ABOUT
Mitchell Poon (b. Brooklyn, New York) is an artist working primarily with drawing, printmaking, photography, installation, and the book arts. His work is inspired by his experience growing up a third generation Chinese American, a personal mythology, Chinese symbolism and numerology, and his family’s archive. His compositions reference symbolism and numerology to add additional layers of meaning to his narratives, as well as explore themes of temporality, longing, grief, speculation, and mortality.
He first began printmaking after studying lithography at Cornell University, where he received his BA. He has since studied printmaking at other institutions such as the Manhattan Graphics Center and the School of Visual Arts. He earned his MFA at Rhode Island School of Design in 2026, and his recent research interests include tessellations, the intersection between sculpture and printmaking, and the decontextualization of imagery.