The Bronx Museum 2025 AIM Fellow: Katie Chin

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Chin’s work is anchored in sculpture and installation. Exploring the alienation and precarity endemic to late-stage capitalism, her practice often uses ceramic and metal to disrupt and corrode hierarchical systems of worth and value. Her work explores how inherited systematic forces influence collective and individual agency, and ultimately shape societal transformation.

She creates objects in various states of metamorphosis and erosion to reference the role of urban and corporate infrastructure in shaping our collective relations. From subway turnstiles and platforms to shopping baskets and water coolers, these sculptural objects emphasize the social intersection of labor, commerce, and economics. Their ubiquity and invisibility, like the environments and ideologies of capital that they represent, become allegories for the forces that determine our interactions in the public sphere and the workplace.

Her clay forms are laboriously handmade and deliberately nonfunctional, revealing the primal nature of a material that has long embodied the story of human evolution. Animated by a sense of the absurd and the playful, their heavy, twisted, useless constructions simultaneously subvert and reveal the systemic structures that organize economic and social relations. Holding space for both optimism and pessimism, these gestures of refusal seek to find in such states of ruin the possibility of transformation.

Katie Chin (b. 1990, Ohio) is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist anchored in sculpture whose work is concerned with economic and societal transformation. She earned her MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design in 2023 and BS in Information Systems Management from Boston College in 2012.

Chin is a 2025 AIM Fellow at The Bronx Museum and was recently a fellow in the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program. Her practice has been supported by residencies at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, The Hambidge Center, Woodstock Byrdcliffe, and Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts.

Her work has been exhibited nationally, including at Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Collar Works, MC Gallery, and Root Division. Chin has contributed to curatorial projects at Aggregate Space Gallery and The Lost & Found Project Space.