Mel Chin
WORKS
Reorganized Activites from Two Studies for an Elevation of the Cross, 2016
Tinte und Bleistift auf Pergament über Digitaldruck / Ink and graphite on vellum over printed digital image
46,3 x 46,3 cm
Quelle / Source: School of Verona, 15th Century
The Other Garden, 2016
Bleistift, Aquarell auf Papier / graphite, watercolour on paper
53 x 46 cm
Details from the Martyrdom of San Miniato: Flirtation & Jealousy / Cruelty & Suffering, 2015
Aquarell, Tusche und Bleistift auf Papier / Watercolor, ink and graphite on paper
48,5 x 63,2 cm
Quelle / Source: Orcagnesque Painter 1350–1375
Foto: Simon Vogel
M-16 Wunde, 2004–2006
Brosche, Weißgold, Rubin, Smaragd und Marquise Onyx / Brooch, whitegold, ruby, emerald and marquise onyx
5,3 x 6,4 cm
Anti-Personen-Streubombe, 2004–2006
Verzierter Käfig / Decorated cage
124,5 x 76,2 cm
Cluster (4 Teile), 2004–2006
Gold, Sterling Silber, rostfreier Stahl und Edelsteine / Gold, sterling silver, stainless steel and gemstones
BIOGRAPHY
1951 geboren in Houston, Texas / born in Houston, Texas
lebt und arbeitet in North Carolina / lives and works in North Carolina
Preise / Awards
2019
MacArthur Fellow, MacArthur Foundation
2015
Guggenheim Fellowship
2013–2015
A Blade of Grass Distinguished Artist Fellow
2012
Alice Award, Interdisciplinary Art
Public Art Network Award
2010
Honorary Doctorate, Green Mountain College
United States Artists, Fellow
Fritschy Prize, Sittard, Netherlands
2008
Honorary Doctorate, Maryland Institute College of Art
Joan Mitchell Foundation
Transforma Projects / National Performance Network
Nathan Cummings Foundation Award
Cross Currents Foundation
2007
Pedro Sienna Award, Best Animation, National Council fort the Arts and Cultures, Chile, for 911-911
Art Matters
Creative Capital Grant
2006
Honorary Docotrate, Rhode Island School of Design
2004
Nancy Graves Foundation Award 1990Art Matters, Inc: Artist’s Fellowship
2001
Creative Capital Grant
1997
Englehard Award
1996
Rockefeller Foundation Grant
1995
Cal Arts Alpert Award in the Visual Arts
1991
Joan Mitchell Foundation Award
Penny McCall Foundation Award
1990–1991
National Endowment for the Arts: Artist’s Projects / New Forms
1990
Mid Atlantic Art Foundation, Residency: Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
1989–1990
New York State Council fort the Arts, Sponsored Projects Award
1989
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant
Pollock / Krasner Foundation Fellowship
1988
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Founder’s Day Grant, Uranian Phlanstery: The First NY Gnostic Lyceum
1982
Visual Arts Commission, Houston Festival
Einzelausstellungen (Auswahl) / Solo shows (selection)
2022
There’s Something Happening Here, MMoCA, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, Wisconsin (USA)
Inescabable Histories, The Gallery at UTA, Arlington (USA)
2021
Points of View, Five Points Museum of Contemporary Art, Victoria, TX (USA)
2018
All Over The Place, Queens Museum of Art, New York, NY (USA)
Installation von Wake und Unmoored, Times Square New York, NY (USA)
Two Me, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (USA)
2016
TOTAL PROOF: The GALA Committee 1995–1997, Red Bull Studios, New York, NY (USA)
Mel Chin, Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Köln
All Over the Place: No Escape – a post-retrospective survey exhibition, Pennsylvania Pavilion, New York, NY (USA)
2015
MEL CHIN:REMATCH, Blaffer Art Museum and Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Houston, TX (USA)
2014
DISPARATE ACTS, Rowan University Gallery, Glassboro, NJ (USA)
MEL CHIN:REMATCH, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans; Contemporay Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (USA)
2013
Mel Chin – Best Laid Plans And Unauthorized Collaborations, Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Köln
RECAP, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC (USA)
The Use and Abuse of History in Contemporary Art special presentation at 21 St. Projects, New York, NY (USA)
2012
How Much DO I Owe You? präsentiert von / presented by No Longer Empty, Queens Plaza North, Long Island City, NY (USA)
It’s Not What You Think, Galerie Steinek, Wien (AUT)
High Low and Between, Ashville Art Museum
2011
Mel Chin, Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Köln
