Xuan Chen

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Solo Exhibitions
2017 "Light, Space, Intimacy", George Adams Gallery, New York City
2017 "In Praise of Shadow, Color, and Light" at Hyperallergic
2017 "Light, Color, Dimension", School of Visual Arts, New York City
2016 "Empty and Full", Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2015 "Color", Hiestand Galleries—Miami University, Oxford, OH
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


Notable Public and Private Collections
Louisa Stude Sarofim Foundation
Dave Hickey and Libby Lumpkin Family Collection
Great Minds Headquarter Collection
City of Albuquerque Public Art Collection
College of Creative Arts, Miami University
Private Collection at Art + Artisans
Private Collection at Working Artist Org.


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
(Review) “Thinking Through Digital Media” by Dale Hudson and Patricia Zimmerman, P174-175 Palgrave Macmillan Press, April 2015


2014 Artwork Reviewed by Margaret Wright at adobeairstream.com
"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), NYC
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
Dave Bown Projects' 7th Semiannual Competition


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 "Image Culture", The Visual Arts Gallery, Santa Fe Community College, Santa Fe, NM
"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 and Global Alliance
Against Traffic in Women, Ithaca, NY
"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
"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