An on-going project based a yellow dress I wore during Bersih3.0, a momentous street protest calling for free and fair elections, held on 28 April 2012 in Kuala...

A short profile of me, in popular Chinese-language women's magazine NuYou (Aug 2012 issue, published in print and online). It's based on the following...

A video poem made for 3.11: What is to be remembered?, a video art project by Spread Video Art 2 collective (Japan). All the video pieces included in this project...

An updated and portable version of Sensors (2007), a series of installations based on the statistics of banned books in Malaysia. The buzzwires -- central to the...

A cute video shot in my home/studio in Port Dickson, by Tongue in Chic. It's a promo for jeans. (I got a free pair of jeans.) But I also talk about moving away...

A collaborative performance project about health and the city, performed in Berlin, with fellow artists Karla Sachse, Varsha Nair, Deeksha Nath, Lilian Kim Lucas,...

A series of posters designed to support the Bersih 2.0 rally held on 9 July 2011 in Kuala Lumpur. Available for free download here! Zedeck Siew contributed to...

A discussion between Tony Godfrey, Tessa Guazon, Alan Oei, Agung Hujatnikajennong and myself, about art curating in the region. Published in Broadsheet Magazine...

An essay written in response to the myBalikPulau controversy in early 2011. Published on Arts-Ed's website. ~~~ My name is Sharon Chin, I am a visual artist...

A performance piece. I invite people to have a drink with me. We use plastic cups, connected by string. After we have toasted each other, we stretch out the...

An art project about bridges. Sapporo, the capital of Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido, is one of the most livable cities in the world. In 2009, I spend 2...

Sepatah dua kata mengenai bahasa, ditulis semasa saya di Sapporo, Jepun. ~~~ Masa kecil, ibu bapa menempatkan saya di sekolah rendah kebangsaan Cina. Adanya...

A series of illustrations for short stories, in collaboration with Zedeck Siew and Fahmi Fadzil. Showing total disregard for our last names, we credited the project...

A performance piece. Performed at the 2nd Beyond Pressure Performance Art Festival in Yangon, Myanmar. On the benches of Sein Lan So Pyay garden, I laid out...

An installation. Of the many things brought along when moving to a foreign land, language is the one closest to us. It resides deeply in the body, spirit and...

A joint exhibition with artist Lydia Chai. We met in art school in New Zealand and became friends. I returned to Kuala Lumpur; Lydia now lives in Auckland. In...

Poems written between 2006 and 2008. Er, enjoy! ~~~ Walking I Days run 
but evenings walk 
 across the sky. 
And the sky is a net cast over the...

An installation. When they were completed in 1998, the Petronas Twin Towers were the tallest buildings in the world. Although now surpassed by other nations'...

A performance piece about listening. Walking around Sydney, I was struck by the number of people passing by with headphones in their ears. It seemed that in...

An exhibition that takes banned books as a motif. "The totalitarian order depends for its very existence on a precarious equilibrium. Without the heretic, the...

A performance piece specifically created for video. Made with a nail, a shoebox and a mobile phone, this video shows constellations of the night sky in Kuala...

An "executive toy", placed inside a glass case, whose balls feature the logos of the 27 political parties registered in Malaysia (as of 2006). The balls are made of...

This temporary installation was commissioned for the lobby of the Australian High Commisison in Kuala Lumpur. Green construction netting was sewn into a suite...

A work in which a pen, compass and pocket watch have their components dissected, and hung in a wooden box.

Two installations from my first solo exhibition, Boats & Bridges, at Reka Art Space, Petaling Jaya. In Bridges, lengths of barricade tape are wrapped around a...

A series of plaster casts, in various shades of pale pink, made by pouring plaster into different sized plastic bags. Each piece has a text or body organ...

A clockwork piece with clock-hands modified to hold graphite, installed in wooden frame with spare container of graphite pieces.

A series of jars with acrylic drawings on their exteriors. Sometimes the equipment used to collect things is just as fascinating as the collections they...

An installation with unfired clay text and joss sticks. Because the joss sticks are stuck into wet clay on site and allowed to dry, the work must be remade each...