The Funk and Wag From A to Z, Nave Museum, Victoria, TX (USA)
2010
Disputed Territories, Het Domein Museum, Sittard (NLD)
2007
Lamentations and Drawings, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, NY (USA)
2006
Do Not Ask Me, Station Museum, Houston, TX (USA)
2003
Render, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
2002
Ecovention, CAC, Cincinnati, OH (USA)
2001
Knowmad, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
1997–1999
Inescabable Histories, Exhibits USA; (Wanderausstellung / travelling exhibition)
1996
Anxious Objects, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO (USA)
1992
Soil and Sky, The Fabric Workshop and Swarthmore College, Philadelphia, PA (USA)
1991
Mel Chin, Menil Collection, Houston, TX (USA)
Degrees of Paradise, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, NY (USA)
1990
Viewpoints. Mel Chin, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (USA); (Wanderausstellung / travelling exhibition)
1989
Directions. Mel Chin, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (USA)
1988
Selected Weapons, Frumkin / Adams Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
1987
The Operation of the Sun Through the Cult of the Hand, Loughelton Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
1985
Modus Operandi: 1974–1985, Diverse Arbeiten, Houston, TX (USA)
1977
Robinson Galleries, Houston, TX (USA)
1976
Robinson Galleries, Houston, TX (USA)
Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl) / Group shows (selection)
2019
14. Triennale Fellbach Kleinplastik 2019, Fellbach
Currency, 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, NM (USA)
2017
DOUBLE CODING – COLLECTION MUDAM, Mudam Luxembourg (LUX)
2016
Southern Accent – Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC (USA)
Unloaded, Handwerker-Gallery-Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY (USA)
2015
TeleGen. Kunst und Fernsehen, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
Necessary Force: Art In The Police State, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Alburquerque, NM (USA)
2013
„no emotion“ Drawings from William Anastasi, Mel Chin and Jochem Hendricks, Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Brüssel (BEL)
2012
How Much do I Owe You?, No Longer Empty, Long Island, NY (USA)
No Man May Carry a Fish into a Bar, Blum and Poe Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (USA)
Chaotic Trajectories, Temporary Gallery Cologne, Köln
ARTIFACTUAL realities, Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, TX (USA)
This Side of Paradise präsentiert von / presented by No Longer Empty at the Andrew Freedman Home, Bronx New York, NY (USA)
2011
Living As Form, Creative Time, New York, NY (USA)
2010
Forbidden Love: Art in the wake of Television Camp, Koelnischer Kunstverein, Köln
2009
The Flag, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA (USA)
No Zoning – Artists Engage Houston, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX (USA)
2008
Close Encounters – Facing The Future, American University Museum, Washington, DC (USA)
Wunderkammer – A Century of Curiosities, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (USA)
Ornithology – Looking at Birds, University of Conneticut, CT (USA)
2005
Road in Sight, Duke University, Durham, NC (USA)
Down the Garden Path, Queens Museum of Art, Long Island City, NY (USA)
2004
Freedom Salon, Deitch Projects, New York, NY (USA)
Botanica – Contemporary Art and the Wolrd of Plants, Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN (USA); (Wanderausstellung / Travelling exhibition)
2003
Signatures of the Invisible, PS!, New York, NY (USA)
2002
A New World Trade Center – Design Proposals, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
Selections from The Collection of Wilhelm Schürmann, Ständehaus Museum K21, Düsseldorf
The Culture of Violance, Amherst College Museum, Amherst, MASS
Ecoventions, Cincinnati Art Center, Cincinnati, OH (USA)
2001
Lyon Biennal, Lyon (FRA)
Tele(Visions), Kunsthalle, Wien (AUT)
One Planet Under A Groove, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY (USA)
2000
Texas, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (USA)
Money-Taking – The Fine Art of Currency, The Federal Reserve, Washington, DC (USA); (Wanderausstellung / travelling exhibition)
1999
Natural Reality – Artistic Positions Between Nature and Culture, Ludwig Forum für internationale Kunst, Aachen
