photo by Kelsey Hunter
Grace D. Chin graduated from the University of Kansas in 2012 with a BFA in printmaking. She is currently based in Berlin, Germany.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
2012 B.F.A, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Publications
2021 “Where Are You From?,” Comic for Inappropriate Questions, Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Podcasts
2018 “No One Does It Alone,” Comic Article/Essay in Good Company Magazine, Issue
No. 1, Spring 2018
2017 “Do Artists Have an Obligation to be Political?,” Essay on Design*Sponge blog,
12.09.2017 (http://www.designsponge.com/2017/09/do-artists-and-designers-
have-an-obligation-to-be-political.html)
Professional Appearances and Interviews
2023 24-Stunden-Comic am Wannsee, Literarisches Colloquium Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2019 ART 540: Professional Activities Seminar, Guest Speaker University of Kansas,
Lawrence, Kansas
2018 Good Company Magazine Launch Tour, Panel Discussion, Panel Host: Grace Bonney,
Unity Temple, Kansas City, Missouri
Seeing Success: Everything that Rises Must Converge, Panel Discussion, Southern
Graphics Council International Conference, Chairs: Michael Krueger and Breanne
Trammell Las Vegas, Nevada
Delicate Phrasing, Episode Guest, Hello Atelier Podcast, episode 024, 18.01.2018
On Flowers and Paper Flower, Interview by Lydia Gluck, Pom Pom Magazine
2017 How to Do What You Love Without Compromising Who You Are, Beyond Podcast with
Daphne Cohn (previously The Creativity Habit) episode guest, 10.12.2017
2016 Drawing the Line: Comics for Social Change, Panel with Ad Astra Comix at the
Lawrence Public Library
What’s in Your Toolbox?, Interview/Profile by Annie Werbler, Design*Sponge blog,
28.04.2016
Residencies
2024 Domain Guest, Beam Camp, Strafford, NH, July
2023 Culterim Biesenthal Resident, Brandenburg, Germany September
Solo and Duo-Exhibitions
2017 Splendor in the Grass, with Shin-Hee Chin, The Bank Gallery, Matfield Green, KS
2015 find a place you trust and try trusting it a while, Bourgeois Pig, Lawrence, KS
2012 bildungsroman, Teller’s Art Space, Lawrence, KS
regaling you with tales of our lamentation and jubilation, Student Union Activities
Gallery, Lawrence, KS
Group Exhibitions
2023 Werke aus der Sommerresidenz, Culterim Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2017 Wallflowers, with Rachel Gregor and Sarah Bogosh, Wonder Fair Gallery, Lawrence, KS
2014 Hullaballoo: The Flights of Fantasy, the Daydream, the Playground, Open Eye Figure
Theater, Minneapolis, MN
PLUSH: a stuffed portfolio, NCA Gallery in conjunction with Mid-America Print
Council Conference 2014, Detroit, MI
YWA:Young Women Artists, Wonder Fair Gallery, Lawrence, KS
2012 +/-, KU Visual Art Senior Exhibition, Lawrence, KS
2011 Visual Art Scholarship Show, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Converging Identities, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
Dirty Felts: A Print Exhibition, Hobbs Taylor Lofts, Lawrence, KS
2010 Undergraduate Printmaking Show, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Illusion, Disillusion, Impression, Reality, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
Exchange Portfolios
2015 Small Prints Exchange, Curated by Greg Stone
2014 Plush: a stuffed portfolio, Curated by Christa Dalien and Kit Leffler, Mid-America
Print
Council Conference, Detroit, MI
2010 What I am Making Right Now, I Was Thinking Last Week, University of Kansas,
Lawrence, KS, & KCAI, Kansas City, MO
This Is Our Natural History: a print and literature exchange, University of Kansas,
Lawrence, KS
Awards & Grants
2012 Professional Development Exit Grant
School of the Arts Travel Grant
2011 J. Michael Young Opportunity Award
Undergraduate Research Award
Hearst Tuition Scholarship (Anderson Ranch Arts Center)
Louthian Art Scholarship
Daniel MacMorris Scholarship
2008-10 School of the Arts Travel Grant
OAS Scholarship
Howard Reed Sailors, Thelma Sophia Ally Sailors Scholarship
Minority Scholarship
Targeted Scholarship
Professional Memberships/Affiliations
2023-present COLORAMA Workshop
2022 BIWOC* Rising
2010-12 Mid-America Print Council
Southern Graphics Council
Professional Experience
2014-16 Shop Manager, Wonder Fair Gallery
2011-14 Gallery intern, Wonder Fair Gallery
2011-2012 Lithography Studio Assistant, University of Kansas
2012 Assistant to Visiting Artist Chris Duncan
Assistant to Visiting Artist Alex Lukas
2011 Assistant to Visiting Artist Katie Baldwin
Assistant to Visiting Artist Glen Baldridge
2010 Gallery Intern, Invisible Hand Gallery, Lawrence, KS