Allison Chan is a designer, artist, and sometimes cook from the Pacific Northwest, based in New York City. All, Objects, Graphics, Screens, Photo
The path back
 Allison Chan is a designer, artist, and sometimes cook from the Pacific Northwest, based in New York City. Her practice queries the politics and poetics of the environment, both natural and built, through a mix of sculpture, software, installation, images, maps, and meals. These works invoke place-based forms, methods, and memories to unearth our ecological entanglements and throw them into high relief.

Recent work includes: building critical cartographies to visualize housing precarity and spatial violence in the San Francisco Bay Area; designing software to support climate-positive, regenerative food systems; working on small vegetable farms and in farm-to-table kitchens in California and Japan; and documenting the ancestral waterways of Pacific salmon through Coast Salish territory, where she grew up.

Her work has been exhibited, featured, and recognized by the HTML Review, The Kitchen, School for Poetic Computation, Museum of Modern Art Library, Seattle Design Festival, Mendocino Art Center, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Internet Archive, Abrons Arts Center, Eyebeam, Adobe, and more.



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