World Views, Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (USA)
1997
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME (USA)
Boston College, Boston, MA (USA)
Uncommon Sense, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (USA)
Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju (KOR)
Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO (USA)
Lawing Gallery, Houston, TX (USA)
1996
In Print, Contemporary Artists at the Vinal Haven Press
Embedded Metaphor, Ringling Museum of Art
Western Washington University
Bowdin College Museum of Art
Contemporary Art Center Virginia
Wesleyan University
Art at the End of the 20th Century, Whitney Museum, New York, NY (USA)
National Gallery and Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athen (GRC)
Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (ESP)
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
Push/Pause, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL (USA)
Thinking Print, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (USA)
Is It Art?, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY (USA); (Wanderausstellung / travelling exhibition)
1995
Murder, Bergamot Station Art Center, Santa Monica, CA (USA)
Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY (USA)
Centre Gallery, Florida (USA)
Magic Objects, München
Grounded, ART/OMI, Omi, NY (USA)
Texas Myths and Realities, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (USA)
1994
New York Artists, Prag (CZE)
Out of This World, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (USA)
The Lure of the Local, University of Colorado at Boulder
The Garbage Show, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT (USA)
Public Interventions, ICA, Boston, MA (USA)
Landscape As Metaphor, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO (USA); (Wanderausstellung / travelling exhibition)
Equal Rights and Justice, High Museum, Atlanta, GA (USA)
Fifth Biennal of Havana, National Museum of Fine Arts, Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana (CUB)
Refuse/Refuse, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawaii (USA)
Old Glory. The American Flag in Contemporary Art, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, OH (USA)
Black Male. Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (USA)
Armand Hammer Collection, Los Angeles, CA (USA)
1993
From Destrucion to Reclamation – Art and the Environment in the Nineties, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC (USA)
Exposition Differentes Natures, La Defense, Paris (FR); (Wanderausstellung / travelling exhibition)
Kunst-Kultur-Ökologie, Bea Voigt Galerie, München
Natural Unnatural, TZ Art & Company, New York, NY (USA)
1992
Beyond Glory – Re-Presenting Terrorism, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD (USA)
The Retangled Bank, E. M. Donahue Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
Allocations – Art for a Natural and Artificial Environment, Floriadepark, Zoetermeer (NL)
Putt Modernism, Artists Space, New York, NY (USA); (Wanderausstellung / travelling exhibition)
Fragile Ecologies, Smithsonian Museum (ursprünglich / originally The Queens Museum of Art), New York, NY (USA)
Markets of Resistance, White Columns, New York, NY (USA)
1991
The Subversive Stitch, Simon Watson Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
Glass. Material in the Service of Meaning, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA (USA)
Salvage Utopia, A/C Projekt Room, New York, NY (USA)
1990
Tradition and Innovation. A Museum Celebration of Texas Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (USA)
The Fifth Essence, Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
International Memorial Arts Festival: China: June 4, ICA (P.S.1), Long Island City, NY (USA)
This Land – The State of Texas, Lawndale Art and Performance Center, Houston, TX (USA)
The Conceptual Impulse, Security Pacific Gallery, Costa Mensa, CA (USA)
Garbage Out Front – A New Era of Public Design, The Municipal Art Society, New York, NY (USA)
Diverse Representations, Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ (USA)
1989
Sculpture – Part II, Frumkin/Admas Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
China, June 4, 1989, Blum Helman Warehouse, New York, NY (USA)
1988
