NEWS

 

https://www.marblehouseproject.org/2024-artists

 
 

WHITEBOX - “Another Postcard Here and There”

 
 

https://island83.gallery/

 
 
 
 
 

NEWS

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

MAKING VISIBLE at Hewitt Gallery, Marymount Manhattan College

 
 
 
 
 

THE LOCKER ROOM

 
 
 
 
 
 

Rockefeller Capital Management - In a Different Light, organized by NYFA

On view November 2021 - September 2022

 
 
 
 
 


EL DORADO - The New Forty Niners is installed at Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza in Manhattan until August 2022

 

EFA Open Studios 2021
Thursday, October 21st, 6 - 9pm (opening night), Friday, October 22nd, 6 - 9pm, Saturday, October 23rd, 2 - 6pm
EFA Center, 323 West 39th Street, New York, NY 10018

 
 
 

​​JUNE 27 - JULY 21
Strohl Art Center | Bellowe Family Gallery

This exhibition examines cultural signifiers and the notion of hybridity in works by four contemporary artists of Chinese descent who live and work in the U.S. Their varied practices interrogate the histories and metaphors of everyday objects like dishware, vases, plants, and ping pong paddles through a range of media including sculpture, photography, ceramics, and painting.

 

Urban Field Station - Artist in Residence

 
 

​https://www.caddisflyproject.com/
https://www.caddisflyproject.com/cecile-chong

 
 

3D tour of BREATH of BLUE

 
 
 

The Immigrant Artist Biennial - Mother Tongue

Virtual exhibition

 
 
 

As part of the EFA [Virtual] Open Studios happening from October 20-24, I will be hosting private Zoom studio visits. Please register for one of my available time slots here https://www.efa.art/studio-visits
Registration will close on October 15

 

PLACID at The Border Project Space
A group show with works by Sandra Eula Lee, Cecile Chong, and Snow Yunxue Fu. Curated by Jamie Martinez, September 25 to October 17, 2020.

Placid considers the notion of tranquil contemplation and investigates the relationships between the environment, modernization, and human existence. Influenced by the serene aesthetic of East Asian traditional landscapes, the artists capture and portray the harmony of nature and humanity as one.

 
 
 

Art Off-Screen is an international exhibition, organized by Eileen Jeng Lynch, of artwork and performances in outward-facing locations, so the work can be viewed from outside by the community. With pause orders during the pandemic, art has moved online and much of it is still behind closed doors. Art Off-Screen provides access to art beyond a screen, inspiring creativity, amplifying voices, encouraging change, and sending messages of hope and healing.
Entire Exhibition Period: July 18 - September 20, 2020.
Within this timeline, there will be a roll out in phases (every two weeks) of more artists, so opening dates include: July 18, August 1, August 15, August 29, September 12 ​

​https://neumeraki.com/art-offscreen-cecile-chong



 
 

Thursday, March 19, 6:00 - 9:00pm
33-00 Northern Blvd, Long Island City, NY 11101

Join us at the exhibition opening of Contemporary Reuse 2020 on Thursday, March 19 in the MFTA Gallery. Contemporary Reuse is an annual exhibition showcasing artists who make creative reuse a central part of their practice.
This year's exhibition will feature the unique works of six artists: Cecile Chong, Lars Fisk, Howard Lerner, Tijay Mohammed, Carolina Piñafiel, and Jason Rohlf, who reuse materials in various ways. When their work is displayed together, the contrast and depth are magnified for the viewer.

Cecile Chong, Contemporary Excavations, plastic, plaster, encaustic.

