Jennifer Chan (artist)

Jennifer Chan is a Canadian video and media artist and curator based in Toronto. Her work addresses internet pop culture, specifically on the representation of masculinity[1] and the various constructions of femininity under the male gaze.[2][3] She explores topics such as identity, the political and our relationship with the mundane using different mediums, such as videos, object assemblage, webpages, sounds and prints,[4] with great rigor, a sharp sense of irony, and playfulness.[5]

Biography

Chan was born in Canada. She grew up in Hong Kong but has spent her entire career outside of the city.[6] Chan completed a HBA in Communications, Culture, Information Technology from the University of Toronto Mississauga in 2010 as well as Diploma in Studio Art and Digital Communication from Sheridan College (also 2010). She then attended Syracuse University, attaining a MFA in Art Video in 2013.

Career

Chan co-organized the online exhibition "Body Anxiety" with Leah Schrager, featuring underrepresented artists to challenge male-dominated online art spaces.[7] She has held solo exhibitions in numerous countries, including "The Blue Pill" at Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba (Canada), "Young Money" at Future Gallery (Berlin), "I’ll Show You HD " at transmediale (Berlin), "Sea of Men" at Galleri CC (Malmo), and "New Alpha" at ohmydays (Singapore).

In 2012, Chan was the "Canadian Spotlight" artist at Toronto's Images Festival where she exhibited a retrospective of single channel works, including her video "Screensaver" in which she eviscerates a pile of Macbooks with carving knives.[8] She pushes her fascination for tech related fetishes even further in her breakout piece from the same year, "Young Money", which features white college boys surfing the internet and an anonymous man ejaculating on Sterling Crispin's "Pizza Shirt".[9]

In 2013, she contributed a sequence to The One Minutes (commissioned by the Sandberg Institute) as part of "Ways of Something", a net artists' remake of John Berger's Ways Of Seeing compiled by Lorna Mills. The video has screened at ICA London, Fabrica UK, MenShing Museum (Beijing), Wooloomooloo (Taipei), and SongEun Art Space (South Korea), and later collected by the Whitney Museum.[10]

Commissions

In 2015, Chan took part in the group exhibition PASTE, organized by SEIZE projects where she debuted her website WHITE OR NOT QUITE? along with a public poster exhibited across Leeds City Centre.[11] She participated to ArtSlant's email newsletter project with Mindfulness Matters in which she invites the reader to answer the questions "Are You Living The Life You Always Wanted?", "Do you fall asleep fulfilled with everything you've done?", "Spending time on your family?", and many more, as an invitation to let their minds lead the way.[12]

In 2017, she launched "Important Men", a commission by IOTA, in which the artist creates "her own oeuvre of male portraiture by photographing the important masculine influences in her life."[13]

Solo exhibitions

  • 2017 "The Blue Pill", Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba [14]
  • 2016 "Screening: Jennifer Chan", Western Front[15]
  • 2015, "Sea Of Men", Galleri CC Malmö.[1]
  • 2012, "Young Money" Future Gallery, Berlin [16]
  • 2012, "I'LL SHOW U HD " transmediale, Marshall McLuhan Salon, Canadian Embassy, Berlin

References

  1. 1 2 Antaya, Christine. "The Internet is a Sea of Men". Kunstkritikk. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
  2. ↑ Hirsch, Ann. "Artist Profile: Jennifer Chan". Rhizome. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
  3. ↑ Noice, Lauren MacKenzie. "WACKing the Piñata @ ltd los angeles reviewed". aqnb. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
  4. ↑ "Radically mundane: confronting subjugation + exploitation while simulating 'diversity' + 'equality' in Jennifer Chan's The Blue Pill". aqnb. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
  5. ↑ "Conundrum Clinique: Works by Toronto Artists Directed by Ananya Ohri, Janis Cole and Holly Dale, Susan Britton, Robin Collyer, Bridget Moser, Jennifer Chan, Oliver Husain and Tobias Williams". Exclaim!. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
  6. ↑ Peckham, Robin (May 2013). "Hong Kong Next Level: Fetish and the Art of Branding". LEAP (20). Retrieved 3 March 2017.
  7. ↑ Fateman, Johanna (April 2015). "Women on the Verge: Art, Feminism, and Social Media". Artforum International. 53. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
  8. ↑ White, Murray. "Images Festival brings compelling experimental film and video to Toronto". Thestar.com. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  9. ↑ "Becoming Camwhore, Becoming Pizza". Mute. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  10. ↑ ""Ways Of Something At The Whitney" (Press Release)" (PDF). The One Minutes. Retrieved May 9, 2017.
  11. ↑ "PASTE - SEIZE Projects". SEIZE Projects. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  12. ↑ "Mindfullness Matters by Jennifer Chan". ArtSlant. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  13. ↑ "Important Men - IOTA". IOTA. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  14. ↑ The Blue Pill. 28 Sept.–18 Nov. 2017, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon MB.
  15. ↑ "Jennifer Chan - Western Front". front.bc.ca. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
  16. ↑ "FUTURE GALLERY". futuregallery.org. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
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