Cecile Chong
{{Short description|American artist}}
{{Infobox artist
| name = Cecile Chong
| image_size = 180
| image = File:Cecile Chong wikipediq IMG 6329.jpg
| caption = Cecile Chong at The Painting Center opening Mar 2018
| alt = Cecile Chong
| birth_name = Cecile Chong
| birth_date = 1964
| birth_place = Guayaquil, Ecuador
| awards = The Joan Mitchell MFA Grant (2011), EFA studio program (current)
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| website = https://www.cecilechong.com/
| field = Painting, Drawing, Installation, Sculpture
| training = {{ubl|Queens College |Hunter College | Parsons School of Design}}
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Cecile Chong is an American artist based in Brooklyn, New York,{{Cite web|url=http://www.3dotswater.com/cecilechong.html|title=Artist in Focus|website=www.3dotswater.com|access-date=2018-03-10}} whose work addresses the process of cultural assimilation and the development of individual identity.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/nyregion/30artsnj.html|title='E10,' at Aljira Center in Newark, Spotlights Emerging Artists|last=Genocchio|first=Benjamin|date=2009-08-28|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-03-25|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} For many years she has contributed to New York City public school art programs as a teaching artist.{{Cite web|url=http://www.nycmer.org/files/TheArtistasEducatorPanel_NYCMER_DEDALUSFOUNDATION.pdf|title=The Artist As Educator Panel}}
Early life
Cecile Chong was born in Guayaquil Ecuador.{{Citation needed|date=April 2021}} She went to China when she was 10, attending the Sacred Heart Conossian School in Macau, and then at 15 returned to Ecuador to attend the International section of the Colegio Americano High School in Quito.{{Citation needed|date=April 2021}} She came to New York City at age 19 to study art.{{Citation needed|date=April 2021}}
Background and education
She studied studio art at Queens College, receiving a BA in 1988. She received a master's degree in art education at Hunter College in 1994.{{Citation needed|date=April 2021}} During graduate studies at the Parsons School of Design she was challenged to explore her own, genuine and constructive narrative, receiving an MFA degree in 2008.
Selected works and exhibitions
2015 - Time Collision - in the Project Room of BRIC Arts Media Chong presented an installation of Eastern and Western objects and images in landscape format mixing cultural incongruities.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bricartsmedia.org/art-exhibitions/cecile-chong-time-collision|title=Cecile Chong: Time Collision|last=admini|first=BRIC|date=2015-04-10|work=BRIC|access-date=2018-08-15|language=en}}
2018 In Between Daylight, FiveMyles Gallery, Brooklyn NY{{Cite web|url=http://www.fivemyles.org/new-events-1/2018/3/17/joint-opening-unreality-bomb-and-in-between-daylight|title=Joint Opening: "Unreality Bomb" and "In Between Daylight"|website=FiveMyles|language=en-US|access-date=2018-03-26}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.fivemyles.org/new-events-1/2018/4/12/public-discussion-cecile-chong-and-suzanne-schneider|title=Public Discussion: Cecile Chong and Suzanne Schneider|website=FiveMyles|language=en-US|access-date=2018-04-04}} consisted of a large wall installation of artificial and real flora with small guagua's facing it. and represents the risk, danger and beauty of the immigrant journey.
2017 - 2019 El Dorado - The New Forty-niners is a New York City installation of many small swaddled baby (guagua) sculptures. Forty-nine percent of the figures are painted gold, representing the percentage of NYC households that speak a language other than English. Speaking to issues of immigration, the installation as such re-images a present-day wealthy metropolis. Sunset Park in Brooklyn was the first public park iteration as it travels to the five boroughs of NYC; Lewis Latimer House Museum in Flushing Queens was a second in 2018;{{Cite web|url=https://www.timesledger.com/stories/2018/23/artinparksprogram_2018_06_08_q.html|title=TimesLedger: Queens news from your neighborhood.|website=www.timesledger.com|language=en|access-date=2018-06-17}} and a third appeared in the Bronx at a 2019 Wave Hill summer group show described as a multi-piece “guagua” sculptural installation and a tribute to New York City's immigrant populations.{{Cite web|url=https://www.wavehill.org/media/uploads/wave_hill_summer_2019_exhibition_interprets_the_human_condition.pdf|title=Figuring the Floral|website=Wave Hill|access-date=August 11, 2019}}
