Andrea Chung Explained

Andrea Chung
Birth Place:Newark, NJ
Nationality:American
Education:Parsons School of Design, Maryland Institute College of Art

Andrea Chung (born 1978) is an American artist born in Newark, NJ and currently works in San Diego, CA. Her work focuses primarily on island nations in the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean Sea; specifically on how outsiders perceive a fantastic reality in spaces deemed as “paradise”. In conjunction, she explores relationships between these cultures, migration, and labor - all within the context of colonial and postcolonial regimes. Her projects bring in conscientious elements of her own labor and incorporate materials significant to the cultures she studies. This can be seen in works such as, “Bato Disik”, displayed in 2013 at the Helmuth Projects, where the medium of sugar represents the legacy of sugar plantations and colonial regime.[1] [2] [3]

Biography

Chung was born to parents of Jamaican/Chinese and Trinidadian descent. She was raised in Houston, TX.[4] Chung received her BFA in Illustration from the Parsons School of Design in New York and her MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore in 2008.[5] After her graduation from MICA, she received a Fulbright Fellowship to study in Mauritius where she created the performance work Securicorp, a response to the problem of street harassment. She also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2008 and was the 2012 resident at the Headlands Center for the Arts[6] and a 2013 Artist-in-Residence at the McColl Center for Art + Innovation in Charlotte, NC.[7] Chung's artwork is found in the collections of Harvard University, University of Texas, and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, among others.[8]

Exhibitions

Solo and two-person exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

Notes and References

  1. News: Combs. Seth. Andrea Chung pays homage to working class heroes. 12 September 2015. San Diego City Beat. April 21, 2015.
  2. Web site: Andrea Chung's Artistic Love Affair With Process and Materials. The Huffington Post. 7 July 2014 . 2015-09-14.
  3. Web site: Labor, History, Power. Andrea Chung in Conversation with AM DeBrincat. ArtFile Magazine. 2015-10-07.
  4. Web site: Andrea Chung. Africanah.org. 30 December 2014 . 2015-10-07.
  5. Web site: Andrea Chung MICA. MICA. 2015-10-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20151017013756/https://www.mica.edu/Programs_of_Study/Graduate_Programs/Mount_Royal_School_of_Art_(Multidisciplinary_MFA)/Andrea_Chung_08.html. 2015-10-17. dead.
  6. Web site: Andrea Chung. Andrea Chung Art. 2015-10-07.
  7. https://mccollcenter.org/artists-in-residence/ 20 years of Artists-In-Residence
  8. Web site: Andrea Chung « KLOWDENMANN. 2020-09-08. klowdenmann.com.
  9. News: Andrea Chung's Powerful Work is as Sweet as It Looks - Locale Magazine. 2018-01-01. Locale Magazine. 2018-05-19. en-US.
  10. Web site: Andrea Chung - Pride And Prejudice. NEW IMAGE ART. en-US. 2018-05-19.
  11. Web site: Spirit in the Land • Pérez Art Museum Miami . 2024-02-28 . Pérez Art Museum Miami . en-US.
  12. Web site: Spirit in the Land . 2024-02-28 . Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University . en-US.
  13. Book: Schoonmaker, Trevor . Spirit in the land: Exhibition, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 2023 . 2023 . Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University . 978-0-938989-45-5 . Durham, North Carolina.
  14. Web site: Pacific Standard Time turns to one overlooked group in Latin America: Asian immigrants. Cheng. Scarlet. Los Angeles Times. 22 December 2017 . 2018-05-19.
  15. Web site: Prospect.4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp Contemporary And. www.contemporaryand.com. de. 2018-05-19.
  16. News: Jamaica Report: A Biennial, Bragging Rights — and the World's Largest Drum?. 2017-03-11. Hyperallergic. 2018-05-19. en-US.
  17. News: Impressions: African American Artists and Their Connection to African Art - Vanguard Culture. 2017-02-08. Vanguard Culture. 2018-05-19. en-US.
  18. News: In Miami's Little Haiti, a Fair Spotlights Artists of the African Diaspora. 2016-12-02. Hyperallergic. 2018-05-19. en-US.
  19. Web site: Asking Better Questions: tART Collective and Smoke School of Art at WonderRoot - BURNAWAY. burnaway.org. en-US. 2018-05-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20180520124411/https://burnaway.org/review/a-bad-question-wonderroot/. 2018-05-20. dead.
  20. Web site: Jamaican Routes - Fylkesgalleriet Punkt Ø. www.punkto.no. no. 2018-05-19.
  21. Web site: Convergence. A SHIP IN THE WOODS. en-US. 2018-05-19.
  22. Web site: Ephemeral Objects. San Diego Art Institute. 29 August 2015 . en-US. 2018-05-19.
  23. Web site: Venturing Out of the Heart of Darkness. Harvey B. Gantt Center. 7 February 2015 . 2015-10-07.

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