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(front page shows images from a pandemic drawing installation at Dawn Cerny's home in Seattle WA.)


C.V.  


http://images.xhbtr.com/v2/pdfs/2128/Jamie_Chan_CV_2024.pdf



UNDOXX: Festival Untangling Censorship, JACK, Brooklyn, 2024 (co-organizer, co-producer)

Indoor Interference, curated by Sophia Ma, Essex Flowers, NYC, 2024

Of and about the Road, UNE Biddeford Gallery, ME, 2023

Cruel Spring, Latitude Gallery, NYC, 2023
Lettuce Makes You Tired, Dunes, Portland ME, 2022
a circle is a thought pattern (curator), Essex Flowers, NYC, 2022
Gift Sets, Tif Sigfrids, Chinatown NY, 2021
Cut-ups, Essex Flowers, NYC, 2021
Via Cafe, Tif Sigfrids, Athens, GA, 2021
4Columns, 2018
One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art (w/ Nancy Shaver), Museum of Contemporary Art, LA 2018
This Long Century, 2018
BABZ Fair with Marley Freeman, Knockdown Center, 2017
Jamie Chan/Matthew Fischer/Nora Griffin/Nicholas Vargelis/Zoë Wright, Brethren, 2017
Painters' Painters Paintings, Dread Lounge, LA, 2017
Squeezing, Ada Friedman's apartment, Brooklyn, 2015
A Body for the Bedroom, Bed, Brooklyn 2014
The Blind Hang-Out, At the Office Box, NY, 2014 
Herstory Inventory, Brooklyn Museum, NY 2012
Mystery of the Invisible Clock, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, LA 2008
MFA Painting, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson 2012
BA Studio Art
, University of California, Los Angeles 2006


It's a Process, 2020

What Wind, curated by Eric Palgon, Ceysson & Bénétière, NY, 2019

Another Romance, UCLA Wight Biennial, 2010


I am a Chinese-American artist who grew up with heightened awareness of two distant but connected worlds, and I became an artist as an antidote to code-switching. My work covers a range of subjects, from post-it notes and marginalia to excerpts of renaissance paintings and baseball cards. The consistency of the images comes from the interiority and presence of an ephemeral gaze, which is characterized by an approach to painting as a medium of constant transformation and transition. 


A subject I explore in my paintings is baseball, centering the players, their poses, and possibilities of composition and narrative which are analogous to a painter’s game of building tension. There is a comparison between the players’ gestures and the physical aspects of painting. And what ultimately emerges is a performative social space, a painterly questioning of intercultural exchange in America. I engage with the idea of otherness - both in terms of how I am othered, and my ignorance of the culture of baseball. I also make work that deals with material and process in painting, and I make books alongside my paintings to underline the importance of research, study, and ephemera.