Solo exhibitions
- 2017 Selena Gallery, Brooklyn, NY{{Cite web|url=https://www.arthaps.com/show/cecile-chong-3|title='Lemon Tongues': Cecile Chong At 37 Troutman Street #3, Brooklyn, NY 11206.|website=ART HAPS|access-date=2018-03-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180731093209/https://www.arthaps.com/show/cecile-chong-3|archive-date=2018-07-31|url-status=dead}}
- 2015 BRIC Arts Media, Brooklyn, NY{{Cite news|url=https://www.bricartsmedia.org/art-exhibitions/cecile-chong-time-collision|title=Cecile Chong: Time Collision|last=admini|first=BRIC|date=2015-04-10|work=BRIC|access-date=2018-03-26|language=en}}
- 2013 Emerson Gallery Berlin, Germany,{{Cite web|url=https://www.artslant.com/ny/events/show/348016-9th-summer-fest-of-international-art-ecuador-meets-berlin|title=exhibitions & events {{!}} ArtSlant|website=ArtSlant|access-date=2018-03-27}}
- 2014 Honey Ramka Project Space,{{Cite web|url=http://honeyramka.com/-nbsp-project-space/locus-1-3-14-2-2-14-|title=Honey Ramka|website=honeyramka.com|language=en-us|access-date=2018-03-27}}
- 2012 Figuresworks,{{Cite web|url=http://www.artinnewyorkcity.com/2012/11/09/lead-the-way-cecile-chong-and-william-gropper-at-figureworks/|title='Lead the Way' Cecile Chong and William Gropper at Figureworks {{!}} Art in New York City|website=www.artinnewyorkcity.com|date=9 November 2012 |language=en-US|access-date=2018-03-27}}
- 2011 Praxis International Art Project Space,{{Cite web|url=http://www.artnet.com/galleries/praxis/cecile-chong/|title=Cecile Chong on artnet|website=www.artnet.com|access-date=2018-03-27}}
- 2010 ArtSPACE{{Cite web|url=http://ctartscene.blogspot.com/2010/02/thursday-night-openings-at-artspace.html|title=Connecticut Art Scene: Thursday night openings at Artspace|language=en|access-date=2018-03-27}}
- 2008 Corridor Gallery{{Cite journal|last=Hughes-Greenberg|first=Chanice|date=Nov 2008|title=Mirror Mirror Off the Wall|journal=Corridor Gallery}}
Fellowships and residencies
- EFA studio program, current{{Cite web|url=http://www.studios-efanyc.org/cecile-chong/|title=Cecile Chong|website=EFA Studio Program|language=en-US|access-date=2018-04-01}}
- Joan Mitchell Center Residency 2017{{Cite web|url=http://joanmitchellfoundation.org/center/artist-in-residence/2017-sessions/summer/cecile-chong1|title=Joan Mitchell Center » Artist Programs|last=Foundation|first=Joan Mitchell|website=joanmitchellfoundation.org|language=en|access-date=2018-03-13}}
- Wave Hill Winter Workspace Residency 2017{{Cite web|url=https://www.wavehill.org/arts/artists/cecile-chong/|title=Cecile Chong {{!}}{{!}} Wave Hill - New York Public Garden and Cultural Center|website=Wave Hill|language=en|access-date=2018-03-13}}
- Lower East Side Printshop 2016–2017
- MASS MoCA Studios Residency
- Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant 2015{{Cite web|url=https://www.jeromefdn.org/node/681470|title=Cecile Chong - {{!}} The Jerome Foundation|website=www.jeromefdn.org|language=en|access-date=2018-03-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180402101414/https://www.jeromefdn.org/node/681470|archive-date=2018-04-02|url-status=dead}}
- The Center for Book Arts Residency 2013{{Cite news|url=http://centerforbookarts.org/auction-spotlight-cecile-chong/|title=Auction Spotlight: Cecile Chong {{!}} * Center for Book Arts|date=2014-03-26|work=* Center for Book Arts|access-date=2018-03-13|language=en-US}}
- Socrates Sculpture Park 2011{{Cite web|url=http://socratessculpturepark.org/exhibition/eaf11-2011-emerging-artist-fellowship-exhibition/|title=Socrates Sculpture Park|website=socratessculpturepark.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-03-13}}
- AIM - Bronx Museum 2011{{Cite web|url=http://www.bronxmuseum.org/aim/artist-in-the-marketplace|title=ARTIST IN THE MARKETPLACE - Aim - The Bronx Museum of the Arts|last=exhibit-e.com|website=www.bronxmuseum.org|access-date=2018-03-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180319005105/http://www.bronxmuseum.org/aim/artist-in-the-marketplace|archive-date=2018-03-19|url-status=dead}}
- Urban Artist Initiative NYC 2009{{Cite web|url=http://aaartsalliance.org/page/grants-1|title=Grants|website=aaartsalliance.org|language=en|access-date=2018-03-13}}
- Aljira Emerge
- the Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant 2008{{Cite web|url=http://joanmitchellfoundation.org/artist-programs/artist-grants/mfa|title=Artist Programs » Artist Grants|last=Foundation|first=Joan Mitchell|website=joanmitchellfoundation.org|language=en|access-date=2018-03-13}}
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