Spectrum. New Developements in Three Dimensions, Frumin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
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)
Art Against Aids, Benefit Exhibition and Auction, Houston, TX (USA)
Public Art in Chinatown, Asian American Arts Center, New York, NY (USA)
1987
The Double Bind, Loughelton Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
Notes on the Virtual, Loughelton Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
1986
The Texas Landscape 1900–1986, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (USA)
1983
Showdown / Lowdown – Art of the Southwest, Alternative Museum, New York, NY (USA)
Seen / Unseen, Diverse Works, Houston, TX (USA)
Benefit for Amnesty International, USA, Diverse Works, Houston, TX (USA)
1982
Prisoners of Conscience, Studio One, Houston, TX (USA); (Wanderausstellung / travelling exhibition organisiert von / organized by Amnesty International)
1979
Fire, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (USA)
1977
Houston Area, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, TX (USA)
Sammlungen / Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (USA)
New York Public Library, New York, NY (USA)
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (USA)
Walker Art Center Minneapolis, MN (USA)
Harold Washington Library, Chicago, IL (USA)
The Menil Collection, Houston, TX (USA)
Museum of Fine Art (MFAH), Houston, TX (USA)
Birmingham Museum, Birmingham, AL (USA)
Art Car Museum, Houston, TX (USA)
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME (USA)
City of Corpus Christi, TX (USA)
City of Houston, TX (USA)
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (USA)
El Paso Museum of Art, EL Paso, TX (USA)
The Federal Reserve, Washington, DC (USA)
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA (USA)
The Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC (USA)
Sammlung Gaby und Wilhelm Schürmann
Sammlung Dohmen Aachen
Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winterpark, FL (USA)
SELECTED PRESS
Catalogues and Publications
Selection
2019
14. Fellbach Triennale, 40.000 Ein Museum der Neugier, Koenig Books, London (GB)
2014
Mel Chin: Disparate Acts, Rowan University Art Gallery, Glassboro, NJ (USA)
Rematch: Mel Chin, Ausst.-Kat., New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA (USA)
2011
DO NOT ASK ME MEL CHIN, Ausst-Kat., Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, TX (USA)
2005
American Art – A Cultural History, Prentice Hall (USA)
2004
Imagining Ground Zero, Rizzoli &
Architectural Record (USA)
2003
Neuer Aachener Kunstverein (Vol. 3, Nr.10)
2002
Art History – second edition, Harry N. Abrams, Prentice Hall
ERDE, Elemente des Naturhaushalts III, Schriftenreihe Forum Band 11, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Hrsg.)
2001
Art of the 21st Century, PBS Documentary, airing Fall, Abrams book pub, JOSEPH BEUYS Mapping the Legacy, Gene Ray (Hrsg.), The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, D.A.P., New York, NY
Nature, Art, Paysage, Actes Sud/Ecole Nationale Superieure Du Paysage/Centre Du Paysage
2000
Trans/Plant, LIVING VEGETATION IN CONTEMPORARY ART, Hatje Cantz
Three Houston History Lessons, Good, Toni Beauchamp (Hrsg.), Houston, TX (USA)
Texas, Ausst.-Kat., The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
(USA)
Botanica, Contemporary Art and the World of Plants, Ausst.-Kat., Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN (USA)
1999
Natural Reality, The Unity of Man and Nature: Between Desire and Reality, Ausst.-Kat., Daco, Verlag, Stuttgart
ECO-TEC Architecture of the In-Between,
Princeton Architectural Press, Amerigo Marras (Hrsg)
On the Beaten Track: tourism, art, and place, The New Press
1998
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
Jeffrey Kastner (Hrsg.), Land and Environmental Art, Phaidon
1997
Subverting Landscape, Public Art Review, Vol. 8, No. 2
Negotiating Art: The Artist and the Museum, Ausst.-Kat., Uncommon Sense MOCA, Los Angeles, CA (USA)
Getting Graphic: Experimentation at the Vinalhaven Press, In Print – Contemporary Artists at the Vinalhaven Press, Ausst.-Kat. (Wanderausstellung / traveling exhibition), Portland, MN (USA)
Museum of Art, Portland, MN (USA)
The Lure of the Local, senses of place in a multi-centered society, The New Press
1996
The Edge That Cuts…, Ausst.-Kat.
