The Bronx Museum 2025 AIM Fellow
Katie Chin
ARTIST STATEMENT
By reflecting on the instability of inherited economic systems and their influence on collective and individual agency, Katie Chin’s work considers how social structures shift over time, specifically within the conditions of capitalism. Her sculpture and installation practice is primarily ceramic but also incorporates metal, found objects, and industrial materials. The works range in scale from installations that extend across gallery walls from floor to ceiling, to standalone sculptures of life-sized objects like shopping baskets and wrenches.
She uses slip-casting, hand-building, and assemblage techniques to create sculptures in states of emergence. To expose their role as mediators of social relation, she often renders commodity objects useless through distortion or failed mimicry. Their ubiquity and invisibility, like the hegemony they reflect, become allegories for the forces that shape the public sphere and workplace.
Through materiality and symbolism, Chin’s practice invites viewers to reconsider their relationships to exploitation, resistance, and collectivity. By holding space for both optimism and pessimism, her sculptures serve as reminders that even within systems of control, moments of rupture and reassembly hold the potential for transformation.
Biography
Katie Chin (b. Ohio) is a New York based interdisciplinary artist anchored in sculpture who is concerned with economic and societal transformation. She earned her MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design in 2023, where she was awarded a Presidential Scholarship. Chin received a 2025 AIM Fellowship at The Bronx Museum and was recently a fellow in the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program (2024). Her practice has been supported by residencies at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, The Hambidge Center, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild and Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts. She has exhibited nationally, including at Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Collar Works, MC Gallery, Midway Gallery and Root Division.
