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Mel Chin Biography
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1951 |
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Born in Houston, Texas, USA
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1982 |
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Visual Arts Commission, Houston Festival
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1988 |
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National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
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1988 |
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Founder’s Day Grant, Uranian Phlanstery: The First NY Gnostic Lyceum
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1989 |
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Pollock/Krasner Foundation Fellowship
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1989 |
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Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant
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1990 - 1991 |
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National Endowment for the Arts: Artist’s Projects/New Forms
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1991 |
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Joan Mitchell Foundation Award
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1991 |
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Penny McCall Foundation Award
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1995 |
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Cal Arts Alpert Award in the Visual Arts
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1996 |
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Rockefeller Foundation Grant
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2001 |
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Creative Capital Grant
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2004 |
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Nancy Graves Foundation Award 1990Art Matters, Inc: Artist’s Fellowship
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2006 |
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Honorary Docotrate, Rhode Island School of Design
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2007 |
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Pedro Sienna Award, Best Animation, National Council fort he Arts and Cultures, Chile, for 911-911
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2007 |
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Creative Capital Grant
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2008 |
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Honorary Doctorate, Maryland Institute College of Art
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2008 |
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Award: Joan Mitchell Foundation
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2008 |
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Award: Transforma Projects / National Performance Network
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2008 |
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Nathan Cummings Foundation Award
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2008 |
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Cross Currents Foundation
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Lives in North Carolina, USA
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2011
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Mel Chin, Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Köln (solo)
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2010
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Mel Chin, Het Domein Museum, Sittard, The Netherlands (solo)
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2009
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The Flag, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA, USA (group)
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2009
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No Zoning. Artists Engage Houston, Contemporary Art Musuem, Houston, TX, USA (group)
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2008
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Close Encounters. Facing The Future, American University Museum, Washington, DC (group)
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2008
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Wunderkammer. A Century of Curiosities, Museum of Modern Art, New York (group)
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2008
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Ornithology. Looking at Birds, University of Conneticut (group)
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2007
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Mel Chin. Lamentations and Drawings, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York (solo)
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2006
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Do Not Ask Me, Station Museum, Houston, TX, USA (solo)
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2005
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Road in Sight, Duke University, Durham, NC (group)
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2005
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Down the Garden Path, Queens Museum of Art, Long Island City, NY (group)
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2004
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Freedom Salon, Deitch Projects, New York (group)
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2004
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Botanica. Contemporary Art and the Wolrd of Plants, Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN, USA (group)
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2003
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Signatures of the Invisible, PS!, New York (group)
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2003
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Render, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York (solo)
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2002
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Ecovention, CAC, Cincinnati, OH, USA (solo)
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2002
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New World Trade Center. Design Proposals, Max Protetch Gallery, New York (group)
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2002
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Selections from The Collection of Wilhelm Schürmann, Ständehaus Museum K21, Düsseldorf, Germany (group)
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2002
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The Culture of Violance, Amherst College Museum, Amherst, MASS, USA (group)
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2002
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Ecoventions, Cincinnati Art Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA (group)
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2001
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Lyon Biennal, Lyon, France (group)
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2001
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Tele(Visions), Kunsthalle, Vienna (group)
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2001
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One Planet Under A Groove, Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY (group)
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2001
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Knowmad, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York (solo)
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2000
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Money-Taking. The Fine Art of Currency, The Federal Reserve, Washington, DC, USA (group)
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2000
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Texas, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX, USA (group)
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2000
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Money-Making: The Fine Art of Currency, The Federal Reserve, Washington, D.C., traveling
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2000
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KNOWMAD, Frederieke Taylor gallery New York, NY
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1999 - 2000
