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EDUCATION

Boston University MFA in Painting 1975

Accademia de Belle Arti, Rome, Italy 1968-69

University of Michigan MA Zoology 1967

Rice University BA Biology 1965

AWARDS/RESIDENCIES

2007, 2008 Julia & David White Artists Colony, Ciudad Colon, Costa Rica, Residency

2003, 2007 Byrdcliffe, the Woodstock Guild, Woodstock, NY, Residency

2002 Jingdezhen Sanbao Ceramic Arts Institute, Jingdezhen, China, Residency

2000 Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, Residency

1997 Ford Foundation, Campus Diversity Cultural Resource Initiative Grant

1994 Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY, Residency

1989 James D. Phelan Award in Printmaking, The San Francisco Foundation Massachusetts Artists Foundation Finalist in Printmaking

1984 Boston Hangzhou Sister City Travel Grant, City of Boston

1982 Altos de Chavon Foundation, Residency

1981 Ossabaw Island Foundation, Residency

1980 Esther Conant Memorial Prize

1980 Massachusetts Artists Foundation Finalist in Painting

1979 Millay Colony for the Arts, Residency

1975 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2006 Art Apart, the Rivers School, Weston, MA

2002 Jingdezhen San Bao Ceramic Arts Institute, Jingdezhen, China

2002 Hankuk Art Museum, Youngin, South Korea

1995 Recent Work, Asian American Bank, Boston, MA

1994 Between Imagination and Memory: Search for Identity, Newton Free Library, Newton, MA

1993 Helen Bumpus Gallery, Duxbury Free Library, Duxbury, MA

1984 Zejiang Province Art Academy, Hangzhou, China

1982 New Watercolors, Altos de Chavon, La Romana, Dominican Republic Casa de Teatro, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

1980 New Work, Wiggin Gallery, Boston Public Library, Boston, MA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008 Transplants, Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA, curator Sean Stoops

2007 Ode to Cornell: What Would Joseph Do?, Salem Arts Association, Salem, MA , juror Lynda Roscoe Hartigan

2007 Heat, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA juror Carole Anne Meehan

2006 The Workshop Portfolios, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA

2006 Speaking Truth to Power, Stebbins Gallery, Cambridge, MA

2006 Asian Legacy, Asian & Asian American Artists Respond, Arlington Center for the Arts, Arlington, MA

2006 A Thousand Words, Boston School of Psychoanalysis, Gallery 1581, Boston, MA

2004 Virtual Democracy, Fort Point Arts Community Gallery, Boston, MA

2003 Una Communidad de Talleres de Grabado, Espacio Abierto, Havana, Cuba

2003 The Quality of Quantity, artspace@16, Malden, MA

2002 Invitational Exhibition of International Ceramics, Foshan, Guangzhou, China

2002 Fusion: Mixed Media, artspace@16, Malden, MA

2002 A Community of Printmaking Studios, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA

2001 CreAsian, a panAsian Arts Festival, Boston Center for the Arts

2001 Proof in Print, a Community of Printmaking Studios, Boston Public Library, Boston, MA

2001 Red, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA

2000 Artsrendezvous, artspace@16, Malden, MA

2000 Progress of the World’s Women, Beijing +5 UNIFEM, United Nations General Assembly, NY

1999 Monotype and Beyond, Attleboro Art Museum, Attleboro, MA

1999 Women in Watercolor, Boston Public Library, Wiggin Gallery, Boston, MA

1999 The Female Experience, UC Santa Barbara, Women's Center, Santa Barbara, CA

1998 Engendered Species: the Cultural Context of Gender, UMass Boston Gallery, Boston, MA

1998 Different Sensibilities, Commentaries on Our Lives, Quinsigamond College, Worcester, MA

1998 Gender Power, Salve Regina University, McKillop Gallery, Newport, RI

1997 Professional Print Workshops of Boston, Boston University Fuller Gallery, Boston, MA

Teen Age Mutant Ninja Turtles Not!, Reed College, Portland, OR, University of Hawa’i at Manoa, & Parsons School of Art, NY, NY

