Artist. I do one project per year. WORKERS' PLAYTIME currently on exhibit at DE SARTHE, Hong Kong.
Toronto
Joined January 2010
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Mitchell F Chan retweeted
..it's a scorcher this winter..
Paris Photo 2026 with @summergwagner
Art Basel Miami Beach 2026 with @mitchellfchan
Mitchell F Chan retweeted
the futility in this work gives me such a thick boner.
1 week 'till my solo exhibition opens at @deSarthe Hong Kong!
When I started making these sculptures in the autumn of 2025, I was approaching this work as both a personal challenge for myself, and as a quiet act of rebellion against an arts scene that was becoming stale and monotonous.
Mitchell F Chan retweeted
Holy shit babe, new MFC announcement dropped.
📣🌟Important announcement:🌟📣
Workers’ Playtime is the title of my solo exhibition running at DE SARTHE in Hong Kong from October 10 to November 21.
I have been working on the pieces for this exhibition non-stop for the past year: a set of sculptures that collage electro-mechanical pinball components, and a suite of video game levels. If you missed me at one of the parties or one of the conferences or something like that over the past 12 months, it’s because I was in my studio having the time of my life making these bizarre, hilarious, clever machines. I will say more about the work in the days to come. I think they’re fresh, I think they're funny; I think they are a little bit heartbreaking. I think you probably haven’t seen anything like them.
I am proud beyond words to be presenting this work at @deSarthe, a gallery that has assembled possibly the most exciting roster of digital artists of any gallery in the international art community today. That they have built this roster on top of their 40-year history of dealing in modern masters speaks to their rigor and commitment to pushing this new frontier in contemporary art.
If you are in Hong Kong next month, please let me know so I can send you an invitation to the reception. If you can’t make it, hopefully I’ll see you soon.
Thanks for your attention to this matter.
Mitchell F Chan retweeted
I made a film.
Every chapter of technological modernity has searched for an aesthetics adequate to its time.
Time and again, the pursuit of the new and the beautiful has involved looking back to the past.
There has never been progress without nostalgia, or novelty without tradition.
The film tells this story through the history of architecture and design, from the mid-nineteenth century to present-day Silicon Valley.
Mitchell F Chan retweeted
"Art as / with / about protocols and worlds"
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"Living Aesthetics: A Grammar of Protocol Art and Worldbuilding" by Primavera De Filippi @yaoeo and Peter Bauman @monkantony_tez
De Filippi and Bauman trace art's route to life through protocol art + worldbuilding
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Mitchell F Chan retweeted
Art PFPs, an under appreciated genre IMO
2023 winner: @mitchellfchan's The Boys of Summer on @wildxyz
2024 leader: @toadswiback's nameless dread on @artblocks_io x @glitchmarfa
Mitchell F Chan retweeted
We Had Been Citizens of No Country
A Pole born in Vietnam, a Lebanese born in England showing an American Flag by an Irishman and sculptures of nonexistent countries by a Polish artist in New York
Opening today
john gerrard and Anna Barlik
17 July - 27 August 2026
Mitchell F Chan retweeted
The Boys of Summer: Crystal Payne by @mitchellfchan
What if the numbers we chase - followers, net worth, batting average - never meant anything in the first place?
Mitchell F Chan retweeted
right place right time, finally
"Sketch: Wild Wild West 1" by @mitchellfchan
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Cast of Laocoön and his Sons (Roman version of a lost Greek original), 100BC-50AD
Mitchell F Chan retweeted
I've been quite busy at work in the last few months. So when one of my favorite artists is doing random sketch drops, instead of quitting work and never sleeping again, I (Claude) write some code, deploy, logout, and ......
Daddy's Home by @mitchellfchan
Mitchell F Chan retweeted
“Games are the modern-day equivalent of opera. There are mechanical things that you can do and conceptual truths about the world that you can express through this format better than any other format. And this art form has the potential to be radically open. Which I really believe in.”
- @mitchellfchan
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Mitchell F Chan retweeted
"Games are the modern-day equivalent of opera. There are mechanical things that you can do and conceptual truths about the world that you can express through this format better than any other format. And this art form has the potential to be radically open.
Which I really believe in."
@mitchellfchan in We like being data
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We took your NFTs and grouped them per artist Justin: raster.art/collector/0xbb511…
Three @mitchellfchan IKBs 🔥
Mitchell F Chan retweeted
I still think @mitchellfchan games are the most underrated beautiful art in our community
Really good article
Makes me happy to see this
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PURCHASED Boys of Summer #899 (James Taylor) by @mitchellfchan with Eye Toward the Future, Child #9 (AU3572350).
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🖼️ 24 HOURS OF ART 📊 February 15, 2026
✨ a.c.k. with Muse
‘boy with Muse’ by @lphaCentauriKid is acquired by gpebbles.eth for 33.3 ETH ($69,454 USD) after a 24 bid, zero reserve auction.
The fourth major abstract - or “ackstract” - work from the artist is a 1/1 digital accompanied by a 61”×37” pale gold framed ChromaSculpt print on canvas. The artist calls it his “most textured work to date”.
🪟 Pictured: 24 Hour Art Market Highlights
- 'Ether Rock #71', collected via @gondixyz
- 'boy with Muse' by Alpha Centauri Kid
- 'Digital Zone of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility, Series 5, Edition 73' by @mitchellfchan
- 'Structural Failure #2' by @jivdontexist, collected by @PiggyGuggenheim
- 'Smoke and Mirrors #12. Two of Cups' by @justinaversano
- 'One Million Nodes' by @1xharsh with The Memes by @punk6529
- 'In Sæcula Sæculorum' by @JenPanepinto, collected by @afie33
- 'monogrid 1.1 CE #72' by @kimasendorf
Mitchell F Chan retweeted
Mitch on agency in the videogame medium and illusions of freedom:
“For me, it is the best medium to explore ideas about the agency that we can exert inside different political systems.
Because a videogame is the only medium (hmmm... possibly with the exception of architecture) in which you get to actually design a system within which people have the illusion of freedom.”
