Alan Chin (artist)

[1] He lives and maintains a studio in Hawthorne, California, working in variety of traditional and experimental mediums including, ceramics, film, painting, photography, sculpture, and performance.

[1] He graduated from Acalanes High School in Lafayette, California in 2005, receiving the Brad Chinn Leadership Award, Citizen of the Year, and United States Congressional recognition for Art.

He attended Academie Minerva in Groningen, Netherlands and received his BFA in Ceramics and Painting (2011) at the California College of the Arts in Oakland, California[2] Greatly inspired by his creative family, surroundings, and nature; he studied traditional Japanese landscape, bonsai, and horticulture under Japanese Bonsai Masters, John Naka, Kunatoshi Akabane, and Yutaka Kimura.

[7] Chin taught Painting Atilier at California College of the Arts and was invited back as a visiting lecturer in Ceramics.

[8][9] In 2017, Chin was selected to represent the United States at the first East Lake International Ecological Sculpture Biennale in Wuhan, China.