2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition

My art practice is social. While my MFA thesis appears to be a large-scale metal sculpture and a paper, written in first person, at its core it’s a lot more collaborative than it looks. The conversations, feedback, advice, and support I have been given by others are essential. For this particular project, I consider the following people contributors:

Ashleigh Abbott, Yasi Alipour, Bel Andrade, Chong Chin, Elizabeth Walz Chin, Daniel Chou, Ben Dimock, Andrea Geyer, Ben Gould, Kris Grey, Fiel Guhit, Terike Haapoja, Jesse Harding, Remi Hirschtick, Caroline Kindelt, Arden Kraatz, Lan Thao Lam, Ting Lau, Myles Lawrence Briggs, Le’Andrea LeSeur, Chris Lin, Jill Magid, Summer McCroskey, Ash Moniz, Ramon Mussenden, Kat Nash, Hali Nelson, Evelina Nolin, Henrik Nordahl, Victoria Norton, Tony Petrillo, Eriola Pira, Rit Premnath, Chad Repp, Gino Romero, Rollo Romig, Amina Ross, Pauline Rossignol, Shay Salehi, Sej Sanghvi, Michelle Silva, Becky Song, Kaegan Sparks, Clipber Tran, Catherine Telford Keogh, Sabrina Thompson, Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Richard Valentin, Damien Vera, Daisy Wong, Valaria or oscar, Boya Ye, Noah Zhou, all those who participated in the part-time faculty strike at The New School, employees of Rapid Steel, and my physical therapists Craig Feuerman, Ari Neulander, and Matthew Procopio.

With this project and the ones that will follow, I promise to make art at the nexus of intuition and the social forms I participate in and find perplexing. I am also committed to giving credit to those who illuminate my path towards art making and collaborate towards collective intuitions1.

1 Collective intuition is a term I am using to describe the porous nature of social forms. It points to how deviations from norms—in relating to others—push against the boundaries of communal knowledge. Collective intuition lingers in the possibility of a multitude of commons. Here the boundary and logic of social forms is ever-mutable.

Katie Chin is an interdisciplinary artist working in sculpture, painting, and performance. She has exhibited and performed throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City, including at Root Division, Aggregate Space Gallery, The Midway Gallery, and MC Gallery. Katie was born in Columbus, Ohio and is graduating in 2023 from Parsons in New York City with her MFA in Fine Arts.