Born in Ecuador. Lives and works in New York
Education
2008 MFA - Fine Arts, Parsons the New School for Design, NY
1994 MA - Education, Hunter College, NY
1988 BA - Studio Art, Queens College, NY
Awards & Residencies
2024 Marble House Project Residency Program, Dorset VT
Makerpark/Makerspace - Artist in Residence, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Surf Point Foundation Residency, York, ME
Dieu Donné Workspace Residency
BAC - Brooklyn Arts Fund Grant, with Sophia Ma for GATHERING
2022 Percent for Art - K358 John Dewey HS Annex, finalist
Asian Women Giving Circle Grant, with Sophia Ma for GATHERING
New York State Council on the Arts FY2022 Grant
2021 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council LMCC: 2021 - Creative Engagement Grant
The Hispanic Society Museum and Library - Vilcek Foundation Artist Research Fellowship
NYC Urban Field Station - Artist in Residence
2020 Foundation for Contemporary Art FCA Emergency Grants COVID-19 Fund
2019 BRIC Media Arts Fellowship, Brooklyn, NY
The Block Gallery / The Bronx Museum AIM Residency at 80 White Street, New York, NY
2018 Queens Council on the Arts - Arts Access Grant (for EL DORADO - The New forty Niners), NY
2017 Joan Mitchell Center - Artist-in-Residence Program, New Orleans, LA
Wave Hill - Winter Workspace Residency Program, Riverdale, NY
2016-17 Lower East Side Printshop - Keyholder Residency, New York, NY
2016 MASS MoCA Studios/Assets for Artists Residency, North Adams, MA
Percent for Art - PS46X, finalist
2015 Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant, New York, NY
2013 The Center for Book Arts - Workspace Artist-in-Residence, New York, NY
2012 smART Power Grant, finalist
2011 Socrates Sculpture Park - Emerging Artist Fellowship, Long Island City, New York
The Bronx Museum - AIM Artist in the Marketplace Program – Bronx, NY
2010 Urban Artist Initiative - NYC Fellowship, New York, NY
2009-present Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program, New York, NY
2008 Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant, New York, NY
Vermont Studio Center - Artist Residency Program, Johnson, VT
Aljira Center for Contemporary Art - Emerge 10 Fellowship, Newark, NJ
2007 ISE Cultural Foundation - Lynn Gumpert Award, New York, NY
Public Art
2024 125 Maiden Lane/Art in Buildings - Chicken Little - Lost in Transmission, curated by Tessa Ferreyros
2021 - 2022 EL DORADO - The New Forty Niners - Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, Manhattan
2020 EL DORADO - The New Forty Niners - The Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor, Staten Island
Six Degrees of Separation - Long Island Children’s Museum, Garden City, LI
2019 Main Window DUMBO - Straingers, curated by Beth Dary and Jeff Wallace, Brooklyn, NY
EL DORADO - The New Forty Niners - Figuring the Floral, curated by Eileen Jeng Lynch, Wave Hill, The Bronx
2018 EL DORADO - The New Forty Niners - Lewis Latimer House Museum, Queens
2017 EL DORADO - The New Forty Niners - Art in the Parks: NYC Parks - Sunset Park, Brooklyn
2016 Artslope - Prospect Park/NYC Parks, Park Slope, Brooklyn
2011 Socrates Sculpture Park - Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition, LIC, NY
Solo exhibitions
2022 Kates-Ferri Projects - LORE: Cecile Chong, New York, NY
2021 Long Island Children’s Museum - Holding Space, Garden City, NY
Sugar Hill Children’s Museum - _other Nature - Cicadian Rhythm, curated by Damien Davis & Charlene Melville
