Artists
TAMARA ALBAITIS
http://www.burnthebox.org
Tamara Albaitis works as an interdisciplinary artist, particularly through sound, sculpture and installation.
Tamara was born in Flint, Michigan in 1979. She received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2002. She spent some time in China during her bachelor studies, earning a Certificate of Completion from the International school of Art in Hanghzou, China in Chinese Landscape Painting and Theory. In 2003, she was invited to start the first experimental sound department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, graduating in 2005 with her MFA.
Tamara has shown extensively nationally and internationally at prestigious institutions such as the 9th International Istanbul Biennial, The European Sound Delta in Paris, France, Project Creo in St.Petersburg, Florida, The Digital Media Centre in Bracknell, England, artTransponder in Berlin, Germany, V2 Institute for Unstable Media in Rotterdam, Netherlands, The Soap Factory in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco, California and G2 Gallery in Chicago, Illinois. She was the recipient for the Elizabeth Skinner Award and has received grants to the Vermont Studio Center and the Djerassi Foundation.
Tamara lives and works in San Francisco.
NANCY CHAN
http://www.seeinsidefordetails.com
Nancy Chan received a painting/drawing BFA with high distinction from the California College of Arts and Crafts in the winter of 2005. Outside of the San Francisco Bay Area, her work has been shown in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Osaka, Japan. She continues to live and work in Oakland, CA where she was born and raised.
ANITA CHANG
http://anitachangworks.com
Anita Wen-Shin Chang is an independent filmmaker. She was born to parents who immigrated to the U.S. from Taiwan in the 1960’s, fleeing a dictatorship. She grew up in Ohio and Massachusetts. Chang received her BA in American Studies and English at Tufts University, and MFA in Cinema at San Francisco State University. She has worked as an urban youth counselor, civil rights investigator, and education director for TILT, a non-profit San Francisco-based media literacy organization.
She has completed artist residencies in Nepal, Headlands Center for the Arts, Taipei Artist Village, and Hweilan International Artists’ Workshop. She has received support for her works including a Creative Capital grant, National Geographic All Roads grant, San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist grant and KQED/Peter J. Owens Filmmaker award. She is currently teaching in the Department of Indigenous Languages and Communication at National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan.
JULIE CHANG
http://juliewchang.com/
Julie Chang received her MFA from Stanford University in 2007, her BA in Sociology from Tufts University and her BFA in Studio Art from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in 1999. Her work, which investigates issues of identity in relation to race, gender, class, and the commodification of culture, has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including the San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Stanford University, Transformer Gallery in Washington DC, Montserrat College of Art, Tulane University, and Yeditepe University in Istanbul. She was a recipient of the 2004 Murphy Cadogan Award, 2007 Headlands Center for the Arts MFA Studio Award and is represented by Hosfelt Gallery in San Francisco and in New York.
THOMAS CHANG
http://www.thomaslchang.com
Thomas Chang received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute where he was awarded the McMillan Award. He has received several other awards including a Eureka Fellowship from The Fleishhacker Foundation and an Artist Commission from the San Francisco Arts Commission. Work from his Fulbright project “Cultural Tourism in China” was shown at “Bay Area Now 3″ at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. He uses photography not only as a medium of fine art, but also a tool to change perceptions of cultural identity. His work examines photography and its presumed value as truth, while examining the way exotic ideals are created through tourism. Using the familiar lexicon of photography to separate fact from fiction, his photographs reveal façades of the American landscape and present challenges to the popular mythology created by ideology and perpetuated through tourism.
SERGIO DE LA TORRE
http://www.delatorreprojects.com
Sergio De La Torre works have focused on issues regarding immigration, tourism, surveillance technologies and transnational identities. These works have been exhibited in a variety of venues both national and international. He has received grants from the NEA, The Rockefeller Foundation, Creative Capital, the Protrero Nuevo Fund and the Creative Work Fund among others.
De La Torre’s latest project MAQUILAPOLIS |city of factories|, an hour long video documentary done in collaboration with film maker Vicky Funari and the Tijuana based NGO Grupo Factot X has partivipated in more than 50 international film festivals and has received many awards, among them the Outstanding Achievement Award at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2006.
De La Torre is an Assistant Professor at the University of San Francisco’s Department of Art + Architecture.
CUI FEI
http://www.cuifei.net
Cui Fei, born in Jinan, China, currently lives and works in New York. Cui received her BFA degree in painting from Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts in China in 1993 and a MFA degree at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2001. She has had three solo shows, and participated in over fifty group gallery and museum exhibitions worldwide.
Cui has been cited in various publications, including Art in America, The New York Times, and The New Yorke r Magazine. She has received grants and awards, including the NYFA Fellowship, the BRIO Award and the Artists-in-the-Marketplace program at the Bronx Museum.
