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Paul Chan received his BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago (1996) and his MFA from Bard College (2002). Chan, who is also a committed political activist, has gained a distinct reputation for his broadly varied body of work, including video installations, drawings, and single-channel videos of documentary subjects. Chan’s epic digital videos explore social and political ramifications of carefully conflated narratives. In his seventeen-minute digital animation My Birds…Trash…The Future (2004), projected on both sides of a large suspended screen, references from the Old Testament, hip-hop culture, and video games are combined to create an apocalyptic collage enhanced with the music of bird calls and cell phone rings. Chan’s Happiness (Finally) After 35,000 Years of Civilization--After Henry Darger and Charles Fourier (2003), an animation similar to My Birds, overlays the utopian social vision of Charles Fourier onto the aesthetics and actions of Henry Darger’s self-contained worlds. Chan’s work in single-channel documentary tackles politics more directly, from the ambient video essay Baghdad in No Particular Order (2003) that counters the sensationalist picture of life in Iraq presented by the media, to his untitled video of Lynne Stewart, the first lawyer to be convicted of aiding terrorism in the United States, that weaves together the languages of law and poetry to connect ideas of beauty and justice. Paul Chan was awarded the 2005-06 Wexner Center Residency Award, a Rockefeller Foundation New Media Arts Fellowship in 2003 and the National Endowment for the Arts Development Fellowship in 2001. Current and upcoming solo exhibitions include Portikus, Frankfurt/Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall (2006); Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia (2006); Serpentine Gallery, London (2007); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2007); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2008). Previous solo exhibitions include The Institute of Contemporary Art; Boston, MA (2005); and UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2005). Group exhibitions include Ahistoric Occasion, Mass MoCA (2006); Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2006); I Still Believe In Miracles, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (2005); New Work/New Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, NY (2005); 8th Biennial d’Art Contemporian de Lyon, France (2005); Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA (2004); His single-channel videos have also been screened in many venues, including the forthcoming Sundance Film Festival (2007), MoMA Film at the Grammercy Theater (2003); The Next 5 Minutes international Tactical Media Festival, Amsterdam (2003); Versionfest, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2002). More Information: http://nationalphilistine.com/ http://www.greenenaftaligallery.com/artist/Paul-Chan http://www.icaboston.org/Home/Exhibitions/Exhibitions/Archive/PaulChan http://www.bombsite.com/chan/chan.html http://www.mediaartists.org/content.php?sec=artist&sub=detail&artist_id=650
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