Mitchell F. Chan (Canadian, b. 1982) is a conceptual artist working across physical and digital spaces. He has exhibited internationally in group exhibitions including Christoph Büchel's "Monte di Pietà" at Fondazione Prada for Venice Biennale (2024) and Buffalo AKG Art Museum (2023), Kunsthalle Berlin, and HEK Basel. His diverse body of work is performed in both physical and digital public spaces, encompassing code-based works such as his 2021 Art Blocks project "LeWitt Generator Generator" and large-scale public projects including 2022's "Monument to United Nations Peacekeeping Veterans".
Chan's pioneering blockchain artwork "Digital Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility" (2017) sold for $1.2M at Sotheby's, marking the first conceptual blockchain artwork to achieve such a sale. In 2024, Chan was awarded the Optimism Foundation prize for his "Web 3 Buddha" artwork. His work has been discussed in numerous media outlets including Artforum, Kunstforum, Hyperallergic, the Art Newspaper, Art In America, and the Wall Street Journal. Chan has also contributed writing to Artforum and co-founded Studio F Minus, creating public installations across Canada.
Exhibition history:
2024 Fondazione Prada, Monte di Pietà, Venice Biennale
2024 Shibuya, Proof of X, Tokyo
2023 Office Impart, Sandbox Mode, Berlin
2023 ArtSci Museum, Notes from the Ether, Singapore
2023 Haus der Elektronischen Künste, Who Is Online? Game Art in the Age of NFT-ism, Online/Basel
2023 Co-Museum, Proof of Concept, Singapore
2022 Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Peer To Peer, Online/Buffalo/Miami
2022 Lobkowicz Palace, Prague
2022 Leipziger Strasse 63, Market Makers, Berlin
2022 City of Peterborough, Peterborough
2022 Kinistinaw Park, Edmonton
2021 The Bentway, Toronto
2021 Kelowna Community Health Centre, Kelowna
2019 Nuit Blanche Festival, Toronto
2019 AHVA Gallery, Violentia: Violence and Representation, Vancouver
2018 Angell Gallery, Add Inches To Your Wang!, Toronto
2018 National Arts Centre, Ottawa
2018 City of Burlington, Burlington
2017 Interaccess Media Arts Centre, Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Conceptual Art, Toronto
2017 Humber Galleries North, howTo.write(poetry), Toronto
2016 Angell Gallery, Art & Inactivism, Toronto
2016 Brookfield Place, New York City
2014 Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, Don Quichotte, Toronto
2014 Angell Gallery, Simulators II, Toronto
2012 Stewart Hall, Open Source, Montreal
2010 Corcoran Gallery, Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change, Washington DC
2007 Spin Gallery, First Kiss, Toronto