Christine Chin lives in Ithaca, New York, where she is the birth mother of a two-year-old and a five-year-old and stepmother to a teen with her husband, David DeMello. She is a professor of Photography and New Media in the Department of Art and Architecture at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY.

While her art is always evolving, she most frequently builds ephemeral sculptural objects in the studio that she incorporates into her photographic storytelling. Her art often makes humorous and ironic commentary on contemporary issues of technology and the environment. Recent projects have addressed genetically modified food, alternative energy, artificial intelligence and biotechnology in medicine and most recently, parenting. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally at venues including the New York Hall of Science, Canon Communication Space, Beijing, and the New Mexico Museum of Art.