JUSTIN HOOVER
http://www.justinhoover.com
Justin Hoover is an artist, curator, and writer. Among other projects, he is the founder and director of The Garage; An alternative Space, and of the Garage Biennale, an experimental exhibition series. Recently he completed his Masters degree of Public Administration of International Management (2007) from the Monterey Institute of International Studies, and is a candidate (2009) for a Masters degree of Fine Arts in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute.
His current body of work investigates the way language is used to create connections or barriers between peoples of different cultures. By producing his version of teaching English as a foreign language videos, and by taking photographs of single words written on lit matchsticks, Hoover investigates how language is used daily, breaking it down into individual words that he believes constitute our collective consciousness. Using video as a tool for language learning and enculturation, his site-specific video installations in public spaces question the visual language of popular media and highlight the simplicity and poetics often involved in learning “foreign” language.
Lastly, Hoover’s artistic practice also involves creating events whose structures walk the thin line between exhibitionary practice and fine art. By creating unique and idiosyncratic events, often community based and site-specific, his happenings and exhibitions present a new conceptualization of the traditional systems of cultural distribution and exhibition.
BU HUA
http://www.china.org.cn/english/2004/Nov/113605.htm
Born in 1973, Beijing. Graduated 1995, Central Academy of Art & Design, Beijing. Lives and works in Beijing. Exhibitions include 2007 Asia Art Festival Peach Flowers, Apricot Flowers Video Art Show, Solo exhibition “Man-Made Fairyland” in Shanghai 2008 and group exhibitions in Korea, Slovenia, Italy and Taiwan.
ARTHUR HUANG
http://www.geocities.com/arthur_j_huang
Arthur Huang lives and works in Oakland. In 2001, he received his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Painting and Printmaking. He has exhibited his work in venues across the United States as well as in the Bay Area.
SUZANNE HUSKY
http://www.suzannehusky.com
Suzanne Husky is the only Berkeley(C.A) resident that knows the medieval village of Bazas France like her pocket. Husky is a French American visual artist that has been living and practicing in the Bay Area since 2000. After graduating from the Beaux-Art school of Bordeaux, France, Husky was invited to a residency in Mexico mountains, where she spent time with cocaine dealer, having roster fights, but mostly listening to farmers who’s water had been stolen and lands contaminated. She then came to California where her American side is from. The magnetic Bay sucked her in like it had immigrants from all over the world. Having grown up during the “Mitterrand years”, with parents that had gone back to the land in the 70es, Husky’s multi media art practice is embedded with green socialism and reflects on how we interact with the landscape, how we use resources and other eco-related contemporary issues. After living a year in Shanghai China, Husky started studying horticulture and landscape design, a visceral response to the overwhelming pollution experienced there. Her art practice is often intertwined with plant knowledge, local harvesting, sustainable gardening, recycling but Husky’s work is also time spent exploring human right issues versus western comfort. Cough between continents that aren’t always in harmonious relations, Husky’s projects bridge the 2 confrontational cultures, and provide broader understanding.
HEI HAN KHIANG
http://picasaweb.google.com/travel4arts
Hei Han Khiang was born in 1968 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. He lives and works in New York City but he often travels to make his work. Hei Han Khiang went to China in search of his identity, to explore his own and his family’s past, and to understand the “Cultural Revolution” that spread from China to Cambodia. Before he had the opportunity to explore his own ancestry or personal history, he found himself in the middle of China’s turmoil. These explorations led to a dramatic conclusion as the political activism and awareness taking place among young people in China culminated in the student-led Tiananmen Square demonstrations in Spring 1989. From mid-April to June 9, He spent most of his times between his dormitory and the Square, talking to students and taking photographs. He felt both an insider and an outsider in Beijing, and the photographs he took reflect the intimate access he had to the demonstrations being Chinese, and he was still discovering and confronting what it meant to be Chinese during this turbulent time.
His recent photography has been a process of reconsideration and re-appropriation of these past experiences.He received his BA in studio art from SUNY Buffalo in 1991 and his MFA from UCLA in 1996.
LARRY LEE
http://www.larrylee.com
Larry Lee is a multimedia artist, independent curator and writer who teaches in the First Year Program and Art History, Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago and his Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been exhibited at the SpaceLab in Cleveland, Diverseworks in Houston and Free Gallery in Glasgow, Scotland as well as various galleries in Chicago and New York.
