Christy Chan

Christy Chan creates installations, films and public art projects that question the everyday power structures upholding white supremacy in the United States. She was a 2022 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship Award in Fine Art and the founder of Dear America, a grass roots, guerrilla public art project that projected art works of Asian American artists onto high-rise buildings in urban areas, in response to an epidemic of anti-Asian violence. Chan’s work has been featured in solo presentations in Mills Art Museum and Southern Exposure (San Francisco Bay Area); Wassaic Project and NY Council of the Arts (New York); Film Independent (Los Angeles); and the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (Salt Lake City), among others. She has been awarded residencies and support from Bemis Center of Contemporary Arts, Montalvo Arts Center, Santa Fe Art Institute, Headlands Center for the Arts, SFFILM, the California Arts Council and other cultural institutions. She lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.