Paul Chan lives and works in New York. He was the 2014 recipient of the Hugo Boss Prize, which coincided with his solo exhibition Nonprojections for New Lovers at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2015. In 2019, Chan was one of six artists to co-curate the group exhibition, Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection. Recent solo exhibitions include Greene Naftali, New York (2020); Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens (2018); Remai Modern, Saskatoon (2018); Greene Naftali, New York (2017); Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia (2017); Deste Foundation Project Space, Slaughterhouse, Hydra (2015); Schaulager, Basel (2014); The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago (2009); New Museum, New York (2008); and Serpentine Gallery, London (2007).
His work is in the collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Art Institute of Chicago; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.