1996 Two Women, Two Voices, Simmons College, Trustman Gallery, Boston, MA

1995 Transcending Identity, UMassBoston Harbor Gallery, Boston, MA

Monomania, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA

Transfiguration, Framingham State College, Mazmanian Gallery, Framingham, MA

The Symbolic Field, New Art Center, Newtonville, MA

Composite Expressions, Chinese Culture Center, San Francisco, CA

1994 Rooms With Views: Body, Nature, Culture, Politics, New Art Center, Newtonville, MA

Women in Watercolor, Boston Public Library, Wiggin Gallery, Boston, MA

The Drawing Show, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA

Worse than Animals? Meditations on Racist Violence, Artists Foundation, Boston,MA

Multiple Voices, the Search for Identity, Dover Sherborn Junior High School, Dover, MA

Origins: Artists' Personal & Cultural Heritage, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA, Jurors' Commendation

1992 A Cultural Dialogue, Towne Gallery, Wheelock College, Boston, MA

Prints International 1992, Silvermine Guild, New Canaan, CT

1990 Printmaking Award Recipients, Artists Foundation, Boston, MA

42nd Annual North American Prints, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA

1989 Small Works/Multimedia, Artists Foundation Gallery, Boston, MA

James D. Phelan Award Recipients, Kala Institute, Berkeley, CA

Massachusetts Artists Foundation Award Winners, Le Saffre-Wilstein Gallery, Boston, MA

OTHER PROJECTS

2008 Presentation, Contemporary Arts Class of Dr. Joyce Cohen, Simmons College, Boston, MA

2005 Curator, Collateral Damage: When the Battle's Lost and Won, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA

2003 Curator, The Quality of Quantity, artspace@16, Malden, MA

2001 Co-curator, CreAsian, a Pan Asian Arts Festival, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA

1998 Artist’s talk, Different Sensibilities, Commentaries on our Lives, Quinsigamond Community College, Worcester, MA

1998 Panel Discussion, Creative and Critical Thinking, Graduate program, Prof. Dolores Gallo, The University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA

1998 Curator, Engendered Species: the Cultural Context of Gender, UMass Boston, Harbor Gallery

BIBLIOGRAPHY

City Paper, First Friday Focus, Asian Arts Initiative, 10-31-08

Boston Globe, More Is Better, 3-23-03

Art New England, Gesture, the Quality of Quantity, Susan Boulanger, Aug.-Sept. 2003

Exhibition of World Building Ceramics, Foshan, China, October, 2002

Invitational Exhibition of International Ceramics, Catalog, Foshan, China, October, 2002

Concerned Women for America, Beverly LaHaye Institute, Beijing+5 Art Exhibit Reveals Progress of World's Women, 1-1-02

Boston Globe,The Beauty of these Works Printed Clearly, Cate McQuaid, 03-02-01

International Museum of Women & UNIFEM, Progress of the World's Women, An International Exhibition in Honor of UN Beijing+5 Review, 6-5-00

The Journal of Feminist Studies, Art Essay, Vol 25-1, Winter 1999

Boston Globe, Engendered Species: Image of the Dress, Christine Temin, 02-4-98

Bay Windows, Locked in Combat or Love, Shawn Hill, 01-29-98

Sojourner, the Women's Forum, the Art issue, 02-98

Art New England, Gender Power, Exploring the Relationship of Power Between and Within the Sexes, Alicia Faxon, Feb.-Mar. 1998

Boston Phoenix, Fit to Print, Paying Tribute to a Neglected Genre, Meg Sullivan, 3-14-97

Two Visions/Two Voices, video interview, Joyce Cohen, Simmons College, 2-29-96

Generasians: Discovering the Artistic Vision, Video program, Jeannie Finks & Charlene Liu, 1996

Composite Expressions, Exhibition catalogue, John Seto & Manni Liu, 1995

Welcome to Asian America 2: Visualizing a New World, Exhibition catalog, 3-95

Lincoln Journal, Unique Monomania at Clark Gallery Offers Different Take on Monoprints, Marty Carlock, 7-13-95

UMass Boston Mass Media, Harbor Gallery Continues Success with ‘Transcending Identity,’ Kathleen Wells, 4-25-95

Boston Globe, From Figurative to Fantastic, Women’s Art that Keeps Symbols Alive, Christine Temin, 9-20-95

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