Colette Fu • [email protected] • 917-622-5047 • www.colettefu.com
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 The Rosenbach, TBA, Philadelphia, PA 2019 Taubman Museum, We are Tiger Dragon People, Roanoke, VA Phillips Museum of Art at Franklin and Marshall College, We are Tiger Dragon People, Lancaster, PA 2018 Pyramid Atlantic, Colette Fu Pop-up Books, Hyattsville, MD Lane Community College, Colette Fu Pop-up Books, Eugene, OR 2017 Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Tao Hua Yuan Ji: Utopia, Source of the Peach Blossoms, Philadelphia, PA 2017 CFEVA Bebe Benoliel Gallery, For Our Ancestors, Philadelphia, PA National Museum of Women in the Arts, Wonderer/Wanderer: The Pop-ups of Colette Fu, Washington DC 2015 Georgetown University, Land of Deities, Washington DC 2013 Jaffe Center for Book Arts, Photo Binge, Boca Raton, FL Towson University Asian Arts Gallery, We are Tiger Dragon People, Towson, MD 2012 Philadelphia Airport, Terminal D, We are Tiger Dragon People University City Arts League, Photo Binge, Philadelphia, PA 2011 Philadelphia Athenaeum, Haunted Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 2009 University City Arts League, Colette Fu, Philadelphia, PA 2006 Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Haunted Philadelphia, Provincetown, MA 2004 University of Virginia Art Gallery, Photo Binge, Charlottesville, VA 2003 Artisan Works, Photo Binge, Rochester, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 Tracing Origins, Rowan University Art Gallery, Glassboro, NJ (3 person) Ten, Paradigm Gallery and Studio, Philadelphia, PA Containing the Muse: Artist Books as Expression and Form, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA The Illustrated Accordion, Kalamazoo Book Arts Center, Kalamazoo, MI 2019 Spirit of Being, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY Politics of Place, Center for Book Arts, NYC Paper, Paradigm Gallery and Studio, Philadelphia, PA 2018 Overlapping Circles, Green Olive Arts, Tétouan, Morocco (3 person) Summer Reading, Woskob Family Gallery, Penn State, State College, PA Asian American Heritage Month Exhibition, City Hall, Philadelphia, PA 2017 Under the Knife, Hicks Art Gallery, Bucks County Community College Newton, PA Structure Unbound: Interdisciplinary Book Art, Wright State University, Dayton, OH Third Space /Shifting Conversations about Contemporary Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL Loving Blackness, Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA A Message to our Daughters, Philadelphia City Hall
2016 I found god in myself: the 40th anniversary of Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls, African American Museum, Philadelphia, PA Shakerag Faculty Exhibit, St. Andrews Sewanee School, Sewanee, TN 2015 The Way They See It, The Episcopal Academy Gallery, Newtown Square, PA The New Textiles Transformed, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA Featured Artist Project, New York Center for Book Arts, NYC Embraced, the International Community, New York Center for Book Arts, NYC Fine Arts Work Center Faculty Show, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA Inaugural Exhibit of Pennsylvania Arts, The State Museum of PA, Harrisburg, PA 2014 Diamond Leaves, Printing in Progress, Museum of Printing History, Houston, TX Asian Arts Initiative 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA Shanghai International Pop-up Book Fair, Shanghai, China Ningxia International Pop-up Book Fair, Ningxia, China Fulbright Alumni Photography Exhibit, Ronald Reagan Building, Washington DC Traces, Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China 2013 Bibliophiladelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA BRIC Arts Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Paper Architecture, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA 2012 Visual Artists Network Residency Exhibition, Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA West Collects, City Hall Philadelphia, PA Pulp to Pixels: Artists Books in the Digital Age, Hampshire College Art Gallery, Amherst, MA Weird World, Booklyn Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Artists and Books, Perkins Center for the Arts, Collingswood, NJ (3 person) Diamond Leaves, China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China Without Walls, Esther Klein Gallery, Works from Mural Lab/Breadboard Residency, Philadelphia, PA Found in Translation, Millersville University, Sykes Gallery's, Millersville, PA. 2011 Pop-up Homelife, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE The Photograph Unframed, Center for Book Arts, NYC Art is Ageless, New Courtland Education Center, Philadelphia, PA 2010 The Book: A Contemporary View, Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE Pop Up Now and Handmade Paper in Motion, 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR I will cut thrU: Pochoirs, Carvings, and Other Cuttings, Center for Book Arts, NYC Between the Covers, University of the Arts, Philadelphia On the Rise, The Gallery at City Hall Inaugural Exhibit, Philadelphia, PA Currency, City Hall, Philadelphia, PA In Depth: Printmaking and Photography, Mainline Art Center, Philadelphia, PA 2009 In Your Dreams, Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA 2008 30 Finalists Exhibition, Sovereign Asian Art Prize, Landmark Atrium, Hong Kong 2007 Now Ap-piering, Atlantic Art Center, Best in Show, Philadelphia Sculpture Society Challenge Award Exhibition, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA 2005 A Case for Art, Highwire Gallery/Philadelphia City Hall, Philadelphia Sculpture Society Making it Big, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE 2004 8th International Open, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago
