Born in Seoul, Korea

1965
Resides and works in New York City

Honors and Awards

2006
The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts

2004
New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Artist Fellowship

2003
Lower East Side Printshop, Special Editions Fellowship
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow

Academic Appointments

2010
Prespes, Greece “Visual March Project”

2005
Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Colorado

2003
Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Colorado

Group Exhibitions

2020
Back & Forth: Celebrating Women and our 15th! Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX

2019
Summertime Blues: Collages, Drawings, Paintings, Photography, Sculpture, and Prints, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX

2016
Drawing Conclusions, Danese/Corey Gallery, New York, NY

2012
Cool Calm Collected, Danese Gallery, New York, NY

2011
Jam Session, Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY
Drawing Beyond: An Exhibition of Contemporary Drawing, Arts Council of Princeton, Princeton, NJ
Works on Paper, Danese Gallery, New York, NY
Face & Facts: Korean Contemporary Art in New York, 30th Anniversary of Korean Cultural Services in New York City

2010
Back and Forth, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX

2009
College of Saint Rose Art Gallery, Albany, NY
Midnight Full of Stars, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ

2008
ARAC @ AAM: Anderson Ranch at Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
Midnight Full of Stars, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ

2007
What is a Line? Drawings from the Collection, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

2006
Gray to Black, Danese Gallery, New York, NY
Drawing Exhibition, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
Master Drawings from the Goldyne Collection, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA
Conversations, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL (curated by Sharon Louden)
Contemporary Abstraction, Bristol-Myers Squibb Art Gallery, Princeton, NJ

2005
Repeat Performance, Anthony Grant Gallery, New York, NY
Works on Paper, Danese Gallery, New York, NY

2004
Summer Show, Danese Gallery, New York, NY
Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions, Kerrigan Campbell, New York, NY
Paper and Process, Art Projects International, New York, NY
Green Light, Korean Cultural Center, New York, NY
Linear Geography, Bernard Toal Gallery, Boston, MA

2003
Black/White, Danese Gallery, New York, NY
Making: Drawings by Contemporary Artists from Korea,The Korea Society, NY
Summer Series, Anthony Grant Gallery, New York , NY

2002
The Fall Line: Intuition and Necessity in Contemporary Abstraction, OSP Gallery, Boston, MA (curated by Steven Zevitas)
The AAAC Story, Asian American Arts Center, New York, NY
Young & Brash & Abstract, Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA (curated by John Yau)
Abstract Redux, Danese Gallery, New York, NY

2001
Finely Drawn: A Recent Gift of Contemporary Drawings, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
Summer Group Exhibition, Danese Gallery, New York, NY
Calligraphic Legacy, Transamerica Pyramid Lobby Galleries, San Francisco, CA
The Draftsman's Colors: 14 New Acquisitions from Johns to Chong, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

2000
Collecting Drawings Not Artists: Gifts from the Collection of Sarah and Werner Kramarsky, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Boston, MA

1999
New Work: Drawings, Hosfelt, San Francisco, CA
Between Then and Now, The Work Space, New York, NY

1998
A Slice of Apple, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Visible/Invisible, White Box Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Sisters in Crime - San Antonio/Kwang-Ju, Blue Star Space, San Antonio, TX

1997
Selected Works, Danese Gallery, New York, NY
Vertical/ Horizontal, Satellite, Long Island City, NY
Recurrence, Gallery Korea, New York, NY
Trans Hudson Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Joseph Szoecs)
Werner Kramarsky, New York, NY
Art in General, New York, NY (curated by Holly Block)
Three Generations: The Mentoring Process, Asian American Arts Centre, New York, NY

1996
Dots and Lines, Eighth Floor Gallery, New York
Natalie Knight the Art Source, Johannesburg, South Africa
Black, White, & Blue, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
P.S. 122 Studio Opening, New York, NY
Permutations, MMC Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Karen Harris)

1995
Asian American Arts Centre, New York, NY
Reed College, Portland, OR
Race and Identity, NAW Gallery, New York, NY

1994
Emerging Painters, The Painting Center, New York, NY
Conjunction 12, Gallery Korea, New York, NY
Chamber 2 Exhibition, Chamber Space, New York, NY

1993
Chamber 1 Exhibition, Chamber Space, New York, NY

1991
M.F.A. Exhibition, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Mary Delahoyd)
Group Exhibition, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Jon Imber)

