CHIEN-AN YUAN
Ann Arbor, MI
chienanyuan@gmail.com
www.chienanyuan.com
Education
MED, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2006
BSS in Cultural Studies, Ohio University, 2004
Work History
2008-present Photographer, Independent Contractor, Ann Arbor, MI
2000-present Graphic/Web Designer, Independent Contractor, Ann Arbor, MI
2018-present Label Owner/Art Director, 1473, Ann Arbor, MI
2012-2016 Adjunct Instructor: Web , Truman College, Chicago, IL
2003-2009 Creative Director, “Actually, Records.”, Chicago, IL
2006-2007 10th Grade English Teacher, Uplift Community School, Chicago, IL
2002-2004 Job Developer, Chinese American Service League, Chicago, IL
2000-2002 Health Care Assistant I, Planned Parenthood Chicago Area, Chicago, IL
Screenings
2019 Life, Life (Sakamoto - async), Nippon Connection Film Festival, Frankfurt, Germany
2018 Billet-Doux NXMW FIlm Festival, Kalamazoo, MI
2017 Life As (606-481) Over The Real Festival, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
Lorenzo Viani Viareggio, Viareggio, Italy
Curator: Maurizio Tozzi
2017 Billet-Doux Screen.Dance.Now., Riverside Arts Center, Ypsilanti, MI
Curator: Joanna McNamara
2017 Billet-Doux Big River Dance Festival, 4th Avenue Arts Theater, Huntington, WVA
Curator: Summer Logan & Jessica Lynn Fox
2017 Billet-Doux Moving 24FPS Festival, The Jam Handy, Detroit, MI
Curator: Marcus White
2012 Visions of Astropolis, Transistor, Chicago, IL
2011 The Promise (part 5), Sanawon, Center on Halsted, Chicago, IL
Solo Exhibitions
2014 Bricolage 4, Transistor, Chicago, IL
Group Exhibitions
2012 Mercy, Not Sacrifice IV, Syrup Loft, Los Angeles, CA, Curator: Elizabeth Kim
2012 America Through a Chinese Lens, Museum of Chinese in America, New York, NY
Curator: Herb Tam
2011 Sexier, I Was Born With Two Mango Tribes (w/ Greg Grucel, Jon Monteverde), Zhou B Arts
Center, Chicago, IL, Curator: Larry Lee
2011 Sexy, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL Curator: Larry Lee
2004 100 Cuts, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL Curator: Larry Lee and Laura Kina
2004 Coming Soon, Project A, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL Curator: Larry Lee
2003 Operation:Human Intelligence, Project: A, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL Curator: Contemporary Arts Council
Curatorial
2012 Art Blank Activism, Project A, Asian American Cultural Center, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, Champaign-Urbana, IL,
2005 Image X Sound : The Short Films of Tatsu Aoki, Gene Siskel Film Center, FAAIM,Chicago, IL
“Actually, Records.”
