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LI lan biography | artworks | events

Born in New York City
Lives and works in New York and East Hampton


COLLECTIONS
The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Art for Peace Collection, Fischer Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Tel Aviv, Israel
Atlantic Richfield Company, Dallas, TX
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Best Products, Richmond, VA
Chermayeff and Geismar Associates, New York, NY
Estee Lauder, Inc., New York, NY
Gap, Inc., Flagship Store, Oahu, HI
Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
Jacobs, Visconsi & Jacobs, Cleveland, OH
Lifetime TV, New York, NY
Marion Corporation, Mobile, AL
Mobil Oil Corporation, New York, NY
Modern Art Museum, Toyama, Japan
Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki, Japan
The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
The Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa, Japan
The Sydney and Frances Lewis Foundation Collection, Richmond, VA
Seattle First National Bank, Seattle, WA
Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles, CA
Vassar College Art Gallery Collection, Poughkeepsie, NY
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Virlaine Foundation, New Orleans, LA
Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Werner Kramarsky Collection, New York, NY
Westfield State College Art Gallery Collection, Westfield, MA
The William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT


FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS
Li-lan - Reflection: Rain in Moonlight - 2008
Jason McCoy Inc., "Reflections of Kaidan", New York, NY
March 12 - April 18, 2009
Lin & Keng Gallery, Li-lan Solo Exhibition, Taipei/Beijing - 2010


SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006
Lin & Keng Gallery, "Unfinished Journey," Taipei, Taiwan (11/18/06 - 12/07/06)
Jason McCoy Inc., "Li-lan: Silent Journey," New York, NY (3/16/06 - 4/22/06)
Jason McCoy, Inc., "Li-lan: Silent Journey," Chelsea (3/16/06 - 4/22/06) Exhibition Installation
2004
Nabi Gallery, "Labyrinths," New York, NY (3/4/04 - 5/1/04)
2003
DoubleVision Gallery, "Labyrinths," Los Angeles, CA (11/15/03 - 12/20/03)
2002
Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, Rutgers University, "Two Views Bridged," New Brunswick, NJ (2/1/02 - 3/22/02)
2001
Lin & Keng Gallery, "Recent Paintings and Pastels" (4/14/01 - 5/6/01)
1997
Lin & Keng Gallery, "Recent Paintings and Pastels" (10/18/97 - 11/8/97)
1996
Art Projects International, "Correspondences: Recent Paintings," New York, NY (10/24/96 - 11/27/96)
1995
Lin & Keng Gallery, "Li-lan" (10/14/95 - 11/4/95)
1994
Art Projects International, "Post Marks: Recent Paintings and Pastels" (10/27/94 - 12/1/94)
1993
Benton Gallery, "Four Solo Shows," Southampton, NY (10/30/93 - 11/22/93)
Lung Men Art Gallery, "Li-lan, Correspondence: Between the Lines," Taipei, Taiwan (5/1/93 - 5/20/93)
1992
Benton Gallery, "Paintings and Drawings" (7/11/92 - 7/30/92)
The Amelia A. Wallace Gallery, State University of New York, College at Old Westbury,
"Li-lan, Correspondence: Between the Lines," Old Westbury, NY (2/10/92 - 3/12/92)
1991
New Arts Program, Exhibition Space, "Stationary Images," Kutztown, PA (3/1/91 - 4/6/91)
1990
The William Benton Museum of Art, The University of Connecticut, "Li-lan, Stationary
Images: Paintings and Drawings, 1982-1990," Storrs, CT (11/5/90 - 12/23/90)
1989
Franz Bader Gallery, "Paintings from the Stamps Series," Washington, DC (11/14/89 - 12/2/89)
1987
OK Harris Gallery, "New Paintings," New York, NY (11/14/87 - 12/5/87)
1985
OK Harris Gallery, "New Paintings" (11/9/85 - 11/30/85)
Nantenshi Gallery, "Li-lan," Tokyo, Japan (4/8/85 - 4/20/85)
1983
OK Harris Gallery, "New Paintings" (11/12/83 - 12/3/83)
1982
Asher/Faure Gallery, "New Work," Los Angeles, CA (7/31/82 - 8/28/82)
Tower Gallery, "Li-lan," Southampton, NY (6/82)
1980
Asher/Faure Gallery, "Drawings and Paintings" (4/5/80 - 5/3/80)
Nantenshi Gallery, "Li-lan: Solo Exhibition" (11/8/80 - 11/22/80)
1978
Robert Miller Gallery, "Paintings," New York, NY (5/16/78 - 6/3/78)
1977
Nantenshi Gallery, "Solo Exhibition" (5/9/77 - 5/21/77)
1976
Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY (8/21/76 - 8/31/76)
1974
James Yu Gallery, New York, NY (1/5/74 - 1/25/74)
Nantenshi Gallery (5/10/74 - 5/21/74)
1971
Nantenshi Gallery, "One Man Show" (11/15/71 - 11/27/71)
1969
Miyuki Gallery, "Li-lan," Tokyo, Japan (9/16/69 - 9/21/69)


