Xuan Chen

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Born in China, live and work in USA

Solo Exhibitions

2016 "Empty and Full", Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2015 "Color", Hiestand Galleries—Miami University, Oxford, OH
2014 Featured Exhibition at Gallery Gray, Feburary, 2014
2013 "Color Matter", Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2011 "Edges", John Sommers Gallery, Albquerque, NM
"Splash", Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
2009 "Between the Lines", VSA North Fourth Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2008 Rooz Gallery, Oakland, CA


Group Exhibitions

2016 (3-Person Exhibition) "Puffy, Prickly, Poured", Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, TX
“Seattle Art Fair” Seattle, WA
"The Retrieval of the Beautiful", The Painting Center, Chelsea, NYC
2015 “Miami Project” Miami, FL
“Seattle Fine Art Fair” Seattle, WA
  “Art Market San Francisco” at Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
  “Coordinates” at Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2014 "Miami Project" Art Fair, Miami, FL
  "That's Where You Need to Be", Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
  "Color", National Juried Exhibition at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC), Brooklyn, NY 11231
SURFACE: Emerging Artists of New Mexico (Reggie Gammon Memorial Award), Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
  Sculptures appear in the episode "ILLUSION D'OPTIQUE" @ TV5 show in Montreal, Canada
  Paintings represented by Richard Levy Gallery at Downtown Fair, New York City
  2014 Dorothy Yeck Award (1st Prize), Miami University's Young Painters Competition, Oxford, OH
Artwork featured at Dave Bown Projects' 7th Semiannual Competition along with 24 artists selected from 40 countries
2013 "Post-Racial U.S.?", National Juried Exhibition at New Mexico State University Art Gallery, Las Cruces, New Mexico
"New American Paintings", Juried Exhibitions-In-Print, West Issue #108, Boston, MA
"Survival Tactics", Patti and Rusty Rueff Galleries at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
2012 "Market Value", GF Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
"Paint by Numbers", Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM.
"Survival Tactics", Conjunction with the 18th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA2012), SCA Contemporary, Albuquerque, NM
"18th Annual Texas National 2012 Competition and Exhibition", Nacogdoches, TX
"LaGrange National XXVII Biennial", LaGrange Art Museum, LaGrange, GA
(1st Prize) CAS Contemporary Art Society of New Mexico, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
"CINESONIKA2", The Second International Conference and Festival of Sound Design, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
2011 "More is More", Lexington Art League,Lexington, KY
(Honorable Mention) The 26th Tallahassee International Exhibition, FSU Museum of Fine Arts Tallahassee, FL
"Looking Both Ways", Eastern Michigan Univ./Univ. of Michigan Ann Arbor's North Campus Research Center, Ypsilanti, MI
"FILMIDEO", The 6th Annual Film and Video Screenings, Index Art Center, Newark, NJ
The 2nd Annual West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival, Morgantown, WV
(1st Prize)"Trafficked Identity", Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) and Global Alliance
Against Traffic in Women (GAATW), Ithaca, NY
"New View",The 17th Annual Juried M.F.A. Exhibition,Tamarind Institute Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
"18 days", Munoz Waxman Gallery at Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe,NM
North American Graduate Art Survey, Nash Gallery,Minneapolis, MN
"4 Real 4 Faux" Animating the Vernacular", Truman State University Art Gallery, Kirksville, MO
2010 "Two Minutes Film Festival", Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
"Monday Afternoon", (Friends of Art Prize Winner, 1st Prize), The 16th Annual Juried M.F.A. Exhibition, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM.
2009 New Mexico Film Expo 2009, Santa Fe, NM


Awards and Grants

2014 2014 Dorothy Yeck Award, Miami University's Young Painters Competition, Oxford, OH
“Reggie Gammon Memorial Award “, Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
2013 "Working Artist Grant" awardee at www.workingartist.org
2012 1st Prize, CAS Contemporary Art Society of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
2011 1st Prize, "Trafficked Identity", FLEFF in conjunction with GAATW
Honorable Mention, The 26th Tallahassee International Exhibition, FSU Museum of Fine Arts Tallahassee, FL
2010 Friends of Art Prize, University of New Mexico Art Museum
Clyde A. and Elizabeth R. Hill Endowed Scholarship
2009 New Visions/New Mexico Filmmaker Contract Award
Clyde A. and Elizabeth R. Hill Endowed Scholarship
S-Cap Travel Grant from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
RTP Travel Grant from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
2008 Graphic Novel "Apple" on the final list of Narrative Magazine
2005 Garbage Art Grant Winner, California College of the Arts (CCA), Oakland, CA


Collections

2014 Paintings titled "Screens" collected by Dorothy Yeck Award, Miami University's Young Painters Collection
2013 "Working Artist Grant"; Collection at Working Artist Org.
2011 "Real Deal Etching", public art project for the City of Albuquerque
Prospectus #216 Acclaimed Artist Series, State of New Mexico (final list, Pool)
2010 Prospectus #210 New Mexico Only Purchase Initiative (final list, pool)
2009 Oil Painting "Dendrite Fusion" selected for the City of Albuquerque Public Art Collection


Publications

2015 (Review) “Thinking Through Digital Media” by Dale Hudson and Patricia Zimmerman, P174-175 Palgrave Macmillan Press, April 2015
2014 Artwork Reviewed by Margaret Wright in September, 2014 at adobeairstream.com
2014 Artwork Reviewed by culturehall.com Winter 2014 Featured Issue
2013 "New American Paintings", Juried Exhibitions-In-Print, West Issue #108, Boston, MA
2011 (Illustration) "Wonders of Nuclear Fusion" by Neal Singer, UNM Press (ISBN: 0826347789)
(Exhibition Catalog) Looking Both Ways: A Contemporary Art Exhibition Coinciding with the Centennial of the Xinhai Revolution, Eastern Michigan University Press (ISBN 0912042982)
(Exhibition Catalog) The 26th Tallahassee International Exhibition, FSU Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL
(Exhibition Catalog) "More is More", Lexington Art League,Lexington, KY
(Exhibition Catalog) "4 Real 4 Faux" Animating the Vernacular", Truman State University Art Gallery, Kirksville, MO
(Exhibition Catalog) The 17th Annual Juried M.F.A. Exhibition, Tamarind Institute Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

2010 (Exhibition Catalog) The 16th Annual Juried M.F.A. Exhibition, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
      


Selected Group Exhibitions

2011 "Image Culture", The Visual Arts Gallery, Santa Fe Community College, Santa Fe, NM
2010 "Lighting Fires: Six Working Classroom Instructors", Visiones Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
"Friends and Lover", John Sommers Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
Resonance, Rabbitholeprojects, Brooklyn, NY
Fun and Games, John Sommers Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
Nature and Technology, John Sommers Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2008 Court House Exhibition, State Court of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Terra Gallery Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
Group show in California Conference on the Advancement of Ceramic Art, Davis, CA
Dirt Show, Worth Rider Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, CA


Conferences

2012 18th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA2012), Albuquerque, NM
2009 30th Anniversary of Yuma Symposium, Yuma, AZ
19th Annual California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art, Davis, CA