Sin Wai Kin is an artist using speculative fiction within performance, moving image, writing, and print to interrupt normative processes of desire, identification, and objectification. Sin uses drag as a practice of purposeful embodiment questioning the reification and ascription of ideal images within technologies of representation and systems of looking. Drawing from close personal encounters of looking and wanting, their work presents heavily constructed fantasy narratives on the oftenunsettling experience of the physical within the social body.
Sin was shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2022 and 2024 Film London Jarman Award. They were awarded the 24th Baloise Art Prize in 2023. Sin’s solo exhibitions were held at MudamLuxembourg, (Luxembourg, 2024), Buffalo AKG Art Museum (New York, 2024), Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley, 2023), Fondazione Memmo (Rome, 2023), and Blindspot Gallery (Hong Kong, 2021). Their performances and works have been shown at Frans Hals Museum (Haarlem, 2024), UCCA Beijing (Beijing, 2024), 4A Centre for Contemporary Art (Sydney, 2024), Kunsthall Trondheim (Norway, 2024), The ALBERTINA Museum (Vienna, 2024), Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (Toronto, 2024 and 2019), Somerset House (London, 2023 and 2024), National Gallery Prague (2023), Centre d’ArtContemporain Genève (Geneva, 2023), Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, 2022), Tai Kwun Contemporary (Hong Kong, 2022), Para Site (Hong Kong, 2022), Institute of Contemporary Arts (Los Angeles, 2022), The Guggenheim (New York, 2022), The British Museum (London, 2022), Shedhalle (Zurich, 2021), “British Art Show 9” (2021), Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, 2020), Tank Museum (Shanghai, 2020), “MOMENTA biennale de l’image” (Montreal, 2019), Hayward Gallery (London, 2019), “Meetings on Art” in “The 58th Venice Biennale” (Venice, 2019), Whitechapel Gallery (London, 2019), “Do Disturb Festival” in Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2019), Serpentine Galleries, (London, 2019), and Tate Modern (London, 2017).
Sin currently lives and works in London.