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Botanica, Contemporary Art and the World of Plants, Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth, MN, traveling
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1999
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Natural Reality, Artistic Positions Between Nature and Culture, Ludwig Forum for International Art Aachen, Germany (group)
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1999
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World Views, Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN, USA (group)
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1997 - 1999
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Inescapable Histories, Exhibits USA, traveling exhibition (solo)
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1997
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Uncommon Sense, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, CA, USA (group)
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1997
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Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME, USA (group)
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1997
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Boston College, Boston, MA, USA (group)
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1997
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Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, Korea (group)
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1997
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Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO, USA (group)
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1997
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Lawing Gallery, Houston, TX, USA (group)
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1996
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Wesleyan University (group)
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1996
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Art at the End of the 20th Century, Whitney Museum, New York (group)
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1996
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National Gallery and Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athen, Greece (group)
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1996
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Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain (group)
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1996
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Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany (group)
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1996
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Push/Pause, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA (group)
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1996
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Thinking Print, Museum of Modern Art, New York (group)
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1996
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Is It Art?, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY (group)
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1996
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In Print, Contemporary Artists at the Vinal Haven Press (group)
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1996
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Embedded Metaphor, Ringling Museum of Art (group)
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1996
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Western Washington University (group)
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1996
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Bowdin College Museum of Art (group)
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1996
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Contemporary Art Center Virginia (group)
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1996
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Art at the End of the 20th Century, Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY, traveled
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1996
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Thinking Print, Museum of Modern Art New York, NY (group)
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1995
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Texas Myths and Realities, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX, USA (group)
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1995
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Anxious Objects, Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO (solo)
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1995
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Centre Gallery, Florida, USA (group)
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1995
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Magic Objects, München, Germany (group)
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1995
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Grounded, ART/OMI, Omi, NY, USA (group)
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1995
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Murder, Bergamot Station Art Center, Santa Monica, CA, USA (group)
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1995
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Thread Waxing Space, New York (group)
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1994
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New York Artists, Prague (group)
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1994
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Out of This World, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, USA (group)
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1994
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The Lure of the Local, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA (group)
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1994
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The Garbage Show, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, USA (group)
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1994
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Public Interventions, ICA, Boston, MA, USA (group)
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1994
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Landscape As Metaphor, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, USA (group)
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1994
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Equal Rights and Justice, High Museum, Atlanta, GA, USA (group)
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1994
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Refuse/Refuse, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawaii (group)
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1994
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Old Glory. The American Flag in Contemporary Art, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, OH, USA (group)
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1994
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Armand Hammer Collection, Los Angeles, CA, USA (group)
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1994
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Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY (group)
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1994
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Fifth Biennial of Havana, National Museum of Fine Arts, Centro Wifredo Lam Havana, Cuba (group)
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1993
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Kunst-Kultur-Okologie, Bea Voigt Gallery Munich, Germany (group)
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1993
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From Destrucion to Reclamation. Art and the Environment in the Nineties, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, USA (group)
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1993
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Exposition Differentes Natures, La Defense, Paris, France (group)
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1993
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Natural Unnatural, TZ Art & Company, New York (group)
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1992
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Beyond Glory. Re-Presenting Terrorism, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, USA (group)
