2022
Hospitalfield, Arbroath, Scotland, UK 2022
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY 2022
Skowhegan Alumni Residency Fellowship 2021
Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, Newcastle ME 2021
MacDowell, Peterborough, NY 2020
The Studios at Mass MoCA Artist Residency, North Adams, MA 2017
Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, Rotating Studio program, New York, NY 2016
Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, CN 2013
Platte Clove Artist in Residence, Arkville, NY 2013
Weir Art Farm Residency, Weir, CT 2012