Chinatown In/Flux Artists

In/flux Installation: Swirl
Currently based out of New York
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Tomie Arai is public artist who lives and works in New York City. Ms. Arai has painted murals with community groups on the Lower East Side, taught art in NYC public schools, and has designed numerous permanent public works of art. Her work has been exhibited nationally and her prints are in collections that include the Library of Congress, the Japanese American National Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art. She has received numerous awards, including two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships in Printmaking. In 1997, she was one of ten women nationwide to receive an Anonymous Was a Woman Grant for achievement in the visual arts. In 2004, Arai designed glass windscreens for the MTA Arts for Transit program that were installed on the White Plains Road subway line in NYC. Ms. Arai is currently completing a web project about racial profiling, entitled "Profiles from Lackawanna: Photographs and interviews of Arab American youth from Buffalo."
In/flux Installation: Tell Me A Story
Currently based out of New York
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Skowmon Hastanan was born in Thailand, raised in Bangkok, and moved to New York City in 1973. She is a mixed media artist who received her BFA from School of Visual Arts in 1985. She recently completed a NYC Percent for Art Commission. Hastanan has participated nationally and internationally in exhibitions that include the Center of Photography at Woodstock, Pottery Workshop (Shanghai, China), Jamaica Center for Arts, Gallery 4A (Sydney, Australia), NSA Galleries (Durban, South Africa), The New Museum, FŽszek Galleria (Budapest, Hungary), and Randolph Street Gallery (Chicago). Hastanan also co-curated three exhibitions as a member of Godzilla: Asian American Arts Network. She has collaborated with EMPOWER Foundation, Thailand, a center for the protection of women's rights in the entertainment sector. This collaborative project was included in the 1991 exhibition "Dismantling Invisibility: Asian and Pacific Islander Artists Respond to the AIDS Crisis." Ms. Hastanan currently lives in New York.
In/flux Installation: Chinatown Eyes/Chinatown-ize/Chinatown I's
Currently based out of Philadelphia
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Through installations and community arts collaborations, Mei-ling Hom examines the complexities of her life as a woman, an artist, and an American of Chinese descent. Working primarily as a sculptor, she has completed both monumental and transitory pieces. China Wedge (1994) is a forty-foot long wedge of 22,000 cups, bowls, and spoons of Chinese porcelain permanently installed in the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Invasive Aliens (1994) was 285 trees of Asian origin planted at Rosemont College and tagged with the names of imprisoned illegal immigrants. At the conclusion of the exhibition, the trees were adopted and replanted by sponsors willing to change the face of the American landscape. Mei-ling Hom earned her M.F.A. from Alfred University and B.A. from Kirkland College. Ms. Hom has taken part in numerous artist residencies and has received several honors, including two Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships. Ms. Hom's work has been exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Alternative Museum in New York, among other American and international venues.
In/flux Installation: Ruin Map
Currently based out of Los Angeles
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Hirokazu Kosaka was born in Japan and graduated from the Chouinard Art Institute in 1970. He is a Buddhist priest of the Shingon sect and a master Zen archer. His work Amerika Maru reflected the problems of assimilation in 1950's and 60's Los Angeles and incorporated chanting monks, Flamenco dancers, archery, and big band music. The piece was well received at the Japan America Theater, Jacobs Pillow, and the Colorado Dance Festival. For the past few years, Kosaka has been planting rice fields in the Isamu Noguci plaza and singing in an installation for the Butoh dancer in Tanaka and Oguri. Kosaka was also selected to design The little Tokyo/Art Complex Station, to be built in 2005 as a MTA project. Additionally, Kosaka has won grants and awards from such organizations as the Rockefeller Foundation, NEA, and the California Arts Council, to name a few.
In/flux Installation: Chinatown Map and Chicken Broccoli
Currently based out of New York City
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JiHyun Park immigrated from Korea in 1999 and received both his BFA and MFA in Fine Arts from the College of Fine Arts in Hong-Ik University in Seoul, Korea, and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. His solo exhibitions include Hall of Verbal Fun (2003) at the Islip Art Museum in New York state and Verbal Fun (1997) at Duck Won Gallery in Seoul. Select group exhibitions include a store front installation at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The Poor Art Travel Project-Searching for Root of Korea in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and numerous exhibitions throughout Seoul and Pusan, Korea between 1994 and 2000. JiHyun's awards include the Aljira Emerge 2003 Fellowship and two Special Prizes at the Moran Fine Art Museum and the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Kyungki-do, Korea. His work has been featured in articles for The New York Times and numerous Korean arts journals and press.
In/flux Installation: Chinatown 20/20
Currently based out of New York City
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Jean Shin was born in Seoul, Korea and is a New York based artist who creates elaborate sculptures and socially-relevant installations using accumulated cast-off materials. Her sculptural installations have been widely exhibited in museums and cultural institutions in the U.S. and abroad, including the Museum of Modern Art, New Museum of Contemporary Art, The Brooklyn Museum, and Sculpture Center, among others. She has had solo shows at Galerie Eric Dupont in Paris (2005), Frederieke Taylor Gallery in New York City (2004), and Socrates Sculpture Park (2003). She has received numerous awards, including the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Art Award (2001), a New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture (2003), and most recently, an artist in residence at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia. Her works have been featured in several publications, including Art in America, The New York Times, Tema Celeste, and Time Out.
In/flux Installation: The China Project
Currently based out of Los Angeles
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Born a rat on 4670 in the City of Angels, Steven Wong has exhibited his works in both New York and Los Angeles, including a recent show at the Hammer Museum and a solo exhibition at the Chinese American Museum for its inaugural show. As an installation artist and videomaker, his works are informed by the writings of Nietzsche and what he calls "abstracted militaristic imagery and theoretical cellular evolution." He has lectured both at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Ventura College in the Art Studio, Asian American Studies, and History Departments. He has taught classes on Computer Imaging, Video Production, and Asian American History. Steve Wong continues to teach and is currently working on his art in a studio in Los Angeles' Chinatown.
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