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1992
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The Retangled Bank, E. M. Donahue Gallery, New York (group)
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1992
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Allocations. Art for a Natural and Artificial Environment, Floriadepark, Zoetermeer, The Netherlands (group)
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1992
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Fragile Ecologies, Smithsonian Museum (ursprünglich The Queens Museum of Art), New York (group)
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1992
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Markets of Resistance, White Columns, New York (group)
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1992
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Putt Modernism, Artists Space New York, NY (group)
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1992
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Soil and Sky, The Fabric Workshop and Swarthmore College Philadelphia, PA (solo)
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1991
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The Subversive Stitch, Simon Watson Gallery New York, NY (group)
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1991
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Mel Chin, Menil Collection Houston, TX (solo)
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1991
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Degrees of Paradise, Storefront for Art and Architecture New York, NY (solo)
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1991
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Glass. Material in the Service of Meaning, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, USA (group)
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1991
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Salvage Utopia, A/C Projekt Room, New York (group)
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1990
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Tradition and Innovation. A Museum Celebration of Texas Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA (group)
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1990
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The Fifth Essence, Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York (group)
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1990
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This Land. The State of Texas, Lawndale Art and Performance Center, Houston, TX, USA (group)
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1990
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The Conceptual Impulse, Security Pacific Gallery, Costa Mensa, CA, USA (group)
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1990
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Garbage Out Front. A New Era of Public Design, The Municipal Art Society, New York (group)
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1990
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Diverse Representations, Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey, USA (group)
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1990
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Viewpoints: Mel Chin, Walker Art Center Minneapolis, MN, traveling exhibition (solo)
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1990
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International Memorial Arts Festival: China: June 4, ICA (P.S.1) Long Island City, NY (group)
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1989
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Directions: Mel Chin, Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Washington, D.C. (solo)
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1989
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Sculpture. Part II, Frumkin/Admas Gallery, New York (group)
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1989
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China, June 4, 1989, Blum Helman Warehouse, New York (group)
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1988
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Texas Art. Selections from the Menil Collection, the Museum of Fine Arts and the Trustees’ Collections of the Contemporary Arts Museum, Menil Collection, Houston, TX, USA (group)
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1988
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Art Against Aids, Benefit Exhibition and Auction, Houston, TX, USA (group)
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1988
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Public Art in Chinatown, Asian American Arts Center, New York, USA (group)
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1988
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Selected Weapons, Frumkin/Adams Gallery New York, NY (solo)
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1988
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Spectrum: New Developments in Three Dimensions, Frumkin/Adams Gallery New York (group)
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1987
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The Operation of the Sun through the Cult of the Hand, Loughelton Gallery New York (solo)
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1987
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The Double Bind, Loughelton Gallery, New York (group)
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1987
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Notes on the Virtual, Loughelton Gallery, New York (group)
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1986
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The Texas Landscape 1900 – 1986, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA (group)
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1985
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Modus Operandi: 1974-1985, Diverse Works Houston, TX, USA (solo)
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1983
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Showdown/Lowdown. Art of the Southwest, Alternative Museum, New York (group)
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1983
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Seen/Unseen, Diverse Works, Houston, TX, USA (group)
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1983
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Benefit for Amnesty International, USA, Diverse Works, Houston, TX, USA (group)
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1982
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Prisoners of Conscience, Org. by Amnesty International, Studio One Houston, TX, USA (group)
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1979
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Fire, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, USA (group)
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1977
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Houston Area, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, TX, USA (group)
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1976 - 1977
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Robinson Galleries Houston, TX, USA (solo)
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1976
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Robinson Galleries, Houston TX, USA (solo)
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| Literature |
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2005
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American Art A Cultural History, Prentice Hall
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2004
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Imagining Ground Zero, Rizzoli &
Architectural Record
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2003
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Neuer Aachener Kunstverein (vol. 38. Nr.10)
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2002
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Art History, second edition, Harry N. Abrams, Prentice Hall
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2002
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ERDE, Elemente des Naturhaushalts III, Schriftenreihe Forum Band 11, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Hrsg.)
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2001
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Art of the 21st Century, PBS Documentary, airing Fall, Abrams book pub.
