Kara Chin
Kara Chin is a British-Singaporean artist working across animation, ceramics, and installation. 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.
Installation view, Kara Chin: The Wasteland: PAY AND DISPLAY at FACT, Liverpool Biennial Liverpool, UK, 2025. © Mark McNulty. Courtesy of the artist.
Installation view, Kara Chin: The Wasteland: PAY AND DISPLAY at FACT, Liverpool Biennial Liverpool, UK, 2025. © Mark McNulty. Courtesy of the artist.
Installation view, Kara Chin: The Wasteland: PAY AND DISPLAY at FACT, Liverpool Biennial Liverpool, UK, 2025. © Mark McNulty. Courtesy of the artist.
Installation view, Kara Chin: The Wasteland: PAY AND DISPLAY at FACT, Liverpool Biennial Liverpool, UK, 2025. © Mark McNulty. Courtesy of the artist.
Installation view, Kara Chin: Mapping The Wasteland: Berry Street, Liverpool Biennial Liverpool, UK, 2025. © Mark McNulty. Courtesy of the artist.
Installation view, Kara Chin: Mapping The Wasteland: Berry Street, Liverpool Biennial Liverpool, UK, 2025. © Mark McNulty. Courtesy of the artist.
Installation view, Kara Chin: The Wasteland: PAY AND DISPLAY at FACT, Liverpool Biennial Liverpool, UK, 2025. © Mark McNulty. Courtesy of the artist.
Kara Chin
FATAL BLOW (production still), 2025
6-Channel interactive animation. 1080p 16:9 (x6)
© Kara Chin. Courtesy of the artist.
Installation view, Kara Chin: Twisting the Air with Unseen Tendrils at Basel Social Club with Linseed Gallery, Basel, CH, 2024. Courtesy of the artist and Linseed.
Installation view, Kara Chin: Twisting the Air with Unseen Tendrils at Basel Social Club with Linseed Gallery, Basel, CH, 2024. Courtesy of the artist and Linseed.
Installation view, Kara Chin: Twisting the Air with Unseen Tendrils at Basel Social Club with Linseed Gallery, Basel, CH, 2024. Courtesy of the artist and Linseed.
Installation view, Kara Chin: Twisting the Air with Unseen Tendrils at Basel Social Club with Linseed Gallery, Basel, CH, 2024. Courtesy of the artist and Linseed.
Installation view, Kara Chin: The Wasteland: PAY AND DISPLAY at FACT, Liverpool Biennial Liverpool, UK, 2025. © Mark McNulty. Courtesy of the artist.
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Installation view, Kara Chin: Shh the Film Is Starting at Art Basel Hong Kong with Linseed Gallery, Basel, CH, 2024. Courtesy of the artist and Linseed Gallery.
Installation view, Kara Chin: Shh the Film Is Starting at Art Basel Hong Kong with Linseed Gallery, Basel, CH, 2024. Courtesy of the artist and Linseed Gallery.
Installation view, Kara Chin: Shh the Film Is Starting at Art Basel Hong Kong with Linseed Gallery, Basel, CH, 2024. Courtesy of the artist and Linseed Gallery.
Kara Chin, Uneasy Over Head Wall Display 2, 2024
PLA, resin, 41 × 49 × 21 cm, Ed. 1/3.
© Photos 1-4 by Vic Harster. Courtesy of the artist and Linseed Gallery.
Kara Chin, Entrance 3, 2024
PLA, resin, polymer clay, digital print, carpet, felt, cardboard, LEDs, 34 × 24 × 14 cm.
© Photos 1-4 by Vic Harster. Courtesy of the artist and Linseed Gallery.
Kara Chin, Dolly Zoom, Scale Model, Seating Plan, 2024
PLA, resin, oil paint, glazed ceramic, grout, pigment, enamel paint, chord, 45 × 25 × 4 cm.
© Photos 1-4 by Vic Harster. Courtesy of the artist and Linseed Gallery.
Installation view, Kara Chin: Concerned Dogs, Goldsmiths CCA, London, UK, 2023. © Rob Harris. Courtesy of the artist and Goldsmiths CCA.
Installation view, Kara Chin: Concerned Dogs, Goldsmiths CCA, London, UK, 2023. © Rob Harris. Courtesy of the artist and Goldsmiths CCA.
Installation view, Kara Chin: Concerned Dogs, Goldsmiths CCA, London, UK, 2023. © Rob Harris. Courtesy of the artist and Goldsmiths CCA.
Kara Chin, Inaugurare (production still), 2023
Animation, 1080P, 16:9, 00:10:00 sound design by Christopher Owen.
© Kara Chin. Courtesy of the artist and Linseed Gallery.
Installation view, Kara Chin: Concerned Dogs, Goldsmiths CCA, London, UK, 2023. © Rob Harris. Courtesy of the artist and Goldsmiths CCA.
Kara Chin, Inaugurare (production still), 2023
Animation, 1080P, 16:9, 00:10:00 sound design by Christopher Owen.
© Kara Chin. Courtesy of the artist and Linseed Gallery.
Installation view, Kara Chin: Concerned Dogs, Goldsmiths CCA, London, UK, 2023. © Rob Harris. Courtesy of the artist and Goldsmiths CCA.
Installation view, Kara Chin: Concerned Dogs, Goldsmiths CCA, London, UK, 2023. © Rob Harris. Courtesy of the artist and Goldsmiths CCA.
Installation view, Kara Chin: Fountain of Youth, Huxley-Parlour Gallery, London, UK, 2021. © Rob Harris. Courtesy of the artist and Huxley-Parlour Gallery.
Installation view, Kara Chin: Fountain of Youth, Huxley-Parlour Gallery, London, UK, 2021. © Rob Harris. Courtesy of the artist and Huxley-Parlour Gallery.
Installation view, Kara Chin: Fountain of Youth, Huxley-Parlour Gallery, London, UK, 2021. © Rob Harris. Courtesy of the artist and Huxley-Parlour Gallery.
Kara Chin, Awakening Ceremony (production still), 2021
Animation displayed as 1080p, 16:9, 00:12:20.
© Kara Chin. Courtesy of the artist and Huxley-Parlour Gallery.
Installation view, Kara Chin: You Will Need, Vitrine Gallery, London, UK, 2021. © Rob Harris. Courtesy of the artist and Vitrine Gallery.
Installation view, Kara Chin: You Will Need, Vitrine Gallery, London, UK, 2021. © Rob Harris. Courtesy of the artist and Vitrine Gallery.
Kara Chin, Sims Dream Flour Shop, 2021
Timber, acrylic_oil_spray paint, expandable foam, salt dough, lacquer, printed card, milliputti, dollhouse items, glass, perspex, LEDs, other mixed media, 193 x 80 x 30 cm
© Harley Kuyck-Cohen. Courtesy of the artist and Vitrine Gallery.
Kara Chin, Items For Scale, 2021
Timber, PVA, cornflour, pigment, Variable sizes (52.5 x 93.5 x 5 cm).
© Harley Kuyck-Cohen. Courtesy of the artist and Vitrine Gallery.
Installation view, Kara Chin: You Will Need, Vitrine Gallery, London, UK, 2021. © Rob Harris. Courtesy of the artist and Vitrine Gallery.
Kara Chin, Self Raising, 2021
Perspex, glazed ceramic, vinyl, LEDs, 30 x 21 x 12 cm.
© Harley Kuyck-Cohen. Courtesy of the artist and Vitrine Gallery.