Kevin B. Chen

Biography

Kevin B. Chen has been involved in the San Francisco Bay Area arts community for over 20 years as a curator, writer, and visual artist. He was Program Director of Visual Arts at Intersection for the Arts for over 15 years, where he curated over 60 exhibitions and hundreds of public programs, including solo exhibitions by Lebbeus Woods, Hasan Elahi, Margaret Harrison, Taraneh Hemami, Conrad Atkinson, Ala Ebtekar, Jamex & Einar de la Torre, Claudia Bernardi, Binh Danh, Weston Teruya & Michele Carlson, Victor Cartagena, and Marcos Ramírez ERRE. His curatorial work has been reviewed in publications nationally, including Art in America, afterimage: the journal of media arts and cultural criticism, Sculpture Magazine, Art Papers, New Art Examiner, Art Nexus, Bidoun Magazine, Contemporary Magazine, Bitch Magazine, and the Huffington Post. He currently serves as co-chair for the City of Oakland's Public Art Advisory Committee, member of Recology's Artist in Residence Program Advisory Board and Root Division's Curatorial Committee, and manages the Artist Studio Residency Program and Public Programs at the de Young Museum. He previously served as Programs Manager at Kala Art Institute, one of the country’s largest printmaking workshops. He has been a funding and residency panelist for Creative Capital, Multi-Arts Production Fund, Alliance of Artists Communities, Center for Cultural Innovation, City of San Jose, Recology, Arts Council Silicon Valley, Creative Work Fund, Zellerbach Family Foundation, SF Arts Commission, Alameda County Arts Commission, City of Oakland Cultural Arts Programs, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Montalvo Arts Center, Headlands Center for the Arts; an exhibition juror for California College of the Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco State University, SF Camerawork, Root Division, CSU Chico, Asian Pacific Fund, Pro Arts Gallery; and author of catalog essays for Paper Museum Press, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Light Work, The Third Line – Art Gallery in Dubai, Paper Museum Press/Park Life, and Kearny Street Workshop. His work in drawing, collage, and sculpture has been exhibited locally at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Southern Exposure, Asian Art Museum, Palo Alto Art Center, Kala Art Institute, Blankspace, Ampersand Gallery, Kearny Street Workshop, and nationally at Angel’s Gate Cultural Center (San Pedro, CA), Bob Rauschenberg Gallery (Ft. Myers, FL), Harn Museum of Art (Gainesville, FL), Bruno David Gallery (St. Louis, MO), New York University Tisch School of the Arts (New York, NY), and The Kitchen (New York, NY). He is represented by Jack Fischer Gallery in San Francisco, CA, and received his BA from Columbia University in Psychology and East Asian Languages & Cultures.

Research Interest

Art Practice