Gaye Chan

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Education
MFA 1982 San Francisco Art Institute, Photography
BFA 1979 University of Hawai`i at Manoa

Current Professional Activities
Professor, Chair of Photography Program, Department of Art, University of Hawai`i
Art Director, TinFish - Journal of experimental poetry of the Pacific and Pacific rim
Co-founder and ongoing member, Downwind Productions

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Solo Exhibitions and Installation Projects

2005
"Free_Store." 22 Pauahi Street. Honolulu
2003
"A Dot and a Line." Honolulu Academy of Art. Honolulu
"Historic Characters and Famous Events." Houston Center for Photography. Texas
"A Dot and a Line." UTEP Glass Gallery. University of Texas at El Paso
2002
"Flagrante Delicto." The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center. Honolulu
"Chimaera." Artspeak Gallery. Vancouver, Canada.
2001
"Historic Characters and Famous Events." Gallery 4A, Sydney, Australia
2000
"Historic Characters and Famous Events." YYZ Artists' Outlet, Toronto, Canada
"Points of Departure." SF Camerawork, San Francisco, California
1999
"Departure." Articule, Montreal, Canada
1998
"Happy Meal." Art in General, New York City, New York
"Passport." Sinclair Library. Honolulu, Hawai`i
1997
"long time coming." Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawai`i
"Time to Kill." Sisu Gallery, Honolulu, Hawai`i
1996
"Language is a Virus." Sinclair Library, University of Hawai`i
"Silence No More." Hamilton Library, University of Hawai`i
1995
University of Nevada, Art Department. Reno, Nevada
1994
The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, New York

Group Exhibitions

2005
“Instructments.” Hui Ho’eau. Maui, Hawai’i
“Labour & Leisure.” University of Hawai’i at Manoa Art Gallery. Honolulu
2004
"Hawaii." Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery." Chicago, Illinois
"Beauty Queens." Confederation Centre for the Arts and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. Canada

"Paradise Now? Contemporary Art from the Pacific." Asia Society. New York City. New York
2002

"En Foco's New Works Photography Award grant for 2001." Godwin-Ternbach Museum. Flushing, New York
2001
"Travellers' Tales." Institute of International Visual Arts. London
"East is West in Hawai`i." Honolulu Academy of Art. Honolulu, Hawai`i
2000
"Skin." University Gallery, Tasmania, Australia
1998
"Shadow Crossings." Gallery TPW:Toronto Photographers Workshop, Toronto
1995
"Contemporary Museum Biennial." The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
1994
"Amendments." Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, New York
"Picturing Asia-America:Communities, Culture, Difference." Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas
"Old Glory:The American Flag in Contemporary Art." Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio
"Re:Viewing Paradise:The Ethnic Response in Contemporary Hawaiian
Photography." Memphis State University, Memphis, Tennessee
1992
"My Eyes Blur Sometimes, at Beauty." Asian-American Arts Centre, New York City, New York
1990
"All but the Obvious." LACE/Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California
"Against the Tide." Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia

Recent Awards and Fellowships

2005
Longwood Digital_Matrix Commission. The Visual Art Program of the Bronx Council on the Arts
2004
Gaea Foundation Sea Change Residency Award

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