2020 Selenas Mountain - Breath of Blue, Brooklyn, NY
ICFAC International Chinese Fine Arts Council at PINTA Art Fair, curated by Inez Suen
Smack Mellon - other Nature, curated by Gabriel de Guzman, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Kenise Barnes Fine Art Project Space - Cecile Chong, New encaustic paintings, Larchmont, NY
2018 Five Myles Plus/Space - In Between Daylight, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Selena Gallery - Lemon Tongues, curated by Anjuli Rathod and Olivia Swider, Brooklyn, NY
Drawing Rooms - Bold & Beautiful, curated by Anne Trauben, Jersey City, NJ (solo room)
Old Stone House- Multilocational, curated by Katherine Gressel, Brooklyn (two-person with Natalia Nakazawa)
2015 BRIC Project Room - Time Collision, curated by Jenny Gerow, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Emerson Gallery Berlin: Cecile Chong - Souvenir, Berlin, Germany
Honey Ramka Project Space - Locus, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Figureworks - Lead the Way, Brooklyn, NY (two-person with William Gropper)
2011 St. Joseph’s College Gallery - Back and Forth, Brooklyn, NY
Praxis International Art Project Room - Cool Breeze, New York, NY
2010 Corridor Gallery - Mirror Mirror Off the Wall, curated by Nina Ziefvert, Brooklyn, NY
Diane Birdsall Gallery - Corners of the World, Old Lyme, CT (two-person with Eleanor Miller)
ArtSPACE - Unspoken Word, New Haven, CT
2009 Brooklyn Central Library - reIMAGination, Brooklyn, NY
2002 The New York Public Library, Aguilar Branch, New York, NY
2001 The New York Public Library, 96th St. Branch, New York, NY
Selected group exhibitions
2024 WhiteBox - Another Postcard Here and There, New York Artscapes, curated by Yohanna M. Roa
Island Gallery - leftovers, New York, NY
Feria QiPO - Tiger Strikes Asteroid, CDMX, Mexico
2023 Long Island Museum - SOMOS/WE ARE: Latinx Artists, curated by Nina Sangimino & Kelynn Alder, NY
Selenas Mountain at Rockaway Art Week - Gravity Wonder, Queens NY
Collar Works - Eat Me, curated by Natalie Kates, Troy, NY
QCC CUNY Art Gallery/Museum, NYC Art Bridge - curated by Luchia Meihua Lee
Hewitt Gallery Marymount Manhattan College - Making Visible: Migration & Identity
H-Space - Frequent Goodbyes, curated by Sandy Cheng, Washington DC
The Locker Room - A Touch of Grass, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Hearst Foundation - art.now.2023, with Kates Ferri Projects, New York, NY (catalog)
Arsenal Gallery - Flores de mi País, curated by Naiomy Rodríguez & NYC Parks, New York, NY
Spring Break Art Show - Dandelion Fork, curated by Olivia Swider - with Nicholas Cueva & Delphine Hennelly
Kate Oh Gallery - Matrixes, curated by Jaynie Gillman Crimmins, New York, NY
Kates-Ferri Projects - X Marks the Spot: NexGen LatinX Artists, DeMuro Das, New York, NY
River House Arts - Co-Worker / Double Time, curated by Jordan Buschur and Crystal Phelps, Toledo, OH
Equity Gallery - Among Friends, organized by Alexi Brock, Beth Dary, and Patricia Fabricant, New York, NY
Rockefeller Capital Management - In a Different Light, curated by NYFA, New York, NY
EFA Office Gallery - Steeped in Spilled Milk pt.2, curated by Alexander Si, New York, NY
HilbertRaum - Possibly Easy, Tiger Strikes Asteroid 5 x 5 Exchange, Berlin Germany
BravinLee Programs, Entanglement, four-person exhibition, New York, New York
Kenise Barnes Fine Art - Cool & Collected ’22, Kent, CT
