Kara Chin works across animation, ceramics, sculpture and installation.

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She uses playful materials, strange scales and fragmented references in sculptures that come to life as hybrid creatures, constantly shape shifting between object, being and setting.  Works often suggest quasi-religious ceremonies, devices or artefacts that reflect on our day to day relationship to fast evolving technologies and ecologies.

Chin lives and works in Newcastle, UK. She holds a BA in Fine Art from The Slade School of Fine Art (2018). She was featured in Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2018, and has been awarded the Woon Foundation Painting and Sculpture Prize (2018); The Duveen Travel Scholarship, UCL (2018); The Alfred W Rich Prize, Slade (2017); Max Werner Drawing Prize, Slade (2015).

Chin has exhibited at galleries and museums including: Goldsmiths CCA, London; Humber Street Gallery, Hull; The 8th Triennial of Art and Ecology, Maribor Slovenia; BALTIC39, Newcastle; South London Gallery, London.