Sin Wai Kin brings fantasy to life through storytelling in moving image, performance, writing, and print. Drawing on experiences of binary categories, their work realizes alternate worlds to describe lived experiences of desire, identification and consciousness.
Sin was shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2022, the 2024 Jarman award, and the K21 Global Art Award 2025. They were the recipient of the 24th Baloise Art Prize at Art Basel 2023. Their solo exhibitions were held at Blindspot Gallery (Hong Kong, 2025), Canal Projects (New York, 2025), Kunsthall Trondheim (Trondheim, 2025), Accelerator (Stockholm, 2024), Mudam Luxembourg (Luxembourg, 2024), Buffalo AKG Art Museum (New York, 2024), Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley, 2023), and Fondazione Memmo (Rome, 2023).
Their works have also been shown in group exhibitions at Somerset House (London, 2025, 2024 & 2023), Southwark Park Galleries (London, 2025), Kunsthal Rotterdam (2025), M+ (Hong Kong, 2025), the 11th Asia Pacific Triennial Cinema (Brisbane, 2025), Lahore Biennale 03 (Lahore, 2024), Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (Toronto, 2024 & 2019), , Mudam Luxembourg (2023), Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, 2022), Tai Kwun Contemporary (Hong Kong, 2022), and the British Museum (London, 2022). Sin’s works are held in the collections of Akeroyd Collection (UK), Vancouver Art Gallery (Canada), Tate Collection (UK), the British Museum Prints & Drawings (UK), White Rabbit Gallery (Australia), Ferens Art Gallery (UK), the Ingram Collection of Modern British Art (UK), Buffalo AKG Art Museum (USA), Sunpride Foundation (Hong Kong), and M+ (Hong Kong), among others.
Sin currently lives and works in London, UK.