SELECTED TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2008
Lin & Keng Gallery, "Experiences of Passage: The Paintings of Yun Gee and Li-lan," Beijing, China (11/15/08 - 12/16/08)
Jason McCoy Inc., "Experiences of Passage: The Paintings of Yun Gee and Li-lan," New York, NY (3/13/08 - 4/12/08)
1988
Southampton Campus Fine Arts Gallery, Long Island University, "Yun Gee and Li-lan: Paintings by a Father and Daughter," Southampton, NY (6/27/88 - 7/25/88)
1976
Boston Symphony Hall, "Canvases by Li-lan - Serigraphs by Matsumura," Boston, MA (11/8/76 - 11/29/76)


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
"41st Annual Artists of the Springs Invitational Exhibition," East Hampton, NY (also 32 previous exhibitions from 1975 - 2007)
2007
G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts, Detroit, MI (10/25/07 - 11/1/07)
Jason McCoy Inc., "Options within Realism," New York, NY (6/28/07 - 8/17/07)
Jason McCoy Inc., Art Chicago, The Mart Center, Chicago, IL (4/27/07 - 4/30/07)
Lin & Keng Gallery, "Inaugural Exhibition," Beijing, China (4/21/07 - 7/7/07)
Lin & Keng Gallery, "Grand Opening - Beijing Preview," Taipei, Taiwan (2/3/07 - 3/7/07)
Art in Embassies Program, Hong Kong
2006
Art In Embassies Program, Ambassadorial Residence, United States Embassy, Hong Kong (10/06 - 7/08)
The Laundry, "Women's Work," East Hampton, NY (03/17/06 - 04/19/06)
Seventh Regiment Armory, "The Art Show," New York, NY (2/23/06 - 2/27/06)
2004
Guild Hall Museum, "On The Books: Sculptural Collaborations," East Hampton, NY (8/14/04 - 10/24/04)
2003
PaceWildenstein, "Trisha Brown Dance Company Art Show and Benefit Sale," New York, NY (1/16/03 - 1/18/03)
2001
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina, "Finely Drawn," Greensboro, NC (7/15/01 - 9/23/01)
Nabi Gallery, "Mysterious," Sag Harbor, NY (9/22/01 - 11/11/01)
Lin & Keng Gallery, "Works on Paper" (7/14/01 - 8/5/01)
Arts and Industries Building, Smithsonian Institution, "On Gold Mountain: A Chinese American Experience," Washington, DC (5/18/01 - 9/30/01)
University Art Gallery, SUNY at Stony Brook "Fifteen Asian American Artists"
Stony Brook, NY (3/22/01 - 4/14/01)
2000-2001
Art in Embassies Program, "We the People of the United States: American Art at the Residence of the U.S. Ambassador to the European Union," Brussels, Belgium
Art in Embassies Program, American Institute in Taiwan, "Exhibition of Chinese American Artists," Taipei, Taiwan
2000
GOCAIA, "Figuration," Tucson, AZ (10/7/2000 - 11/18/2000)
The Parrish Art Museum, "The Nature of Seeing: Works from the Collection," Southampton, NY
The MetLife Windows, "A Sense of Place - Real and Imagined," New York, NY (3/2000 - 6/2000)
DC Moore Gallery, "The Likeness of Being: Contemporary Self Portraits by 60 Women," New York, NY (1/12/00 - 2/5/00)
1998-2000
Art for Peace Foundation, "Artists-Messengers of Peace," Tel Aviv, Israel, traveling exhibition including venues in Australia, England, Germany, Japan, and Venezuela
1999
Lin & Keng Gallery, Hsinchu Science Based Industrial Park Art Fair, Hsinchu, Taiwan (12/4/99 - 12/12/99)
Nabi Gallery, "Five Artists," Sag Harbor, NY (9/4/99 - 10/4/99)
1998
Lin & Keng Gallery
Galerie Pierre, "To Extend: Contemporary Art of Overseas Chinese," Taichung, Taiwan (8/98)
Nabi Gallery, "Enigma Variations," (Four Person Exhibition) (8/1/98 - 8/17/98)
Arlene Bujese Gallery, "Point, Line and Plane: Drawing and Sculpture," East Hampton, NY (8/29/98 - 9/20/98)
