Artist Profile

Kevin Chin’s search for a place to feel at home drives him to assemble comforting, yet unstable scenes. His oil paintings take domestic objects and actions, and reposition them in the context of travel and displacement. Starting with the personal, his work traverses cultural, sexual, and global politics.

Kevin Chin comes to Youkobo Art Space on the heels of his solo exhibition at Art Stage Singapore in 2014. He was awarded the Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant (Australia) to support his work in Japan in 2014, including artist residencies at Studio Kura (Fukuoka) as well as Youkobo Art Space.

Kevin Chin is represented by dianne tanzer gallery + projects, Australia.

Residence Plan

The perfectly pruned potplants in front of Tokyo suburban houses reveal a distinct mix of the domestic and wild in Japanese topiary. Kevin Chin’s project investigates how the Japanese find a connection to the natural landscape in urban environments, and how this in turn helps shape national identity. He is exhibiting new oil paintings made on residence, and photos taken this past year living in Tokyo.

Date	2014.03.05 - 2014.03.31
Place	S2&R2
Website	http://www.kevinchin.com.au