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Sin Wai Kin

Sin Wai Kin (they/them) (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 realizes alternate worlds to describe lived experiences of desire, identification and consciousness.

The artist was nominated for the 2024 Jarman award for their film works Dreaming the End (2023) and The Breaking Story (2022). 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.

Solo exhibitions include Accelerator, Stockholm (2024); Kunsthall Trondheim, Trondheim (2024); Canal Projects, New York (2025); Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong (2025). Recent solo exhibitions include MUDAM, Luxembourg (2024); Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York (2024); Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley (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).

Group exhibitions include Greater Toronto Art (GTA24) at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto; CUTE at Somerset House, London (2024); After Laughter Comes Tears at Mudam, Luxembourg (2023); Turner Prize 2022, Tate Liverpool, (2022); MYTH MAKERS — SPECTROSYNTHESIS III, Taikwun, Hong Kong (2022); Drawing Attention at The British Museum, London (2022). Sin’s work is held in the collections of Tate Collection, UK; The British Museum Prints & Drawings; White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; The Ingram Collection of Modern British Art, UK; Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo; Sunpride Foundation, Hong Kong and M+ Museum, Hong Kong.

@sinforvictory | blindspotgallery.com/sin-wai-kin | softopening.london/artists/sin-wai-kin


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Sin Wai Kin

Sin Wai Kin (they/them) (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 realizes alternate worlds to describe lived experiences of desire, identification and consciousness.

The artist was nominated for the 2024 Jarman award for their film works Dreaming the End (2023) and The Breaking Story (2022). 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.

Solo exhibitions include Accelerator, Stockholm (2024); Kunsthall Trondheim, Trondheim (2024); Canal Projects, New York (2025); Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong (2025). Recent solo exhibitions include MUDAM, Luxembourg (2024); Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York (2024); Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley (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).

Group exhibitions include Greater Toronto Art (GTA24) at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto; CUTE at Somerset House, London (2024); After Laughter Comes Tears at Mudam, Luxembourg (2023); Turner Prize 2022, Tate Liverpool, (2022); MYTH MAKERS — SPECTROSYNTHESIS III, Taikwun, Hong Kong (2022); Drawing Attention at The British Museum, London (2022). Sin’s work is held in the collections of Tate Collection, UK; The British Museum Prints & Drawings; White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; The Ingram Collection of Modern British Art, UK; Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo; Sunpride Foundation, Hong Kong and M+ Museum, Hong Kong.

@sinforvictory | blindspotgallery.com/sin-wai-kin | softopening.london/artists/sin-wai-kin