Christy Chan in Conversation with Binh Danh
Tuesday, March 26, 2024 5 pm to 6 pm
Christy Chan will be speaking about her practice moderated by Binh Danh, one of SJSU faculty in Photography. Christy Chan creates multimedia installations and public art projects that question the everyday power structures that uphold white supremacy in the United States. Using a combination of video, installation, performance, object-design, and social practice, her projects are often participatory, city-wide platforms that aim to draw citizens from under-represented communities together to speak their truths. In 2021, following the censorship of her work for critiquing a U.S. president, Chan evolved her practice to bypass traditional municipal processes and founded Dear America, a grassroots, guerrilla public art project that projected the art works of AAPI artists on to high rise buildings in urban areas in response to anti-Asian racism. Chan’s work has been featured in solo presentations in Mills Art Museum and Southern Exposure in the Bay Area; Wassaic Project and x NY Council of the Arts in New York; Film Independent in Los Angeles; and UMOCA in Salt Lake City, among others. She has been awarded residencies from Bemis Center of Contemporary Arts, Montalvo Arts Center, Santa Fe Art Institute, SFFILM, the California Arts Council and other cultural institutions. She was the recipient of a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Art.
Christy Chan’s Fainting Couch and Fainting Arms series will be included in “P L A C E,” an exhibition jointly organized by ICA SJ and Montalvo Arts Center, opening on March 23rd at the ICA San José.
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