The Parrish Art Museum, "The Centennial Open" (3/21/98 - 4/26/98)
Arlene Bujese Gallery, "Contemporary Narrative" (8/29/98 - 9/20/98)
1997
Taipei World Trade Center, "Taipei Art Fair 1997 International," Taipei, Taiwan (11/20/97 - 11/24/97)
Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, "Hung Out to Dry," New York, NY (7/19/97 - 8/28/97)
Guild Hall Museum, "Artists for Guild Hall" (8/9/97 - 9/1/97)
Arlene Bujese Gallery, "Dimensions: Drawing and Sculpture" (8/9/97 - 8/28/97)
Arlene Bujese Gallery, "Wall to Wall" (11/29/97 - 12/28/97)
Center for the Visual Arts, Printed Image Gallery, "Impressions: Contemporary Asian
Artist Prints," Philadelphia, PA (2/97)
Art in General, "Paperworks in the Hamptons," Sag Harbor, NY (8/97)
1996
Eretz Israel Museum, "Artists-Messengers of Peace," Traveling Exhibition/International from 1996, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Heckscher Museum, "Paperworks: 20th Century Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection," Huntington, NY
Shirley Fiterman Gallery, City University of New York: Borough of Manhattan
Community College, "And We Speak," New York, NY
Sharadin Art Gallery, University of Kutztown, "Painting '96," Kutztown, PA (2/7/96 - 3/10/96)
Arlene Bujese Gallery, "Realism: Shades of Correspondence" (8/24/96 - 9/12/96)
Arlene Bujese Gallery, "Editions: Prints & Sculpture" (6/22/96 - 7/11/96)
Arlene Bujese Gallery, "Love" (2/17/96 - 3/10/96)
Arlene Bujese Gallery, "Form as Function" (11/30/96 - 12/22/96)
1995
Art Projects International, "Small Works," New York, NY
The Heckscher Museum, "75 Years of Collecting," (9/95)
Arlene Bujese Gallery, "Multiples" (10/28/95 - 11/19/95)
Arlene Bujese Gallery, "Object Into Subject" (4/29/95 - 5/25/95)
Staller Center for the Arts, University Art Gallery, "Eighteen Suffolk Artists," State
University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY (3/11/95 - 4/14/95)
Taipei World Trade Center, "Taipei Art Fair 1997 International"
1994
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, "1994 Benefit Exhibition, Auction & Gala,"
New York, NY (4/94)
Arlene Bujese Gallery, "Drawing: A Contemporary View" (4/9/94 - 4/28/94)
The 450 Broadway Gallery, "One Night Only," New York, NY (9/24/94)
1993
Benton Gallery, "Wall To Wall," Southampton, NY
Benton Gallery, "Multiples" (4/10/93 - 5/2/93)
City University of New York, Graduate School, University Center, Asian American
Higher Education, "New Expressions in Asian American Art," New York, NY (4/26/93 - 5/20/93, 6/7/93 - 7/16/93)
Collection Gallery, The Parrish Art Museum, "Recent Acquisitions," Southampton, NY (12/23/92 - 1/3/93)
Tweed Gallery, "Women's Art, Women's Lives, Women's Issues," New York, NY (3/1/93 - 3/31/93)
Taipei World Trade Center, "Taipei Art Fair 1997 International"
1992
SOHO 20, "SOHO Twenty Strikes Gold," New York, NY (12/15/92 - 1/23/93)
Collection Gallery, The Parrish Art Museum, "Recent Acquisitions," Southampton, NY (6/7/92 - 8/1/92)
AIR, "Holiday Invitational," New York, NY (12/8/92 - 1/2/93)
Benton Gallery, "Travel: Time/Space.Physical/Psychic.Real/Imagined" (11/28/92 - 12/20/92)
P.S.1, "SLOW ART: Painting in New York Now," Long Island City, NY (4/26/92 - 6/21/92)
The Heckscher Museum, "More Books As Art," (1/11/92 - 3/8/92)
1991
The William Benton Museum of Art, "Encore: Reviewing the Past," Storrs, CT
Arno Maris Gallery, Westfield State College, "Insights," Westfield, MA (9/24/91 - 10/26/91)
