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Rene Yung





Inventory Catalogu


Bio:

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2006                               University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY

2005                               Jack Straw New Media Gallery, Seattle, WA

2005                               Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT

2004                               Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA

2004                                              …nges & disappearances, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, ID

2002                               mountainriver, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1999                               Cauldron, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1996                               The Opacity of Dreams, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1996                               Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

1994                               faces, heart, seeking, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art,
                                San Jose
, CA

1992                               Moral Tales, The Lab, San Francisco, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008                               “Chinaman’s Chance,” Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA

2007                               Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver B.C., Canada

2007                               “CalAsia,” Gallery C, Hermosa Beach, CA

2006                               Denver Museum of Contemporary Art

2005                               DETAINED, Asian American Art Center, New York,

2004                               The Four Dignities, in "Sacred Spaces," Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA

2003                               Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver B.C., Canada

2003                               "The Drawing Show," The Lab, San Francisco, CA

2002                               The Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA

1998                               "Crossings: Fourteen Asian and Asian American Artists from the
                                Bay Area," A.T. Kearny,
San Francisco, CA

1997                               "Four Montalvo Artists: Works on Paper," Montalvo Center for the Arts,
                                Saratoga
, CA

1996                               Inaugural Exhibition, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1996                               "Bay Area Portfolio: Design @ Large," Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA

1996                               "Betrothed: Contemporary Perspectives on the Bride," Falkirk Cultural
                                Center,
San Rafael, CA

1995                               "TransCulture," part of the 1995 Venice Biennale, Japan Foundation/Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, Fondazion Levi, Venice, Italy

1994                               "Mirror Mirror: the Beauty Myth," California College of Arts and Crafts,
                                Oakland, CA

1993                               "In Out of the Cold," Inaugural Exhibition at Center for the Arts at Yerba
                                Buena Gardens,
San Francisco, CA

1993                               "Public and Private Journeys," Euphrat Gallery, De Anza College,
                                Cupertino
, CA

1992                               "Material Dimensions," Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA 

1992                               "Home Front;" Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA

1992                               "Telling Stories: Artists Books;" Prieto Gallery, Mills College, Oakland, CA

1991                               In The Outside: site-specific installation, Fort Cronkhite, Sausalito, CA

1991                               "Installations for the Church: A Site-Specific Exploration of Space and Spirit,"The \Breathing Room, AIDS Healing Altar, Trinity Episcopal Church; Secession Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1989                               "Frontiers of Interactivity," sound installation;Works Gallery,San Jose, CA 

1987                               Pastoral Meditations, sound installation, with Bruce Hogeland, ProArts,
                                Oakland
, CA

Community Cultural Development, Public Art and Other Commissions

2006 – 2009              East Oakland Community Library, Oakland Public Library and the City of Oakland Office of Cultural Affairs & Marketing, Oakland, CA

2004 - 2005               VIRSA: Sikh-American Youth, collaborative installation and post-9/11 cultural education traveling exhibition, Wing Luke Asian Museum, Seattle, WA                                                                           

2003 – 2005              Wellspring, International District/Chinatown Branch Library, Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, Seattle, WA

2003                        Community Youth Arts consultant, Chinese Information & Service Center, Seattle, WA

2003                         The Story Lantern Project, intergenerational project with seniors from Telegraph Hill Community Ctr. and ESL students from Francisco Middle School, in collaboration with San Francisco Arts Education Project, Center for Youth & Elders in the Arts, and the Community Involvement Team from Levi Strauss & Co, San Francisco, CA

2002                         Project Consultant, Jack Straw Productions, Seattle, WA; "Chinese Celebrations" intergenerational radio project.

2001–2005                Postcards in Time, an ARTS UP (Artist Residencies Transforming Seattle's Urban Places) project, in collaboration with Kawabe Memorial House (a H.U.D. senior housing facility) and Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle, WA

1999–2005                Consortium on Education in the Arts for Youth and Elders (CEYA), San Francisco; inter- generational workshops with ESL students & immigrant seniors

1997 - 1998               Hear our Voices, Broadway Auto Row, Public Art commissioned by City of Oakland Cultural Arts, Oakland, CA

1997                         Newman Residence Library, San Francisco, CA

1996–1997                Celebration of Aging, 25th Anniversary Commemorative Project, On Lok Senior Health Services, San Francisco, CA

1993–1996                TAKE ROOT, San Francisco Chinatown Public Library Art Enrichment, San Francisco Art Commission, San Francisco, CA      

In the Collection of

The Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID; Rena Bransten, San Francisco, CA; City of Oakland Office of Cultural Arts, Oakland; Carl Djerassi, San Francisco, CA; the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong; Jeanne Newman, San Francisco, CA; Jim Newman, San Francisco, CA; San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA; Seattle Public Library, Seattle, WA; Stephen Oliver, San Francisco, CA

Residencies and Affiliations

2007                               Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA: Artist in Residence

2001                               Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Squaw Valley, CA: Summer Writing
                                Conference

2000                               Hedgebrook Writers Residency, Langley, WA: Writer in Residence

1995                               Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA: Artist in Residence

1993                               Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, CA: Artist in Residence

1990 - 1992                  Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA: Affiliate Artist

       

Graphic Design

1980-present               Principal, Rene Yung Communications Design. Partial list of publications and awards: Print Casebooks; Communication Arts Magazine; Graphis Annual; Graphics USA;  AIGA (American  of Graphic Arts); New York Art Directors’ Club; the San Francisco Society of Communicating Arts; and The Art Museum Association of America.

Education

1975-76                         Academy of Art College, San Francisco

                                        San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California

                                        The Berkeley Film Institute, Berkeley, California

1970-74                         Stanford University, Stanford, California; B.A Printmaking, minor
                                Anthropology



Artist Statement:

My work is about being, memory and place. As an immigrant to the United States who grew up in the hybrid and transitory environment of colonial Hong Kong, I am particularly interested in the complexities of cultural identity. I seek to voice the stories of my culture from the inside - the ethos, sensibilities and unspoken details of daily living which are often difficult to discern from the outside - as well as touch on the universals between cultures. Through my work I try to connect past and present, memory and idea, the personal and the universal, and find a home in this shifting world.

Parallel these concerns, my recent work has focused on developing a visual and structural language which comes from and speaks across my different cultural sources. In this language I am looking for the poetry that connects word, object, place, sound and time, in the way that the Chinese language combines concise tonal units of sound and meaning into a fluid whole. I am interested in building a textuality of materials, ideas and spaces, to convey the idea as well as the emotions of a piece.

I work most often in installation form. I like the way it allows discourse across categories and boundaries in a way similar to life experiences, and it provides a platform from which I can connect my roots in Chinese lyrical-narrative sensibilities with my interest in Western conceptual thinking.

While installations in art venues allow a certain kind of aesthetic experimentation and control, I have found it important to bring the dialogue on belonging and identity to community and public art projects. Since 1992 I have worked with youth, and in particular the elderly, from diverse communities. I find the direct connection to these individuals' lives and stories both empowering and humbling, and the exposure to the process of civic space planning and implementation a sobering reality-check and reminder of the necessity of dreaming-imagination.



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