Charlotte Qin is a contemporary Chinese-Canadian artist and artivist living in Geneva with an interdisciplinary degree in physics, design, and engineering. She holds her undergraduate degree from McGill University in Montreal and double master’s degrees in Innovation Design Engineering from the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London. She integrates her artistic vision with science and activism to reclaim the relationship of human beings with water—not as nature but as a spiritual and ethical foundation of life. Charlotte's work in painting, calligraphy, sculpture, performance, and scientific visualization mirrors water's fluidity and depth. Performances in water are acts of meditation—remembrances and reconciliations that invoke collective remembrance of water's role in planetary and inner landscapes. Her work, drawing upon her Christian spirituality, spans the visible and the unseen, the material and the spiritual, with poetic call to respect water as living and sacred presence in our shared future.
She is the founder of Meeting of Waters, a contemporary practice in the form of non-governmental organisation (NGO) engaging in science policy and artivism. She has contributed to international water ethics and climate resilience debates through this platform, such as her contribution to the UN 2023 Water Conference in New York, UN Climate Change Conference COP28 in Dubai, and COP29 in Baku with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The past four years have been filled for Charlotte with hands-on work in water advocacy, restoration, and solutions for climate change across Asia, the Middle East, and the Americas. She collaborates with scientists, policymakers, and humanitarians to upend conventional water narratives and bring water into focus as something greater than it is—a living, sacred power that nurtures culture, ecosystems, and human dignity.