INESCAPABLE HISTORIES,
SCRATCH, Ausst.-Kat., Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY (USA)
Inescapable Histories, Inward Gaze to the World, Ausst.-Kat. Inescapable Histories, Exhibits (USA)
Art On the Edge and Over, Art Insights, Inc., Exhibits (USA)
1995
Myth-Making and Myth-Breaking: Multiple Meanings in Mel Chin’s Revival Field,
Art Criticism, Vol. 10, No. 2 (USA)
Viewpoints: Mel Chin, Ausst.-Kat., Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (USA)
Murder, Ausst.-Kat., Bergamot Station Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA (USA)
1994
Visions of America: Landscape As Metaphor in the Late Twentieth Century, Ausst.-Kat., Denver Art Museum / Columbus Art Museum (USA)
Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art,
Ausst.-Kat., Whitney Museum of American Art (USA)
Equal Rights & Justice, Ausst.-Kat., High Museum of Art (USA)
1993
SOIL & SKY, Ausst.-Kat., The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA (USA)
1992
ALLOCATIONS – Art For a Natural
and Artificial Environment, Ausst.-Kat. (Niederländische und Deutsche Editionen / Dutch and English editions)
Fragile Ecologies, Ausst.-Kat., Rizzoli
1990
Diverse Representations, Ausst.-Kat., Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ (USA)
1989
Directions: Mel Chin, Ausst. Kat., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (USA)
1988
To Propose, To Provoke, Ausst.-Kat., Public Art in Chinatown, Asian American Arts Centre, New York, NY (USA)
1987
Mel Chin: The Operation of the Sun Through the Cult of the Hand, Ausst.-Kat., Loughelton Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
Artikel / Articles
Auswahl / Selection
Sheetsnov, Hilarie M.: Mel Chin to Sound the Call, All Over New York, in: The New York Times, 21.11.2017
Battaglia, Andy: New Art Exhibit Channels ‚Melrose Place‘, The Wall Street Journal, 29.09.2016
Mel Chin, Current LA Water, 2016
Grimes, William: The Plot to Put Conceptual Art on ‘Melrose Place.’ Yes, Really., in: The New York Times, 28.09.2016
Carlson, Jen: Did You Know The Props On ‚Melrose Place‘ Were Covert Works Of Art With Coded Meanings?, in: gothamist, 25.08.2016
Piepenbring, Dan: Now I Have to Rewatch Melrose Place, and Other News, in: The Paris Review, 10.08.2016
Miller, M.H.: Remembering When ’Melrose Place’ became a Conceptual Art project: Mel Chin’s Gala Committee returns this fall, in: ARTnews, 01.08.2016
Glentzer, Molly: Houston welcomes home an art world heavyweight, Mel Chin, in: Houston Chronicle, 09.01.2015
Lash, Miranda: Q+A with Mel Chin, in: MODERNPAINTERS, Mai 2014, S. 84–89
Miranda, Carolina A., Changing the World, One Row House at a Time, in: ARTnews, April 2014, S. 58–65
Strickland, Carol: Getting the Lead Out: Mel Chin, in: Art in America www.artinamericamagazine.com, 01.04.2014
Spears, Dorothy: Exhibition Traces a Career Dedicated to Mutability, in: The New York Times, 20.04.2014
Riess, Jeanie: Rematch – the Mel Chin exhibit opening today at NOMA, is beautiful and informative, www.bestofneworleans.com/blogofneworleans, 21.02.2014
Wach, Alexandra: Die Chaos-Theorie, in: Die Welt, 21.07.2012
Wege, Astrid: Mel Chin. Thomas Rehbein Galerie, in: Artforum September 2011, S. 360–361
Imdahl, Georg: Der doppelte 11. September. Kurzweilig und kritisch – Der Amerikaner Mel Chin in der Galerie Thomas Rehbein, in: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, 20.05.2011
Puvogel, Renate: Mel Chin. Disputed Territories, in: Kunstforum International, Januar/Februar 2011, S. 371–372
