b. 1991
Visual artist Sin Wai Kin was born in Toronto, Canada in 1991. They moved to London in 2009 and received their BA in Drawing at Camberwell College of Arts before receiving their MA in Print at The Royal College of Art in 2017.
Sin is well known for their performance and drag art, in which they pick apart aspects of femininity in an effort to expose gender as an elaborate social construct. Sin’s work also centres around speculative fiction within performance, moving image, writing and print, to realign attitudes towards the idealised image and the collective gaze.
Sin was awarded the Young Contemporary Talent Prize in 2017 by The Ingram Collection and was nominated for the 2022 Turner Prize for their work A Dream of Wholeness in Parts.
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For Sin Wai Kin, drag clubs were art school