Pan Am Building Mezzanine, "Pan Am Windows Art Program," New York, NY (5/1/91 - 7/31/91)
Benton Gallery, "Four Decades" (5/25/91 - 6/13/91)
Anne Plumb Gallery, "Show of Strength," New York, NY (4/17/91 - 5/4/91)
1990
Nahan Contemporary, "No Trends," New York, NY (7/7/90 - 8/31/90)
Benton Gallery, "Artist/Photographer/Artist II" (7/28/90 - 8/16/90)
Ben Shahn Galleries, William Patterson College of New Jersey, "The Grid:
Organization and Idea," Wayne, NJ (3/27/90 - 4/28/90)
East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art, "Contemporary Still Life," East Hampton, NY (4/21/90 - 5/28/90)
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Members' Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1989-1991
"Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women," traveling exhibition including: Blum Helman Gallery, New York, NY (7/6/89 - 8/17/89); University of Oklahoma Museum of Art, Norman, OK; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI; University Art Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton, TX; Hillwood Art Gallery, Brookville, NY (5/24/89 - 6/28/89)
1989-1990
"Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women," traveling exhibition: Mexico, South America, Spain, Portugal (U.S.I.A. Auspices) (5/24/89 - 6/28/89, 7/6/89 - 8/17/89)
1988
The Parrish Art Museum, "Drawing on the East End 1940 - 1988" (9/18/88 - 11/13/88)
Vered Gallery, "Invitational," East Hampton, NY (12/88)
1987
Norton Center for the Arts, Centre College, "The Hot Centre: Contemporary Art
Selected by Ivan Karp," Danville, KY (10/29/87 - 12/6/87)
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, "Paintings and
Sculpture by Candidates for Art Awards," New York, NY (3/2/87 - 3/29/87)
OK Harris Gallery, "Art Against AIDS" (6/87)
DIA Art Foundation, "Art Against AIDS," New York, NY (6/87)
OK Harris Gallery, "Four Artists" (11/14/87 - 12/5/87)
1986
Benson Gallery, "Look East," Bridgehampton, NY (5/18/86 - 9/16/86)
1985
Water Mill Museum, Water Mill, NY
Vered Gallery (9/14/85 - 10/10/85)
The Guild Hall Museum, "The 47th Annual Guild Hall Artist Members' Exhibition" (10/5/85 - 11/2/85)
OK Harris Gallery, "Four Artists" (11/9/85 - 11/30/85)
1978-1985
The Sydney and Frances Lewis Foundation Collection, "Late Twentieth-Century Art,"
traveling exhibition including: Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA; Institute of
Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA; Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth
University, Richmond, VA
1984
P.S.1, "Photographs/Politics," curated by Lucy Lippard, Long Island City, NY (10/14/84 - 12/9/84)
Wing Luke Memorial Museum, "May I Have Your Attention Please!," Seattle, WA
Vered Gallery (9/84)
The Guild Hall Museum, "The 46th Annual Guild Hall Artist Members' Exhibition" (9/29/84 - 11/1/84)
1983
OK Harris West, "Prime Works by Representative OK Harris Artists,"
Scottsdale, AZ (10/6/83 - 11/5/83)
The Guild Hall Museum, "Selections from the Permanent Collection" (6/18/83 - 7/10/83)
OK Harris Gallery, "Seven Abstract Painters" (6/25/83 - 7/15/83)
OK Harris Gallery, "Four Artists" (11/12/83 - 12/3/83)
Asian Arts Institute, "Eye to Eye," New York, NY (6/83)
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, "Paintings and Sculpture by
Candidates for Art Awards," (3/7/83 - 4/2/83)
1982
Daniel Wolf Gallery, "Photographs by Painters and Sculptors," New York, NY (9/14/82 - 10/9/82)