SEAN MARC LEE
http://www.seanmarclee.com
Sean Marc Lee was born in San Francisco, California. He received a BA in Visual Arts/Film Production at the University of California, San Diego in 2003. Currently he resides in Los Angeles, where he balances working in the entertainment industry and shooting. Published works include Latina Magazine, Computer Arts UK, 0086 Magazine, PIG Magazine, SOMA, Photo Shelter and NY Arts Magazine.
LUCY KALYANI LIN
Lucy Kalyani Lin is a video and installation artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work negotiates the psychological and visceral space between feelings of desire, fascination and disgust. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts from the University of California at Berkeley and is currently working as an arts administrator in San Francisco. She has been involved with Kearny Street Workshop on the APAture planning committee since 2007.
KENNETH LO
http://www.yelp.com/biz/lucky-feet-happy-shoes-san-francisco
Kenneth Lo is an interdisciplinary artist residing in San Francisco, California. The fundamental themes of his work involve the want to be well liked and accepted. The posturing that generally ensues becomes an act of humorous, and sometime poignant, self-deprecation to explore media, masculinity, assimilation and, sometimes, romance. He recieved his BA in the Philosophy of Religion from San Francisco State University, and graduated with an MFA from UC Berkeley in 2006.
His work had been exhibited in the Bay Area at the Berkeley Art Musuem, ProArts Gallery, Kearny Street Workshop, Artists Television Access, and the Campus Gallery at the California College of the Arts.
FANG LU
http://deerfang.org/
Fang Lu, is a video artist born in 1981 Guangzhou China. She received BFA in Graphic Design at School of Visual in New York in 2005; completed MFA degree in New Genres (Video + Performance) at San Francisco Art Institute in 2007. She received SFAI’s coveted Chauncey Mckeever Award upon graduation in 2007. The same year with her production company Fabricatorz, founded with Jon Phillips, she received a Southern Exposure Alternative Exposure Grant.
Fang’s work is shown internationally and has been in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, London, China, France and Sweden previously. Her earlier projects investigate the condition of video in art making and the dynamics within the production process through participation, improvisation, real-time and socialization. Her current work uses common formats from popular to dissect culture and political meanings in the media and in our everyday society. She is now living and working in China Beijing and US San Francisco.
MALEONN
http://www.maleonn.com/v2/
Maleonn was born in Shanghai in 1972. He went to Shanghai Huashan Art School in 1984, and he was a senior high student in the Attached High School of Fine Art College of Shanghai University. He graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design from the Fine Art College of Shanghai University. Between 1995 and 2003, Maleonn was an Art Director and Director for commercial films. He has been engaged in independent Creation of Art since 2004.
He lives and works in Shanghai, China.
ELIZABETH MOY
http://elizabethmoy.com
Elizabeth Moy’s work weaves in and out of several different photographic genres, exploring issues of representation through photos mined from her family archive and constructed images created to fill in the projected details that exist outside of the picture frame of the past. She is currently working on a book project that explores her father’s experience in Vietnam as an Asian American soldier and how that experience has shaped who he has become. Elizabeth Moy received her BFA in painting from Syracuse University in 2001 and her MFA in photography from the California College of the Arts in 2005. Elizabeth’s work has been exhibited in both New York and San Francisco. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
TUCKER NICHOLS
http://www.tuckernichols.com
Tucker Nichols has had recent solo shows at ZieherSmith Gallery in New York, Lincart and Gallery 16 in San Francisco, and the Kunstpanorama in Luzern. His work has been featured at the Drawing Center and John Connelly Presents in New York, and Rocket Gallery in Tokyo. His drawings have been published in McSweeney’s, J&L Books, The Thing, Nieves Books and the Op-Ed pages of The New York Times. He was recently commissioned by the de Young Museum in San Francisco to be its first roving artist-in-residence. He is the artist behind Anonymous Postcard.
Nichols has a BA from Brown University and an MA from Yale University. He lives near San Francisco.
NADIM SABELLA
http://www.nadimsabella.com
German born Nadim Roberto Sabella is an artist, curator and art educator who currently resides in Oakland, California. His work explores personal tragedies and involves a wide range of media including photography, sculpture and installations. He graduated with a Masters in Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2006.
Sabella has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Jack and Gertrude Murphy Fellowship for Photography as well as the San Francisco Art Institute Photography Award.
In addition to exhibiting his own work, he curates exhibitions for venues such as Johansson Projects, Swell Gallery, the Garage as well as Swissnex, an annex of the Consulate General of Switzerland.
ZACHARY ROYER SCHOLZ
http://zacharyscholz.com/home.html
Zachary Royer Scholz was born in Washington DC, and currently lives in Berkeley California. His multivalent artworks manifest variously as sculpture, installation, and photography. In addition to making art, Scholz directs project 7, which hosts an ongoing series of artist installations. Scholz received a BA from Stanford University in 2001, a MFA from The California College of the Arts in 2006, and is currently finishing a MA in Visual and Critical Studies. In 2008, Scholz was a finalist for SFMOMA’s SECA award and had solo exhibitions at David Sallow Gallery (LA), Chandra Cerrito Contemporary (OAK), and The Lab (SF).
