Alan Christopher Chin (born in

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October 15, 1987) is a

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. He lives and maintains a studio in

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, working in variety of traditional and experimental mediums including,

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painting Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ...

photography Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employed ...

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, and

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Education

He graduated from

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in 2005, receiving the Brad Chinn Leadership Award, Citizen of the Year, and United States Congressional recognition for Art. He attended

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and received his BFA in

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and

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(2011) at the

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Early life

Greatly inspired by his creative family, surroundings, and nature; he studied traditional Japanese landscape, bonsai, and horticulture under Japanese Bonsai Masters,

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, Kunatoshi Akabane, and Yutaka Kimura. At age 11, he was chosen to have one of his bonsai trees included in the prestigious

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Bonsai Show in

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. By the age of 15 he was the youngest artist to be selected to paint one of the

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, benefiting the

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Foundation. Chin was assistant to American Painter Raymond Saunders from 2006 till 2013.

Work

His work has been shown in cities around the world and at institutions such as

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, Richmond Art Center, and the

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum The is an art museum in Tokyo, Japan. It is one of Japan's many museums which are supported by a prefectural government. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)"Museums"in ''Japan Encyclopedia'', pp. 671-673. The current structure, designed by Kunio M ...

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

. He has helped to expand the Oakland Art Murmur (Oakland's First Friday Event) through increased awareness of art and bringing in the work of both established, emerging, local and international artists. In 2017, Chin was selected to represent the

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at the first East Lake International Ecological Sculpture Biennale in

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. File:Install 2.jpg, Photograph of Alan Chin's solo show "Time Travel: Journey Through A Dream," at Firehouse South Gallery in

, Ca. (2009)

References

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