Benson Gallery, "Elaine de Kooning and Her Inadvertent Collection" (8/28/82 - 9/13/82)
The Floating Foundation of Photography, "China Today," photographs taken in China in
1980, New York, NY (5/15/82 - 6/20/82)
Tower Gallery, "Eleventh Annual Group Show," Southampton, NY (6/82)
The Guild Hall Museum, "Forty-fourth Annual Guild Hall Artist Members Exhibition,"
Honorable mention (11/13/82 - 12/4/82)
1981
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
The Guild Hall Museum, "Forty-third Annual Guild Hall Artist Members Exhibition,"
Honorable mention (8/1/81 - 8/16/81)
1980
MoMA Penthouse, Group Exhibition
1979-1980
The Guild Hall Collection, "The East Hampton Art Colony: Selections from the Guild Hall Collection," traveling exhibition: Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS; Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL
1979
The Parrish Art Museum, "Twenty-Sixth Annual Exhibition" (10/6/79 - 11/11/79)
Phoenix Art Museum, "New York Now," Phoenix, AZ
Summit Art Center, "The Dragon and the Chrysanthemum: Chinese and Japanese Heritage in the Arts," Summit, NJ (3/11/79 - 4/11/79)
The Guild Hall Museum, "Women Artists of Eastern Long Island" (4/21/79 - 5/13/79)
The Heckscher Museum, "Seventh Annual Art Exhibition,"
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, "Late Twentieth Century Art: The Sydney and Frances Lewis Foundation Collection," Philadelphia, PA (3/22/79 - 5/2/79)
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY (7/79 - 8/79)
1978
The Heckscher Museum, "Drawing Today: Aspects of Change" (9/22/78 - 10/22/78)
The Heckscher Museum, "Sixth Annual Art Exhibition" (12/1/78 - 12/24/78)
The Guild Hall Museum, "Selections from the Guild Hall Art Collection" (8/19/78 - 9/17/78)
Robert Miller Gallery (7/78 - 8/78)
The Laundry, "Women at The Laundry: Drawing, Painting, Sculpture" (10/7/78 - 10/22/78)
1977
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, "Art on Paper: Thirteenth Weatherspoon Annual
Exhibition," Greensboro, NC (11/77)
The Guild Hall Museum, "Points of View" (2/77 - 3/77)
Empire State Plaza, "Women in Art: Working Papers," Albany, NY (7/8/77 - 7/10/77)
1976
The Guild Hall Museum, "Artists of the Region - Invitational Exhibition" (7/17/76 - 8/17/76)
The Heckscher Museum, "Fourth Annual Art Exhibition"
1975
Women's Interart Center, "Color, Light & Image," New York, NY
The Heckscher Museum, "Twenty Women Artists" (7/20/75 - 8/31/75)
Islip Town Art Gallery, "Art from the Hamptons to the Islips," East Islip, NY (9/1975)
The Guild Hall Museum, "The Artists of the Hamptons: Painting and Sculpture," (Auction to benefit Guild Hall of East Hampton, at Sotheby Parke Bernet, NY, 9/18/75)
Ashawagh Hall, "Women Artists Here and Now," East Hampton, NY (8/24/75 - 9/1/75)
Philbrook Art Center, "Collector's Choice," Tulsa, OK
The Heckscher Museum, "Third Annual Art Exhibition"
1974
Randolph-Macon Women's College Museum, "Contemporary American Painting,
Sixty-third Annual Exhibition," Lynchburg, VA
Nantenshi Gallery, Basel International Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
OK Harris Gallery, "Chile Emergency Exhibition" (3/2/74 - 3/16/74)
Islip Town Art Gallery, "Art, Hamptons to the Islips"
Y.M. & Y.M.H.A., "Y Women's Division Art Exhibition and Sale," Green Lane, Union, NJ
1973
The Guild Hall Museum, "Young Collector's Gallery" (7/4/73)
1971
A.M. Sachs Gallery, New York, NY
1970
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
A.M. Sachs Gallery


