Chinese artist – Chun Hua Catherine Dong

Group Exhibition – He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China

I am very pleased to announce my second museum exhibition in China is held at He Xiangning Art Museum in Shenzhen. My four channel VR video installation, “Meet Me Halfway” is exhbited there.

Group Exhibition: In Working: Women In Art Practice
Museum: He Xiangning Art Museum
Exhibition date: December 29, 2021 – March 27, 2022
Address: He Xiangning Art Museum Hall 4-8, Shenzhen

For more info about this exhibition, please visit He Xiangning Art Museum

For more info about “Meet Me Halfway, please visit my website page here

Exhibition Supervisor: CAI Xianliang
Chief Exhibition Adviser: WANG Huangsheng
Curators: LI Beike, LIU Xiyan
Co-Curators: YU Xiangzhi, CHEN Zhuoer
Coordinators: CHENG Bin, FAN Ning
Public Education & Promotion: LUO Siying
Publicity: FANG Hua
Exhibition Assistants: DING Ziying, LIN Yue
Exhibition Design: WANG Yaxing, BREEZE Design

Artists: CHANG Yuchen, Chun Hua Catherine DONG, Gayle Chong KWAN, Alison KUO, Hua JIN, Serena LEE, Beili LIU, Duoni LIU, Susan Pui San LOK, Jennifer Wen MA, Yeu-Lai MO, SHEN Cai, Naormi Meijia WANG, Alice WANG, Yiy ZHANG, Linda ZHANG

As one of the serial events of “Culture China”, “The Overseas Chinese Artists Invitational Exhibition” has been officially hosted by the He Xiangning Art Museum annually since 2020, and has become one of the major academic projects thereafter. He Xiangning is an outstanding female artist in modern Chinese history, and the museum named after her has always maintained a strong focus on overseas Chinese art as well as female art. “In Working: Women in Art Practice – The 4th Overseas Chinese Artists Invitational Exhibition” takes a close look at the overseas Chinese female artists and attempts to explore the diversity and possibilities in today’s social works.

The focus of this year’s exhibition is that, in a history of production going through agriculture, industry and intellect, being productive forces of labor, female artists across the ages have done contribution physically, emotionally and intellectually. By investigating their artistic creations, this exhibition takes the public on a journey to rethink the efforts of overseas Chinese women in the new era for social development, cultural exchange and intellectual innovation in the context of globalization.

The exhibition invites 16 female artists who have lived overseas for a long time or have long been traveling between China and the abroad, to present their art practice till now in a multidimensional way, ranging from video recording, artistic expression to spatial reconstruction. Some of the artists celebrate women in the times with delicate and sensitive emotions, some explore the meaning of housework with keywords such as repetition and superposition, and some imagine the future with a vision beyond gender. These works demonstrate the overseas Chinese women’s observation, reflection and feelings on individual, collective, world, history and society.

NCY Feminist Film Week at Anthology Film Archives

I am very please to announce that my video ” Everywhere and All at Once” will be screened at NCY Feminist Film Week at Anthology Film Archives in New York City on March 10, 2019

Program: Object Subject, curated by Maya Suess
Time: 6:00pm
Address: Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue (at 2nd St.)
New York, NY 10003 USA

For this program, a visual and auditory exploration of the tactile, the viewers will be invited as they enter the cinema to select an object to hold for the duration of the screening. We are material creatures who encounter the tangible world through our physical senses, and we get to know our environment and ourselves through tactile experiences. Objects help us contextualize ourselves in the world, they bring us together, they help us express thoughts and ideas, they define us. This program presents works by visual artists, performance artists, and filmmakers exploring ideas of family, community, self, and sexuality through the objects around them.

For more info about NCY Feminist Film Week, please check here
For more info about Anthology Film Archives, please check here

Group Exhibition – The Breadth of Distance

I am very glad to announce that I have a group exhibition. The Breadth of Distance, at L Space, Humber Galleries, Toronto

Exhibition: February 4, 2019 – April 5, 2019
Opening: Wednesday, February 6th, 5-8pm
Curated by: Alize Zorlutuna
Address: Humber College, Lakeshore Campus L Building, 19 Colonel Samuel Smith Park Drive, Toronto, ON M8V 4B

we carry continents,
cross oceans,
traverse vast distances while still.

the scent of comfort,
is also longing.
what goes unsaid,
a kind of knowing.

how do elsewheres live in the body?

in dreams?
half-remembered tongues.
in what cannot be named.