Critic’s Picks, in: ARTFORUM.com, 2009
Reid, Michael: Twin Traumas: A Graphic Link, in: Victoria Times Colonist, 30.10.2006
French, Christopher: Mel Chin, in: ArtPapers, September/Oktober 2006
Klaasmeyer, Kelly: Should We Stay or Should We Go?, in: Houston Press, 11.–17.11.2005
Art Reflects Politics at Station, in: Houston Chronicle, 30.10.2004
Fischer, Jack: Mel Chin’s ideas enliven S. J. Library, in: San Jose Mercury News, 24.08.2003
Gant, Michael S.: Biblio Art, Metro, Metroactive Home, 17–23.08.2003
Fischer, Jack: Full of Surprises, in: San Jose Mercury News, 07.08.2003
Cotter, Holland: Art in Review: Mel Chin, in: The New York Times, 21.03.2003
Tsai, Eugenia: Mel Chin, in: Time Out New York, 21.03.2003
Wines, Susan: Where the twin towers stood, in: Domus, 846, März 2002
Montreuil, Gregory: Mel Chin, in: New Art Examiner, März 2001
Milano, Carol: Rugs as Computer Game, in: The KNOWMAD Show, AREA, Frühjahr 2001
Sirmans, Franklin: Mel Chin: KNOWMAD, in: Time Out, Dezember 2000
Patterson, Tom: Bring Along Your Brain, in: Winston-Salem Journal, 04.10.1998
Rahm, Philippe: Sous les pavés, l’herbe, in: l’architecture d’aujourd’hui, Juni 1998
Cameron, Dan: Opening Salvos, Part Two, in: Arts Magazine, Februar 1998
Thorson, Alice: Melrose Art, in: The Kansas City Star, 01.02.1998
Dancing in the name of art, in: The Daily Evergreen, 10.02.1998
Artist visits project with BBC in tow, in: Houston Chronicle, Zest Section, 07.12.1997
Adams, Alice: Gardens, art space, Downtown/Neartown, in: Houston Chronicle, 16.07.1997
Sharkey, Betsy: Art for Art’s Sake. On Fox, Mediaweek, 07.07.1997
Mitchell, Charles Dee: Critical Imagery, in: The Dallas Morning News, 02.07.1997
Magazine, Flagpole, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, Vol. 11 / No. 24, June 18, 1997
Meta Bauer, Ute / Armaly, Fareed: Mel Chin Conversando con Ute Meta Bauer y Fareed Armaly, in: Georgia Magazine, University of Georgia, Athen, Juni 1997
Masterpiece Theatre, Village Voice, 22.04.1997
Intra, Giovanni: report from los angeles, in: artnet.com, 16.04.1997
Wyatt, Kristen: Melrose‘ Set a Canvas for Students‘ Art, in: The Red & Black, 01.04.1997
Katauskas, Ted: Agitpop, Talk Of the Town, in: The New Yorker, 24.03.1997
Knight, Christopher: The Socio-Art Genre, in: Los Angeles Times, 18.03.1997
McKenna, Christine: Cause and Effects, L.A. Times, 16.03.1997
Nakane, Kazuko: Mel Chin at Western Washington University, in: Vol 2 / No. 3, Artweek, März 1997
Litt, Steven: NOVA takes one small step for arts, in: The Plain Dealer, 25.10.1995
Alchimie Auf Verseuchtem Grund, in: Der Standard, Album, 22.09.1995
Ex-Houstonian Wins California Arts Award, in: Houston Chronicle, 05.05.1995
Rosser, Phyllis: Mel Chin’s Invisible Architecture, in: Public Art Review, Herbst/Winter 1994
Making Trouble, High Performance, Winter 1994
Hummer, Tracey C.: Review, dialogue, November/Dezember 1994
Dunn, Teri: Cleansing Gardens, in: Sanctuary-The Journal of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, September/Oktober 1994
Visible Man, in: The Village Voice, 22.11.1994
Fox, Catherine: Equal Rights & Justice, in: The Atlanta Constitution, 05.06.1994
Dollens, Dennis L.: Bon Barrage … Storefront and Eco Tec, in: Telescope Magazine, Winter 1993
Mel Chin, lecture transcript, in: Art Papers, Volume 17 / No. 3, Mai/Juni 1993
Hager, Mary: New Hopes for Old Plants, in: Newsweek, Focus, 23.11.1992
Heartney, Eleanor: Skeptics in Utopia, in: Art in America, Juli 1992
