Audrey Chan is a Los-Angeles based American artist and writer. Chan studied Studio Art and Political Science at Swarthmore College (BA with Honors, 2004) and in the Program in Art at California Institute of the Arts (MFA, 2007). Her recent projects included co-organizing Exquisite Acts & Everyday Rebellions: 2007 CalArts Feminist Art Project, a collective and inter-generational investigation of feminism in the context of contemporary art practice that included a symposium, exhibition, and lecture, film, performance, and writing series. Chan moderated the panel discussion, “The Personal is Political, Revisited” with artists Andrea Bowers, Dorit Cypis, and Martha Rosler. Other recent projects include BOOMERANG (2006), a video concerning the memorialization of the Iraq War and the legacy of Maya Lin; and March 17-18, 2007 (Hoods), an anti-war performance with Emery Martin that took place in Hollywood, California. With artist Elana Mann, Audrey Chan is one half of the performance duo, Chan & Mann, whose recent motivational exercises include: Soul Satisfaction (2005), NATURE! This One’s For You! (2006), and A MANNdate for CHANge (2008). Chan’s interviews and writings have appeared in Afterall Online, …might be good, and the Art:21 Blog. Her projects have been reviewed in the Los Angeles Times, New York Sun, Artweek, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Chan was an artist-in-residence at the École Régionale des Beaux-arts de Nantes (Nantes School of Art) in France in 2009.
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