BIO
Andrea Chung
(b. 1978, Newark, New Jersey)
Lives and works in San Diego, California
Andrea Chung (b. 1978, Newark, NJ) lives and works in San Diego, California. She received a BFA from Parsons School of Design, New York, and a MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore. Her recent biennale and museum exhibitions include Prospect 4, New Orleans and the Jamaican Biennale, Kingston, Jamaica, as well as the Chinese American Museum and California African American Museum in Los Angeles, and the San Diego Art Institute. In 2017, her first solo museum exhibition took place at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, You broke the ocean in half to be here. She has participated in national and international residencies including the Vermont Studio Center, McColl Center for Visual Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work has been written about in the Artfile Magazine, New Orleans Times, Picayune, Artnet, The Los Angeles Times, and International Review of African-American Art among others.
Education
| 2008 | MFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland Mt. Royal School of Art |
| 2000 | BFA, Illustration, Parsons School of Design, New York, New York |
| 1999 | Lorenzo de’ Medici Institute Summer Abroad Program, Florence, Italy |
Residencies
| 2019 | Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, New York |
| 2018 | John Michael Kohler Center for the Arts, Sheboigan, Wisconsin |
| 2016 | Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, New York Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, Louisiana |
| 2014 | San Diego Institute of Art, San Diego, California Joan Mitchell Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont |
| 2013 | Helmuth Projects, San Diego, California McColl Center for Visual Arts, Charlotte, North Carolina |
| 2012 | Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California |
| 2010 | Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 2008 | Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine |
| 2007 | Taller Portobelo Norte Artist Colony, Portobelo, Panama |
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
| 2020 | The Armory Show, Klowden Mann, New York, New York |
| 2019 | …Only To Meet Nothing That Wants You, Klowden Mann, Culver City, California |
| 2018 | EXPO Chicago, Klowden Mann, Chicago, Illinois The Mess You Made, Hawthorn Contemporary, Milwaukee, Wisconsin You broke the ocean in half to be here, by Jill Dawsey, Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, UC Davis, California |
| 2017 | You broke the ocean in half to be here, by Jill Dawsey, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, California |
| 2016 | Pride and Prejudice, New Image Gallery, Los Angeles, California |
| 2014 | Winter Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, California |
| 2013 | Bain de Mer, Helmulth Projects, San Diego, California Corporeal Contours: Firelei Baez and Andrea Chung, Community Folk Art Center, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York Shifting Paths: Tom Block and Andrea Chung, CCBC, Dundalk, Maryland |
| 2008 | Arlington Art Center Fall Solo Exhibitions, Arlington, Virginia |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2020 | Wayfinding, curated by Stephanie Spaulding, Phillips Academy Addison Gallery, Andover, Massachusetts all the women. In me. Are tired., The Club, Tokyo, Japan Abortion Is Normal, Eva Presenhuber and Arsenal Contemporary, New York, New York |
| 2019 | UNTITLED, Klowden Mann, Miami Beach, Florida Extended Self: Transformations and Connections, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois The Other Side of Now, curated by Maria Elena Ortiz and Marsha Pearce, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, Florida A NonHuman Horizon, curated by Andrew McNeely, LACE, Los Angeles, California Coffee, Rhum, Sugar & Gold: A Postcolonial Paradox, curated by Dexter Wimberly and Larry Ossei-Mensah, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, California HOME: narratives of time and belonging, Klowden Mann, New York, New York The Sea is History, curated by Selena Wendt, Museum of Culture History, Oslo, Norway Your Special Island, curated by Courtney Lynne Carter and Maya Berrol-Young, Visual Culture, Arts, and Media Create Space, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania Process, Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York |