BOOKS
Experiences of Passage: The Paintings of Yun Gee and Li-lan, Joyce Brodsky, University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA, 2008
Canvas With an Unpainted Part: An Autobiography, Li-lan, Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo, Japan, 1976


SOLO EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
LI-LAN, Unfinished Journey, introduction by Scarlet Cheng, "Li-lan - Foreign Correspondent," "Foreword" by Christine Y. Kim, Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, November 2006
LI-LAN, Silent Journey, introduction by Carter Ratcliff, "Li-lan," Jason McCoy Inc., New York, NY, March 2006
LI-LAN, Two Exhibitions, introduction by Peter Frank, "Li-lan: The Game of Seeing Life," Nabi Press Publications, New York, NY, November 2003
LI-LAN, Two Views Bridged, introduction by Sara Harrington and Ferris Olin, "Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series 2001-2002," Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 2001
LI-LAN, Recent Paintings and Pastels, introduction by Joyce Brodsky, "The Paintings of Li-lan," Lin & Keng Gallery, April 2001
LI-LAN, Recent Paintings and Pastels, introduction by David Ebony, "Transmissions: Recent Work by Li-lan," Lin & Keng Gallery, October 1997
LI-LAN, Correspondences: Recent Paintings, introduction by Alice Yang, Art Projects International, New York, NY, October 1996
LI-LAN, introduction by Jonathan Goodman, "Letters to the World," Lin & Keng Gallery, October 1995
LI-LAN, Post Marks: Recent Paintings and Pastels, introduction by Lowery Stokes Sims, Art Projects International, October 1994
LI-LAN, Correspondence: Between the lines, Taipei, introduction by Helen Harrison, "Filling in Between The Artist's Lines," Lung Men Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, May 1993
LI-LAN: Stationary Images, catalogue by Thomas P. Bruhn, interview by Robert Berlind, The William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT, November 1990
LI-LAN, exhibition brochure, introduction by Helen Harrison, Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, D.C., November 1989
LI-LAN, "Two Poems for Li-lan," by Makoto Ooka, Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, April 1985
LI-LAN, Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, November 1980
LI-LAN, Nantenshi Gallery, May 1977
LI-LAN, Nantenshi Gallery, May 1974
LI-LAN, introduction "To Li-lan," by Tatsuo Oshima, reproductions, Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, November 1971
LI-LAN, introduction by Ichiro Haryu, Miyuki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, September 1969


