Gigi Chen

Education:

School of Visual Arts

(BFA) Bachelors of Fine Art, graduated 2004 Major in Traditional Animation

Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and the Performing Arts

Graduated 2000 Art Major

Solo Exhibitions & Two Person Exhibitions:

2012-Phantom Audio: Pretty-Cute: New Drawing by Gigi Chen, New York, NY
2012- Mighty Tanaka: The Birds & The Bees, with H. Veng Smith, Brooklyn, NY
2008- Knapp Gallery: Wide Awake

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2012- Cojo Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
2011-2012- Longwood Art Gallery: Toys & Games With a Twist, Bronx, NY
2011: Milavec Hakimi Gallery: Hello World!, New York, NY
2011: CITYarts' 43rd Anniversary Benefit: Samsung Experience, New York, NY
2011- Splattered Columns Gallery: Art Connects Benefit
2010- Center 548: Flux Factory’s Annual Benefit and Auction, New York, NY
2010- Salon 94 Freemans: Little Collector: Preview Show, New York, NY
2010- Mighty Tanaka: 12 x 12, Brooklyn, NY
2010- Flux Factory's Benefit Auction, New York, NY
2010- The Big Loft: Culture Clash, Jersey City, NJ
2010- Arario Gallery: Irrelevant: Local Emerging Asian Artists Who Don't Make Work About Being Asian, New York, NY
2010- Banzai!!!!: Art and Performance Bash, Brooklyn, NY
2010- Volume Black: Masters of Merriment, New York, NY
2010- JSF Contemporary: Group Show, Philadelphia, PA
2009- Knapp Gallery: 511 Project Space, New York, NY
2009- Ad Hoc Art: Delineations, Brooklyn, NY
2008- Flanders 311: Why is a Raven Like a Writing Desk? , Raleigh, NC
2008- Ad Hoc Art: Welcome To The Alcove, Brooklyn, NY
2008- Flanders Art Gallery: Here Be Monsters…, Raleigh, NC
2007-2008- F.U.E.L. Collection: Parris, New York, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
2007- F.U.E.L. Collection: The Pennsylvania Hospital Auxiliary Fall Fusion Exhibition, charity event
2006-2007- F.U.E.L. Collection: Fresh City, featured artist
2006-2007- Queens Museum: Queens International 2006
2006- Deitch Projects: ARTSTAR, New York, NY

Art Fairs:

2012- Fountain Fair New York with Mighty Tanaka Gallery, New York, NY
2011- Fountain Fair Miami with Mighty Tanaka Gallery, Miami, FL
2010- Art Santa Fe with Volume Black Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2009- Pulse Art Fair with Knapp Gallery, New York, NY
2008- SCOPE Hamptons with Knapp Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2006- San Antonio Contemporary Art Month with Jack the Pelican Presents Gallery, San Antonio, TX

Awards and Grants:

2003- Kalamazoo Film Festival: Finalist Award: Animated short film “Lady Bug”
2002- NY Expo of Film and Video: Finalist Award: Animated short film “Lady Bug”
2000-School of Visual Arts: Silas H. Rhodes Scholarship
2000- Edward R. Weiner Fellowship
2000-Lively Arts Scholarship
2000-Class of ’59 Scholarship
2000-Barbara White Fellowship: Painting Resident of the Vermont Studio Center

Lectures:

2011- The Affordable Art Fair: Children’s Cartooning Workshop
2011- Splattered Columns Gallery: Panel Discussion–Life After Reality TV: An Artist’s Perspective
2010- CityArts: Guest Artist for Piece for Peace project
2007- Queens Museum: Professional Development Workshop

Miscellaneous:

2005: ARTSTAR
A documentary series based in the New York fine art scene, I was chosen to be in the cast of eight “up and coming” artists by Jeffrey Deitch of Deitch Projects art gallery. ARTSTAR aired in June of 2006 on the satellite Voom network. The show simultaneously screened at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, New York.