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Monica Chau is a mixed media installation artist who utilizes photography and digital media processes as a means to explore Asian American history and memories of the past. An inextricable part of her art work juxtaposes text and image to comment upon the process of looking and being looked at, both as a woman and as an Asian American. |
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Born
in Houston, TX, she received her MFA in Photography from California
Institute of the Arts (1992).
She was an Helena Rubinstein Fellow in the Whitney Museum of Art's Independent Study Program, Curatorial Studies (1993-94) for which she was a co-curator for the exhibition, The Subject of Rape and a Fellow in the American Photography Institute's National Graduate Seminar (1992). Other curatorial projects include Anthem (1996), four window installations by Los Angeles-based artists that examined issues of national and cultural identity for Foundation Art Resources, Los Angeles and Picturing Asia America: Communities, Culture, Difference (1994) for the Houston Center of Photography. Picturing Asia America: Communities, Culture, Difference was the first exhibition of photography and related media by Asian American artists in the Southwest. |
She
also served as a curatorial advisor for Uncommon Traits: Re/Locating Asia, a three-part exhibition and series of public
art programming for CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY.
Distinguished awards include the American/Chinese Adventure Capital grant from the Durfee Foundation, NEA/Western States Arts Federation grant and a Joseph Scholarship to participate as an artist-in-residence in the Photography/Digital Imaging program at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO. Formerly
a visiting professor in Studio Art at University of California, Irvine,
she has also taught at New York University, Tisch School of
the Arts, University of Houston, and the American Film Institute.
Currently, she is a faculty member of the International
Center for Photography Digital Media Program in New York
City. |