 
 

Artist talk
Wed, November 13, 6:15 PM
An Artist's Journey - From Quito to the Silk Road
At St. Joseph's College, Touhy Hall
245 Clinton Avenue
Clinton Hill, Brooklyn

 
 

Join us for a screening of 12 films made by the 2019 BRIC Media Arts Fellows! Over
the last year, fellows Jasmine Murrell, Whitney Ramage, Maya Kaminishi Jeffereis, Wendell Mcshine, Cecile Chong, Katherine Toukhy, Cori Olinghouse, Felicita “Felli”
Maynard, beck haberstroh, Caroline Carlsmith, Keisha Scarville, and Dakota Gearhart have honed their media production skills and are ready to show their work on Tue, Sep 24.
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​Photo credit: Dain DeltaDawn, 2017 BRIC Media Arts Fellow

 

Flowers Become an Unlikely Means to Discuss Identity and Politics
The works in Figuring the Floral start a conversation, collaborate, and even merge with the natural beauty of the public garden and cultural center Wave Hill.
Ilana Novick September 17, 2019

As grass grazed my ankles and a river came into view, I thought, “How can you improve upon this?” I was entering Wave Hill, a 26-acre public garden and cultural center in the Bronx, to see Figuring the Floral, a group show featuring artists who make portraits, abstract paintings, and sculptures out of flowers, or incorporate flowers into their portraits. Why add flowers, I wondered, to an already bucolic manmade garden?
The limitations of my thinking were obvious from the moment I saw the outdoor installation “El Dorado – The New Forty-Niners” (2019) by Cecile Chong, down a hill from the main exhibit in the Glyndor Gallery. Finding Chong’s installation — comprised of dozens of individual sculptures, surrounded by Wave Hill’s existing stone garden — was like stumbling across an altar in the woods, or even witnessing a private ritual only for the sculptures. Chong has painted her fiberglass and resin sculptures orange, pink, yellow, and purple, and arranged them in four circles. Each sculpture resembles both a blooming rose and and an open mouth, lining up for communion. They are reminders that flowers help us visualize and understand birth, death, and the cycles of life.

 

By TIFFANY MOUSTAKAS
Stop by Wave Hill’s Glyndor Gallery these days and you might just leave with a free sculpture. A miniature sculpture, that is.
One of the first things a visitor sees when they step into the gardens’ art gallery is what looks like a gumball machine, the kind that used to exist in grocery stories. But in the Glyndor Gallery world, it’s an art installation from Cecile Chong as part of “El Dorado-The New Forty-Niners,” an interactive art series that pays tribute to 49 percent of New York City households that speak another language besides English.
A visitor can turn the lever on Chong’s machine and receive a miniature sculpture similar to the ones on display next to it and outside on the grounds behind the gallery.
Chong is one of 23 artists featured in “Figuring the Floral,” an exhibition that explores how floral imagery is more than decorative art and a symbol of femininity. Each artist breaks that stereotypical idea by looking at the concept of flowers through the lens of gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race and class. It’s on display at Wave Hill through Dec. 1.

 

FIGURING THE FLORAL - group exhibition at Wave Hill. July 21 - December 01, 2019
https://www.wavehill.org/arts/exhibits/figuring-floral/
Artists use flowers to explore identity and interpret the human condition. Exhibiting artists: Derrick Adams, Nicole Awai, Bahar Behbahani, Christian Ruiz Berman, Sanford Biggers, Cecile Chong, Max Colby, Abigail DeVille, Valerie Hegarty, Christopher K. Ho and Kevin Zucker, Diana Lozano, Natalia Nakazawa, Ebony G. Patterson, Bundith Phunsombatlert, Lina Puerta, Simonette Quamina, David Rios Ferreira, Alexandria Smith, Katherine Toukhy, Lina Iris Viktor, William Villalongo and Saya Woolfalk.

 

BRIC Media Arts Fellowship 2019

 

Residency at the Block Gallery/ Bronx Museum AIM Artist Hub at 80 White Street in Tribeca, January to June 2019. The residency will host
five artists every six months. The inaugural resident artists are Blanka Amezkua (AIM alumnus, 2008), Michael Paul Britto (2006),
Cecile Chong (2011), Sophia Dawson (2016), and Pacifico Silano (2013)

 

  • In her layered paintings and installations Cecile Chong brings to life notions of “otherness”, how cultural filters make us see each other. Her departure point derives organically from her experiences since early childhood. Here she shares some of these experiences, the genesis of her diverse body of work, and her upcoming projects.