INDIGO SOM
http://www.indigosom.com
Indigo Som may or may not have her priorities in line, but they do quack along quite nicely behind her. She can diagram your sentences for you, or deliver a loud rant about the place of the Chinese restaurant in the American imagination. Or just take a picture of it. Some people think she’s famous. You can decide for yourself at
www.indigosom.com.
CHARLENE TAN
Charlene Tan is an artist who lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. Born in Houston, Texas she spent most of her childhood in the Philippines only to go back to San Francisco to begin her education. She is a 2010 History of Contemporary Art BA candidate at San Francisco Art Institute. She is active within the arts community taking on internships, volunteering, donating, and working at integral institutions like Southern Exposure, the Luggage Store, San Francisco Arts Commission, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Her work is shown at The Intersection for the Arts, The Marin Headlands Center for the Arts, and has an exhibition coming up in June at [2nd Floor Projects] in San Francisco. Her practice is diverse, sculpture to performance work investigating topics on assimilation, consumer culture, phobias, and socio-political passivity.
PATRICK TSAI
http://www.hellopatpat.com
Patrick Tsai was born in America in 1981. After graduating from the film department in NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, he moved to Taipei, Taiwan where he began to do photography. Three years later he met, Chinese photographer Madi Ju, and moved to China to be with her. Together they started the studio/online photo diary called My Little Dead Dick, which obtained cult status on the internet, was featured in Vice Magazine’s 2007 Photo Issue, and was short-listed in the 2008 Hyeres Festival. After doing his first commercial campaign for Converse in the summer of 2008, he moved to Tokyo where he now resides.
IMIN YEH
http://iminyeh.com
I am the “too sensitive” middle child of three. My earliest memories in life are cutting things; from coupons with my plastic buddy scissors to intricate Chinese papercuts with exacto blade. Today, I am still cutting, and I think woodcuts may be the love of my life. With a double degree in Art and Asian Art History from the University of Wisconsin and a MFA from the California College of the Arts, I work part-time at the Asian Art Museum store. This job provides endless fodder for my artwork while I moonlight as an artist, trying to exercise awesomeness on a weekly basis.
XUDING YU
Xudong Yu, male, born in Hunan in 1972. He graduated from Guangzhou Art Institute with a degree in Painting. He lives in Guangzhou, China. His works have been exhibited in various venues nationally and internationally, such as Guangdong Contemporary Art Exhibition in Guangzhou, China, Pingyao International Photography Festival in Shanxi, China, 2005 - 2008 China Performance Art Archive Exhibition in Macau, Rumors - Contemporary Art Exhibition at Shanghai Fei Contemporary Art Center, China, Intervention - Zendai Museum of Modern Art in Shanghai, China, June Alliance - The Communication Campaign of China Live Art in Beijing, China Japan South Korea Exchange Art Exhibition in Daegu, South Korea, Sound and Text in Performance Art Exhibition in Hong Kong, The 21st Asian International Art Exhibition at The National Museum of Singapore, City Status - Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition in Tallinn, Estonia, and The 14th Brazil Video Festival in San Paulo, Brazil. He was an awardee by the 2005 Body to Body - Chinese Performance Art Documenta Exhibition in Macau.
DAVID YUN
http://www.davidmyun.com
David Yun grew up as the son of Chinese immigrants in Livonia, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit that holds the title as “The Whitest Large City” in the United States. His work spans a variety of mediums including film/video, photography, social practice, and installation and has been shown around the world at venues such as the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), European Media Arts Festival, International Asian American Film Festival (New York), Sydney Underground Film Festival, and Documenta Madrid. He is currently pursuing an MFA degree at San Francisco Art Institute.
MICHELLE YUN
http://www.mimiyun.com
Michelle Yun, born in 1974 Detroit, Michigan; lives and works in New York. is an artist and independent curator based in New York. Her paintings, sculptures and works on paper are unified by an underlying focus on process in tandem with the exploration of spatiality and temporality through line and mark making. Thematically, the paintings and works on paper primarily refer to urban and cellular growth. They are often densely packaged self-contained worlds teeming with subtle activity. Alternately, the sculptures are cast, sewn and molded from an array of organic and synthetic materials that transcend their traditional connotations, giving the materials new life and meaning. These tactile assemblages often transgress their prescribed spatial boundaries and beckon the viewer with their tactile seductivity.
