FLO OY WONG |
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| 835 Elmira Drive | |
| Sunnyvale, CA 94087 | |
| (408) 739-8951 phone | |
| (650) 793-1052 cell | |
| ricesackartist@comcast.net | |
| www.flo-oy-wongartist.com | |
| CURRICULUM VITAE | |
| Education: | |
| 1980-1982 | Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA |
| 1978 | Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA |
| 1978-1980 | De Anza College, Cupertino, CA |
| 1960-1961 | California teaching credential, Cal State University East Bay |
| 1956-1960 | B. A. in English, University of California, Berkeley, CA |
| Solo Exhibitions (Partial list): | |
| 2007 | Gold Mountain, 40 Acres Gallery, Sacramento, CA |
| 2006 | Talk Story: An American Family, Chinese Historical Society of America, San Francisco, CA |
| 2005 | Shhh, it's a Secret! Flomenhaft Gallery, New York |
| 2004 | (ART)iculation, Edgewood College, Madison WI |
| re(ART)inculation, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, WI | |
| Connections/Disconnection: Shredding Lives, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA | |
| 2003 | 1942: Luggage From Home to Camp, Japanese American Museum San Jose, San Jose, CA |
| Tin See Do: The Angel Island Experience, Ellis Island Immigration Museum, New York (in conjunction with Gateway to Gold Mountain exhibition) | |
| 2001 - 2002 | Flo Oy Wong: Angel Island, Immigration, and Family Stories, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
| The Angel Island Immigration Experience - made in usa: Angel Island Shhh, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA | |
| made in usa: Angel Island Shhh, Evergreen Valley College, San Jose, CA | |
| 2000 | made in usa: Angel Island Shhh, Angel Island Immigration Station, Angel Island, Tiburon, CA |
| Flo Oy Wong: Mixed Media and Narrative Installations, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA | |
| Both Sides+: Family Stories, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA | |
| Honoring, Creative Art Center Gallery, Sunnyvale, CA | |
| 1997 | Rice Grains, Basic Studies/Art and Design, School of Fine Arts Gallery, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas |
| Baby Jack Rice Story, Wallace/Musket Gallery, San Antonio, Texas | |
| Baby Jack Rice Story, College of Human Resources & Family | |
| Sciences, Textiles, Clothing & Design Department Gallery, | |
| University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE | |
| Group Exhibitions (Partial list): | |
| 2005 | Women Only: In the Studio, Traveling Exhibition with Faith Ringgold, Miriam Shapiro, Jaune Quick To See Smith, Carrie Mae Weems, Ann Hamilton, Barbara Krueger, Jenny Holzer, and others |
| 2005 | World Quilt Carnival Nagoya, Japan |
| 2003 | Only Skin Deep Online, website component of the International Center for Photography, New York |
| Drawing the Line: Contemporary Artists Reassess Traditional East Asian Calligraphy, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA | |
| 2002 | Remembrance: Commemorative Works by Asian Americans, Online exhibition, Silicon Valley Art Museum, Belmont, CA |
| Thread: Five Artists Who Use Stitching to Convey Ideas, Berkeley Art Center Association, Berkeley, CA | |
| 2001 | Making Art Matter: Artists Transforming Society, Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, WI |
| Sugar 'N Spice'N Everything Nice, ProArts Gallery, Oakland, CA | |
| On Gold Mountain, Presenter: Autry Heritage Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. | |
| The Angel Island Immigration Experience, San Francisco Public Library | |
| made in usa: Angel Island Shhh, Chinese Culture Center, San Francisco, CA | |
| Angel Island and Immigration Stories of the 20th and 21st Centuries, Euphrat Museum of Art, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA | |
| 1999 | Celebrating American Family Life, U. S. State Department Art in Embassies Program, United States Embassy, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 1998 | Crossings, A. T. Kearney Exhibition in association with the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA |
| 1997 - 2000 | Pure Vision: American Bead Artists, Exhibits USA traveling exhibition |
| United States Embassy, United States Department of State Art in Embassies Program, Zambia, Africa | |
| 1997 | Art of the Americas: Identity Crisis, Collaborating Artist & Participant, M. H. deYoung Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA |
| Kente Rice Women: Talking Our Connection, Textiles, Clothing & Design Department Gallery, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE | |
| Honors/Awards/Commissions: | |
| 2005 | Invited by the Mr. Li Hanquan, Deputy Secretary of the China Workers' Center for International Exchange to lead a cultural and professional exchange to the People's Republic of China |
| Commissioned by the East Bay Community Foundation to create Rice is a Physical and Spirit Food for Me | |
| 2002 | Commissioned by Japanese American Museum San Jose's California Civil Liberties Public Education Program Grant and Applied Materials Excellence in the Arts Grant to create 1942: Luggage From Home to Camp exhibition supported by accompanying catalog and symposium |