| 2018 | Being Here With You/ Estando aquí continuo: 42 Artists from San Diego and Tijuana, curated by Jill Dawsey, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, California Build a Longer Table, Metro Arts public project curated by Nicole Caruth, Nashville Department of Public Health, Nashville, Tennessee Biomythography: Reflexive Remix, curated by Jessica Wimbly, University of La Verne Harris Art Gallery, La Verne, California |
| 2017 | Prospect 4 New Orleans: The Lotus In Spite of the Swamp, curated by Trevor Schoolmaker, New Orleans, Louisiana Pacific Standard Time – Circles and Circuits: Chinese Caribbean Art, curated by Steve Wong, Chinese American Museum and California African American Museum, Los Angeles, California BLACK & BROWN PEOPLE | WHITE PROBLEMS, Samsøñ, Boston, Massachusetts Impressions: Andrea Chung, Kenyatta A. Hinkle and Robert Pruitt, Mesa College, San Diego, California Jamaica Biennale, National Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica |
| 2016 | indivisible: spirits in the material world, curated by William Cordova, Prizm Art Fair, Miami, Florida A Bad Question, Wonderroot Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia Jamaican Pulse: Art and Politics from Jamaica and the Diaspora, curated by Kat Anderson, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, England Art of Dissent, Boehm Gallery, Palomar College, San Marcos, California Jamaican Routes, curated by Selene Wendt, Punkt Ø / Galleri F15, Oslo, Norway |
| 2015 | CONVERGENCE, Cabrillo National Monument, San Diego, California Ephemeral Objects, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, California Bienial del Sur, Caracas, Venezuela New Contemporaries VIII, Valencia Gallery, San Diego, California Venturing Out of the Heart of Darkness, curated by Rehema Barber, The Gantt Center for African-American Art + Culture, Charlotte, North Carolina Performing Blackness / Performing Whiteness, Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania |
| 2014 | New Media, Trinidad + Tobago 2014 Film Festival, Alice Yard, University of the West Indies, Medulla Gallery, Trinidad TEN, curated by William Cordova, Cindy Rucker Gallery, New York, NY (in)Visible & (dis)Embodied : Repositioning the Marginalized, DCAC, Washington, DC |
| 2013 | Winter Artists-in-Residence Exhibition, McColl Center for Visual Arts, Charlotte, North Carolina |
| 2012 | Jamaican National Biennial 2012, The National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica Outward Reach, curated by Jacqueline Bishop, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC NURTUREart, Videorover: Season 3 – Program #2, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana LIFT Project, curated by Kimberli Gant, Art House, Austin, Texas NURTUREart, Videorover: Season 3 – Program #2, the Indie Screen Cine Club, Brooklyn, New York |
| 2011 | Commercial Break, the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Nuit Blanche Festival as part of the Bring to the Light Festival, Brooklyn, New York Crown Heights Film Festival, Five Myles Gallery, Brooklyn, New York New Media Program, presented by the trinidad + tobago film festival, Medulla Gallery, Port of Spain, Trinidad ARC Magazine Screening, curated by Holly Bynoe, Alice Yard, Port of Spain, Trinidad Commercial Break, the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture and POST, 54th Venice Biennale ON THE ROAD, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, Virginia Unveiled, Craftswoman House, Pasadena, California The Video Show 2011, Raritan Valley Community College, Branchburg, New Jersey |
| 2010 | COMVIDEO, apexart, New York, New York There is No Looking Glass Here, curated by Kimberli Grant, 60 Wall Street Gallery, Deutsche Bank, New York, New York Ain’t I A Woman?, curated by Kimberli Grant, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts , Brooklyn, New York Hunting Art Prize Gala, Friedkin Corporate Campus, Gulf States Toyota, Houston, Texas Security, The Root Division, San Francisco, California Black Artist as Activist Exhibition, curated by Danny Simmons and Laurel Adams, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, New York Liminal Space, curated by f(r)iction project, THE LAY-UP, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York In Between, Penelec~Megahan~Bowman Art Galleries, Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania |
