Santa Fe Art Institute

Lili Chin

Lili Chin is an artist based in New York City. Combining installation, video and sculpture, her practice focuses on nature and architecture to explore rituals in time, bridging contemporary and ancient ideas that investigate themes of memory, duration, and spirituality. Her work has been exhibited at The Drawing Center, Island Gallery, Below Grand, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, STPI Print Center, Singapore, among others. Her work has been commissioned by the He Xiangning Museum in Shenzhen and the Ely Center of Contemporary Art in New Haven, CT. Her films have screened at Anthology Film Archives, Millennium Film Workshop, 601 Art Space, the Edinburgh Film Festival, and others.

Residencies and fellowships include Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, New York; Wave Hill, Bronx, NY; MacDowell Colony, NH; BRIC, Brooklyn, NY; The Studios at Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA; the Galveston Artist Residency, Galveston, TX; Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY; Hospitalfield, Scotland; the Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China; the Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Yamaguchi, Japan, and others. She received her MFA from the University of California, San Diego and her BFA from Pratt Institute