Artist
Sin Wai Kin
Artist
Artist Bio
(b. 1991, Toronto, CA) brings fantasy to life through storytelling in moving image, performance, writing, and print. Drawing on experiences of existing between binary categories, their work realises alternate worlds to describe lived experiences of desire, identification and consciousness.
They were the recipient of the 24th Baloise Art Prize at Art Basel 2023 for their film series Portraits (2023). Their film, A Dream of Wholeness in Parts (2021) was nominated for the 2022 Turner Prize and included in the touring exhibition the British Art Show 9, as well as being screened at the British Film Institute’s 65th London Film Festival. Upcoming solo exhibitions include MUDAM,
Luxembourg (2024), and Accelerator, Stockholm (2024). Recent solo exhibitions include Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York (2024), Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley (2023), Soft Opening, London (2023), Dreaming the End at Fondazione Memmo, Rome (2023), A Dream of Wholeness in Parts at Soft Opening, London (2022), It’s Always You at Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong (2021), She’s Hopeful (2018) at Soft Opening, London (2020), Narrative Reflections on Looking at Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb (2020), and Indifferent Idols at Taipei Contemporary Art Centre, Taipei (2018).
Artwork Description
The billboard will feature one of the artist’s characters, Wai King, as the brand ambassador for Essence, a new fragrance for men. Here, Wai King performs as a man who seeks what is intrinsic to his nature. The work will connect to Sin Wai Kin’s solo exhibition with Soft Opening at Paul Soto in LA, which will act as a flash retail site over the months of June and July where shoppers will be able to sample the cologne and experience the full Essence campaign.