2011 Art Direction + Design, XYZR_KX Secession in Astropolis
2011 Art Direction + Design, Joel Walter Nowhere in Fiction
2009 Art Direction + Design, Kite Operations Festival
2008 Producer,Art Direction + Design, Jienan Yuan We Saw Everything
2007 Co-Producer,Art Direction + Design, The Gold Medalists The City Lights Us On Fire
2007 Art Direction + Design, Oishi No In Between
2007 Art Direction + Design, Joel Walter Heart of Branches
2007 Co-Producer,Art Direction + Design, Hope In Ghosts All Your Departures
2006 Art Direction + Design, Ee Capital Plans
2006 Art Direction + Design, The Red Wheelbarrow Homemade Life Raft
2006 Art Direction + Design, XYZR_KX Inanomie Op.221
2004 Art Direction + Design, XYZR_KX Falls Off The Curb, Chump Style
Music Composition / Sound Design
2019 Teeth Marks On The Everett, Composer + Performer, Jienan Yuan
2018 Light Hardware, Sound Design + Composer, BodyCompass Dance Project, Sarah Gottlieb
2017 Hell Cabaret II, Composer, Yo Sissy Music Fest, Festaal Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany, NIGHTPARADE, Holly Chernobyl
2017 Haikai, Composer, Post-Butoh Fest 2017, Japanese Cultural Center, Chicago, NIGHTPARADE, Holly Chernobyl
2016 TB Kinder, Sound Design + Composer, Tattoo Circus, Kunstlerhaus Bethanian, Berlin, Germany, NIGHTPARADE, Holly Chernobyl
2015 Cairn and Cloud IV, Composer, BodyCompass Dance Project / Links Hall, Sarah Gottlieb
2015 Yolk, Composer, BodyCompass Dance Project / Links Hall, Sarah Gottlieb
2011 Lives of Confrontation, Composer, Cincinnati Arts Center, Saira Wasim
2007 We Saw Everything, Composer + Performer, Jienan Yuan
2004 Papermoon, Composer, NYU School of Interactive Arts, Ann Poochareon
2004 Walking Between The Lines, Composer, Apple, Inc. Cherry Sky Films, Vincent Tsu
Performance
2019 That We Walk, Sound Design, Composer, Lighting Design, IS/LAND, DIA Friends of Asian Arts and Culture, Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI
2019 National Poetry Month: diVERSE voices, Video Art, AADL-Downtown, Ann Arbor, MI, Frances Kai-Hwa Wang
2019 That We Walk, Sound Design, Composer, Lighting Design, IS/LAND, AADL -
Downtown, Ann Arbor, MI
2007 Teeth Marks On The Everett, Composer + Performer, Jienan Yuan
2019 That We Walk, Sound Design, Composer, Lighting Design, IS/LAND, AADL -
Downtown Branch, Ann Arbor, MI
2018 That We Walk, Sound Design, Composer, Lighting Design, IS/LAND, Links Hall,
Chicago, IL
2007 Functional Displacement, Links Hall, Actually, Records, Chicago, IL
2004 The 9th Chicago Asian American Jazz Festival, Hothouse, Asian Improv Arts Midwest, Chicago, IL
2004 Mars, Marriage and Mass Distraction, Gene Siskel Film Center, Asian American Artists Collective Chicago, Chicago, IL
2003 Conflict Theory, Remote Lounge, “Actually, Records.”, NYC, NY
2003 Blemish,Women in the Director’s Chair, “Actually, Records.”, Chicago, IL
2003 Endlessism,Guild Complex, “Actually, Records.”, Chicago, IL
2003 Register This!, Gene Siskel Film Center, Asian American Artists Collective Chicago,Chicago, IL
2002 Re:911, Gene Siskel Film Center, Asian American Artists Collective Chicago, Chicago, IL
Selected Press
2019 “Angry Reader of the Week” Angry Asian Man
2018 Chicago Magazine
2018 Chicago Tribune
2013 "Super Mario Snowman” Huffington Post Chicago
2012 "Goings On About Town: Art" The New Yorker
2012 Stauffer, Tema. "How Do I Fit Into This?" ArtSlant
2012 Massara, Kathleen. "America Through A Chinese Lens' At Museum Of Chinese In America" Huffington Post
2012 "Must See Arts In The City April 25 - May 1, 2012" WNYC
2012 Mustich, Emma. "Chasing The Chinese-American Dream" Salon
2011 Kuennen, Joel. “Bringing Sexy Back.” ArtSlant
2009 Wong, Martin. “We Saw Everything Review” Giant Robot
2009 Packota, Rachel Rain. “We Saw Everything Review” Lucid Forge
2009 Aripinati, Nicolo. “We Saw Everything Review” Indie For Bunnies
2005 Francisco, Kristina. “Labelmakers: Punc Rock” UR Chicago Music
Lectures and Presentations
2012 Guest Lecturer, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
2005 Guest Lecturer, University of Michigan
Affiliations
2019-present Board of Directors, American Citizens for Justice
2002-2009 Coordinator, Project A
2002-2005 Member, Asian American Artist Collective Chicago