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Painting with Pixels, Beecher Center for Art and Technology, Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, Ohio New Works, En Foco Exhibition, Skylight Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Painting with Pixels, Museum of Computer Art at Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, NYC 2003 Photo Binge, Artisan Works, MFA Thesis Show, Rochester, NY
EDUCATION
2003 Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY Master of Fine Arts, Fine Art Photography 1999 Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA Bachelor of Science, Photographic Studies 1995 Yunnan Nationalities University, Kunming, Yunnan, China Certificate, Chinese Language and Ethnic Minority Studies 1992 University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA Bachelor of Arts, French Language and Literature
AWARDS
2020 Joan Mitchell Painters & Sculptors Grant Red Bull Arts Microgrant Minnesota Center for the Book Arts Prize Semi-Finalist 2018 Independence Foundation Artist Fellowship Leeway Foundation Window of Opportunity Grant Meggendorfer Prize for Artist Books 2017 Brandywine Workshop and Archives Professional Development Grant Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Project Stream Fund 2015 CFEVA (Center for Emerging Visual Arts) Fellowship Puffin Foundation, Artist’s Grant 2014 Leeway Transformation Award 2013 Vermont Studio Center Full Fellowship 2012 West Collects Canadian Council for the Arts Visiting Foreign Artist Grant 2011 Mural Arts Porchlight Initiative Selected Artist 2010 Independence Foundation Artist Fellowship Puffin Foundation Artist Grant NewCourtland Community Artist Fellowship Smack Mellon Hot Picks 2009 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Project Stream Fund 2008 Sovereign Foundation Asian Art Prize, Finalist Fulbright Scholarship to China 2006 Virginia Commission for the Arts, Artist Fellowship 2005 Beyond the Great Wall, Most Intriguing People Prize, Rose Group for Cross-Cultural Understanding 2004 Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Artist's Grant Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Artist Fellowship 3
Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester, Special Opportunity Stipend En Foco "New Works," Emerging Photographer's Award 2003 Nikon.net "Publish Your Passion," Grand Prize Winner in Portraiture Puffin Foundation, Artist's Grant 2002 Society for Photographic Education Achievement Scholarship 1999 Outstanding Student Achievement Award, Virginia Commonwealth University 1998 Virginia Western Community College Grant for assistance in China education exchange
RESIDENCIES
2021 Womens Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY 2018 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY Green Olive Arts, Tétouan, Morocco 2017 The MacDowell Colony, Petersburg, NH Avenues: The World School, NYC 2016 Vicenza Middle School, Vicenza, Italy 2015 RECSIM, Jashipur, India 2014 Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China 2013 Asian Arts Initiative Social Practice Lab, Philadelphia, PA Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, Saratoga, WY The Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred University, Alfred, NY Vermont Studio Center Full Fellowship, Johnson, NY Towson University, Center for Diversity, Towson, MD 2012 Visual Artist Network Exhibition Residency, Philadelphia, PA Frans Masereel Centre, Kasterlee, Belgium Albert Einstein Academy, Wilmington, DE 2011 Mural Lab and Breadboard Technology and Art, Philadelphia, PA Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE 2010 Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Intergenerational Residency 2007 Sacatar Foundation, Itaparica, Brazil 2006 Robert M. MacNamara Foundation, Westport Island, ME 2005 Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA 2004 Kimmel Harding Arts Center, Nebraska City, NE Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY The Millay Colony, Robert W. Simpson Fellow, Austerlitz, NY Alden B. Dow Center for Creativity, Midland, MI
PUBLIC ART
2019 Free Library's Parkway Central Branch Percent for Art Commission, Philadelphia, PA 2015 Francis House of Peace, Affordable Housing Site with Meg Saligman Studios, Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation and Project Home, Philadelphia, PA 2004 Metro Art, Los Angeles Transportation Systems Lightbox Project, Los Angeles, CA
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PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts Bainbridge Island Museum of Art Baylor University Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Birmingham Museum of Art Bowdoin College Bucknell College Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts Emory University Florida State University Franklin and Marshall College University of Central Florida Frans Masereel Centrum George Washington University Harvard University Indiana University Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts Lafayette College Library of Congress Metropolitan Museum of Art Middlebury College National Museum of Women in the Arts New England Biolabs Penn State College Occidental College Ohio University Philadelphia Athenaeum Phillips Museum Phoenix Public Library Quimper Library Rhode Island School of Design Rochester Institute of Technology Sacatar Foundation Scripps College Sovereign Art Foundation Swarthmore College Swatch Art Taubman Museum Temple University University of California, San Diego University of Colorado University of Central Florida University of Connecticut University of Miami 5