| 2009 | Visions in New York City, The Verge Art Fair by Gitana Rosa Gallery and Fedele Spadafora, Art Basel, Miami, Florida a very loud silence, curated by Avantika Bawa as part of Le Flash curated by Cathy Byrd and Stuart Keeler, Castleberry Hill, Atlanta, Georgia Without Borders Exhibition, Conjunction, University of Maine, Orono, Maine Visions in New York City, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, New York Dodo, pARTage Gallery, Flic en Flac, Mauritius See You Again Last Year, ARTSCAPE/Gallery at CCBC Catonsville, Baltimore, Maryland |
| 2008 | Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye, Curated by Derrick Adams, The Gateway Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland Off Color, Curated by Hank Willis Thomas and Kalia Brooks, Rush Arts and Corridor Gallery, New York (Rush Arts) and Brooklyn (Corridor Gallery), New York ACADEMY 2008, Conner Contemporary Art, Washington, DC Archimage, Gallery Four, Baltimore, Maryland New Insight, NEXT: Art Chicago 2008, ARTropolis/Merchandise Mart Place, Chicago, Illinois THE MFA Thesis Show, Decker, Meyerhoff and Fox 3 Galleries, Fox Building, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland PepperPot: Multi Media Installation, Meaning, and the Medium in Contemporary Art, Curated by Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, Sonja Haynes Stone Center at UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina |
| 2007 | Noumenon, The 500 Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland International Exhibition of Women’s Art, Soho20/Chelsea Gallery, New York, New York Rutas y Raicces, ArteFeria de Portobelo, Portobelo, Panama Acting Up/Acting Out: MICA Women Perform, Curated by Maren Hassinger and Leslie King-Hammond, Maryland Institute College of Art, Fox Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland PRELUDE, Pinkard Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland |
Curated Exhibitions
| 2018 | B(y)e Default, Mesa College, San Diego, California |
Collections
| Harvard University University of Texas Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Rhode Island School of Design Museum NoVo Foundation Cleveland Clinic Art & Medicine Institute |
Lectures
| 2019 | Troppenmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| 2018 | Artists Alliance Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois BING: The ReBuild Foundation with Theaster Gates, Chicago, Illinois California African American Museum, Los Angeles, California |
| 2017 | University of San Diego, San Diego, California |
| 2016 | Black Portraiture III, Johannesburg, South Africa Visiting Artist, San Diego State University, San Diego, California Arnolfini, Bristol, England Chinese American Museum, Los Angeles, California |
| 2014 | Artist-in-Residence, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, California Visiting Artist, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware |
| 2012 | Artist-in-Residence, Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin County, California |
| 2011 | Visiting Artist, Claremont Colleges, Pomona, California |
| 2008 | Lecturer, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland Lecturer, Virtual Caribbeans: A Conference on Representation, Diaspora and Performance in and on the Caribbean, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana |
Awards
| 2015 | San Diego Art Prize, nominee |
| 2014 | Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant Program Art Matters Grant Program |
| 2013 | Nominee, Rema Horton Mann Award |
| 2011 | apexart COMVIDEO Award Recipient |
| 2009 | 2008-2009 U.S. Fulbright Scholar Fellow, Mauritius |
| 2008 | Full Fellowship Recipient, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture |
| 2006 | Maryland Institute College of Art, Mt. Royal Graduate Scholarship Award |
Bibliography