TWO PERSON EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
LI-LAN & Yun Gee, "Experiences of Passage: The Paintings of Yun Gee and Li-lan," Introduction by Joyce Brodsky, Lin & Keng Gallery, Beijing, China, November 2008


GROUP EXHIBITION CATALOGUES/BOOKS
Inaugural Exhibition, Lin & Keng Gallery, Beijing, China, 2007
Collection of the Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa, Japan, 2001
Chinese American Artists, American Art at the residence of the Director of the American Institute in Taiwan, Art in Embassies Program, Taipei, Taiwan, January 2001
We the People of the United States, American Art at the residence of the U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, Art in Embassies Program, Brussels, Belgium, July 2000
To Extend: Contemporary Art of Overseas Chinese, Galerie Pierre, Taichung, Taiwan, August 1998
Artists-Messengers of Peace, Art for Peace Collection, Fischer Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Tel Aviv, Israel, Traveling Exhibition/International from 1996
Eighteen Suffolk Artists, University Art Gallery, Staller Center for the Arts, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, March - April 1995
An All Star Salute to Chinese American Cultural Pioneers, New York City Council, New York, NY, July 1993
INSIGHTS, Arno Maris Gallery, Westfield State College, Westfield, MA, September 1991
Show of Strength (benefit for Madre), Anne Plumb Gallery, New York, April 27, 1991
Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women, New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1989
Drawing on the East End: 1940 - 1988, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, September 1988
Doe, Donald Bartlett, Uno Gallery Presents: Expressionism in the Seventies, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE, 1979
Women Artists of Eastern Long Island, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY, April 1979
The Dragon and the Chrysanthemum: Chinese and Japanese Heritage in the Arts, Summit Art Center, Summit, NJ, March - April, 1979
Late Twentieth-Century Art, The Sydney and Frances Lewis Foundation, Richmond, VA, 1978


WRITING BY THE ARTIST
BOOKS
Canvas With an Unpainted Part: An Autobiography, Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo, Japan, 1976


TEXTS IN EXHIBITION CATALOGUES & BOOKS
"Two Views Bridged," Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ, 2002)
Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women, Hudson Hills Press, New York, NY, 1989
LI-LAN, Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, November 1980
Women Artists of Eastern Long Island, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY, April 1979
Late Twentieth Century Art, The Sydney and Frances Lewis Foundation, Richmond, VA, 1977
LI-LAN, Nantenshi Gallery, May 1977


