PAINTING Chris Lan Hui Chou • GOOD IDEA ONLINE ART MUSEUM

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Chris Lan Hui Chou(1961-)

Painting is an attitude about life.

Painting gives me faith, because I know what I have been through.

Painting teaches me to be humble, because there are so many

Things I do not know.

Much of my painting is about building layer after layer of paint; I do this both for the texture it creates and for the stories it allows me to tell. They can be read as a history of the canvas, different time in one stage and as the mass of color they become.

I see things very directly. I only select the form or color, which really speak to me. I am using personal symbols to tell the story of thing which I care. They come from nature and the relationship between people/things and God/me.

I love color.

I believe painting has the power to heal.

I believe painting is my mission.

My goal is simple, but is not easy.

I want to make a great art.

I want use it to share, to comfort, and to celebrate.

Through my painting–

May you smell different season of life.

Have a date with surprise! Or…. Just simply a smile.

EDUCATION

2001-2003 2007	Office of the Arts at Harvard University, Ceramics Program, Arts at Harvard.
1999-2001	Boston University, College of Fine Arts, M.F.A.
1995-1999	New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.
1979-1982	National Taiwan Academy of Art, BA.

ART RESIDENCIES

2002	Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture.
2002	Independent Study in Armsterdan-Netherlands, Vence-France, London-England.
1999	Chautauqua Institute, Chautauqua – New York.
1998	American University, Summer Program in Umbria, Corciano – Italy.
1997	Independent Study in Salamanca, Barcelona, Madrid – Spain; Paris-France.
1996	Vermont Studio Center, Johnson – Vermont.

SOLO EXHIBITION

2017	The Mayor’s Gallery Boston City Hall “painting by Chris Chou”-Boston
2017	Ockenga Lobby Gallery “walk with me in the Garden”-Boston,
2013	Ockenga Lobby Gallery “New Body in Heaven”-Boston
2012	Art door Taipei “A dot but not just a dot”-Taipei,Taiwan
2012	Northern Essex Community College “Recent Painting”-Boston
2010	TISHU Gallery “To be, Not to be-Together”- New York
2009	National Tsing Hua University Arts Center “Gaze”- Taiwan
2008	Gallery Anthony Curtis “Between”- Boston
2006	Sherman Gallery “Just a dot”- Boston
2001	Lafayette Gallery “All My Pineapple Friends” – New York
1999	Cosmo Light Center, “Three 1/2 years in New York”, Taipei – Taiwan

AWARDS

2008	Houston,Texas,U.S.A.was awarded “Chris Lan Hui Chou Day” on 04/06/2008
2007	Guggenheim Fellow Award
2002	Skowhegan Fellowship Award, Skowhegan – ME.
2002-2003	Mima Weissmann Memorial fund for Ceramic Program, Office of the arts at Harvard – MA.
2007	Mima Weissmann Memorial fund for Ceramic Program, Office of the arts at Harvard – MA.
2001	Esther B. and Albert S. Kahn Career Entry Award, Boston – MA.
2000/2001	Dean’s Scholarship, Boston University, Boston – MA.
1999	Constantin Alajalov Scholarship, Boston University, Boston – MA.
1999	Chautauqua Scholarship, Chautauqua Institute, New York – NY.
1998	Individual Award , Ms. Nora Speyer – NY; Ms. Darthea Speyer, Paris – France; Alexander C. & Tillies Speyer Foundation Scholarship
1996	Artist Grant, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson – VT

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2012	Boston University ,College of Fine Arts, MFA
2010	Scuola Internazionale di Grafica,Italy,Vinece.
2009	Boston University ,College of Fine Arts, MFA
2008	Artist Residence at National Dong Hwa University, Hwa Lian, Taiwan.
2007	Visiting Artist at Central Academy of Fine Arts Printmaking Department visiting artist, Beijing, China.
2006	Artist Residence at Boston University, College of Fine Arts
2005	Boston University ,College of Fine Arts, MFA.
2004	Art Institute of Boston, Drawing Issue I. Fall 2003 / Drawing Issue II.