Biography
LYDIA FONG
1966 Born in San Francisco
1991 B.F.A. Painting & Printmaking, San Francisco Art Institute
AWARDS
1996 -SECA Art Award San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1994 -The Creative Work Fund, Walter and Elise Haas Fund
1993 -Lila Wallace, Readers Digest International Artist Program
-Eureka Fellowship, Fleishaker Foundation
1991 -Merit Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute
1990 -Carson Paper Award!Merit Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute
1989 -Sobel Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute
TEACHING
1996 -Young Mission Power, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco
1995 -Muni Key Stop Program, San Francisco Art Commission Wall Installation, 1035
-Howars St., Creative Work Fund, San Francisco
1994 -509 Cultural Center/San Francisco Redevelopment Agency
1992 -California Conservation Corps, Franklin Park
-Mural Life on the Water/School of the Arts, Installation, San
-Francisco!McClymonds High School, Artist Resident Program, Oakland, CA
-Mural, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco!S.F. Art Commission, Art
-In Transit Program, San Francisco
1991 -McClymonds High School, Visiting Artist Program, Oakland, CA
SOLO EXHIBTIONS
2009 -Mr Brown, Bonomo Gallery, Rome, Italy
2008 -They Don’t Make This Anymore, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, New Castle, UK
-A Moment for Reflection – New Work by Lydia Fong,
Ratio 3, San Francisco
2007 -Advanced Mature Work, Redcat, Los Angeles
-Butler Gallery, The Castle, Kilkenny Ireland
-Barry McGee, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Japan
2006 -We have a friend in common, Nicolai Wallner gallery, Copenhagen!
-The art of Robert Pimple, Paule Anglim gallery, San Francisco
2005 -Easy Tonto, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
-One More Thing, Deitch Projects, New York
-Metropolitan Meat Market, John Kaldor Art Projects, Melbourne, Australia
-‘Things Are Really Getting Better’, Museum Het Domein Sittard, The Netherlands
2004 -Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Boston
-Prada Foundation, Milan, Italy
-Modern Art, London!, UK
-Paule Anglim, San Francisco
2000 -UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
1999 -Hoss, Rice Universtiy Art Gallery, Houston
-The Buddy System, Deitch Projects, New York
1998 -Regards, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
1995 -Installation, Art & Design Studio/ K&T Lionheart LTD, Boston
1994 -Installation, Center for the Arts Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco
1993 -Installation, Museum Laser Segall, Sao Paulo, Brazil
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 -The Last Night, Lydia Fong & Huskmitnavn, Alice Gallery, Brussels
-The 75th Anniversary Show, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
2009 -Mind The Gap, Barry, McGee & Phil Frost, Prism Gallery, Los Angeles
-Born in the Streets, Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris
-American Realities, Lydia Fong, Clare Rojas & Andrew Jeffrey Wright, New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles
-McGee, Templeton, Pettibon, curated by Aaron Rose, CC: Circle Culture Gallery, Berlin
2008 -Life on Mars, Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
-The Big Sad: Barry McGee & Clare Rojas, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
-Dripsy
Galerie Olivier Robert, Paris
-Len Lye : A Colour Box
, Arcade Fine Arts, London
2007 -American Art in China, organized by the Guggenheim Museum, MoCA
-Shanghai, Shanghai, China
-Alpha, Ratio 3, San Francisco
-EUPHORION, Pierogi Gallery, Leipzig
-Kinky Sex Makes the World Go Round, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery,
Los Angeles
2006 -Spank the monkey, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
-Group show, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
-Meditations In An Emergency, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit,
Michigan
2005 -On Line, The Louisiana Museum, Denmark
2004 -Monument to Now, The Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens
-Beautiful Losers, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinatti
2002 -Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool, UK
-Drawing Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2001 -Holdfast, Barry McGee & Margaret Kilgallen, Deste Foundation Centre for
-Contemporary Art, Athens,
-Un Art Populaire, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris
-Widely Unknown, Deitch Projects, New York
-Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2000 -Street Market, Parco Gallery, Tokyo
-Street Market, Deitch Projects, New York
-Indelible Market, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
1998 -Art From Around the Bay, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San
Francisco
1997 -Drawing Installation, Galerie Tanya Rumpff-Harlem, Netherlands
-Drawing Today, San Francisco Museum of Art! , San Francisco
-John Bergruen Gallery, San Francisco
1996 -SECA Art Award, Installation, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
-WAVEFORMS, Installation, Santa Cruz
-Figureheads & Red Herrings, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles
-Acme Custom, Acme Gallery, San Francisco
-Wall Drawings, The Drawing Center, New York
-Folk, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
1995 -Degenerate Art, The Lab, San Francisco
-Post No Bills, Acme Gallery, Wall Installation, San Francisco
-Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland
-Missed Connections, Market Street Installation, Luggage Store/509 Cultural
-Center Annex, San Francisco
-Installation, Street Art Exhibition, Los Angeles
-The Library, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
-Big Jesus Trash Can, Victoria Room, San Francisco
1993 -Twelve Bay Area Painters: The Eureka Fellowship Winners,
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose
-Texture of Nature, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley
-Folklore, Luggage Store/509 Cultural Center, San Francisco
-Installation, La Raza Graphics Center, San Francisco
1992 -U.C. Santa Cruz, Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, Santa Cruz
1991 -Wet Paint, Southern Exposure, San Francisco
-3/Play, Southern Exposure, San Francisco
-Installation, Diego Rivera Galley, San Francisco
-Wall of Resistance, Wall of Shame, UC Berkeley, Berkeley
-Art Against the War. A.T.A. Gallery, San Francisco
-Multicultural Show, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco
BOOKS AND CATALOGUES
2008 Glasner, Barbara, Patterns 2. Design, Art and Architecture. pp. 208-209
2005 The Louisana Museum, Denmark
Things are Really Getting Better, Museum Het Domein Sittard
2004 Platow, Raphaela, Barry McGee, The Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University.
2002 Celant, Germano, Barry McGee, Fondazione Prada.!
2000 Street Market, Tokyo: Little More Publishers!
Baker, Alex. Indelible Market. Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art
1999 Buddy System, New York: Deitch Projects
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