About
Allison Chan (b. 1995) is a designer, artist, and sometimes cook from the Pacific Northwest, based in Northern California. Her practice queries the politics and poetics of the environment, both natural and built, through a mix of sculpture, software, maps, visual matter, and organic matter. These works often use site-specific forms and practices to engage the geographies of food, water, housing, climate, and more.Recent works include: mapping counter-cartographies of housing dispossession and spatial violence in the San Francisco Bay Area; designing software to transition our food systems toward short-chain, regenerative agriculture and build regional food sovereignty; and documenting the ancestral waterways of Pacific salmon through Coast Salish territory, where she grew up. She has also worked on organic vegetable farms and cooked for farm-to-table restaurants in California and Japan, altogether guided by a desire for slowness, deep flavor, and communal abundance in every area of life.
She has exhibited, facilitated, and spoken at places like the Rhode Island School of Design, Mendocino Art Center, Seattle Design Festival, School for Poetic Computation, Eyebeam, Abrons Arts Center, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, and SOIL Gallery. Her work has appeared in collections, publications, and press by the Museum of Modern Art Library, The Kitchen, Adobe, Cargo, Creative Applications, and more. She is an active member of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project.
Contact
Email: hi@allisonchan.infoInstagram: @llisonchan