2021 Metaphor Projects - MAGIC, curated by Rene Lynch and Julian Jackson, Brooklyn, NY
BravinLee Programs - If Tomorrow Comes, New York, NY
Selenas Mountain - Along a River of Sapphire Pools 4, Brooklyn, NY
Chautauqua Institution, Strohl Art Center - Co-Existence, Four artists of Chinese descent, NY
MANA Contemporary - Tiger Strikes Asteroid: It feels like the first time, Chicago, IL
JCAL’s Miller Gallery - Process → Project, curated by Rejin Leys and Damali Abrams, Queens, NY
2020 The Immigrant Artists Biennial, Language / Mother Tongue, virtual
The Border Project Space - PLACID, curated by Jamie Martínez, Brooklyn, NY
Royal Society of American Art – REMAKE/REMODEL, curated by Amelia Biewald and Jason Clay Lewis, NY
Art Off-Screen, curated by Eileen Jeng Lynch, Neumeraki
Eastern Art Gallery - Racism: An American Pandemic, curated by Yulia Tikhonova, Willimantic, CT
St. Joseph’s College - Reflections, curated by Meridith McNeal, Brooklyn, NY
Materials for the Arts - Contemporary Reuse 2020, Queens, NY
2019 BRIC Media Arts Fellowship Screening, Brooklyn, NY
Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Education Center - Among Friends/Entre Amigos, New York, NY
Gallery MC, Personal Identity Matters, curated by Iksong Jin, New York, NY (catalog)
2018 Asian Contemporary Art Week - Thinking Collections, EFA Studios - Organized by Sharmistha Ray, NY
Pelham Arts Center - Waxing Poetic, curated by Katherine Dufault, Pelham, NY
Galería Artflow - VALOARTE XIII, San José, Costa Rica
Beth Dary’s studio DUMBO Open Studios – AMONG FRIENDS, Brooklyn, NY
The Painting Center - Cultivate Your Own Garden, curated by Patricia Spergel, NY
2017 Smack Mellon - UPROOT, curated by Gabriel de Guzman, Brooklyn, NY
Westbeth Gallery - Strange Flowers, curated by Elisabeth Condon, New York, NY
Lower East Side Printshop - Allow Me to Interject, curated by David Rios Ferreira, NY
St. Joseph’s College Gallery - VOYAGER, curated by Meridith McNeal. Brooklyn, NY
HEREart - Unwritten Stories, curated by Constance Slaughter, New York, NY
Knockdown Center - Nasty Women, by Roxanne Jackson & Jessamyn Fiore, Queens, NY
2016 Drawing Rooms - Big Small Show, Jersey City, NJ
Royal Opera Arcade Gallery - Young Masters, London
2015 Corridor Gallery - Well Traveled, curated by Meridith McNeal, Brooklyn, NY
Figureworks - Making Music, Brooklyn, NY
Trestle Gallery - Small Works, curated by Heather Darcy Bhandari , Brooklyn, NY
Corridor Gallery and Scope Miami – Rush 20: 1995–2015, Exhibition & Print Portfolio, NY, Miami
John Jay College of Criminal Justice–Cautionary Tales, curated by Randall Harris & Anne Hoppe
Galería Artflow - VALOARTE XII, San José, Costa Rica
Tiger Strikes Asteroid, SATELLITE, +1+1, MADE and LABspace, Miami, FL
Dedalus Foundation-TWOFOLD: Artist-Teacher, Teacher-Artist, Brooklyn, NY (catalog)
Castle Gallery at The College of New Rochelle - Then and Now, curated by Alex Campos, NY
The Center for Book Arts - Then and Now, curated by Alex Campos, NY
Bronx Museum of the Arts – Bronx Speaks: Making Place, BxAA, curated by Sarah Corona
2014 Kenise Barnes Fine Art -The Best of 2014, Larchmont, NY
Kunsthalle Galapagos-(Un)Mediated, curated by David Rios Ferreira & Christine Walia, NY
DUMBO Arts Festival, Pleased to Meet Me on the Park Fence, Brooklyn, NY
Galería Artflow - VALOARTE XI, San José, Costa Rica
Ground Floor Gallery - The Girls Next Door, curated by Krista Saunders, Brooklyn, NY
Hunterdon Art Museum - Swept Away, Clinton, NJ