SELECTED ARTICLES
Passacaglia fur Barbara, Iudicium Verlag GmbH, Munich, Germany, December 2004
"Memories of My Father," Yun Gee: Poetry, Writings, Art, Memories, ed. Anthony W. Lee, University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA, 2003
"Journey Home," The Art of Yun Gee, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, 1992
"A Memoir," Modern Art, No. 4, Taipei, Taiwan, April - May 1992
"About the Artist: Li-lan," Pan Am Windows Art Program, New York, NY, 1991
You Can't Be Too Rich - Or Too Thin: Favorite Recipes from the Hamptons, Southampton Hospital, Southampton, NY, 1988
"New Yorkers" Asahi Journal, Tokyo, Japan, 1981
Vol. 23, #9, March 6 Harold Vick
Vol. 23, #10, March 13 Lucy Lippard
Vol. 23, #11, March 20 Ralph and Hortense Carpentier
Vol. 23, #13, March 27 K.C. Li, Jr.
Vol. 23, #14, April 3 Elsie B. Washington
Vol. 23, #15, April 10 Irwin August
Vol. 23, #16, April 17 Peter Matthiessen
Vol. 23, #17, April 24 Anonymous
Vol. 23, #19, May 8 Gay Bryant and Charles Childs
Vol. 23, #20, May 15 Helen Gee
"Joan Semmel: Feminist Artist," Today, Vol. 1, #2, Tokyo, Japan, August 1980
"China: My Father's Village," Today, Vol. 1, July 1980
"Two" (prologue from Canvas with an Unpainted Part), Heresies: Third World Women: The Politics of Being Other, Vol. 2, #4, issue 8, New York, NY, 1979
"New York Art Today," Wonders of the World's Museums: The Metropolitan Museum, Kodansha, Tokyo, Japan, 1979
"Li-lan: Drunken Duck or Chicken," Palate to Palette: The Hampton Artists' Cookbook, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY, 1978
"Village Vanguard Story," Jazz and Jazz 5000, Kodansha, Tokyo, Japan, 1978
"On the Akatagawa Prize," The Gendai, Tokyo, Japan, 1978
"Stray Questions, Stray Thoughts: On My Painting," Ikebana Sogetsu, No. 113, Tokyo, Japan, 1977
"A Few Days," Hanga Geijutsu, Tokyo, Japan,1976
"Mexico Again," Geijutsu Seikatsu, No. 320, Tokyo, Japan, April 1976
"Canvas With an Unpainted Part" (twelve chapters), Asahi Journal, Tokyo, Japan, 1976
Vol. 18, #33, August 13 "Village Sodachi"
Vol. 18, #35, August 27 "Sixteen"
Vol. 18, #36, September 3 "Loft on Broadway"
Vol. 18, #37, September 10 "'Chokuritsu Fudo'"
Vol. 18, #38, September 17 "Changes"
Vol. 18, #39, September 24 "Yun Gee, My Father"
Vol. 18, #40, October 1 "Red, White and Blue"
Vol. 18, #41, October 8 "'My Business'"
Vol. 18, #43, October 15 "The Turbulent 60s"
Vol. 18, #44, October 22 "With Masuo"
Vol. 18, #45, October 29 "Artists: Here and There"
Vol. 18, #46, November 5 "The Art World: Here and There"


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Moore, Alan, Artforum, January 1975
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GRANTS
1990
Artists Grant, Artists Space, New York, NY
1988
Artists Grant, Artists Space, New York, NY


AWARDS
1993
Certificate of Merit: Chinese American Cultural Pioneer, New York City Council


LECTURES
1995
de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
With New Eyes: Towards an Asian American Art History on the West Coast
Panel Discussion: "The Artists' and Families Perspective: Looking at the 21st
Century"
The Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China Auditorium
1992
Visual Arts Seminar, Staller Center for the Arts
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Teacher: Maren Hassinger
The Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan Exhibition Hall
The Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan Auditorium
1991
New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA
Visiting Lecturer and Critic
University of Connecticut, Art Department, Graduate Students,
Prof. Deborah Muirhead Studio Visit, New York, Lecture and Slide Presentation
1990
Crossed Cultures: A Workshop for Culture in Transition
Parsons, New York, Lecture and Slide Presentation
Teacher: Margo Machida
1989
Crossed Cultures: A Workshop for Culture in Transition
Parsons, New York, Studio Visit and Lecture
Teacher: Margo Machida
1987
Long Island University, Southampton Campus, Fine Arts Department
Prof. Yoshi Higa Studio Visit, East Hampton, NY, Lecture
1984
Long Island University, Southampton Campus, Fine Arts Department
Prof. Robert Skinner Studio Visit, East Hampton, NY, Lecture (also 1983)
1980
Guild Hall Museum, Friends of Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
Studio Visit, East Hampton, NY, Lecture
1979
Hofstra University, Friends of Hofstra Museum, Hempstead, NY
Studio Visit, East Hampton, NY, Lecture


APPOINTMENTS
1989-1990
Artists Advisory Board, East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art,
East Hampton, NY
1984-1987
Regional Council, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY

 

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