Bringing together photography, video, installation, and sculpture, these artworks shift across geographies, cultural perspectives, and time. Considering grief, longing, care and resilience, they articulate how relationships to place, representation, and belief shape who we are and how we move in the present.

This exhibition asks us to reckon with how we came to be here on this land. Whether we are Indigenous, multi-generational settlers, or recent immigrants, our current moment demands we think through how we might build mutual understanding and empathy while recognizing our many differences.

For more info, please visit Humber Galleries here

Group Exhibition – Once Per Annum

I am very pleasured to announce that I have a group exhibition. Once Per Annum, at The Istanbul Cumhuriyet Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey, presented by KADEM Women and Democracy Association

Exhibition:December 29,2018 – January 30, 2019,
Opening : Dec29th, 2018
Location : Cumhuriyet sanata galerisi , also called Taksim Republic Art Gallery, Istanbul
15:00 – 15: 30 Press conference
15:30 – 16:00 Cocktail
16:00 – 16:30 Opening ceremony
18:00 – 20:30 Artist conversations (in The Marmara Hotel, Taksim)

For more info, please visit here and here

Perforamnce Screening – at La Buena Estrella, Mexico City

I will have a performance screening about my 5 performance pieces since 2010 at La Buena Estrella in Mexico City on Feb 8th, 2018 at 7:00pm

Time: Feb 8th, 2018 at 7:00pm

Address: Ignacio Manuel Altamirano 88 Colonia San Rafael, Mexico City, Mexico

Group Exhibition – Far and Near: the Distance(s) between Us, at Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto

My group exhibition, Far and Near: the Distance(s) between Us, is held at Justina M. Barnicke Gallery at Museum of University of Toronto on Sept 6 – Oct 29, 2017

Far and Near: the Distance(s) between Us brings together several generations of Canadian artists of Chinese descent, offering perspectives onto the Chinese Canadian community’s historical and cultural evolutions and developments. The works included in the exhibition investigate overlooked narratives by exploring notions of distancing and being distanced in relation to race, identity, sexuality and their intertwining with Chinese Canadian history.

The idea of distance unfolds in multiple layers: in the geographic sense, as in going through a distance from point A to point B, like the construction process of the Canadian Pacific Railway; in the cultural sense, through the mainstream’s imposition of stereotypes, as in how the Chinese Canadian community has been culturally differentiated and essentialized; and in the context of the Chinese community itself, as in who is “Us”, and the distances between different groups of ethnic Chinese.

Exhibition Date: Sept 6 – Oct 29, 2017
Opening: Wednesday, September 6, 2017
Address: Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, 7 Hart House Cir, Toronto, ON M5S 3H3
Curated by Henry Heng Lu

For more info about the exhibition

Screening – Chinese Video Art Festival

My two video works, ” When I was Born” and ” Skin Deep” are screening at Chinese Video Art Festival in Mexico in August 21 to November 30, 2017

The Chinese Artists Video Art Festival is known to be unique in the international Art world. To gather Chinese artists working in the PRC as in different countries overseas in one place was made in Mexico City for the first time. Through global open calls, the Chinese Artists Video Art Festival was organized with the aim of gathering a representative group of Chinese female artists to show their video art production in Mexico City. The call was attended by42 artists from Mainland China and living abroad, especially Europe and North America, and 57 different videos in animation; documental, video-performance and videoart were shown in 6 different venues in Mexico City. Lectures and workshops allowed the audiences to engage more with the Chinese Culture and frame the artists and video productions into its specific but variegated context.

August 21-25, 2017, Digital Culture Center, Mexico City
September 6 and 7, 2017, Clavecine, Mexico City
September 20 and 27, 2017, Faro de Aragón, Multimedia Centre, Mexico City
September 21, 22, 23, 24 2017, Cineteca de la Escuela Modelo Pozos, Guanajuato
October 10, 11, 17, 18, 24, 25 and 31, 2017, Queretaro City Museum,Queretaro
November 21-26, 2017, Chihuahua
November 29-30, 2017, Smart Civic Center, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua
March 2018, Guangdong, China

For more info about Chinese Video Artists Festival
For more info about ” When I was Born”
For more info about ” Skin Deep”