Mel Chin (USA, 1951). His art has a broad range of approaches, including works that require multi-disciplinary, collaborative teamwork. Found in unlikely places, such as destroyed homes, toxic landfills, and prime-time television, his investigations explore our natural and social ecologies and how art can provoke greater social awareness and responsibility. Chin’s projects and public commissions have been installed at diverse sites such as Central Park, New York; Pig’s Eye Landfill, St. Paul, Minnesota; Floriadepark, Netherlands; Eco Tec International, Corsica; and Three Rivers Art Festival, Pittsburgh. Chin has shown nationally and internationally including one-person exhibitions at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC.; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Menil Collection, Houston; Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York; and the Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia. His work has also been shown in the Havana Biennale; Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona; K-21 Museum, Dusseldorf; Gwangju Biennale, Korea; Smithsonian Museum, Washington, DC.; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Through his current project, FUNDRED/PAYDIRT, Chin involves scientists, architects, educators and 3,000,000 students nation-wide creatively reinventing a scientific process for soil recovery in New Orleans.