Gigi Chen
plaguebunnie@yahoo.com
Education:
School of Visual Arts
(BFA) Bachelors of Fine Art, graduated 2004
Major in Traditional Animation
Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and the Performing Arts
Graduated 2000
Art Major
Solo Exhibitions:
2008- Knapp Gallery: Wide Awake
Group Exhibitions:
2011: Milavec Hakimi Gallery: Hello World!, New York, NY
2011: CITYarts' 43rd Anniversary Benefit: Samsung Experience, New York, NY
2011- Splattered Columns Gallery: Art Connects Benefit
2010- Center 548: Flux Factory’s Annual Benefit and Auction, New York, NY
2010- Salon 94 Freemans: Little Collector: Preview Show, New York, NY
2010- Mighty Tanaka: 12 x 12, Brooklyn, NY
2010- Flux Factory's Benefit Auction, New York, NY
2010- The Big Loft: Culture Clash, Jersey City, NJ
2010- Arario Gallery: Irrelevant: Local Emerging Asian Artists Who Don't Make Work About
Being Asian, New York, NY
2010- Banzai!!!!: Art and Performance Bash, Brooklyn, NY
2010- Volume Black: Masters of Merriment, New York, NY
2010- JSF Contemporary: Group Show, Philadelphia, PA
2009- Knapp Gallery: 511 Project Space, New York, NY
2009- Ad Hoc Art: Delineations, Brooklyn, NY
2008- Flanders 311: Why is a Raven Like a Writing Desk? , Raleigh, NC
2008- Ad Hoc Art: Welcome To The Alcove, Brooklyn, NY
2008- Flanders Art Gallery: Here Be Monsters…, Raleigh, NC
2007-2008- F.U.E.L. Collection: Parris, New York, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
2007- F.U.E.L. Collection: The Pennsylvania Hospital Auxiliary Fall Fusion Exhibition, charity event
2006-2007- F.U.E.L. Collection: Fresh City, featured artist
2006-2007- Queens Museum: Queens International 2006
2006- Deitch Projects: ARTSTAR, New York, NY
2003- Hudson Guild: Lucky Draw exhibition and fundraiser, New York, NY
2002- Hudson Guild: Lucky Draw exhibition and fundraiser, New York, NY
2001- Hudson Guild: Lucky Draw exhibition and fundraiser, New York, NY
Art Fairs:
2010- Art Santa Fe with Volume Black Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2009- Pulse Art Fair with Knapp Gallery, New York, NY
2008- SCOPE Hamptons with Knapp Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2006- San Antonio Contemporary Art Month with Jack the Pelican Presents Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Film Festivals:
2004- Dusty Film Festival: Animated short film “How to be a Kangaroo,” New York, NY
2003- Kalamazoo Film Festival: Animated short film “Lady Bug,” Kalamazoo, MI
2002- NY Expo of Film and Video: Finalist Award: Animated short film “Lady Bug,” New York, NY
Awards and Grants:
2003- Kalamazoo Film Festival: Finalist Award: Animated short film “Lady Bug”
2002- NY Expo of Film and Video: Finalist Award: Animated short film “Lady Bug”
2000-School of Visual Arts: Silas H. Rhodes Scholarship
2000- Edward R. Weiner Fellowship
2000-Lively Arts Scholarship
2000-Class of ’59 Scholarship
2000-Barbara White Fellowship: Painting Resident of the Vermont Studio Center
Lectures:
2011- The Affordable Art Fair: Children’s Cartooning Workshop
2011- Splattered Columns Gallery: Panel Discussion–Life After Reality TV: An Artist’s Perspective
2010- CityArts: Guest Artist for Piece for Peace project
2007- Queens Museum: Professional Development Workshop
Miscellaneous:
2005: ARTSTAR
A documentary series based in the New York fine art scene, I was chosen to be in the cast of eight “up and coming” artists by Jeffrey Deitch of Deitch Projects art gallery. ARTSTAR aired in June of 2006 on the satellite Voom network. The show simultaneously screened at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, New York.