{{Short description|Canadian visual artist}} thumb|Sin Wai Kin, The Universe (2023) '''Sin Wai Kin''' (Chinese 單慧乾) is a multimedia artist, filmmaker, writer, and performer based in London.<ref>{{Cite web |title=單慧乾 |url=https://blindspotgallery.com/zh-hant/artist/sin-wai-kin/ |access-date=2025-10-24 |website=Blindspot Gallery 刺點畫廊 |language=zh-hant}}</ref> Their works include “A Dream of Wholeness in Parts”,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tate |title=‘A Dream of Wholeness in Parts‘, Sin Wai Kin, 2021 |url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/kin-a-dream-of-wholeness-in-parts-t16220 |access-date=2025-10-24 |website=Tate |language=en-GB}}</ref> “Dreaming the End”,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-06-24 |title=Sin Wai Kin: Dreaming Before Language {{!}} |url=https://flash---art.com/article/sinwai-kin/ |access-date=2025-10-24 |website=Flash Art |language=en-US}}</ref> “The Breaking Story”,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sin Wai Kin |url=https://filmlondon.org.uk/profile/sin-wai-kin |access-date=2025-10-24 |website=Film London |language=en}}</ref> “The Time of Our Lives”,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sin Wai Kin: The Time of Our Lives - Announcements |url=https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/613812/sin-wai-kinthe-time-of-our-lives |access-date=2025-10-24 |website=e-flux |language=en}}</ref> “The Fortress”,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-10-14 |title=Sin Wai Kin - Lahore Biennale Foundation |url=https://www.lahorebiennale.org/lb03-artists/sin-wai-kin/ |access-date=2025-10-24 |language=en-US}}</ref> “It’s Always You”,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sin Wai Kin: It's Always You {{!}} Buffalo AKG Art Museum |url=https://buffaloakg.org/art/exhibitions/sin-wai-kin-it%E2%80%99s-always-you |access-date=2025-10-24 |website=buffaloakg.org}}</ref> and “Portraits”.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-04-23 |title=Artist Sin Wai Kin on the Power of Transformation |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/sin-wai-kin-2417365 |access-date=2025-10-24 |website=Artnet News |language=en-US}}</ref> They are known for their immersive use of fantasy and speculative fiction to create worlds and characters that reflect on language, reality, time, identity, and duality.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sin Wai Kin |url=https://www.canalprojects.org/sin-wai-kin |access-date=2025-10-24 |website=Canal Projects |language=en}}</ref>
They were nominated for the Turner Prize,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Searle |first=Adrian |date=2022-10-18 |title=Turner prize 2022 review – slapstick, drag and hairnets at the end of the world |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/oct/18/turner-prize-2022-tate-liverpool |access-date=2025-10-24 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> the Film London Jarman Award,<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Film London Jarman Award 2024 |url=https://filmlondon.org.uk/flamin/the-jarman-award/jarman-award-2024 |access-date=2025-10-24 |website=Film London |language=en}}</ref> received the Baloise Art Prize,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Portraits |url=https://www.mudam.com/exhibitions/sin-wai-kin---2023-baloise-art-prize |access-date=2025-10-24 |website=Mudam |language=en}}</ref> and screened their work at the BFI London Film Festival.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5trHTkgrPE |title=A DREAM OF WHOLENESS IN PARTS trailer {{!}} BFI London Film Festival 2021 |date=2021-10-06 |last=BFI |access-date=2025-10-24 |via=YouTube}}</ref> Born in 1991 in Toronto, Sin studied Drawing at Camberwell College of Arts and Print at The Royal College of Art.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tate |title=Sin Wai Kin |url=https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-liverpool/turner-prize-2022/sin-wai-kin |access-date=2025-10-24 |website=Tate |language=en-GB}}</ref>
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