Photo courtesy of Mel Chin.
We’re thrilled to honor Mel Chin at our spring benefit, which will take place on May 24, 2022. Our editors and Board of Directors kindly invite you to join us for drinks, a seated dinner, and celebrations of Chin’s extraordinary work.
The evening’s program includes remarks by Aruna D’Souza and an artwork created by Shanzhai Lyric for the occasion.
For nearly five decades, Mel Chin has created singular, idiosyncratic works that hinge on collaboration and manifest as actions, films, or objects, depending on the concept. Chin describes some works as “personal lamentations” and others as prototypes and experiments that engage “people in the process of being a ‘we.’” Turning toxic landfills, prime-time soap operas, and video games into venues for civic action, he has significantly expanded the bounds (and possibilities) of socially engaged art.
Chin pioneered the practice of “green remediation” with Revival Field (1991), a work of land art at a Minnesota landfill. He initiated the GALA Committee to conduct In the Name of the Place (1995–98), a legendary public art project involving the creation of artworks and props for the prime-time soap opera Melrose Place. Chin’s efforts to end childhood lead poisoning through the Fundred Project (2008–2021) activated half a million people. In 2018, he filled Times Square with the sculpture Wake and the augmented-reality project Unmoored (2018), creating an experiential portal into both a historic maritime industry and a future of rising waters. A survey of Chin’s work, “All Over the Place,” co-organized by the Queens Museum and No Longer Empty in 2018, was named by Hyperallergic as the best exhibition of the year in New York City. A recipient of many awards and honors, Chin received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2019 and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2021.
We are requiring that all benefit guests be fully vaccinated.
Honorary Committee
Joan Jonas, Glenn Kaino, Shirin Neshat, Anne Pasternak, Laura Raicovich, Claudia Rankine, Tracy Reese, Manon Slome, Lili Taylor & Nick Flynn, Darren Walker, John Yau, Anicka Yi
Host Committee
Sarah Arison, Suzanne Deal Booth, Fairfax Dorn* & Marc Glimcher, Molly Gochman, Agnes Gund, Seth Stolbun*
Patron Committee
Eileen Cohen*, Steven Goldglit*, Jane Hait & Justin Beal, Chris Leong*
Supporter Committee
Yng-Ru Chen, David Deitcher, Alice Gray Stites
Event Committee
Anthony Allen, Ian Alteveer, Yona Backer, Courtney Willis Blair*, Katherine Chan / Galerie Lelong & Co., John Chao*, Lisa Cooley, Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy*, Katie C. Dixon, Jenny Dixon & John Boone, Tara Downs, Alexander Ferrando / Kurimanzutto, Corrine Fitzpatrick & Chris Jennings, Laurel Gitlen, Regan L. Grusy*, Hauser & Wirth, Jenn Joy*, Karma, Vincent Katz, Mark Kleiman, Josh Kline*, Katy Lederer* & Ben Statz, Brett Littman*, Stephanie & Jim Loeffler, Marianne Boesky Gallery, Kai Matsumiya, Karen Mehiel, Fraser D. Mooney*, Cory Nomura, Anna Raginskaya / Blue Rider Group, Carolyn Ramo, Charles Renfro, Alex Ross, David Ross, The Roy and Niuta Titus Foundation, Inc., Peter J. Russo, Susan S. Sawyers, Susan Sellers*, Dave Steiner*, Ada Tolla & Giuseppe Lignano / LOT-EK, Mónica de la Torre* & Bruce Pearson, Thea Westreich Wagner & Ethan Wagner, Allison Weisberg, Lyndsy Welgos, Donn Zaretsky*, Marcella Zimmermann
List in formation as of May 24, 2022. Asterisk indicates current or emeritus member of Triple Canopy’s Board of Directors.
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