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Gaye Chan
Chimaera 37 of 43 © 2001


Gaye Chan
b. 1957, Hong Kong
Lives in Kailua, Hawaii (emigrated in 1979).


Heritage:
Japanese–American


Selected Exhibitions:
22 Pauahi Street. Honolulu, 2005
Honolulu Academy of Art. Honolulu, 2003
UTEP Glass Gallery. University of Texas at El Paso, 2003
The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center. Honolulu, 2002
Artspeak Gallery. Vancouver, 2002
Gallery 4A. Sydney, Australia, 2001
YYZ Artists' Outlet. Toronto, 2000
Gallery 4A, Sydney, Australia, 2001
SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA, 2000
Art in General, New York, NY, 1998
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI, 1997
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY, 1994
Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX, 1994


Education:
MFA, San Francisco Art Institute, CA;
BFA, University of Hawai’i


Awards:
Hawaii’s Peoples Fund, 2006
Longwood Digital_Matrix Commission. The Visual Art Program of the Bronx Council on the Arts, 2005
Gaea Foundation Sea Change Residency Award, 2004
John Charlot Foundation Award for Excellence, 2003
Wallace Alexander Gerbode Visual Art Award, 2002
Creative Capital Grant, 2001
En Foco 2001 New Works Photography Award
Top 5 Award. American Institute of Graphic Design (Honolulu), 2001
Hawaii State Foundation for Culture and the Arts, Individual Artist Fellowship, 1998
Honorable Mention Recognition. 1996 WESTAF/NEA Regional Fellowships for Visual Artists Award of Excellence, 1996
The Pele Awards Competition, 1996
Rockefeller Foundation Grant, 1994

Collections:
Milwaukee Art Museum
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu
Harry Ransom Center. University of Texas
Houston Museum of Fine Art
The Center for Photography at Woodstock
Light Work
State Foundation for Culture and the Arts
Honolulu Academy of Art
Persis Foundation


Residencies:
Lightwork Artists' Residency Program. Light Work, Syracuse, New York, 1993


Publications:
With Andrea Feeser. Forgetting and Remembering Waikiki, University of Hawai’i Press, 2006
Gaye Chan and Nandita Sharma. “Eating in Public” in Constituent Imagination: Research and Resistance in the Global Justice Movement, Stevphen Shukaitis and David Graeber (eds). (in press), 2006
Gaye Chan and Nandita Sharma. “A Dot and A Line.” (Reprint) Five Fingers Press. Issue 21, 2004
Gaye Chan and Nandita Sharma. “The Diggers: The Unmaking of Public Space.” Chain. Issue 11, 2004
“Lisa’s Closet.” Q&A: Queer in Asian America. Temple University Press, 1998



 

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