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Editions of 8
Starting at $1,800

Selected Exhibitions
Six Years and Eight Months, G Fine Art, Washington, DC, 2009
Echo, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 2006
Portraits from the Boarders, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery at Alfred University, Alfred, NY, 2005
Echo, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY, 2005
Burma Portraits, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN, 2005
Echo, Numark Gallery, Washington, DC, 2004
Burma, Paul Kopeiken Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2004
Burma Portraits, The Picker Art Gallery, Hamilton, NY, 2003
Burma: Something Went Wrong, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, 2003
Portraits, Fine Arts and Johnson Center Galleries at GMU, Fairfax, VA, 2003
Something Went Wrong, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA, 2002
Something Went Wrong, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY, 2002
Something Went Wrong, Numark Gallery, Washington, DC, 2002
Art of Asia, Peninsula Fine Art Center, Newport News, VA, 2002
Burma: Something Went Wrong, The Art Gallery at U of M, College Park, MD, 2001
Burma Something Went Wrong, Robert B. Menschel Gallery, Syracuse, NY, 2000
Quiet Space for Confrontation, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA, 1996
Spring Solos, Arlington Art Center, Arlington, VA, 1995
Beyond the Torso, Troyer-Fitzpatrick-Lassman Gallery, Washington, DC, 1994

Selected Group Exhibitions
Presumed Innocence, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, 2008
Portraits, G Fine Arts, Washington, DC, 2008
5 Photographers, Fine Arts Gallery at GMU, Fairfax, VA, 2008
Photography Show, G Fine Arts, Washington, DC, 2007
The Last Show, Numark Gallery, Washington, DC, 2006
Borders and Memories, Lowe Art Gallery at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 2005
Seven, WPA/C, Washington, DC, 2005
Rate of Exchange, Strand on Volta, Washington, DC, 2005
Upright Female, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA, 2004
Hope, Italian Cultural Center, New York, NY, 2002
About Face, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY, 2002
Cultural Crossing, Numark Gallery, Washington, DC, 2002
Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 2002
Developing Illusion, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1995
Contemporary Photography from Washington, WPA, Washington, DC, 1995
Superbia, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC, 1995 

 
Private Collections
Michael Lynne
LaSelle Bank Photography Collection
Martin Margulies
Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz
Lisa Eisenpresser
Tony and Heather Podesta
Anita and Burton Reiner
Tom and Nancy O’Neil
Howard Stein
Bill Paley
 

Museum/Public Collections
The Picker Art Gallery
Houston Museum of Fine Arts
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
L.A. County Museum of Art
Washington Convention Center
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
The Whitney Museum of American Art
DC Commission on Art and Humanities
The Corcoran Gallery of Art
Robert B. Menschel Gallery


Lectures/Seminars
2008 University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
2007 University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
2007 Center for Modern Art at the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
2006 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2006 International Center for Photography, New York, NY
2005 Fosdick-Nelson Gallery at Alfred University, Alfred, NY
2005 Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse, NY
2005 Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
2003 Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
2001 The Art Gallery at University of Maryland, College Park, MD 


Grants/Residences
2002 DC Commission on Art and Humanities, Small Project Grant
2000 JGS Inc., Project Grant
1998 Light work, Artist-in-Resident
1998 Open Society Institute, Burma Project Grant 

 

 

 

 

aRTIST STATEMENT

Hoping to bring a greater awareness to the democracy movement in Burma, Chan Chao traveled to the Thai-Burmese border in 1996 to document students in camps set up to fight Burma’s military regime. The intimate quality of the photographs highlights the individual characteristics of the subjects – personal clothing, scars or hairstyles, body posture. The photographs of the subjects, often holding objects of everyday life, have a warm and personal quality that demonstrates that these individuals are more than participants in a conflict.

Born in Kalemyo, Burma in 1966, Chan Chao left with his family for the United States in 1978. He currently works as a freelance photographer, and teaches at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Nazraeli Press has published three books by Chao: Burma: Something Went Wrong, Letter from PLF and Echo. His Burma portraits were included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial.