![]() In her work she’s been looking at traditional artifacts and wondering what tangible relics we may leave for future generations and what they may say about who we were and how we lived.Ģ021 Long Island Children’s Museum - Holding Space, Garden City, NY, Sugar Hill Children’s Museum - _other Nature - Cicadian Rhythm, curated by Damien Davis & Charlene Melville 2020 Selenas Mountain - Breath of Blue, Brooklyn, NY, ICFAC International Chinese Fine Arts Council at PINTA Art Fair, curated by Inez Suen, Smack Mellon - other Nature, curated by Gabriel de Guzman, Brooklyn, NY 2019 Kenise Barnes Fine Art Project Space - Cecile Chong, New encaustic paintings, Larchmont, NY 2018 Five Myles Plus/Space - In Between Daylight, Brooklyn, NY 2017 Selena Gallery, Lemon Tongues, curated by Anjuli Rathod and Olivia Swider, Brooklyn, NY, Drawing Rooms - Bold & Beautiful, curated by Anne Trauben, Jersey City, NJ (solo room), Old Stone House- Multilocational, curated by Katherine Gressel, Brooklyn (two-person with Natalia Nakazawa) 2015 BRIC Project Room - Time Collision, curated by Jenny Gerow, Brooklyn, NY 2014 Emerson Gallery Berlin: Cecile Chong - Souvenir, Berlin, Germany, Honey Ramka Project Space - Locus, Brooklyn, NY 2012 Figureworks - Lead the Way, Brooklyn, NY (two-person with William Gropper) With uncertainty looming in everything from our economies to our weather patterns, she’s concerned with the fragility of our civilization despite the universality of its cultural underpinnings. Inspired by materials as signifiers, she’s interested in how we acquire and share culture, and how world cultures now overlap and interact in ways previously inconceivable. She received an MFA from Parsons the New School for Design, an MA in education from Hunter College, and a BA in Studio Art from Queens College.Īrtist Statement: Her work addresses ideas of cultural interaction and interpretation, as well as the commonalities humans share in our relationship to nature and to each other. She was awarded fellowships and residencies including NYS Council on the Arts, LMCC Creative Engagement, Urban Field Station, Hispanic Society Artist Research Fellowship, Block Gallery/AIM Artist Hub, BRIC Media Arts, the Joan Mitchell Center, Wave Hill Winter Workspace, the Lower East Side Printshop, Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant, The Center for Book Arts, Socrates Sculpture Park, AIM - Bronx Museum, Urban Artist Initiative NYC, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant. Her public art installation EL DORADO - The New Forty Niners has been installed in the five boroughs of New York City. Solo exhibitions include Sugar Hill Children’s Museum, Selenas Mountain, ICFAC at Pinta Miami, Smack Mellon, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Five Myles Plus Space, Selena Gallery, BRIC House, Emerson Gallery Berlin Germany, Honey Ramka Project Space, Figureworks, Praxis, Corridor Gallery and ArtSPACE. ![]() She is a multimedia artist working in painting, sculpture and installation layering materials, identities, histories, and languages. Bio/CV: Cecile was born in Ecuador to Chinese parents and grew up in Quito and Macau.
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