Mitchell F Chan

Essay in ARTFORUM Nov 2025 issue

Current/Upcoming Exhibitions:

SHANGHAI: Westbund Art Fair. Presented by DE SARTHE. Nov. 13 - 16, 2025.

LONDON: Nguyen Wahed. Solo Exhibition. Sep. 23 - Oct. 10, 2025.

BUDAPEST: BINALÉ. Sep. 17 - Oct. 26, 2025

SEOUL: Frieze Seoul. Presented by DE SARTHE. September 3-6, 2025

NEW YORK: Nguyen Wahed: Solo exhibition. May 10 - 14, 2025

STEAM / ITCH.IO: Zantar and Other Stories coming soon

Works:

Zantar

2025. Video game. Approx. 15 min. Zantar is a gelatinous cube that eats warriors in a medieval village.

Ladyboss

2025. Video game. Approx. 15 min. A short tragedy, presented in the style of a Subway Surfer Story Tiktok

Moonboi

2025. Video game. A stylized currency trading simulation.

Overture

2025. Generative minigame editions. Maximalist experiment in generative art, worldbuilding, soundtracks, and storytelling.

Digital Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility

2017. Non-fungible token conceptual art project and 33-page essay.

The Boys of Summer

2023. Video game and PFP collection. A transmedia art project about the quantified self, the commodification of data, and baseball.

Web3 Buddha

2024. Minigame. A small interactive koan about how Web3 art is way better than older media art.

Winslow Homer's Croquet Challenge

2022. A video game which is set inside Winslow Homer's desire to not think about Reconstruction.

LeWitt Generator Generator

2021. Generative artwork created on the Art Blocks platform.

Something Something National Conversation (in 2 characters or less)

2016. Gallery Installation.

Nil-Nil

2021. Public Sculpture.

JMW Turner's The Slave Ship

2016. Sculpture.

Add Inches To Your Wang!!!

2018. Exhibition of Sculptures.

I am conceptual artist based in Toronto. I have been creating innovative new media installations and exhibiting them across the world since 2006. Many of them are about changing human sensibility in the age of technology. Some are about the ways that art's commodity form leaks into its expressive power.

I have been described by one critic as “committed to the most serious ideas of conceptualism in the most playful way possible,” and I agree with that.

My pioneering blockchain artwork Digital Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility, 2017, was recently exhibited in “Monte di Pietá” at the Fondazione Prada during the 60th Venice Biennale. My most recent project, The Zantar Triptych, is a series of real videogames set inside a fictional videogame economy. It premiered at Nguyen Wahed in New York City in 2025 and made its Asian debut at Frieze Seoul with de Sarthe Gallery.

I also co-founded a public art studio that creates large scale public artworks. You can see that here.

I have written for Artforum, Outland, Right Click Save, and The Pembroke Observer.