SUSAN CHEN
b. 1977, Houston, TX. Lives and works in San Francisco, CA.
EDUCATION
- 2006
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- MFA ,California College Of Arts, San Francisco
- 2004
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- Post-Baccalaureate Certificate, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- 2001
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- BFA, University Of Texas At Austin
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
- 2011
Proof: Southern Exposure’s Entry-Fee Free Juried Exhibition, Juror: Denise Markonish, Curator at Mass MoCa
Annual Art Auction, the Lab, San Francisco
- 2010
Shadowshop, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA (invited by Stephanie Syjuco to be a participating artist)
New Enterprise, Phase 3. Site Specific installation curated by fine art base, Henry Miller Memorial Library. Big Sur, CA
Temescal Street Cinema. Curated shorts by Royal Nonesuch Gallery, Oakland, CA
- 2009
Tell me everything, as you remember it. Curated by Leona Scull-Hons, Creative Research Laboratory. Austin, TX
This & That: International Mail Swap: a project Curated by Christine Wong Yap in Involved, Socially, Triple Base, San Francisco, CA. Curated by Michelle Blade.
Indeterminate Landscapes, part of the Rising Tide Ecological Arts Conference jointly hosted by California College of the Arts and Stanford University, April 17
Mixed Metaphors and Obsessive Compulsive Behavior, Michael Rosenthal Gallery, San Francisco, CA
25th Anniversary Art Auction, the Lab, San Francisco
Butterflies Shift North (solo exhibition), Skydive, Houston
- 2008
The Silhouette of Songs in conjunction with the De Young Museum’s exhibition “Asian/ America/Modern Art: Shifting Currents,” the Sangati Center, San Francisco
Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure. San Francisco
- 2007
The Little Show, Swarm Gallery, Oakland
Sublime Climate: The Cambridge School of Weston
Mystery Ball, (video installation), Headlands, Marin
Albedo, Eleanor Harwood Gallery. San Francisco
Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure. San Francisco
- 2006
Its a Small World: Scale in Contemporary Photography. San Jose Museum of Art
Peripheries of Narrative, Patricia Sweetow Gallery. San Francisco
Snap , Crackle, Pop. Playspace, San Francisco
Awesome: The Contemporary Sublime, Playspace, San Francisco
- 2005
Ecstatic Landscapes, Café Royale, San Francisco
Fantastic Amnesia, Playspace, San Francisco
- 2004
Graduate Exhibition, Gallery 2, Chicago
- 2003
Seven From Austin: Recent Post-Pluralist Painting, Landmark Arts, Lubbock, TX
- 2001
The Language of Objects, Design Center of Austin, Austin, TX
Solo Exhibition, New Gallery, Austin
PRESS
- 2010
Quintana, Mica,”Base in Space” , Monterey County Weekley: June 17
Grover, Andrea,”Buffet DVD, Volume 1,” Glasstire.com:
Lovett, Creg, “Buffet DVD Review,” SpaceCityRock.com: February 21
- 2009
Brenner, Wayne Alan. “’Tell me everything, as you remember it.’Creative Research Laboratory. Austin Chronicle: October 23
Klaasmeyer, Kelly, “Susan Chen: Butterflies Shift North, “Houston Press; January 2009
- 2006
Helfand, Glen, “Critic’s Picks,” Artforum.com; June 2006
CURATORIAL
- 2009
Urban Idiom, (co-curated exhibition) Patricia Sweetow Gallery. San Francisco
PUBLICATIONS
- 2009
Buffet DVD, Issue One. Video-based DVD periodical made possible by support from:The Idea Fund and Houston Arts Alliance