Stacey R Chinn-Hart

Stacey R. Chinn (Chinn-Hart) is a Lexington, Kentucky-based visual artist, designer, educator, and entrepreneur whose interdisciplinary practice spans sculpture, ceramics, fiber, painting, jewelry, and found-object assemblage. She earned her MFA from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in 1998 and her BFA from the University of Kentucky in 1994. Working fluidly across media, Chinn creates psychologically and materially layered works that explore identity, memory, labor, vulnerability, contradiction, and transformation through the use of porcelain, fiber, reclaimed materials, and found objects.

Her work has been exhibited locally, regionally, and nationally and featured in exhibition catalogs and publications, including Sculpture and FiberArts magazines. In addition to her studio practice, she has served as a curator, gallery director, juror, panelist, public speaker, mentor, and educator. She has held adjunct faculty appointments at the University of Kentucky, Georgetown College, Eastern Kentucky University, and Bluegrass Community & Technical College, and has taught at the Bluegrass Arts Center, The Living Arts & Science Center, and Redwood Cooperative School.

Previously, Chinn owned MADEky, a working studio and re...

MFA, Southern Illinois University @ Edwardsville, 1998
BFA, University of Kentucky, 1994

REcreation: A Retroactive Exhibit Spanning 30 Years | Solo exhibition | Lexington Art League | Lexington, KY | 2026
Dividends | Fred Parker Giles Gallery | Eastern Kentucky University | Richmond, KY | 2025
LuigART Women 2025 | LuigART Event Gallery | Lexington, KY | 2025
3x33 | Community Gallery | Pam Miller Downtown Art Center | Lexington, KY | 2021
Fiber Focus | Art St. Louis | St. Louis, MO | 2019
Not Big (5) Small Art Exhibit | MS Rezny Gallery | Lexington, KY | 2019
Texture: A Textile Art Exhibit | The Collective Creative | Louisville, KY | 2019
Miniature Invitational Exhibit | The Living Arts & Science Center | Lexington, KY | 2019
You & Me | MS Rezny Gallery | Lexington, KY | 2019
New Domesticity: An Examination of Women’s Work in Women’s Art | Morlan Gallery | Transylvania University | Lexington, KY | 2018
Get Ready, Get Set: Multiples in Clay | Kentucky Artisan Center | Berea, KY | 2017
Original Art, Original Gift | Berea Arts Council | Berea, KY | 2017
Sea of Art | BG Gallery | Santa Monica, CA | 2017
Pretty Aggressive: Stacey R Chinn, Lori Larusso & Jennifer Reis | MS Rezny Gallery | Lexington, KY | 2015
YeARNing. An Interactive Outdoor Public Art Installation | Woodland Art Fair | Lexington Art League | Lexi...