| Participant, Penny Stamps Distinguished Visitors Program, School of Art and Design, University of Michigan | |
| Recipient of Kearny Street Workshop Award along with siblings, Nellie and William Wong, San Francisco, CA | |
| Kindred Spirit #1, cover illustration for Asian American Politics: Law, Participation, and Policy, 1st edition edited by Don T. Nakanishi and James S. Lai, published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, an academic press based in Maryland. | |
| Lew Dung Quock image from made in usa: Angel Island Shhh, cover illustration for Prairie Schooner, Volume 76, Number 1, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Spring 2002 | |
| 2001 | Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation Award for the creation of made in usa: Angel Island Shhh |
| 1999 | House of Light ink painting, cover illustration for Yellow Light: The Flowering of Asian American Art, Amy Ling, Editor, Temple University Press |
| Reproduction of In 1930 Sue Shee Wong came from Baby Jack Rice Story installation in Issues of Multicultural Feminism by Ella Shohat, MIT Press and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, co-publishers, New York, NY | |
| 1998 | made in usa: Angel Island Shhh exhibit funded by Kearny Street Workshop's National Endowment for the Arts Creation and Presentation Grant and the Gerbode Foundation Grant |
| First Recipient of the Asian American Arts Foundation/Djerassi Resident Artists Program Grant, San Francisco, CA | |
| Recipient, Serpent Source Grant, San Francisco, CA | |
| 1997 | Arts Council Silicon Valley Artist Installation/New Genre Fellowship Award, San Jose, CA |
| Nebraska Arts Council Multicultural Awareness Grant for collaborative installation with Pam J. Berry and Reece Crawford Tocho | |
| Image of My Mother's Baggage: Lucky Daughter selected for the 1997 Richmond Art Center Calendar, Richmond, CA | |
| California Arts Council/Arts Council Silicon Valley Multi-Residency Grant Team Artist, Almaden Community School, San Jose, CA | |
| Residencies (Partial list): | |
| 2004 | Art Omi, New York |
| 1999 | Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA |
| Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont | |
| 1998 | Villa Montalvo, Saratoga, CA |
| 1997 - present | College of Fine & Performing Arts, Artist Diversity Residency Program, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE |
| 1996 | Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE |
| Teaching/Art Related Employment/Volunteer Activities: | |
| 2005 | Artist delegation leader of exchange to People's Republic of China |
| Member, Gold Mountain Task Force, Sacramento Philharmonic | |
| 2004 | Artist Exchange to People's Republic of China presentations at Xinghua University Academy of Arts and Crafts, Beijing, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, Xian Fine Arts Academy, and Shanghai University |
| Juror, Women in the Middle exhibition, Milwaukee, WI | |
| Panelist, "Cultural Identities" Panel, ARTS SUMMIT, San Jose, CA | |
| Presenter, Rice writing workshop, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA | |
| Panelist, Making/Reading Art of Immigration and History, moderated by Moira Roth with Hung Liu and Binh Danh, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA | |
| 2003 | Presenter, EXclusion/INcarceration: Chinese and Japanese Experiences in America symposium, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA |
| Bibliography (Partial list): | |
| Barbara Hatchet | NY ART, "Rice Sacks for the People," November/December 2005 |
| SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS CALENDAR, photo of "1942: Luggage From Home To Camp suitcase," February 25, 2004 | |
| Patricia Fleming Vayda | |
| L. A. DAILY NEWS, SAN GABRIEL TRIBUNE, PASADENA | |
| STAR NEWS, WHITTIER DAILY NEWS, LONG BEACH | |
| DAILY NEWS, "Drawing the Line: Contemporary Artists Reassess Traditional East," September 18, 2003 | |
| Annie Nakao | SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, "After six decades, the luggage that Japanese Americans carried with them to internment camps at the start of World War II has become a reminder of those days of infamy," August 16, 2003 |
| SINGTAO (Chinese language newspaper), "If Suitcases Could Talk," July 7, 2003 | |
| Cynthia Cho | SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, "Suitcases of Sorrow," July 5, 2003 |
| Yuki Okada | INTERNATIONAL EXAMINER, "An Invitation to a collective experience: The Works of Flo Oy Wong," December 4 - 17, 2002 |
| Collette Chattopadhyay | ART ASIA PACIFIC review, Issue 36, 2002 |
| Victoria Alba | FIBERART, Summer 2002 |
| Collections (Partial list): | |
| Norbert Goldfield, Boston MA | |
| Mary Weitzel Gibbons, New York | |
| William Mann, West Germany | |
| Regis and Dianne McKenna, Sunnyvale, CA | |
| Mike Olson, St. Paul, Minnesota, MI | |
| Moira Roth, Berkeley, CA | |
| Bob Uyeki, Oakland, CA | |
| Steve Weisgerber, Florida | |
| East Bay Asian Legal Development Center, Oakland | |
| San Francisco Art Commission | |
| Synopsys Corporation, Mountain View, CA | |