Mel Chin was born in 1951 in Houston, Texas, and currently lives and works in North Carolina. He received a BA from Peabody College in 1975. Chin uses technology, collage, sculpture, and large-scale installations to create a body of work centered around environmental, political, and social issues. Working as a conceptual artist, he inserts art into unlikely places and forms, including video games, destroyed homes, toxic landfills, and popular television.

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"Paydirt"

Mel Chin

2:24
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"Paydirt"

Mel Chin

6/19/2008

"Fundred" at George Jackson Academy

Mel Chin

3:50
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3/19/2008

Consumption

54:00

9/28/2001

Mel Chin in "Consumption"

13:56
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9/28/2001