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2001
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JOSEPH BEUYS Mapping the Legacy Gene Ray (Hrsg.), The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, D.A.P., New York, NY
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2001
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Nature, Art, Paysage, Actes Sud/Ecole Nationale Superieure Du Paysage/Centre Du Paysage
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2000
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Trans/Plant, LIVING VEGETATION IN CONTEMPORARY ART, Hatje Cantz
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2000
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Three Houston History Lessons, Good, Toni Beauchamp (Hrsg.), Houston, TX
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2000
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Texas, Ausst. Kat., The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
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2000
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Botanica, Contemporary Art and the World of Plants, Ausst. Kat., Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN
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1999
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Natural Reality, The Unity of Man and Nature: Between Desire and Reality, Ausst. Kat., Daco, Verlag, Stuttgart
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1999
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ECO-TEC Architecture of the In-Between,
Princeton Architectural Press, Amerigo Marras, (Hrsg)
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1999
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On the Beaten Track: tourism, art, and place, The New Press
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1998
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Prime Time: In the Name of the Place of Art and Television, In the Name of the Place, Ausst. Kat., Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO
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1998
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Jeffrey Kastner (Hrsg.), Land and Environmental Art, Phaidon
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1997
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Subverting Landscape, Public Art Review, Vol. 8, No.2
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1997
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Negotiating Art: The Artist and the Museum, Ausst. Kat., Uncommon Sense MOCA, Los Angeles
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1997
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Getting Graphic: Experimentation at the Vinalhaven Press, In Print - Contemporary Artists at the Vinalhaven Press, Ausst. Kat., traveling exhibition, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine
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1997
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The Lure of the Local, senses of place in a multi-centered society, The New Press
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1996
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The Edge That Cuts . . . , Ausst. Kat.
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1996
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INESCAPABLE HISTORIES, SCRATCH, Ausst. Kat., Thread Waxing Space, New York
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1996
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Inescapable Histories, Inward Gaze to the World, Ausst. Kat. Inescapable Histories, Exhibits, USA
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1996
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Art On the Edge and Over, Art Insights, Inc., Exhibits, USA
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1995
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Myth-Making and Myth-Breaking: Multiple Meanings in Mel Chin's Revival Field,
Art Criticism, Vol. 10, No. 2
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1995
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Viewpoints: Mel Chin, Ausst. Kat., Walker Art Center, Minneapolis , MN
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1995
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Murder, Ausst. Kat., Bergamot Station Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA
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1994
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Visions of America: Landscape As Metaphor in the Late Twentieth Century, Ausst. Kat., Denver Art Museum and Columbus Art Museum
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1994
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Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art,
Ausst. Kat., Whitney Museum of American Art
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1994
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Visions of America: Landscape As Metaphor in the Late Twentieth Century,
Ausst. Kat., Denver Art Museum and Columbus Art Museum
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1994
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Equal Rights & Justice, Ausst. Kat., High Museum of Art
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1994
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Visions of America: Landscape As Metaphor in the Late Twentieth Century,
Ausst. Kat., Denver Art Museum and Columbus Art Museum
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1994
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Equal Rights & Justice, Ausst. Kat., High Museum of Art
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1993
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SOIL & SKY, Ausst. Kat., The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia
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1993
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SOIL & SKY, Ausst. Kat., The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia
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1992
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ALLOCATIONS - Art For a Natural
and Artificial Environment, Ausst. Kat., Dutch and English editions
Fragile Ecologies, Ausst. Kat., Rizzoli
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1992
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ALLOCATIONS - Art For a Natural
and Artificial Environment, Ausst. Kat., Dutch and English editions
Fragile Ecologies, Ausst. Kat., Rizzoli
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1990
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Diverse Representations, Ausst. Kat., Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey
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1990
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Diverse Representations, Ausst. Kat., Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey
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1989
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Directions: Mel Chin, Ausst. Kat., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
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1989
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Directions: Mel Chin, Ausst. Kat., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
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1988
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To Propose, To Provoke, Ausst. Kat., Public Art in Chinatown, Asian American Arts Centre, New York, NY
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1988
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To Propose, To Provoke, Ausst. Kat., Public Art in Chinatown, Asian American Arts Centre, New York, NY
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1987
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Mel Chin: The Operation of the Sun Through the Cult of the Hand, Ausst. Kat., Loughelton Gallery, New York, NY
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1987
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Mel Chin: The Operation of the Sun Through the Cult of the Hand, Ausst. Kat., Loughelton Gallery, New York, NY
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