Sharon Chin (b. 1980, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia) is an artist living in Port Dickson, Malaysia. Her work includes printmaking, installation, and collaborative performance projects, and has been shown in Malaysia and around the world. She participated in the Singapore Biennale (2013, 2019), the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (Brisbane, 2015) and Asian Art Biennial (Taichung, 2024). In 2024, she was a recipient of the Prince Claus Mentorship Award for Cultural and Artistic Responses to the Environmental Crisis (CAREC), as well as the British Council Connections Through Culture Grant. Recently, she has been concerned with healing the relationship between humans, land and place, focusing on the intersection of art, ecology and community organizing in Port Dickson.
Sharon Chin is an artist and activist based in Port Dickson, Malaysia. Chin talks about how she has learned to cultivate a productive relationship between these two pursuits across two decades. The artist shares her thoughts about the locations and locutions of the political in her work.
