Gigi Chen
66 Saint Nicholas Place, Apt B41, New York, NY 10032
1(917)535-2995
plaguebunnie@yahoo.com
www.gigichen.com
Education:
School of Visual Arts
(BFA) Bachelors of Fine Art, graduation 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:
2008- Flanders Art Gallery: Here Be Monsters..., Raleigh. NC
2007-2008 F.U.E.L. Collection: Paris, New York, 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
200-2007 Queens Museum: Queens International 2006, group show
2006- Deitch Projects: ARTSTAR , group show
2004- Dusty Film Festival: Animated short film “How to be a Kangaroo”
2003- Kalamazoo Film Festival: Animated short film “Lady Bug”
2003- Hudson Guild: Lucky Draw exhibition and fundraising
2002- Hudson Guild: Lucky Draw exhibition and fundraising
2001- Hudson Guild: Lucky Draw exhibition and fundraising
Art Fairs
2006- San Antonio Contemporary Art Month: with Jack the Pelican Presents Gallery
Awards:
2003- Kalamazoo Film Festival: Finalist Award: Animated short film “Lady Bug”
2002- NY Expo of Film & 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:
2007: Queen's Museum: Professional Development Workshop
Work Experience:
2005: ART STAR
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 gallery. ARTSTAR will
air in June of 2006 on the satellite Voom network. The show will simultaneously be showing
at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, New York.
2005: Concept artist for “Blue Lollypop”
Production art for independent live action/ animated film by Max Evry. Work includes
character designs and layouts for animated sequences that will be rendered in 3-d.
2003-Present: Apprentice to artist Su-en Wong
Assisting in large scale realistic drawings in color pencil.
2001-Present: Apprentice to artist Kathleen Gilje
Assisting in paintings that can be described as reproductions of Old Masters, such as
Rembrandt’s “Danae” and Klimt’s “Judith”. Prep work (drawings, drawing transfers), under
painting, gold leaf, and creative input. The job also includes image retouching and portfolio
management and graphic design with Photoshop.
2002-03: Intern at Carl Paolino’s stop motion animation studio
Assisting in the fabrication department of a stop motion studio in the development of props
for the AMC television show “The Wrong Coast”.
2002: Mural assistant for True-Faux Murals
Assisting in the creation of representational murals such as a reproduction of the
Pompeii fresco “Livia’s Garden.”
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