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Resume
Born: Taipei, Taiwan
Resides: Los Angeles, CA, USA and Taipei, Taiwan
Education:
2000 MFA, Experimental Animation,
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, USA
1997 BA, Mass Communications,
Fu-Jen University, Taipei, Taiwan
Selected Exhibitions
2008 Novella, Gallery 825, curated by Meg Linton,
director of Ben Maltz Gallery
at Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA
Transformed, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA
Now, ARENA 1 Gallery, curated by Yossi Govrin, Santa Monica, CA
Fourth Year Anniversary Show, Gallery Revisited, Los Angeles, CA
First Anniversary Show, Tinlark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Big Babies, Art Murmur Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Co-Op, Café La Boheme, Taipei, Taiwan
Subset, Crussell Fine Arts Gallery, Orange, CA (catalog)
Annual Downtown Artists Grants Exhibition, Dangerous Curve, Los Angeles , CA
Liminal, Phantom Galleries L.A., Pasadena , CA
The Child in You, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
On Site at the Gate, juried by Aimee Chang, Curator of the Orange County Museum of Art,
Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
Echoes: Women Inspired by Nature, curated by Betty Ann Brown and Linda Vallejo,
Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA (catalog)
Group Show, James Gray Gallery, Santa Monica , CA
Get:Art 2007, Bonhams & Butterfields, Los Angeles, CA
HausGuests, Haus Gallery and The Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA
Winter Biannual, juried by Susan Cross, curator of MASS MoCA,
L.A. Art Association South: The Michael Napoliello Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA
2006 Consumerism & Product #3, Gallery Revisited, Los Angeles, CA
‘Tis The Season, curated by Joella March, James Gray Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Gift Shop, Another Year in LA, Los Angeles, CA
TOMORROWLAND: CalArts in Moving Pictures, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
August Group Show, The Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Resident Artists Exhibition, Altered Esthetics, Minneapolis, MN
Post It: Another Art Exhibition, Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport, UK
Two Person Show - Consumerism & Product #1, Gallery Revisited, Los Angeles, CA
Inauguration 3, Gallery Revisited, Los Angeles, CA
2005 October & December Group Show, The Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
CODA: A concluding passage, SCA Gallery, Pomona, CA (catalog)
Wallworks, LA Artcore 22nd Annual Juried Competition,
Juror: Jay Belloli, Director of Gallery Programs of the Armory Center for the Arts,
Artcore Brewery Annex, Los Angeles, CA
Downtown Los Angeles Art Festival - Indoor Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
Animal Art, Altered Esthetics, Minneapolis, MN (catalog)
2004 l’art de mort, Altered Esthetics, Minneapolis, MN
Envisioning the Future, facilitated by Judy Chicago & Donald Woodman,
Pomona Arts Colony, Pomona, CA
Ink & Clay 30,
Juror: Hollis Goodall, Associate Curator of Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
Kellogg University Art Gallery, Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA
2003 War Stories, A Shenere Velt Gallery of The Workmen’s Circle, Los Angeles, CA
Five Corners II, Café La Boheme, Taipei, Taiwan
Reviews and Articles
2007 “Downtown Artists Project Grant Winners Show,”
Citizen LA, Vol. 2, Issue 9, September, 2007, page 16
Lucinda Michele Knapp, “New Artistic Haunts,”
Pasadena Weekly, July 5, 2007 , page 17-18
Carrie Yury, “Reviews: Echoes Orange County Center for Contemporary Art,”
Artillery magazine Vol.1, Issue 6, Summer 2007, page 34-35
Citizen X, “Grant Winners Hurrah!,” Citizen LA, Vol. 2, Issue 5, May, 2007, page 8
Candace Taylor, “Eye candy: Artists discover novel uses for gummy bears,”
Columbia News Service(NY), The Arizona Republic (AZ), April 13 and
The Times Argus (VT), April 22, 2007 ; “Young artists find fruitful uses for
gummy bears,” The State (SC), April 19, 2007
Daniella Walsh, “Women and the world, Review: An exhibit by female artists
in Santa Ana focuses on the Earth and environment,” The Orange County
Register, April 14, 2007 , Entertainment: Arts (CA)
2006 Liz Good, “Curtains: YaYa Chou: Bear Bulbs,”
Fiberarts magazine Vol.33, No.3, Nov/Dec 2006, page 80
Mario Cutajar, “Previews of Exhibitions: YaYa Chou and Katy Bowen,”
ArtScene Vol.25, No.8, April 2006, page16-17 (CA)
Dr. Rebecca Epstein, “Fool on the Floor,”
Los Angeles CityBeat Vol.4, No.14, March 30-April 5, 2006, page 42-43 (CA)
“YaYa Chou and Katy Bowen,” Flavorpill LA, April 2006
2004 Betty Brown, “Judy Chicago’s ‘Envisioning the Future’,”
ArtScene Vol.23, No.6, Feb. 2004 (CA)
Haley Wachdorf, “Chicago, Woodman focus on world future,”
Valencia County News-Bulletin, February 4-10, page 2 (NM)
Paige Litz, ”‘Future’ exhibit left mark,” Rancho Cucamonga Voice,
Los Angeles Times, March 12, 2004
Paige Litz, ”Exhibiting the ‘Future’,” Rancho Cucamonga Voice,
Los Angeles Times, January 9, 2004
2003 Taipei City Culture Express Vol. 36 (Taiwan)
Glenn Esterly, “Fiesta La Ballona,”
Culver City News, August 28 – September 3,2003, page 5 (CA)
Awards
2007 Artists' Resource for Completion Grant, Durfee Foundation, Santa Monica , CA
Downtown Los Angeles Artists' Grant, Downtown Artist Project and the Los Angeles
Downtown Arts District, Los Angeles , CA
2002 Award of Merit, Kalamazoo Animation Festival International, MI
2001 Honorable Mention – Animation, Homboldt International Film Festival
2000 Gold Award of Best Animation, New York Exposition of Short Film and Video, NY
Grand Jury Best Animated Film, MicroCineFest, MD
Lectures and Symposia
2008 Asian New Media, film screening and panel discussion,
National Center for the Preservation of Democracy, Los angeles, CA
2007 16th Annual Matrilineage Symposium, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
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