Taller Puertorriqueño - Iconography of Meaning, Philadelphia, PA (catalog)
The Center for Book Arts - Artist–in-Residence Exhibition, curated by Alex Campos. NY
2013 Lovey Town - The Joy of the Task, curated by Michael Velliquette, Madison WI
Cape Cod Museum of Art - Swept Away, curated by Michael Giaquinto, MA
Nevada Museum of Art - Voces y Visiones, Highlights from El Museo, Reno, Nevada
Rush Arts - Dimensions Variable - curated by Gabriel de Guzman, New York, NY
Mt Vernon Public Library - WORD curated by Meridith McNeal, Mt. Vernon, NY
2012 Art in Odd Places – AiOP : MODEL, Edwin Ramoran lead curator, New York, NY
Corridor Gallery - WORD, curated by Meridith McNeal, Brooklyn NY
Centro de Artes y Tecnología Antigua Aduana - VALOARTE X, San José, Costa Rica
Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Rolling in the Deep, Larchmont, NY
The Cynthia Corbett Gallery - Art at the Top, The Empire State Building, NY
Aljira Center for Contemporary Art - Me Love You Long Time, curated by Edwin Ramoran
Yace Gallery - Reenacting Sense, curated by Liz Y. Kwon, LIC, New York
2011 Curate NYC online exhibit, curated by Lowery Stokes Sims
Hudson Guild Gallery - FREESTYLE, curated by Rick Krieger and Jim Furlong, New York, NY
Wave Hill, The Bronx Museum - Bronx Calling: The First AIM Biennial, NY (catalog)
Longwood Art Gallery - Observed, Imagined and Re/created, curated by Juanita Lanzo, Bronx, NY
Kenise Barnes Fine Art - Baby It’s Cold Outside, Larchmonnt, NY
Storefront Gallery - New Year, New Work, New Faces, Brooklyn, New York, NY
2010 Nathan Cummings Foundation - Provisions, curated by Meridith McNeal, NY
The Cynthia Corbett Gallery - Young Masters Revisited, London, UK
ArtSolar - LUSH, curated by Trinidad Fombella, East Hampton, NY
ADC Contemporary Art Gallery - Beautiful Mess, Los Angeles, CA
Amy Simon Fine Art - Ready, Aim, Inspired, Westport, CT
Rockland Art Center - Fresh Paint, curated by Lynn Stein, West Nyack, NY
2009 The Cynthia Corbett Gallery - Young Masters, London, UK
Aljira Center for Contemporary Art - Emerge 10, curated by Sara Reisman, Newark, NJ
Cue Art Foundation - Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant Recipients, NY, NY (catalog)
Kenise Barnes Fine Art, We Are Each Other, Larchmont, NY
Sue Scott Gallery, Subverted Genres, curated by Gabriela Galati & Rebecca Mirsky, NY
2008 Marymount Manhattan College - Diversity and Dynamism, curated by Millie Burns, NY
BECA Gallery - Hybrids and Other Sorts, New Orleans, LA
Pulse Art Fair New York - Pause Reading Room, curated by Jeffrey Walkowiak, NY
Corridor Gallery - Crossing Cultures, curated by Meridith McNeal, Brooklyn, NY
Kenise Barnes Fine Art - I Am That, Larchmont, NY
The New School - Notes on the American Dream, curated by Silvia Rocciolo and Eric Stark, NY
2007 ARWI International Art Fair - Galeria Galou, San Juan, Puerto Rico
El Museo del Barrio -The (S) Files, curated by Elvis Fuentes & E. Carmen Ramos, NY (catalog)
Hillwood Art Museum - Free for All, curated by Millie Burns, LI, NY
Special Projects
Coloring Book - Vilcek Foundation “This is Who We Are: Color the Artists of Pen + Brush Gallery” download
Press & Publications
“Cecile Chong & Sophia Ma on Curating a Show with 45 AAPI Artists”, A4 The Amp, Aug 7, 2023
“Gathering at Tiger Strikes Asteroid and FiveMyles Galleries”, Artefuse, July 25, 2023
“Gathering with Asianish” Artspiel, July 5, 2023
“Steeped in Spilled Milk pt.2” The Brooklyn Rail, Dana Notine, June 1, 2022
