MITCHELL F. CHAN

Born 1982, Pembroke Ontario Canada

Education

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Master of Fine Arts, 2011 Carleton University, Bachelor of Architectural Studies, 2005

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2018 – Add Inches To Your Wang!!! – Angell Gallery, Toronto

2017 - Frost - National Arts Centre, Ottawa

2017 - Digital Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility - The Blockchain, Everywhere

2016 - Art & Inactivism - Angell Gallery, Toronto

2014 - Automatic Sol LeWitt Translator - Angell Gallery, Toronto

2014 - Don Quichotte - Four Seasons Centre For The Performing Arts, Toronto

2013 - Studies in Movement, Absentia - Angell Gallery, Toronto

2012 - The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha - Angell Gallery, Toronto

2011 - Siren - Angell Gallery, Toronto

2010 - Visions of the Amen - Spoke Club, Toronto - curator: Natalie MacNamara

2010 - Traditional Strategies In Building - Engine Gallery, Toronto

2009 - Mitchell F Chan - Galerie St. Laurent + Hill, Ottawa

Selected Group Exhibitions

2017 - howTo.write(poetry) - Humber Galleries North, Toronto - curator: Farah Yusuf

2016 - In/Future - Ontario Place, Toronto - curators: Rui Pimenta and Layne Hinton

2014 - Simulators II - Angell Gallery, Toronto

2012 - Open Source - Stewart Hall, Montreal - curator: Zeke Hand

2011 - Graduate Exhibition - Sullivan Galleries, Chicago

2010 - Public Light & Space - John Hancock Tower, Chicago

2010 - Helios: Eadweard Muybridge In A Time Of Change - Corcoran Gallery, Washington DC

2007 - First kiss - Spin Gallery, Toronto - curators: Juno Youn

Selected Architectural Commissions

2016 - Trinity Square Video - Interior Redesign - Toronto

Selected Public Art Commissions

2018 - United Nations Peacekeepers Monument - Client: City of Peterborough - Peterborough, Ontario

2018 - The Knot - Client: City of Burlington - Burlington, Ontario

2017 - A Dream of Pastures - Client: Toronto Light Festival - Toronto

2016 - Air Pressure - Client: Brookfield Place - New York City

2015 - Snowfall: Flurry - Client: Brookfield Properties - Toronto

2015 - Wind, Water, Air, Rain - Client: SmartWater - Toronto

2015 - Luminous Veil (as software developer)- Client: Derek Revington - Toronto

2014 - Still Life - Client: City of Edmonton - Edmonton

2014 - Snowfall: Frost - Client: Brookfield Properties - Toronto

2014 - Snowfall: Gust - Client: Brookfield Properties - Toronto

2013 - Air Pressure (Revisited) - Client: Oxford Properties - Toronto

2012 - Windscape (as artistic consultant) - Client: Luminato Festival - Toronto

2012 - Air Pressure - Client: Oxford Properties - Toronto, Ontario. Canada.

2011 - 3 Cities - Client: Diaspora Dialogues - Toronto

2010 - VOTA: Meniscus - Client: Brookfield Properties - Toronto

2008 - A Dream of Pastures - Client: Nuit Blanche Festival - Toronto

Selected Bibliography As Subject

CreativeApplications.net - Digital Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility – An Yves Klein inspired cryptocurrency - PDF - By Greg J. Smith

Slate.com - Two clouds colliding sum up your political Twitter debates - PDF - December 23, 2016 - By Jon Kelvey

HyperAllergic - A Droning Chant of Our Ceaseless Media Consumption - PDF - December 21, 2016 - By Claire Voon

VICE - Cloud Versus Cloud: The Art Installation Mirroring the Spectacle of the Modern News Cycle - PDF - December 9, 2017

Gizmodo - Two Clouds Colliding Is the Most Relaxing Crash You'll Ever See - PDF- December 8, 2016 - By Andrew Liszewski

The Toronto Star - At the galleries: Truthiness in art with Mitchell Chan, a virtual trip at the AGO - PDF - December 1, 2016 - By Murray Whyte

The Globe and Mail - Why we love the art we love: Canadian Opera Company's Alexander Neef on the intersection of art and music - PDF March 27, 2015

Edmonton Metro - MacEwan LRT station art features different outlook on "Still Life" - PDF - June 2, 2014 - By Stephanie Dubois

National Post - The Week In Wit: Don Quixote and a dehumidifier walk into a gallery - PDF - May 16, 2014 - By Benjamin Errett

BLOUIN ARTINFO - INTERVIEW: Gallerist Jamie Angell Champions the Digital Generation - PDF - April 3, 2013 - By Sky Gooden

NOW Magazine - Savvy Simulators - PDF - March 13, 2014 - By David Jager

Canadian Art - Working in Installation Art - PDF - January 17, 2012

The Chicago Sun-Times - Fountain Creator Challenges Young Artists' Imaginations - May 22, 2010 - By Heidi Weiss

National Post - Sound Becomes String (profile) - January 30, 2010 - By Lia Grainger

BRAVO! Television Network - September 2010 - Producer: Exan Auyung

The Toronto Star - Luminato Goes Public With Art Installations - June 9, 2009 - By Bruce DeMara.

BRAVO! Television Network - BRAVO! News Profile: Mitchell F Chan - February 2009 - Producer: Exan Auyung