MalPina Chan
ARTIST STATEMENT:
My work is a continuing investigation of the transitory nature of the human condition, our connection to the natural world and to each other. I am drawn to the exploration of combining story telling and the
evocative medium of glass. This series “CIRCUMSTANCES” examines a dialogue between internal and external conditions.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2011 “40th Anniversary” Group Exhibition, Childhood’s End Gallery, Olympia, WA
NSEW Group Exhibition, University House Wallingford, Seattle, WA
Puget Sound Book Artists First Annual Members Exhibition, Collins Memorial Library,
University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
“Blossom: Develop - Mature - Thrive” – Group Exhibition, NW Craft Center Gallery, Seattle, WA
2010 “The Book as Art: Hand2Hand”, Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Divergent Paths” Group Exhibition, Childhood’s End Gallery, Olympia, WA
“American/Asian: A Tale of New Cultures” – Group Exhibition, Seattle City Hall, Seattle, WA
“FAREWELL” Group Exhibition: Curator: Byron AuYong , Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, WA
2009 “The Picture of Health” – Works from the Harborview Collection – Curator: Peggy Weiss,
Seattle City Hall, Seattle, WA
“American/Asian: A Tale of New Cultures” – Group Exhibition, Artxchange Gallery,
Seattle, WA
“Summer Shorts” Group Exhibition – Patricia Cameron Gallery, Seattle, WA
City of Kent Summer Art Exhibition – Group Exhibition, Centennial Center Gallery,
Kent City Hall Campus, Kent, WA
2008 “The Book as Art: Beyond Words”, Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Maternal Legends” – Juror: Cara List, 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR
Asian Pacific American Heritage Exhibit – Nordstrom, Seattle, WA, San Francisco, CA,
Portland, OR, Irvine, CA, Chicago, IL, Honolulu, HA
“HEROES” Group Show, the LUMP Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina
3rd Annual Regional Juried Art Exhibition – Juror: Rock Hushka – Tacoma Art Museum,
The Kenneth Minnaert Center for the Arts, South Puget Sound Community
College, Olympia, WA
2007 “The Space Between” Three Person Show – Patricia Cameron Gallery, Seattle, WA
“HER MARK 2008” Exhibit, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
“IMPRIMO” – Juror: James Elaine, Hammer Museum of Los Angeles, Gallery 110,
Seattle, WA
2006 Women Beyond Borders – “Art Expressing Life” Curator: Elaine Tajima, World Trade
Center, Seattle, WA
1st Annual Regional Juried Exhibition – Jurors: Lynn Di Nino, Jim Haseltine, & Beverly
Watt, The Kenneth Minnaert Center for the Arts, South Puget Sound
Community College, Olympia, WA
Seattle Print Arts @CoCA – Curator: Deborah Paine, Center of Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
Two Person Show – Blue Heron Gallery, Vashon Island, WA
Fall Artswalk – Group Show– Art House, Olympia, WA
2005 “Day of the Dead: Celebrating Our Ancestors”, Juror: Juan Alonso, Phinney Arts Center,
Seattle, WA
7th Annual Art Pt. Townsend, “Expressions Northwest” Juror: Esther Luttikhuizen,
Pt. Townsend, WA
Solo Exhibition – Gallery One Visual Arts Center, Ellensburg, WA
3rd Annual Juried Exhibition, The Gallery – Tacoma Community College, Tacoma, WA
“Beyond Talk: Redrawing Race”, Phinney Center Art Gallery, Seattle, WA Artswalk – Group Exhibition, Side Door Gallery, Olympia, WA
“Beyond Talk: Redrawing Race”, South Seattle Community College, Seattle, WA
2004 7th International Exhibition – Juror: Claudia DeMonte, Woman Made Gallery,
Chicago, IL
“Beyond Talk: Redrawing Race” Group Show, The Wing Luke Asian Museum, Seattle, WA
“Culture Expressed in Art” Group Show, Glenn & Viola Walters Cultural Arts Center, Hillsboro, OR Four Artist Exhibition, Childhood’s End Gallery, Olympia, WA
2004 Artswalk – The Evergreen State College Arts Faculty, Childhood’s End Gallery, Olympia, WA
2003 Solo Exhibition, M. Rosetta Hunter Gallery, Seattle Central Community College,Seattle, WA
Two Artist Exhibition, Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center Gallery, Portland, OR
Solo Exhibition, Artswest – The Runnings Gallery, Seattle WA
Focalization” Group Show, Washington Center for the Performing Arts, Olympia, WA
“1 + 1” Faculty Art Show, Gallery II, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
Solo Exhibition, Batdorfs & Bronson, Olympia, WA
2002 “Joyful Places” Group Show, Henderson House Museum, Olympia, WA“BMS Invitational”, Des Moines, IA
September Symposium Group Show – Tacoma Campus, The Evergreen State College,
Tacoma, WA
“Personal Journey” Group Show, Artswalk – Washington Center for the Performing Arts, Olympia, WA
2001 “Disparate Measures” Group Show, Olympia World News, Olympia, WA
“Retro: Active” Group Show – Gallery IV, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
“Flora & Fauna” Artswalk – Wildside Nature Co., Olympia, WA
“Gathering Medicine” Coast to Coast - National Women Artists of Color, Art in General, New York, NY
“Boxworks” Coast to Coast – National Women Artists of Color, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
“Boxworks” Coast to Coast – National Women Artists of Color, Art in General, NY, NY
“Exhibition: Photography”, The Evergreen State College, Olympia
“Photography ‘82”, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA
