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The radiance and energy shine in Suzy Q’s career as an emerging artist and visual art educator. She holds a double Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University of Art and Design and a Bachelor of Education from University of British Columbia. After graduation she spent several rewarding years teaching art to children while perfecting her unique painting technique. In 2004 she became the Visual Artist and Creative Director where she created custom paintings for an interior design agency and directed the art production. Her commitment to mentoring aspiring artist only became stronger when she enrolled in the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University. After graduating with honors in Master of Arts in Art Education in 2006, she became the Production Leader for Kaikai Kiki New York, LLC and worked under the direction of Takashi Murakami, a prolific contemporary Japanese artist in fine arts and digital and commercial media. Suzy successfully managed the delicate balance of color and a refined painting application, known as Superflat. Currently residing in New York, Suzy continues to paint at her studio. In her earliest series, she draws upon the experience of transforming the banal and attempts to find beauty in the everyday experience, from a simple spring blossom to a weeping willow and its architectural structures. More recently her panels are rich with gestures subtly display representative yet abstract images like suggestion of youth and play transfigured by lavish markings and innate gestures. She expanded her skill set to embrace lush, fluorescent colors, multiple glazes, metal use and needle strokes to create the texture of playfulness and whimsy. Her paintings are often described powerful and luminous. They allow the viewer a glimpse of an imaginative aesthetic and a heightened sense of depth and insight into the artist’s personal vision of the world around her. The series Tokki Jjang (Super Rabbit) and Serious Boys and Girls have aptly captured this playful energy and explores the nuances of light and darkness in a surreal quality. A series of paintings have been featured in the Nature Conservancy’s benefit Auction for three consecutive years. Suzy is the recipient of several national and international awards including the Scholarship for North American Scholars from New York University. Her work can be found in a selected number of private and corporate collections in Canada, Great Britain, South Korea and the United States. Currently, Suzy is preparing upcoming shows in New York City and Vancouver. By Janice Momoko Chow Born in Daegu, Korea; lives and works in New York. EDUCATION Master of Arts, New York University, New York, USA, 2006 Bachelor of Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 2004 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada, 2003
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS Art Hampton, TBA, New York, 2010 Duo Show, Ian Tan Gallery, Vancouver, 2010 ARS GRAPHIS, Gitana Rosa Gallery, New York, 2010 Oil Slick, Gitana Rosa Gallery, The Bogart Street Studios, New York, 2010 Fleur, Faraci Art and Design, Culver City, CA, 2010 South Sea Soiree, Nature Conservancy, The Prince George Ballroom, New York, 2010 Denatured, Gershwin Hotel New York, 2010 Color of Dreams, Blank Space, New York, 2009 Festa Brasileira!, Nature Conservancy, The Bowery Hotel, New York, 2009 Peace on Earth, Ian Tan Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, 2008 Beauty of the Banal: White Flower Series; Liberty Design, Vancouver, Canada, 2008 Benefit Auction for the Nature Conservancy, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, USA, 2006 The Portrait Show, Mezzanine Gallery, Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver, Canada, 2006 The Invitation, Covan Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, 2005 80th Emily Carr Alumni Exhibition , Mezzanine Gallery, Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver, Canada, 2005 Graduation Show, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada, 2003 Cultural Resonance, Landing Gallery, ECIAD, Vancouver, Canada, 2003 Identity, Concourse Gallery, ECIAD, Vancouver, Canada, 2000
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Production Leader, 2007 - present, Kaikai Kiki New York, LLC (Takashi Murakami), New York, USA Internship, Spring 2006, Asian American Arts Centre, New York, USA Internship, Spring 2006, Brooklyn Arts Council, New York, USA Visual Art Teacher, 2004, Killarney Secondary School, Vancouver, Canada Assistant to the President, 2000, ELST Design Studio, Vancouver, Canada Teacher’s Assistant, Spring 2000, Lord Byng Secondary School, Vancouver, Canada Marbling Instructor, Spring 2000, ELST Design Studio
AWARDS Scholarship for North American Scholars, New York, U.S, 2005, 2006 B.C. District Fine Arts Scholarship, Vancouver, Canada, 1999 Greenlight 1st International Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada, 1999 Buschlen Mowatt Gifted Teen Scholarship, Vancouver, Canada, 1997, 1998
SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS MAC Architects Consultant Group, Korea Eastwood Companies, Canada Wonjin Industrial, Korea Seoul National University Dental association, Korea Granville Chapel, Canada Grace Presbyterian Church, Canada
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