NYFA.org/blog/lower-east-side-gallery-tour/- LORE: Cecile Chong at Kates-Ferri Projects, May 26, 2022
“Cecile Chong’s Lush Paintings Fuse Children’s Books with Her Chinese and Ecuadorian Heritage”, Artsy Spotlight, Ayanna Dozier, May 4, 2022
“Entanglement at BravinLee Programs”, Art Spiel, March 12, 2022
“The Brooklyn Rail - On the Spot with Cecile Chong”, December 4, 2021
“13 New Public Art Installations in NYC December 2021”, Irene Madrigal, December 3, 2021
“21 Artists to Watch in 2021: Part 1 of 2021’s Movers and Shakers”, ANTE mag, Jan 11, 2021 3
Caddisfly Project, Volume 2: Pressure - Whitney Ramage & Karen Y. Chan, January 2021
“17 Events for Your Holiday Art Calendar” #12, Artnet News, Cristina Cruz, Dec 21, 2020
Under the Bridge - Installation, Issue 3, Fall 2020
Artspiel.org/artists-on-coping-cecile-chong/ Artspiel.org Interview by Etty Yaniv, June 7, 2020
“Flowers Become an Unlikely Means to Discuss Identity and Politics”, HYPERALLERGIC, Ilana Novick, Sept 17
“Fighting Floral Stereotypes” Riverdale Press, Tiffany Moustakas, Aug 11, 2019
“What does it take it to create art that bridges divide?” opencitymag.aaww.org, Hannah Bae, June 6, 2019
“The Layers Beneath” ArtSpiel.org, Etty Yaniv, December 7, 2018
“Asia Contemporary Art Week- EFA Artists” OCULA Diary:#6, Bansie Vasvani, Nov 5, 2018
“Bronx Museum Announces the Block Gallery & Resident AIM Artists”, Broadwayworld, Oct 26, 2018
“Art in the parks program kicks off throughout the Borough”, Times Ledger, Julia Moro, June 8, 2018
“20 Public Art Shows to Get Excited About in NY This Fall” #17, Artnet News, Sarah Cascone, Sept 22, 2017
“El Dorado: A Celebration of Diversity through Sculpture” Untappedcities, Aug 30, 2017
“EL DORADO - The New Forty Niners” BKLYNER, Zainab Iqbal, Aug 15, 2017
“Bold and Beautiful”, Nieuw Art Blog: art on the Jersey Side, Bruce Halpin, May 14, 2017
“Poetics of the Found”, ProWax Journal. Deborah Winiarski, August Edition, 2016
“Art is Everywhere” New York Teacher, UFT, November 5, 2015
“Time Collision” at BRIC, catalog essay by David Ebony, May 2015
“Open Studios” US QiaoBao, China Press, Rubin Chen, October 31, 2014
“Caribbean:Together Apart” - Imago Mundi. Luciano Benetton Collection, text by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, Tony Bechara and Sasha Dees, 2014
“Extravagant Light” catalog essay for Swept Away. Joanne Mattera, 2013
“When Everyday is Exotic” Artist in Focus, 3dotswater.com. MichèleVicat, Sept. 2012
“Rolling in The Deep”, Huffingtonpost. D. Dominick Lombardi. July 2, 2012
“Rolling in the Deep at Kenise Barnes”, Sound & Town, May 11, 2012
“Mirror Mirror Off the Wall” New York Times.com:The Local, November 3, 2010
“Young Masters” Art of England, Issue 63. November 2009
“A Decade of Emergence” The New York Times, Benjamin Genocchio. August 28, 2009
“Cecile Chong in Crossing Cultures”, Singtao Daily, Mike Liu, March 17, 2008
“Obras latinas Made in USA” El Diario La Prensa. Lorenzo Morales. July 29, 2007
“Eat Art” Singtao Daily, Sophia Leung. Dec 5, 2005
“Pinturas de Cecile Chong” El Diario/La Prensa. Ricardo Leon Peña Villa. December 6, 2001
Selected Collections
El Museo del Barrio, Museum of Chinese in America, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Center for Book Arts, Citigroup Art Advisory Collection, Bryn Mawr Hospital, Patricia A. Bell Collection, Peggy Cooper Cafritz Collection, Joseph and Carmen Ana Unanue Collection, private collections internationally.