1989
Boston University Gallery, Boston, MA

1988
Vermont Studio Gallery, Johnson, VT
Competition Exhibition, Copley Gallery, Boston, MA

1984-85
Congressional Arts Competition Exhibition, Washington, DC

Public Collections

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Deloitte & Touche, San Francisco, CA
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University , Boston, MA
General Dynamics, Inc., Falls Church, VA
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Pfizer, Inc., New York, NY
Progressive Corporation Art Collection, Mayfield Village, OH
The Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC
Werner Kramarsky, New York, NY
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Selected Bibliography and Essays

Goodman, Jonathan,"Theresa Chong at Danese", ARTCRITICAL, November 6, 2014

Camplin, Todd. “On Drawing Line at Holly Johnson Gallery through August 17”, Modern Dallas Weekly, July, 2013

Harris, Mark, “Theresa Chong, Drawings”, Exhibition Catalog, Holly Johnson Gallery, 28 pages, 10 illustrations, 2013

“Theresa Chong, New Work”, Exhibition Catalog, DANESE Gallery, 24 pages, 11 illustrations, 2010

Eshoo, Amy, “560 Broadway: A New York Drawing Collection at Work, 1991-2006,” Fifth Floor Foundation, New York in Association with Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2008

The Sam & Adele Golden Foundation of the Arts, Inc Catalogue, 2007

McQuiad, Cate. “Exhibit Tracks the Trend of Mapping Out Truth and Beauty” The Boston Globe, C18, January 21, 2005

Leffingwell, E. “Theresa Chong at Danese,” Art in America, p. 161, ill., May 2004

“Theresa Chong,” The New Yorker, p. 28, October 6, 2003

Goodman, Jonathan, Art Asia Pacific, Issue 37, p. 49, ill., 2003

“Unframed: Artists respond to AIDS, ACRIA 1993 – 2002”, powerHouse Books, p. 102, ill., 2002

Yau, John. “Introduction,” Young + Brash + Abstract: 11 Abstract Painters, exhibition catalogue, Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, pp. 15, 16 and 70-73, ill., 2002

Goodman, Jonathan. “Theresa Chong,” Art Asia Pacific, Issue 34, p. 87, Ill., 2002

Ramirez, Jenny. “Painting Lives: Eleven Young New York Painters Prove the Art Form is Very Much Alive,” Style Weekly, p. 39, February 12, 2002

Johnson, Ken. “Theresa Chong,” The New York Times, p. E37, Friday, Oct. 12, 2001

Goodman, J. "Theresa Chong", Art in America, pp.156-157, ill., April 2000

Brennan, Michael. "Painter's Journal", artnet.com - Magazine, ill., Friday, October 29, 1999

Tabios, Eileen. "Theresa Chong Addresses Space in Flux", The Asian Pacific American Journal, Volume 7, No 2, pp. 183 -197, ill., Winter/Spring 1999

Frank, Peter. "A Slice of Apple", LA Weekly, October 2 -8, 1998

Valdez, Sarah. "Theresa Chong", Flash Art, Vol. XXXI, p. 138, ill., Summer 1998

Morgan, Robert C. "Theresa Chong Danese", artpress, vol. #236, pp. 66-67, ill., June 1998

Tabios, Eileen. “Black Lightning: Poetry in Progress”, published by The Asian American Writers' Workshop, New York, 1998

Chong, Theresa. New Observations, guest editor, Winter Issue, February 1998

Sozanski, Edward J. "White Box Gallery", The Philadelphia Inquirer, Jan 23, 1998

Aschheim, Eve. "Visible/Invisible" exhibition catalog, January 1998

Riley II Ph.D.,Charles. "Pursuing the Line", The Saints of Modern Art, University Press of New England, pp. 107-112, ill., 1998

Wong, Larry. Asian Week, vol. 18, No. 38, May 9-15, 1997

Yau, John. "Composition: The Paintings of Theresa Chong", AAAC Exhibition essay, 1997

Murdock, Robert M. "Scratching the Surface & Borrowing", Review, June 15, 1997

Chapman, Frances. "Seeing Dots", Waterfront Week Magazine, December 1996

NY Soho Magazine, September 1996

Kim, Ok Kee. The Sae Gae Times, review, November 5 1996

Marymount Manhattan College Gallery Catalog, May 1996

Asian American Arts Calendar, Jan/ Feb 1996

New Observations, pp. 18-19, July 1995

"Scribbles on the Wall", New York Daily News, February 1995

Kim, Ok Kee. The Sae Gae Times, February 1995

Films

Bright Light
Film by Theresa Chong (Director & Editor)
Music by Eric Nathan
Coming of age with seasonal changes in and around NYC
Screened April 2015 at the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

Apology
film by Theresa Chong (Director, Editor & Screenwriter)
Music by Eric Nathan
Screened June 2015 at the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY