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YaYa Chou
Born: Taipei, Taiwan
Resides: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Education:
2000 MFA, Experimental Animation, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, USA
1997 BA, Mass Communications, Fu-Jen University, Taipei, Taiwan
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Haven, Sharjah Art Museum, United Arab Emirates
2016 Beluga's Journey: Glendale Adams Square, Adams Square Mini Park,
City of Glendale and the Glendale Arts & Culture Commission, Glendale, CA
2014 In The Motion of A Mind, Sharjah Art Museum, United Arab Emirates
2011 Soft Tissue, den contemporary art, Los Angeles, CA
The Next Open Door, Central School Project, Bisbee, AZ
2010 Soft Tissue: works on paper and sculptures by YaYa Chou, Fort Wayne Museum of Art,
Fort Wayne, IN (catalog)
Home with Beasts, Indie Collective Gallery, Culver City, CA
2009 Compromised Interpretation, LAAA/Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016-2018
On The Road Again: Celebrating America's Love Affair with the Automobile, touring exhibitions in various locations in Kansas City, Mo, Tifton, GA, Scranton, PA, TX and CA
2015
Possibilities of Paper: Selected Works by Lucas Artists Fellows (2005-2015), Project Space Gallery, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA
Curious Mediums: Peculiar and Surprising Works of Art, City of Brea Gallery, Brea, CA
2014
Second Time Around: The Hubcap as Art, Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, Winchester, Virginia
2013
What's So Funny?, Village Theatre Art Gallery, Danville, CA
Colorful Antics, George Billis Gallery, Culver City, CA2012
Sculpture (California), Another Year in LA, West Hollywood, CA
ARTrageous, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
2011
California Sculpture SLAM , San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, CA
Exciting Dimensions, Galerie Rheeway, Los Angeles, CA
The International Artists at Home and Abroad Exhibition Series, The Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
Anachronious Mind Tree, Caporale/Bleicher Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010
Gift Shop, Another Year in LA, West Hollywood, CA
39NOW, den Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Sweetness and Light, Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA
Best, Crussell Fine Arts Eichler Gallery, Orange, CA (catalog)
2009
Fresh, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
eclat, Crussell Fine Arts Eichler Gallery, Orange, CA (catalog)
Pretty: Disturbing, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
10th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition, University of Hawaii at Manoa Art Gallery, Honolulu, Hawaii (catalog)
2008
Transformed, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA (catalog)
Now, curated by Yossi Govrin, Arena1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
First Anniversary Group Show, Tinlark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
4th Year Anniversary Show, Gallery Revisited, Los Angeles, CA
2007
Big Babies, Art Murmur Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Subset, Crussell Fine Arts, Orange, CA (catalog)
Annual Downtown Artists Grants Exhibition, Dangerous Curve, Los Angeles, CA
Liminal, Phantom Galleries L.A., Pasadena, CA
The Child in You, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
On Site at the Gate, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
Echoes: Women Inspired by Nature, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
2006
Consumerism & Product #3, Gallery Revisited, Los Angeles, CA
‘Tis The Season, James Gray Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Gift Shop, Another Year in LA, Los Angeles, CA
TOMORROWLAND: CalArts in Moving Pictures, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Resident Artists Exhibition, Altered Esthetics, Minneapolis, MN
Post It: Another Art Exhibition, Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport, UK
Consumerism & Product #1, Gallery Revisited, Los Angeles, CA
Inauguration 3, Gallery Revisited, Los Angeles, CA
2005
CODA: A concluding passage, SCA Gallery, Pomona, CA
Wallworks, Artcore Brewery Annex, Los Angeles, CA
Animal Art, Altered Esthetics, Minneapolis, MN
2004
l’art de mort, Altered Esthetics, Minneapolis, MN
Envisioning the Future, facilitated by Judy Chicago & Donald Woodman, Pomona Arts Colony, Pomona, CA
Ink & Clay 30, Juror: Hollis Goodall, Kellogg University Art Gallery, Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA
Awards
2012
Fellowship at the Sally and Don Lucas Artists Residency Program, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA
2011
Third Award in The 2011 California Sculpture SLAM exhibition, Central Coast Sculptors Group and the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, CA
Americans for the Arts Public Art Network Artist Scholarship, Washington, DC
2010
Artists’ Resource for Completion Grant, Durfee Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
2007
Artists’ Resource for Completion Grant, Durfee Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
Downtown Los Angeles Artists’ Grant, Downtown Artist Project and the Los Angeles Downtown Arts District,
Los Angeles, CA
2002
Award of Merit, Kalamazoo Animation Festival International, MI
2001
Honorable Mention – Animation, Homboldt International Film Festival, CA
2000
Gold Award of Best Animation, New York Exposition of Short Film and Video, NY
Grand Jury Best Animated Film, MicroCineFest, MD
Reviews and Bibliography
2015
Michael Miller, "Peculiar and surprising indeed," LA Times (Weekend, OC), June 21, 2015, page R1.
