AUDREY CHAN
LOS ANGELES COUNTY, 2021 - 2022
Audrey Chan (b. 1982, Chicago, Illinois) is a Los Angeles-based artist, illustrator, and writer. Her research-based projects use drawing, painting, public art, and video to challenge dominant historical narratives through allegories of power, place, and identity. She received a MFA from California Institute of the Arts and a BA with Honors from Swarthmore College. Her work has been exhibited at venues including the USC Pacific Asia Museum, Chinese American Museum, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Sam Francis Gallery, Self Help Graphics & Art, Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Angels Gate Cultural Center, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Parc Saint Léger, and galerie de l’école régionale des beaux-arts de Nantes. Chan was the inaugural Artist-in-Residence at the ACLU of Southern California and participated in OxyArts' Encoding Futures Summer Residency. She received an Established Artist Fellowship from the California Council of the Arts and a DCA Cultural Trailblazer Award by the City of Los Angeles. She was commissioned by LA Metro to create a large-scale public artwork for the future Little Tokyo/Arts District Metro Station, opening in 2022.
Audrey Chan is working with fellow AAW Los Angeles County artist jason chu alongside NCPD@JANM and Asian Americans Advancing Justice - LA on a collaborative project drawing from their expertise in image and text. “An American Vocabulary” is a series of flashcards with illustrations and poetry conveying concepts of language, community, and care. The content will be presented in various mediums (physical flashcards / installation / web content) and unveiled at a Fall ‘22 event that will engage the community of Little Tokyo and Downtown LA civically and creatively.
CULTURE HUB
The National Center for the Preservation of Democracy at the Japanese American National Museum (NCPD@JANM), located in the historic Little Tokyo district of downtown Los Angeles, will further reinforce JANM's mission and examine the rights, freedoms and enduring fragility of American democracy through educational programming that includes exhibitions, media arts presentations, public programs, conferences, and civic dialogue/public forums.
SOCIAL IMPACT INITIATIVE
Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Los Angeles (Advancing Justice - LA) is one of the nation’s largest legal and civil rights organizations for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (AANHPIs). Advancing Justice - LA serves more than 15,000 individuals and organizations every year. Through direct services, impact litigation and policy advocacy, Advancing Justice - LA focuses on the most vulnerable members of AANHPI communities while building a strong voice for civil rights and social justice. Advancing Justice - LA is based in downtown Los Angeles, with additional offices in Orange County and Sacramento. It is part of a network of affiliated organizations in Atlanta, Chicago, San Francisco and Washington, DC.