University of Hawaii Art Gallery
Fall 2006 November 5 December 13, 2006 |
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Gaye Chan
Kodak Hula Show 2006 digital inkjet print 24" x 57" Gaye Chan, born in Hong Kong in 1957, immigrated to the United States when she was twelve years old. She holds a BFA from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1979, and a MFA from San Francisco Art Institute, 1982. Art director for TinFish Press, a journal of experimental poetry of the Pacific and Pacific Rim, Chan is also a professor of photography and chairperson of the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She received the 2005 Longwood Digital_Matrix Commission from the Bronx Council for the Arts and a Gaea Foundation Sea Change Residency Award in 2004. Chan has had solo exhibitions at the Houston Center for Photography, 2003; Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, 2002; Gallery 4A, Sydney, Australia, 2001; YYZ Artists' Outlet, Toronto, 2000; and SF Camerawork, San Francisco, 2000. She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions including Paradise Now? Contemporary Art from the Pacific, Asia Society, New York, 2004; En Foco's New Works Photography Award Grant for 2001, Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Flushing, New York, 2002; and Travelers' Tales, Institute of International Visual Arts, London, 2001. See website: |
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