2012
Peter Frank, "Coming out, Going in: Another Year in LA," Fabrik magazine, Issue17, 2012, page 88-89
2011
J. Michael Welton, "Making a Statement in Beverly Hills," ArchitectsAndArtisans.com, Sep. 22, 2011.
Lee Sutter, "A multi-sensory event: 'Sculpture Slam,' on display through the end of the month,
gathers works from all around the state," The Tribune and San Luis Obispo.com, Sep. 5, 2011.
Anna Weltner, "Weight and whimsy: The California Sculpture Slam gets weird and wonderful at
the SLOMA," New Times, Vol. 26, Issue 4, August 25, 2011.
"Artists At Home And Abroad: YaYa Chou," NY Arts Magazine, Vol.17, Spring 2011, page 134
2010
"On Record," Sculpture magazine, Vol. 29 No. 10, December 2010
Dan Swartz, "Soft Tissue: Artist YaYa Chou show at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art," Fort Wayne Reader, July 4, 2010
2009
Nancy Kay Turner, "Pretty: Disturbing," ArtScene, Vol.28, No.9, May, 2009 (CA)
Edward Goldman,“Art Talk,” KCRW, May 5, 2009 (CA)
Orna Schneid, "Featured Designs," NISHA (Israeli design magazine), April 2009
2007
“Downtown Artists Project Grant Winners Show,” Citizen LA, Vol. 2, Issue 9, September, 2007, page 16 (CA)
Lucinda Michele Knapp, “New Artistic Haunts,” Pasadena Weekly, July 5, 2007, p. 17-18 (CA)
Carrie Yury, “Reviews: Echoes Orange County Center for Contemporary Art,” Artillery magazine,
Vol.1, Issue 6, Summer 2007, page 34-35 (CA)
Citizen X, “Grant Winners Hurrah!,” Citizen LA, Vol. 2, Issue 5, May, 2007, page 8
Candace Taylor, “Artists turn gummy bears into eye candy,” Cape Cod Times (MA), May 14; "Gummy art:
From sweet and chewy treats to eye candy," Chicago Tribune(IL), May 3, 2007; “Eye candy: Artists discover
novel uses for gummy bears,” Columbia News Service(NY), The Arizona Republic(AZ), April 13 and The Times
Argus (VT), April 22, 2007; “Young artists find fruitful uses for gummy bears,” The State(SC),
April 19, 2007
Daniella Walsh, “Women and the world, Review: An exhibit by female artists in Santa Ana focuses on the Earth
and environment,” The Orange County Register, Entertainment: Arts (CA), April 14, 2007
2006
Liz Good, “Curtains: YaYa Chou: Bear Bulbs,” Fiberarts magazine, Vol.33, No.3, Nov/Dec 2006, page 80
Mario Cutajar, “Previews of Exhibitions: YaYa Chou and Katy Bowen,” ArtScene, April 2006, Vol.25, No.8, page16-17 (CA)
Dr. Rebecca Epstein, “Fool on the Floor,” Los Angeles CityBeat, March 30-April 5, 2006, Vol.4, No.14, page 42-43 (CA)
Lectures, Symposia and Demonstrations
2011
Trickhouse Live events, presentation, Casa Libre en la Solana, Tucson, AZ
2010
Inspired, live sculpting demonstration, Brand Gallery, Glendale, CA
2009
Asian Americans in the Visual Arts , panel discussion, presented by Asian Professional Exchange(APEX),
Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, CA
2008
Asian New Media, film screening and panel discussion, National Center for the Preservation of Democracy,
Los angeles, CA
2007
16th Annual Matrilineage Symposium, lecture and presentation, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Artist Residency
2012
Sally and Don Lucas Artists Residency Program, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA
2011
Patrón "Simply Perfect" Artist in Residency program at the Roosevelt Hotel, Hollywood, CA
Central School Project, Bisbee, AZ
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