Curatorial Projects
2023 FiveMyles & Tiger Strikes Asteroid - GATHERING, co-curated with Sophia Ma, Brooklyn, NY
A two-venue exhibition including the work of 45 Asianish artists
2022 Tiger Strikes Asteroid - (Be)Longing, co-curated with Eva Mayhabal Davis, Brooklyn, NY
Artists: Jesus Benavente, Carlos Jiménez Cahua, Bonam Kim, Alva Mooses
2015 Dedalus Foundation - TWOFOLD: Artist-Teacher, Teacher-Artist, Brooklyn, NY (catalog)
Artists: Carolanna Parlato, Dennis RedMoon Darkeem, Ellen Izzo Coleman,
Jack Rivas, Jeremy Nadel, Jill Levine, Michael Kelly Williams, Reg Lewis
2014 Emerson Gallery - Ecuador Trifft Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Artists: Ati Egas, Karina Aguilera Skvirsky, Francisco Donoso, Gisela Insuaste, Nicky Enright, Ronny Quevedo, Mary A. Valverde
Artist Talks & Panels
2023 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, MFA, Studio and Beyond, guest speaker
New York Foundation for the Arts, 1-on-1 Consultation for Immigrant Artists, consultant (in Spanish and English)
Collar Works - Collar Greens, artists panel. Moderated by Emily Nola
Hewitt Gallery Marymount Manhattan College - Making Visible: Migration & Identity, artist panel
NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program: Visual and Multidisciplinary Arts, mentor
2022 NARS Foundation - Visiting artist
The Hispanic Society Museum & Library - NYSCA Grant, Seminars with Artists. Cecile Chong “Conversations in Blue-and-White”
The University of Texas at Austin - Virtual visiting artist
Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza - EL DORADO - The New Forty Niners, artist talk
Beyond Trees Seminar - Between Worlds: Exploring Nature, Immigration, and Art, presenter
Hunter College Leubsdorf Gallery - BFA Thesis Exhibition Walkthrough, visiting artist
Urban Field Station - Stewardship Salon with NYC UFS Artist Cecile Chong
St Joseph’s College - International Student Services - artist talk
Hispanic Society Museum & Library - Nuestra Casa, roundtable discussion with Madeleine Haddon
Urban Field Station Collaborative Arts Program - Review and selection committee
Adelphi University - Spring Semester Lecture Series, visiting artist
The Here and There Collective, virtual artist talk with Claire Kim
Latin American Studies Association-Asian Diasporas in Latin American Cultures and Media, roundtable discussion
NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program: Visual and Multidisciplinary Arts, mentor
2021 City College - CUNY, MFA Thesis Class, guest speaker
Joan Mitchell Center - virtual AIR Exchange
Queens Council on the Arts - New Work Grant: Visual Arts 3D, panelist
SUNY New Paltz - Art Education Graduate Program - virtual guest speaker
VOICE - In Creator Company: Cecile Chong, virtual studio visit
Ely Center of Contemporary Art - Embody, virtual artist talk
Jamaica Arts Center - Process —> Project, virtual artist talk
The Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art - Sculpture Walk
NYC Scholastics Art Awards - Mixed Media, panelist
2020 National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Arts Grant - panelist
Parsons the New School for Design - BFA Integrated Design Studio, virtual guest critic
ICFAC - Being Diaspora Artists in NYC, with Jairo Alfonso, moderated by Ananda DeMello, virtual artist talk
The Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art - virtual Sculpture Walk, moderated by Melissa West
School of Visual Arts - MFA Fine Arts Visiting Artist Series, virtual artist lecture and studio visits
Parsons School of Design, BFA Program, An Artist’s Journey, virtual artist talk
Visual Arts Center https://www.artcenternj.org/cabin-fever-artist-talk-cecile-chong/
The Royal - Remake/Remodel, virtual artist talk with curator Amelia Biewald
Neumeraki - Art Off-Screen, virtual artist talk with curator Eileen Jeng Lynch
Smack Mellon - 5 MAX, a two-part virtual program
EFA Studios IGLive - Studio visit with Michelle Loh
St Joseph’s College - Reflections, virtual artist talk, moderated by Meridith McNeal
Materials for the Arts - Contemporary Reuse, virtual opening and artist talk, moderated by John Kaiser
Smack Mellon Studio Program - Preliminary Panel
Bronx Council on the Arts - BRIO Grant, panelist
The City College of New York, MFA Fine Arts - visiting artist
Smack Mellon - _other Nature, artist talk with curator Gabriel de Guzman
NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program: Visual and Multidisciplinary Arts, mentor
2019 Parsons the New School for Design - BFA Integrated Design Studio, visiting critic
NYU Steinhardt School - BFA, guest critic
St. Joseph’s College - One Artist’s Journey, from Quito to the Silk Road, artist talk
Wave Hill - Ephemeral in Encaustic workshop, teaching artist
Dedalus Foundation - Lunar New Year Celebration Community Program, organizer
2018 Bodega Gallery - Itinerant Maladies by Sara Jimenez, artist panel, moderated by Oshun Layne
Lewis Latimer House Museum - EL DORADO - The New Forty Niners, artist talk
FiveMyles - In Between Daylight, artist discussion with Suzanne Schneider
2017 Brooklyn Arts Council - Brooklyn Arts Fund, Visual Arts panelist
Dedalus Foundation - EL GRITO, Calling All Forty-Niners, artist talk and organizer
Westbeth Gallery - Strange Flowers, artist talk, moderated by Elisabeth Condon
Lower East Side Printshop - Keyholder residency, panelist
Old Stone House - Blue Plate Stories, teaching artist
Pratt Institute - BFA, visiting artist
St. Joseph’s College Gallery - VOYAGER, artist talk
Drawing Rooms - Bold & Beautiful, artist talk
Old Stone House - Atlas:DIY Community Open Mic - artist talk
Wave Hill - Winter Workspace Workshop - Narratives in Encaustic, teaching artist
NYC Scholastics Art Awards - Parsons School of Design, panelist
2016 Museum of Chinese in America - Mapping Resources for Immigrant Artists, artist panel
The New School - Careers in the Arts Fair (CAF), ArtFuturesNYC, panelist
New Museum - First Saturday Family Workshops, teaching artist
Smack Mellon - Art Ready, Artist Mentorship Program, mentor
2015 Dedalus Foundation and NYCMER - The Artist as Educator, moderated by Jack Flam
The Center for Book Arts - Then and Now, roundtable discussion, moderated by Alex Campos
The Stoop at BRIC - Time Collision, artist talk with Bill Carroll
Center for Book Arts - Artist-in-Residence Workspace Grant, panelist
2014 Socrates Sculpture Park - Summer Outdoor Artmaking Workshop, teaching artist
The Center for Book Arts - Artist-in-Residence, artist talk
Taller Puertorriqueño - artist panel, moderated by Shelley Langdale
Honey Ramka - panel discussion, moderated by Jesse Patrick Martin
2013 Socrates Sculpture Park - Summer Outdoor Artmaking Workshop, teaching artist
Rush Arts Gallery - Dimensions Variable, artist talk, moderated by Gabriel de Guzman
Nevada Museum of Art - artist talk and roundtable discussion
Bronx Council on the Arts - BRIO Grant, panelist
2012 Socrates Sculpture Park - Saturday Sculpture Workshop, teaching artist
2011 St. Joseph College Gallery - Back & Forth, artist talk
Socrates Sculpture Park - EAF artists panel, moderated by Alyson Baker
Wave Hill - Bronx Calling: The First AIM Biennial, artist talk, moderated by Gabriel de Guzman
2010 Corridor Gallery - Mirror Mirror off the Wall, Q & A with Nina Ziefvert and Edwin Ramoran
ArtSPACE - Unspoken Word, artist talk
2009 Brooklyn Central Library - reIMAGination, artist talk
2008 Marymount Manhattan College - Diversity and Dynamism, artist lecture
Asian American Arts Centre - ArtSlam, artist talk
Corridor Gallery - Crossing Culture artists panel, moderated by Danny Simmons
2007 El Museo - Voces: ECUAYORKS artists panel, moderated by María del Carmen Carrión
Bank Street College and Parsons - Leadership in the Arts Program, artist talk
Parsons the New School for Design, Summer Intensive Studio Program, artist talk
2005 Rush Foundation - Rush Kids and Teens, teaching artist
2003 MoCA/Museum of Chinese in the Americas - Lantern Festival, teaching artist
Mexican Cultural Institute Octavio Paz Gallery - Culture Encounters, artist talk
2002 Brooklyn Museum of Art - American Identities Family Day, teaching artist
Affiliations
Member - CAA Services to Artists Committee (2022 - 2023)
Current affiliations
Co-director - Tiger Strikes Asteroid NY
Board member - ART YARD BKLYN
Board member - Smack Mellon
Member - Hudson Yards Hell Kitchen Art Advisory Committee