STATEMENT
“My work encompasses paintings, sculpture, large scale public murals and installations that challenge perspective through conventional concepts of form, color and scale. The intention of my practice activates a process in the viewer’s mind to further their understanding of their surroundings, entering into our internal architecture, the ego, thoughts and emotions. This insight animates the rigid to fluid movement of the textural surface. A cross-disciplinary conversation has the goal to shift mood and consciousness, and amplify awareness of being intimate with reality. My work opens the door to greater possibilities and is based on the idea of a keyhole perspective, seeing only a portion of something and knowing more is beyond. Each work adheres to a formulaic expression that presents a window, an architectural shift, into the psychological space within the viewer.” - Tofer Chin
EDUCATION
2002. Otis College of Art and Design. BFA.
AWARDS
2008. Graphis Design Annual Gold Award, Flaunt 79
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 8, Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR
2015 Keys, mural, LA><ART|Slanguage, LA, CA
2015 Fruits and Plains, Champions of Culture, LA
2013 Ar, Lu Magnus, New York, NY
2012 Totally, Lu Magnus, New York, NY
2012 Untitled Art Fair, Lu Magnus, Miami Beach, FL
2011 Fourteen Black, Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro
2010 Alex, FFDG, San Francisco, CA
2009 Double Dip, Cerasoli Gallery, Culver City, CA
2008 Vivid, Commissary Arts, Venice, CA
2007 Take Walks, Rojo Artspace, Barcelona, Spain
2004 Lost in _ _ _ _ _ _, 4-F Gallery, LA, CA
2003 Follow Tofer, Four x Four, LA, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 Surf Solar, two-person exhibition, Tofer Chin and Koen Delaere, AAD, Abu Dhabi, UAE
2017 Preview, AAD, Abu Dhabi
2015 10 Year Anniversary, LA><ART, LA, CA
2014 In-Situ, Shoshana Wayne, Santa Monica, CA
2013 Open Canvas, Absolut, San Francisco, CA
2013 Black and White, New Image Art, LA, CA
2012 In What Distant Deep or Skies, Lu Magnus, NY
2011 The Pleasure’s All Mine, Lu Magnus, NY
2010 Nova, Museum of Image and Sound, São Pau
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2016 Shift No 1, Santa Barbara, Arts Fund SB
2016 3 Formations, Echo Park, The Semi Tropic
2015 4 Formations, DTLA, SilverlakeWine|ERB
2015 2 Formations, ContnrYard, LA, B. Benichou
2014 2 Corners (Black), The Standard Spa, Miami
2014 Fifteen Grey, Maderas Village, Nicaragua
2014 Stalagmites, Harajuku, Tokyo, Hajime Oshiro
2014 Dois, Rua Apucarana, São Paulo, R. Jatoba
2014 Three, MidCenturyLA, North Hollywood, CA
2013 3 Stalagmites (White), Divisadero, SF, Absolut
2013 1 Corner (White), Madison St., Chicago, I. Suen
2013 2 Cliffs (Black), ShadowMachine, LA, CA