Wong, Bill: You first see a red wall, in: Asian Week, 19.05.1992
Tanner, Marcia: A Conversation with Mel Chin, in: Artweek, 18.05.1992
Murphy, Jay: Mel Chin at The Menil Collection, in: Art in America, April 1992
Mahoney, Robert: Mel Chin, in: Arts Magazine, März 1992
Lewis, Jim: Fertile Ground, in: HG, Januar 1992
Lindsay, Marina: Lettuce Landfills, in: Buzzword, Vol. IV / No. 2, 1992
Inescapable Histories, in: The Village Voice, 31.12.1991
Cembalest, Robin: Lettuce in the Landfill, in: Art News, November 1991
Schwendenwien, Jude: Breaking Ground – Art in the Environment, Sculpture, September/Oktober 1991
Scott, Diana: Resurrecting History, in: Metropolis, September 1991
McBride, Elizabeth: Mel Chin – Dialectic Materials, in: Artspace, Herbst 1991
Kim, Byron: Mel Chin: Visionary and Activist, in: Asian New Yorker, Juli 1991
Unsigned, Mel Chin at the Menil Collection – Review, in: Flash Art, Sommer 1991
Artist Mel Chin wants to make people think, in: The Houston Post, Section D, 01.05.1991
The Politics of Mel Chin, in: The Houston Post, 28.04.1991
Inquiring Mind: Survey of work reveals Mel Chin’s view of the world, in: Houston Chronicle, 28.04.1991
Riddle, Mason: Mel Chin, in: Arts Magazine, Februar 1991
Henry, Gerrit: Mel Chin: Surveying Heaven and Earth, Sculpture, Januar/Februar 1991
Eco-Offensive Art, in: The Village Voice, Vol. XXXVI / No. 1, 01.01.1991
Holden, Constance, NEA Dumps on Science Art, Science, Vol. 250, December 14, 1990
Abbe, Mary: Sculptor eloquently confronts problems, in: Star Tribune, Minneapolis, MN, 08.11.1990
Seeing Beyond, in: Connoisseur, November 1990
C. Carr: The Endangered Artists List, in: Village Voice Vol.XXXV / No.34, 21.08.1990
Lawndale’s down-to-earth exhibit, in: Houston Chronicle, 26.04.1990
Cunningham, Kevin: Off the Wall, in: Houston Press, 01.03.1990
Houston artist basks in light of recognition, in: The Houston Post, 07.02.1990
Mixed Blessings: New Art in Multicultural America, in: Pantheon, NY 1990
Kachur, Lewis: Sculptors Turn to Social Themes, in: Art International, Winter 1989
Barbiero, Daniel: Mel Chin – Sculpture, Mai / Juni 1989
True to Form: Houston-Born Mel Chin Addresses Power & Politics in Three New Sculptures, in: Houston Chronicle, 16.04.1989
Mel Chin, in: Arts Magazine, März 1989
Choices, in: The Village Voice, 20.12.1988
Familiar Palm Sculpture Restored to its Museum Oasis, in: Houston Post, 25.09.1988
Works More Complex Than Appearance Suggests, in: Houston Chronicle, 18.09.1988
Hess, Elizabeth: Our Chinatown, in: The Village Voice, Juli 1988
McCormick, Carlo: Operation of the Sun Through the Cult of the Hand, in: Artforum, March 1988
Levin, Kim: Choices, in: The Village Voice, 05.01.1988
Chadwick, Susan: Mel Chin, Alain Clement, Frank Fajardo, William Steen and Forrest Prince at Graham Gallery, in: Houston Post, 25.09.1988
Artist tackles the universe, assisted by alchemy, in: Houston Chronicle, 30.11.1987
Texas Artists in New York: John Alexander, Mel Chin, Sally Gall and Earl Staley, in: Houston Chronicle, 23.03.1987
Gambrel, Jamey: Art Capital of the Third Coast, in: Art in America, April 1987
Hill, Ed / Bloom, Suzanne: Review, in: Artforum, Januar 1986
Tennant, Donna: Review, in: Art News, Januar 1986
Steen, William: Mel Chin: Modus Operandi, The Lawndale Inquirer, Oktober/November 1985
Mel Chin: Poetic, Pragmatic With a Rare Sensitivity, in: Houston Chronicle, 22.09.1985
Johnson, Patricia: Mel Chin’s ‚Landscape‘ is One of Those Rare Breathtaking Art Works, in: Houston Chronicle, 26.03.1982