GAYE CHAN
Professor & Program Chair

Gaye Chan has been the Chair of the Photography Program since 1991. She is the professor for Art 206, 307, 308B, and rotate with other faculty members in teaching BFA (407) and MFA seminars.  Chan received her BFA from the University of Hawai'i and her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She is a conceptual artists who works in photography, installation, electronic media and agitprop.  Chan's work is primarily inspired by and made from found images and objects -- mining their potential in making visible the invisible forces at work all around us.

She has had exhibitions at Asia Society (New York City), Honolulu Academy of Art (Honolulu), Art in General (New York City), YYZ (Toronto), Artspeak (Vancouver), Gallery 4A (Sydney), SF Camerawork (San Francisco), YYZ (Toronto) and The Contemporary Museum (Honolulu).  Chan is also an active participant of DownWind Productions and co-editor of its website http://www.downwindproductions.com.  Downwind is a collaborative that examines the impact of colonialism, capitalism, and tourism in Hawai'i. Through agitprop commodities and web media, DownWind explores Waikiki as an actual specific site/sight and a metaphor for countless other places where self-sustaining peoples have been dislocated for profit.

Examples of her work can be found at http://www.gayechan.com