Background
Chin was born into a (Taishan) Chinese American family at Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley, California, with an older sister, Tiffany, who is a prominent Graphic Designer in the San Francisco Bay Area. His father Dean Chin is president and founder of Design Farm in partnership with Chin’s mother Marjorie who works as creative director. Chin Graduated from Acalanes High School in Lafayette, and moved to Oakland where he studied at the California College of the Arts (formerly California College of Arts and Crafts) where both his parents also received their undergraduate degrees in the late 1960s along with his sister in 2002. In 2008 Chin studied in Europe at Academie Minerva and Hanze University Groningen(Hanzehogeschool Groningen) in Groningen, The Netherlands.
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