The 12th Hiroshima Art Prize Commemorative Mel Chin Exhibition @ Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art hosts Mel Chin’s commemorative exhibition for the 12th Hiroshima Art Prize.Summary
The 12th Hiroshima Art Prize Commemorative Mel Chin Exhibition is held at Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art until October 12, 2026. Established in 1989, the Hiroshima Art Prize is awarded every three years to promote "the spirit of Hiroshima" for lasting world peace and human prosperity through art. This exhibition marks Mel Chin’s first solo show in Japan, featuring over 60 works ranging from early pieces to new works created for Hiroshima, spanning more than 50 years of his practice. Chin’s conceptual art addresses themes of war, colonial domination, environmental contamination, and memory, using diverse media such as sculpture, drawing, printmaking, video, jewelry, and participatory projects. By embedding ideas into materials—often referencing historical objects like bamboo from Pacific islands, marble from Hebron, or U.S. currency—he visualizes invisible pain and critiques the ways violence and ideology are carried in physical forms.
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