Person
Artist
Sin Wai Kin
單慧乾
Date of birth
1991
Place Of birth
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Biography
Sin Wai Kin (formerly known as Victoria Sin) was born in Toronto, Canada in 1991. They moved to London in 2009 where they studied for a BA in Drawing at Camberwell and an MA in Printmaking at the Royal College of Art. Sin Wai Kin is an artist using speculative fiction within performance, moving image, writing, and printmaking to interrupt normative processes of desire, identification, and objectification. Non-binary and mixed-race, their work draws on the experience of existing between fixed categories. The artist identifies as non-binary and uses they/them pronouns. Sin Wai Kin was nominated for the Turner Prize 2022. Their performances and works were shown in international exhibitions and programmes, including Tate Modern London 2017, ICA London 2020, Tank Museum Shanghai 2020, MOCA Toronto Canada 2019 the 58th Venice Biennale 2019 and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 2007 and in 2022. Sin Wai Kin lives and works in London.
