Sara Ching-Yu Sun


Untitled I, Untitled II, and Astronaut, 1998 
Multi-media installation
Back to the Sea, 1999 
Multi-media installation
In Transit, 1997 
Multi-media interactive installation,
Distance of Intimacy, 1998 
Site-specific Installation

click the images above to view artist's work

Space is body's position in time and time is body's motion in space. For many of us, determining our own cultural identity means struggling constantly with "where I'm at", "where I'm from" and "where I'll be". Like goldfish in an aquarium, transplanted, contained and separated from its natural environment and cultural references, many of us feel similar displacement from realities, nature and ourselves; our sense of connection to the world is reduced to the act of looking and watching. This century's geopolitical upheavals and rapidly transformed global economies have continuously driven people like my family to transna- tional migrations, dislocation and cultural in-between-ness. My family's own journey began with a migration from Shanghai to Taiwan, and then later to America. Inspired by the physical, cultural and emotional changes I've experienced personally and through them, I am drawn to create in my work a space and time relationship which is non-static, interconnected and both "rooted and non-rooted". Binocular focus and at times schizophrenic, my work intends to transport viewers into a place of indeterminacy. I want to (re)invent metaphorical experiences that transform the usual binary opposition and categorization.


Sara Ching-Yu Sun
240 Wythe Ave. #F2, Brooklyn, NY 11211
(718) 599-1381, xmonki@hotmail.com
http://members.tripod.com/~xmonki


Education 
1996-1998 MFA, Massachusetts College of Art (Interrelated Media), Boston
1990-1991 Hunter College M.F.A. Program, New York City
1987-1988 School of Visual Arts (Painting), New York City
1979-1983 BA University of California (Design), Los Angeles

Awards/Distinctions
1995 15th Annual AIM Program-The Bronx Museum of the Arts
1985 Howard Trafton Memorial Scholarship
1984 Art Students League Merit Scholarship

Publications
1995 15th Annual AIM Exhibition Catalogue-The Bronx Museum of the Arts
1995 15th Annual AIM Exhibition Catalogue-The Bronx Museum of the Arts
1993 FISEA Catalogue-Fourth International Symposium on Electronic Art
Minneapolis/St.Paul
"A MAGAZINE" Vol. Two/Number 3, Fall

Collections
Asian American Art Center, New York City, NY

Curatorial
1997 Almost Synthetics White Elephant Gallery
Boston, MA

Reviews
1999 Cate McQuaid, "Making Magic with Technology," The Boston Globe, June 10
Christopher Millis, "Popular Science's Alchemy of Fun," South End News, Boston, June 10
Matthew Murphy, Art Review, In News Weekly, Boston, Vol. 8 Issue 30, May 5
1995 Holland Cotter, Art Review: "Eclectic Group New to the Limelight-15th Annual AIM Exhibition,"
The New York Times, New York August 11

Selected Electronic Media Installations/Exhibitions
1999 Artists (Web) Space, Artists Space, New York City, NY
Popular Science, Mills Gallery, Boston Cneter for the Arts, Boston, MA
Flicker-Video Installations about Cinema, Coolidge Corner Theatre, Boston, MA
1998 Dim Light-MFA Thesis Show, Balakar Gallery, Boston, MA
No Artificial Sweetners, Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Boston, MA
EVENTWORK '98/Spatium, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1997 Almost Synthetics, White Elephant Gallery, Boston, MA
Disappearance, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Ostranenie97: Intšnal Electronic Media Forum, Dessau, Germany
Bandits-Mages: the 5th Intšnal Forum of AV and Multimedia Art, Bourges, France
Video Installations, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1996 Hybrid Work Space, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York City, NY
1995 15th Annual Bronx Museum AIM Program Exhibition '95, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York City, NY
DigiPage 12, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York City, NY
An Interactive Exhibit of Computer Animations, Hunter College, New York City, NY
Pier Show III, BWAC Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY
Women of/on Color, Shirley Fiterman Gallery, Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York City, NY
Assembled,450 Broadway Gallery, New York City, NY
1993 FISEA-Fourth International Symposium on Electronic Art, Minneapolis College of Art & Design Gallery, Minnea./St. Paul, MN
DisMantling Invisibility: Asian and Pacific Islander Artists Respond to the AIDS Crisis, A Space Gallery, Toronto, Canada
and 1991,Art in General Gallery, New York City, NY
1990 Reconfiguring Bodies/Reconcealing Selves Voorhees Gallery, Hunter College, New York City, NY
China-June 4, 1989, Institute for Contemporary Art, P.S.1,
and 1989, Blum Helman Warehouse, New York City, NY

Selected Video/Film
1998 Videospace, Mobius, Boston, MA
1989 Grassroot Video, D.C.T.V., New York City, NY