| 2020 | “Museum of the African Diaspora Benefit Auction Raises Over $450,000”, Artforum, May 14. “Benefit Auction for San Francisco’s Museum of the African Diaspora Raises Over $450,000”, ArtfixDaily, May 13. Valentine, Victoria L., “Museum of African Diaspora in San Francisco Raised $450,000+ in Online Benefit Auction, Helping to Sustain Operations”, Culture Type, May 12. Valentine, Victoria L., “In Wake of COVID-19, Artists re Uniting to Support the Museum of the African Diaspora San Francisco With an Online Benefit Auction”, Culture Type, April 17. Behringer, David, “9 Incredible Objects from Armory Art Fair Week 2020“, Design Milk, March 25. Cassell, Dessane Lopez, “Visiting the 2020 Armory Show Amid Ominous Headlines,” Hyperallergic, March 6. Zilkha, Bettina, “The Armory Show VIP Preview Opens To Strong Sales, Resilient Collectors,” Forbes, March 5. |
| 2019 | Dambrot, Shana Nys, “Andrea Chung at Klowden Mann,” Art and Cake, September 28. Samudzi, Zoe, “A Caribbean resent Seeped in a Colonial Past,” Hyperallergic, July 29. Wood, Sura, “Whose paradise?,” Bay Area Reporter, May 14. Gallyot, R., “Caribbean American to Slave Trade,” KWMR Radio, May 14. Goffe, Tao Leigh, “Sugarwork: The Gastropoetics of Afro-Asia After the Planation,” Asian Diaspora Visual Cultures and the Americas Volume 5, April 30. Wong, Steven Y., “Reviews – Andrea Chung: You Broke the Ocean in Half to be Here,” Asian Diaspora Visual Cultures and the Americas Volume 5, April 11. |
| 2018 | Pearce, Dr. Marsha, “Americans IN Britain – NHS 70th Anniversary,” British Council, August 15. “Manetti Shrem Museum’s summer season features Susan Swartz and Andrea Chung,” Davis Enterprise, June 16. Perez, Tanya, “Manetti, Shrem,” Yolo Magazine, June 14. Farmer, Blake, “Nashville’s Newest Art Speaks to Institutional Raciscm’s Effects on Health,” Nashville Public Radio, June 11. Uszerowicz, Monica, “Four Artists on How Motherhood Impacted Their Lives and Careers,” Hyperallergic, June 5. Valentine, Victoria L., “In a New Documentary, 4 Los Angeles Area Artists Explore the Creative and Practical Implications of Motherhood,” Culture Type, May 13. Hayes, Jeffreen M., “Everyday Resistance in the Art Space,” New Art Examiner, May. “Artist and Mother,” KCET Artbound, Season 9, Episode 7, April 17. |
| 2017 | Combs, Seth, “The Year in Art: 2017,” CityBeat, December 27. Chen, Scarlett, “Pacific Standard Time turns to one overlooked group in Latin America: Asian immigrants,” Los Angeles Times, December 22. “Prospect.4 exhibitions are full of surprises — like Easter eggs,” Pelican Bomb, New Orleans Times Picayune, November 29. Chan, Kathryn, “Sugar, Spice and Everything CAAM,” CuratorLove, November 28. Johnson, Paddy, “Pleasant Surprises in the Swamp at Prospect, the New Orleans Triennial,” Hyperallergic, November 22. Black, Matthew J., “Andrea Chung’s Powerful Work is as Sweet as It Looks,” Locale Magazine, November. Davis, Ben, “See Highlights From the Just-Opened Prospect 4 Triennial in New Orleans,” Artnet, November 20. Smyth-Johnson, Nicole, “2017 Jamaica Biennial,” Miami Rail, February. |
| 2014 | DeBrincat, AM, “Labor, History, Power,” Artfile Magazine, October. Bishop, Jacqueline, “Andrea Chung’s Love Affair With Process and Materials,” Huffington Post, July 7. Pearse, Marsha, ” Chapter13, Ready for Takeoff? Lacerated Fantasies of the Caribbean Paradise in the Decollage Art of Andrea Chung,” Travel and Imagination, Burlington: Ashgate. DuBois, Jarvis,“Born in the USA,” International Review of African-American Art, March. |
| 2013 | Frías, María, “I Make them Call Him Uncle: A Conversation with Jamaica Kincaid on AIDS, family and My Brother,” Transition: An International Review, Issue 111, Indiana University Press. |
| 2012 | Jacobson, Louis, “Reviewed: “Outward Reach” at Art Museum of the Americas,” Washington City Paper, August 3. |
| 2011 | Paul, Annie, “Not Slavish Reproductions,” ARC Magazine, Issue 2, April. Thompson, Krista, “The Evidence of Things Not Photographed: Slavery and Historical Memory in the British West Indies,” Representations 113, Winter 2011, University of California Press. |
| 2009 | “Caribbean Visual Memory, A Day Off from Dementia, Andrea Chung,” Small Axe, #29. |
| 2008 | “Art Space Talk: Andrea Chung,” MyArtSpace, May 14. Meyer, Deborah R., “Sugar and Spice and Animation,” Chapel Hill News, March 5. |
| 2006 | Goldman, Paula, “International Museum of Women’s Imagining Ourselves catalogue.” |