University of Michigan University of Richmond Virginia Commonwealth University Virginia Commonwealth University, Qatar Visual Studies Workshop West Collection Yale University Art Gallery
CLIENTS
Bearded Ladies Cabaret Canon Asia Chabaa Thai Bistro Community High School of Arts and Academics Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts Dennis Lane Photography Disaster Research Center Duck Studios for Children's Medical Center of Texas Ellen Weldon Design Greenpeace Long Dock Beacon LVMH- Moët Hennessy-Louis Vuitton M ss ng Pieces for General Electric Swatch Art Urban Botanical Vogue China
VISITING ARTIST/LECTURER
Adelphi University, Garden City, NY Atelier Graff, Montréal, Québec, CA Avenues: the World School, NYC Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA Bowdoin College, Brunswick ME California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA College of Creative Studies, Detroit, MI College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ Concordia University, Montréal, CA Corcoran School of the Arts and Design/George Washington University, Washington DC ConVal Regional High School, Peterborough, NH Georgetown University, Washington DC Film Forum Zadar, Zadar, Croatia Hampshire College, Amherst, MA Hussian School of Art, Philadelphia, PA Ikebana Society, Philadelphia, PA Lane Community College, Eugene, OR 6
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library, NYC Movable Book Society, Kansas City, MO/Portland, OR/Philadelphia, PA National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC Penn State, State College, PA Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia Free Library, Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA Philly Art Center, Philadelphia, PA Sidwell Friend's School, Washington DC Swarthmore Elementary, Swarthmore, PA Taubman Museum, Roanoke, VA Towson University, Towson, MD Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA University of Michigan School of Art and Design, Ann Arbor, MI University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME Winzavod, Moscow, Russia
WORKSHOPS
3rd Ward, Brooklyn, NY A2Manos, Guadalajara, Mexico Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN Art New England/MassArt, Bennington, Vermont Arty Projects Studio, Santa Fe, NM Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA Atelier Graff, Montreal, Quebec Athenaeum of Philadelphia Atlantic City Public Library, NJ California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA Center for Book Arts, NYC CFEVA, Philadelphia, PA Cheltenham Nursing Home, Philadelphia, PA Chinatown Learning Center, Philadelphia, PA College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ College of Physicians, Philadelphia, PA Colorbox Arts Center, Shanghai ConVal Regional High School, Peterborough, NH Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE Delaware Institute for Arts in Education, Wilmington, DE Department of Making and Doing, Philadelphia, PA Fairmount Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA Film Forum Zadar, Zadar, Croatia Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA 7
Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA Hampshire College, Amherst, MA Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME Ikebana International, Philadelphia, PA Jaffe Center for Book Arts, Boca Raton, FL Lane Community College, Eugene, OR Leeway Foundation, Philadelphia, PA Mainline Art Center, Haverford, PA Marc Adams School of Woodworking, Franklin, IN Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD Mills College, Oakland, CA Misericordia University, Dallas, PA Movable Book Society, Kansas City, MO Mural Arts Program, Philadelphia, PA National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC On Lok Senior Center, Philadelphia, PA Oxbow School of Art, Saugatuck, MI Paper Book Intensive, Saugatuck, MI Penland School of Craft, Penland, NC Penn State, State College, PA Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia Center for the Book, Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA Phillips Museum at Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA Philly Art Center, Philadelphia, PA Project Home, Philadelphia, PA Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, MA Puget Sound Book Artists, Tacoma, WA Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Silver Springs, MD SEI Investments, Oaks, PA Shakerag Workshops, Sewanee, TN Shanghai Literary Festival Sidwell Friends School, Washington DC Snowfarm, Williamsburg, MA Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation, Philadelphia, PA Sunday Rescue Breakfast Mission, Philadelphia, PA Taubman Museum, Roanoke, VA Towson University, Towson, MD University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Village of Arts and Humanities, Philadelphia, PA Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY 8