Biographie
Mitchell F. Chan was born in Canada in 1982. His practice spans across public installations, sculptures, digital artworks, and game art.
Chan is well known for his early contributions to crypto art and for creating one of the earliest non-fungible token artworks. His pioneering blockchain artwork Digital Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility (2017) was exhibited in “Monte di Pietá” at the Fondazione Prada concurrent with the 60th Venice Biennale, and was sold for $1.5M at Sotheby’s, marking the highest price achieved by a conceptual blockchain artwork at auction.
His work has exhibited by the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Kunsthalle Berlin, and HEK Basel, and in 2024 received the Optimism Foundation prize. He writes on art and technology, with contributions to Artforum, and his work has been discussed in Art in America, Hyperallergic, and The Art Newspaper.
Mitchell F. Chan works and lives in Toronto.