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Xiaowen Chen

Phone: 607 257 2399

E-mail: xiaowenchen@hotmail.com

Academic and Perfessional Position

1996-Present:

Professor, School of Art and Design, Alfred University, Alfred, NY

2010-Present:

Chair, Division of Expanded Media, School of Art and Design, Alfred University, Alfred, NY

1999-Present :

Assoicate Researcher, Digital Media Lab, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China

2009-Present:

Guest Professor in Digital Media, Tianjing Academy of Fine Arts, Tianjing, China

2009-Present:

Artistic Consultant, Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, Shenyang, China

2004-2006:

Chief Advisor of establishing the Institute for Informational Art and Design, Academy of Art and Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

1999-Present :

Research Fellow at East Asia Programs, Cornell University

Academic Consultant

·      Out side program reviewer and Consultant, Tian Jiing Academy of Fine Arts, China

·      Programs Consultant, Lun Xun Academy of Fine Arts, China

·      Programs Consultant, Guanlan International Print Base, Shenzhen, China

Creative Corriculum and International Exchange programs Development

From year of 2001 to present, I have intrusmental in developing many SoAAD’s China programs.  Some of those programs has inhanced School’s and Division’s corriculums and teaching/learning environment. 

·  Implemented the AU and CAFA BFA transfer student program, accepting 10 CAFA sophomores each year. The first two students have already arrived the Alfred University in the year of 2010-11

·  Created an Division of Expanded Media faculty and student research center at Lu Central Academy of Fine Arts.

·  Invited and hosted 2 printmaking faculties and 4 graduate students from CAFA.  Their visit to our printmaking and the AU campus initiated number of future collaborative programs including exchange visit/lecture/residency for AU faculty and students.

·  Organized Division’s student video show at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, December, 2009

·  Initiated and organized a Division faculty and student video exhibition at Mongolian Contemporary Art Museum (catalogue), July 29, 2010

·  Invited and hosted number of Chinese artist to research at IEA in the SoAaD, Alfred University. They are Song Dong, Ma Gang, Xu Bing, Xiang Jing, Chi Peng, Huang Yian, Jing Kewen

·  Initiated the conversation between Cearamic division and Central Academy of Fine Art.  The conversation led the creation of Alfred cereamic program at City Design School of CAFA.

·  Have made opportunity for number of faculty in the School of Design to visit, lecture and/or research in China.  They are: Joseph Sheer, Peer Bode, Judy Livingston, Barbara Lattanzi, Diane Cox, Gerar Edizel, Brian Arnold.

·  Invited and hosted Oliver Herring as EM division Randal Chair.

·  Initiateing and organizing a EIA graduate student video exhibition at Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in the summer of 2012.

·  Orgnized two three exhibiiton of works by faculty and students from the Division of Expanded Media at the SoAaD at Alfred University, and artists who have been residence at the Institute for Electronic Art.

·  Initiated and orgnized the Alfred digital media workshops at  Central Academy of Fine Art in 2001. This events started our long term educational coloboration with CAFA.

Major Exhibition

·      2012- “Foreing to Oneself”, He Xiangning Art Museum (solo)

·      2012- the first chinese art Invitation at the Carrousel du Louvre 2011, Paris

·      2011- “Ruins”, Soka Art Center, 798 Art Gallery District, Beijing

·      2011- "Prints Concept-The Second Academic Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Prints", Today    Museum, Beijing

·      2011- “The Sun Rises From The East”, Zero Art Center, 798 Art Gallery District, Beijing

·      2011- “The Third Guanlan International Printmaking Exhibiiton”, Guanlan International Print Base, Chenzhen, China

·      2010 - "Logic of Paper", He Xiangning Art Museum, Shen Zhen, China

·      2010 - “Xiaowen Chen- New Prints”, Zero Field Center for the Contemporary Art, 798 Gallery District, Beijing

·      2009 - "Opportune Moments", solo, Today Museum, Beijig

·      2009 - "Spectacle", solo, The Warehouse Gallery, Syracuse University, USA

·      2009 - “Great Smoke- Xiaowen Chen Recent Videos”, solo, Illinois State University, USA

·      2009 - “Our Abilities”, International New Media Exhibition, Museum of Art, Central Academy of Fine Arts

·      2008 - “Mechanism Organism”, A-9 Space, Beijing.  Artists includes: Ann Hamilton, Gary Hill, Steina and Woody Vasulka, Pauline Oliveros, Xiaowen Chen, Ma Gang, and Chen Zue

·      2007 - “Insatiable Streams”, 0 Field Art Center, 798 Art District, Beijing (catalogue), Artists includes: Ann Hamilton, Gary Hill, Kiki Smith, Steina and Woody Vasulka, Pauline Oliveros, Xu Bing, Xiaowen Chen, Ma Gang, Song Dong, Zhang Peili, John Cage, and Tony Conrad, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Stephen Vitiello

·      2007 - “Critical Art”, Art Gallery, Tsinghua University, Beijing (catalogue)

·      2007 - “Critical Art”, Contemporary Art Gallery, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China (catalogue)

·      2007 - “Beyond/in Western New York”, Albright-Knox Gallery and El Museo Gallery, Buffalo, USA

