MITCHELL F. CHAN

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 $1.2M at Sotheby’s, marking the first conceptual blockchain artwork to achieve such as sale. His recent projects include: The Zantar Triptych, a series of real videogames set inside a fictional videogame economy; The Boys of Summer, an interactive artwork about quantification and data collection, disguised as a sports management simulation; and Winslow Homer’s Croquet Challenge, an allegorical arcade game about Reconstruction-era America which also became the first videogame acceded to the permanent collection of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum. Mitchell F. Chan works and lives in Toronto.