Harborview Medical Center – Portable Works Collection, Seattle, WA
King County Courthouse – Portable Works Collection – 4CULTURE City of Seattle, King County, WA
Works on Paper – Portable Works Collection – 4CULTURE City of Seattle, King County, WA
Portable Works Collection – Regional Arts & Culture Council, City of Portland, Multnomah County, OR
Women Beyond Borders – Los Angeles, CA
Rare Books Collection – The Evergreen State College Library, Olympia, WA
BOOKS
1000 Artists Books – Quarry Press – Release date June 2012
COMMISSIONS
41 Kiln-formed Glass Centerpieces for ACRS Annual Benefit Gala, Asian Counseling & Referral Services,
Seattle, WA
INDEPENDENT CURATING
2011 Puget Sound Book Artists First Annual Members Exhibition, Co-curator: Lucia Harrison,
Collins Memorial Library, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
2010 The Book as Art: Hand2Hand, Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, WA
2008 The Book as Art: Beyond Words, Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, WA
SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Mimi Gates & Bill Gates Sr. Virginia Anderson Molly & Rick Reed
Beth Takekawa & Tony Ho Michael B. Macri Bill Carr
SELECTED AWARDS & HONORS
Art Selection Panelist – 2010 Seattle Civic Square Fencing Project, Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, Seattle, WA
Art in Public Places – Public Artist Roster – 2004 to present, Washington State Arts Commission
Artist Trust Ambassador: South Puget Sound Region 2008-2010
EDGE Professional Development Program for Visual Artists, Artist Trust, Seattle, WA 2005
Juror’s Choice Award – 3rd Annual Juried Exhibition 2005– Tacoma Community College, Tacoma, WA
Juror – 2003 Student Invitational Exhibition, Seattle Central Community College, Seattle, WA
LECTURES & WORKSHOPS
2012 – Guest Speaker – Woman Painters of Washington, Seattle, WA
2012 – Guest Speaker – Exclusion In America: Who Belongs? – Liza Rognas Faculty, Evergreen State
College, Olympia, WA
2009 – Artist Lecture & Workshop – SOS Visual Arts – Susan Aurand Faculty, Evergreen State
College, Olympia, WA
2008 – Guest Speaker – Nordstrom Presents Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, Nordstrom
Flagship Store, Seattle, WA
– Guest Speaker – Made for Contemplation - Joe Feddersen Faculty, Evergreen State College,
Olympia, WA
– Workshop & Presentation – Nature, Image and Object - Lucia Harrison Faculty, Evergreen
State College, Olympia, WA
2007 – Guest Speaker – Seattle Asian Art Museum – Creatively Speaking Series: “At the Crossroads:
Chinese-American Artists in the Pacific Northwest”
EDUCATION
B. A. Fine Arts, Earlham College, Richmond, IN 1969
Encaustic Workshop – Nichole DeMent, Seattle, WA 2011
Monoprint Workshop – Debbi Greenwood & LeeAnn Perry, Tacoma, WA 2011
Image Transfer on Glass Workshop – Carrie Iverson, Portland, OR 2010
Encaustic Workshop – Pratt Art Center, Seattle, WA 2010
EDGE Professional Development Program for Visual Artists, Artist Trust, Seattle, WA 2005
Low Tech Printmaking Workshop – Barbara Robertson, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA 2005
Printmaking & Mix-media – Joe Feddersen, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA 2000-01
Advance Photography, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA 1980-84
Painting and Sculpture, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 1964
Painting and Drawing, California State University, San Jose, CA 1962-64
TEACHING
Previous – Adjunct Faculty (The Portfolio for the Visual Artist), The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
– Contract Sponsor for Independent Studies & Internships, The Evergreen State College, WA
– Adjunct Faculty (Art History, Beginning & Advance Drawing, the Printing Process, Basic
Design), Centralia College, Centralia, WA
– Washington State Capitol Museum–Coach House Art Classes for Adults (Mix-media Painting,
Basic Drawing), Olympia, WA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Puget Sound Book Artists First Annual Members Exhibition Catalog 2011, Tacoma, WA
- Artwork published with article -“Seattle Center Kicks Out NW Craft Center After 48 Years” by Jen Graves,
The Stranger -Visual Arts, Seattle, WA 2011
- Maternal Legends Exhibition Catalog – 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR 2010
- Review of The Book as Art: Hand2Hand exhibition - “The Unexpected Art of the Book” South Seattle Beacon,
Seattle, WA 2010
- HER MARK 2008 Calendar, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
- Artwork published on Regional Arts & Culture Council website for “Call to Artist – Portable Works
Collection 2005”, Portland, OR
- Review by Regina Hackett, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Art Review, June 4, 2004
- Artwork published in Regional Arts & Culture Council, Annual Report 2004, Portland, Oregon
- Review by D. K. Row, The Oregonian – Art & Entertainment Section, May 9, 2003
- Artwork published in Annual Brochure 2003, Artswest, Seattle, WA
DONATION BY INVITATION
Wing Luke Asian Museum Annual Auction 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
Allied Arts of Vashon Island – Blue Heron Gallery Annual Art Auction 2006, 2007
Artist Trust Annual Art Auction 2006, 2008
PONCHO Annual Fine Art Auction 2007, 2008