·      2007 - “Two and One”, Huang Cheng Art Museum, Beijing

·      2007 - "Identity", Santa Barbara Museum of Art, USA

·      2006 - "Ping Yiao International Photography Exhibition", Ping Yiao, China

·      2006 - Across the Divide, Reed Whipple Cultural Center Gallery, City of Las Vegas

·      2005 - "Convergence at E116/N40", 795, Beijing

·      2005 - "Mirage" (one person show), Artist Commune, Hong Kong

·      2005 - "Chengdu International Biennial", Chengdu, China

·      2004 - "Art of the Americas", Santa Barbara Museum of Art, USA

·      2004 - "Beijing International New Media Exhibition", China Millennium Art Museum. Beijing

·      2002 - "In the Western New York", Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, USA

·      2002 - "Too Much Flavor", 3H Art Center, Shanghai

·      2002 - “The Art and Science International Exhibition”, National Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing (catalogue)

·      2002 - “Tracing-Works by Contemporary Chinese Artists”, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University

·      2001 - "Paper Works", Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, USA

·      2001 - "Digital: Revolutions in Printmaking", Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York

Curatorial Projects

·      2010 - "American Printmaking Now", National Art Museum of China, Beijing

·      2010 - “Logic of Paper", He Xiangning Art Museum, Shen Zhen, China

·      2007 - “Insatiable Streams”, 0 Field Art Center, 798 Art District, Beijing (assistant to curator)

·      2007 - “Phora, Ann Hamilton” (as part of Insatiable Stream, co-curator with Chinese Independent curator Fen Boyi), Fun Art Space, 798 Art District, Beijing

Awards

·      Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts Grant (2005)

·      Laurie Tisch Sussman Foundation Award (2004)

·      New York Foundation for the Art Grant (2003)

·      Chun-Hui China Department Education fellowship (2003)

·      Alfred University Summer Research Grant (2001)

·      Cornell Council for the Arts Grant (2000)

·      Alfred University Summer Research Grant (2000)

·      Excellent teaching award in the year of 2000-2001

·      Excellent teaching award in the year of 1998-1999

·      Honorary Professor, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

·      Honorary Professor, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China

Have been honored to be one of a hundred distinguished Chinese artists, performers and writers by author Wang Chao in his book The Purity published by China Light Industry Press, Beijing, China.

Conference Speaker

·      "Prints Concept-The Second Academic Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Prints", Today Museum, Beijing, July, 2011

·      “Current State of Chinese Contemporary Printmaking”, Guanlan International Print Base, Shenzhen, China, May, 2011

·      “American Printmaking Now”, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, October, 2010 (Conference keynote speaker)

·      “Looking through Film”, Beijing University, Beijing, July, 2010

• “Tianjing Art Education Conference”, Tianjing Academy of Fine Arts, July, 2009

·      “Frontiers in Printmaking”, Illinois State University, Octpber 2007

·      “Future Perfect, Chinese Avant-garde Art Archive”, Cornell University, October, 2006

·      “Beijing International New Media Conference”, Beijing, 2004

·      “New Collaborations-Electronic Intersections”, Alfred University, 2002 (Session Chair)

·      Shanghai International Conference on Contemporary Art Education, 2001 (organizer and speaker)

·      CAA conference, International Printmaking, Boston, 1997

Visiting Artist Lectures

·      “My Works and Method”, Massachusetts College of Art, 2011

·      “Contemporary Chinese Printmaking”, Chazen Museum of Art, WISC, April 2011

·       “American Printmaking Now”, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou. December 2011

·       “American Printmaking Now”, National Art Museum of China

·      “Paper Logic”, He Xiangning Art Museum. December 2010

·      “Paper Logic”, He Xiangning Art Museum. December 2010

·      École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts, Paris, 2006

·      RISD, Providence, 2004

·      Cornell University, 2002

·      SUNY Buffalo, 2004

·      Yuan Nan University, China, 2005

·      Tsinghua University, Beijing, 2004

·      Santa Barbara City College, 2001

·      University of California at Santa Barbara, 2001

·      Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, 2006, 2007, 2008

·      Massachusetts College of Art, 1999

Workshops

·      Visiting Artist workshop at San Dong Academy of Design, Jinan, China, May 30-June 3, 2011

·      Workshop on contemporary digital culture, CAFA, Beijing, My, 2011

·      Master printer workshop at CAFA, October, 2010

Publications

·      “American Printmaking Now” (catalogue)

·      Interview on digital media, MeiYuan, 2011

·      “Paper Logic-American Contemporary Paperworks” (catalogue)

·      “Making Prints”,  “Art In China” , 2010

·      “Open Source”, China Light Industry Press, Beijing (exhibition catalogue organizer, and writer of Foreword)

·      “Critical Art”, Tsinghua University, Hangzhou Normal University, (exhibition catalogue organizer and editor)

·      “Insatiable Streams”, (exhibition catalogue organizer and editor)

·      “Language and Border”, book, People’s Fine Arts Publisher, Beijing

Permanent Collections

Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Indiana; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California; Chinese National Museum of Arts, Beijing, China; The University of South Dakota, South Dakota; Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Indiana. Illinois State University, Illinois; He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China;