Sin Wai Kin

Sin Wai Kin

A Dream of Wholeness in Part, 2021
If I had the words to tell you we wouldn’t be here now, 2019
If I had the words to tell you we wouldn’t be here now, 2019
The sky as an image, an image as a net, 2018
Performing at Glitch at Night. 2017
Act 1 Part 3 of A View From Elsewhere - Illocutionary Utterances, 2018
Act 1 Part 1 of A View From Elsewhere - Tell me everything you saw, and what you think it means, 2018
Narrative Reflections on Looking: Preface/Looking Without Touching, 2017
Narrative Reflections on Looking: Part One/She Was More than the Sum of My Parts, 2016
Narrative Reflections on Looking: Part Two/The Reprise of Cthulhu, 2017
Narrative Reflections on Looking: Part Three/Cthulhu Through the Looking Glass, 2017
 

Sin Wai Kin​, formerly known as Victoria Sin (b. 1991) currently lives and works in London, UK. 

Sin Wai Kin using speculative fiction within performance, moving image, writing and print to interrupt normative processes of desire, identification and objectification. Drawing from close personal encounters of looking and wanting, their work presents heavily constructed fantasy narratives on the often unsettling experience of the physical within the social body.

Sin Wai Kin has participated in many important exhibitions, festivals and biennials, including: British Art Show 9 (2021-2022); BFI London Film Festival (2021); “Age of You”, MOCA, Toronto (CA, 2019); “La vie des chose”, MOMENTA biennale de l’image, Montreal (CA, 2019); “Kiss My Genders”, Hayward Gallery, London (UK, 2019); “Display”, Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund (DE, 2019); “Meetings on Art”, The 58th Venice Biennale, Venice (IT, 2019); “Rising up in the infinite sky”, “Sophia Al-Maria: BCE”, Whitechapel Gallery, London (UK, 2019); “DO DISTURB”, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (UK, 2019); “General Ecology – PLANTSEX”, Serpentine Galleries, London (UK, 2019); “If I had the words to tell you we wouldn’t be here now”, Chi-Wen Gallery, Taipei (TW, 2019); “DRAG”, Hayward Gallery, London (UK, 2018); “The sky as an image, an image as a net”, Serpentine Park Nights, London (UK, 2018); “Swinging Out Over the Earth”, Whitechapel Gallery, London (UK, 2018); “Indifferent Idols”, Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Taipei (TW, 2018); “Block Universe”, Brunel Museum, London (UK, 2018); “A View From Elsewhere”, Café Oto, London (UK, 2018); “We Share the Same Tears”, Whitechapel Gallery, London (UK, 2018); “Glitch Feminism”, ICA, London (UK, 2017); “TATE EXCHANGE: GENDER TALKS”, Tate Modern, London (UK, 2017).


GALLERY EXHIBITION & PERFORMANCE

Film Screening | Taipei Dangdai Art Week

May 17 – 28, 2022

Eslite Art House

October 10, 2021

NOWNESS and Chi-Wen Gallery

2021

Produced by Chi-Wen Productions

2020-2021

Chi-Wen Produces:

October 5 – November 2, 2019

If I had the words to tell you we wouldn’t be here now

Live performance at Chi- Wen Gallery

January 16, 2019


PUBLIC EXHIBITION & PERFORMANCE

Tate Liverpool

October 20, 2022 – March 19, 2023

British Art Show 9

Wolverhampton Art Gallery

January 22 – April 10, 2022

British Art Show 9

Aberdeen Art Gallery

July 10 – October 10, 2021

PLURAL REALITY(-IES)

Frac Lorraine 

January 11, 2020

BREATHLESS. London Art Now

Ca’ Pesaro

October 19, 2019 –  March 1, 2020

TRANSFORMER

180 the Strand

October 2   December 8, 2019

Rewriting The Future: Sophia Al Maria, Sonya Dyer, Ursula Mayer, Victoria Sin

Site Gallery

September 27, 2019 – February 02, 2020

Age of You

Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto

September 5, 2019 – January 5, 2020

La vie des choses

MOMENTA biennale de l’image, Montreal

September 5 – October 13, 2019

Meetings on Art

58th Venice Biennale

May 9 – 12, 2019

Kiss My Genders

Hayward Gallery

June 12 – September 8, 2019

SELECTED PRESS

Interview with SIN WAI KIN

The White Review

Septemper, 2021

British Art Show 9 review – is this really the art of a country in crisis?

The Guardian

July 9, 2021

Top Shanghai nightclub throws post-pandemic party with video art

The ART NEWSPAPER

May 28, 2020

Victoria Sin: “I’m trying to break down the binary of thinking and feeling”

SLEEK

March 11, 2020

The best young artists in London right now

Time Out London

September 30, 2019

Drag Is a Mirror

Canadian Art

September 19, 2019

The Artists to Know Right Now

Artsy

September 16, 2019

Sophia Al-Maria’s “BCE”

Art Agenda

April 10, 2019

Curator Ralph Rugoff Unveils Plans for 2019 Venice Biennale’s Performance Programme

FRIEZE

April 01, 2019

Artists Sophia Al-Maria and Victoria Sin on making art for the apocalypse

DAZED

January 30, 2019

Beauty, Death and Drag, an Interview With Contemporary Artist Victoria Sin

Sotheby’s

January 17, 2019

Victoria Sin in Conversation

OCULA

January 11, 2019

How Drag Artist Victoria Sin is Taking on the Art World

AnOther

January 24, 2019

Victoria Sin plumbs watery depths for Gasworks fundraiser in London

The ART NEWSPAPER

November 7, 2018

Victoria Sin: 'A lot of drag is misogynistic but for me gender is the butt of the joke, not women'

Evening Standard

July 23, 2018

Drag: Self-Portraits and Body Politics review – a purely cosmetic exercise

The Guardian

June 28, 2018

You’re giving me boy. It’s not feminine enough

Auto Italia South East

12 May, 2015