| HILO
CHEN (1942 - )
| 1942 |
Born: Yee-Lum, Taiwan |
| 1968 |
Moved to Paris |
| 1968 |
Moved to New York City |
| EDUCATION |
| 1961-66 |
B.S. Architectural Engineering, Chung Yien
College, Taiwan |
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| SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
| 1974 |
Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1976 |
Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1977 |
Tomasulo Gallery, Union College, Cranford, NJ |
| 1978 |
Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1980 |
Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1982 |
Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1984 |
Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1985 |
Hsiung Shih Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 1986 |
Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1988 |
Galerie Esperanza, Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| 1990 |
Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1990 |
Gallery Delaive BV, Amsterdam, Holland |
| 1991 |
Nan Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 1993 |
Apollo Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 1993 |
Modern Art Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan |
| 1994 |
Apollo Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 1995 |
Modern Art Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan |
| 1996 |
Nan Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 1998 |
Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, March 7-28 |
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS |
| 1962-66 |
The Ton-Fan Painting Exhibitions, National Taiwan Arts
Center, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 1963-66 |
The Modern Graphic Exhibitions, National Taiwan Arts
Center, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 1965 |
Modern Graphic Art Exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 1965 |
Ton-Fan Painting, International Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 1966 |
First Season of Modern Art Exhibition, Chinese & American
Culture Association, Taiwan |
| 1966 |
Ton-Fan Painting Exhibition, Haiten Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 1966 |
Chinese Modern Graphic Exhibition, CT |
| 1967 |
Second Season of Modern Art Exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 1967 |
Chinese Modern Art Exhibition, Luz Gallery, Manila, Philippines |
| 1967 |
Ton-Fan Painting, Wensing Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 1967 |
Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibition, Woessner Gallery,
Seattle, WA |
| 1973 |
Warren Benedek Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1974 |
Kingpitcher Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA |
| 1974 |
Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN |
| 1974 |
Taft Museum of Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH |
| 1974 |
"Aspects of Realism," Gallery Moos Ltd., Toronto,
Canada |
| 1974 |
Penn State Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1974 |
"New Photo-Realism," Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford,
CT |
| 1974 |
"Some Realists," Hathorn Gallery, Skidmore College,
Saratoga Springs, NY |
| 1975 |
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD |
| 1975 |
Maier Museum Of Art, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg,
VA |
| 1975 |
Lafayette Natural History Museum & Planetarium, Lafayette,
IN |
| 1975 |
The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH |
| 1975 |
Morgan Gallery, Shawnee Mission, KS |
| 1975 |
Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1975 |
Barrington Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand |
| 1975-76 |
"Super Realism," Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore,
MD |
| 1975-76 |
"Photo-Realism, American Painting & Prints,"
New Zealand |
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Traveling Exhibition: Robert McDougall Art Gallery, |
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Christchurch; Academy of Fine Arts, National Gallery, |
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Wellington; Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin; Govett-Brewster
Art Gallery, New Plymouth; Waikato Art Museum, |
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Hamilton, Barrington Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand |
| 1976 |
D.P. Gallery, Heidelberg, Germany |
| 1976 |
Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1976 |
Edwin A. Ulrich Museum, Wichita State University, Wichita,
KS |
| 1976 |
Young & Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 1976 |
"3e foire internationale d'art contemporain,"(FIAC)
Grand Palais, Paris, France, October 16-24 |
| 1976 |
Galerie Le Portail, Heidelberg, West Germany |
| 1977 |
Hanson-Cowles Gallery, MN |
| 1977 |
Tomasulo Gallery, Union College, Cranford, NJ |
| 1977 |
Shore Gallery, Boston, MA |
| 1978 |
Tolarno Galleries, South Yarra, Victoria, Australia |
| 1979 |
"Realist Paintings From New York," Southern
Alleghenies Museum of Art, St. Francis College, Loretto,
PA |
| 1979 |
"Photo-Realism: Some Points of View," Jorgensen
Gallery, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, March
19 - April 10 |
| 1980 |
Kaufmann Gallery, Houston, TX |
| 1980 |
Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1981 |
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH |
| 1981 |
Bard College, Hudson, NY, February 10 - March 15 |
| 1981 |
"Cityscapes," The Graphics Gallery, Arnot Art
Museum, Elmira, NY |
| 1981 |
"Changes 1881/1981," Marquette University, Marquette,
WI |
| 1981-83 |
"Contemporary American Realism Since 1960,"
Traveling Exhibition: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts,
Philadelphia, PA, 9/18-12/13/81 |
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Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 2/1-3/28/82 |
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Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, 5/6-7/25/82 |
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USICA Sponsored Tour: Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal,
9/10-10/24/82 |
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Sales de Exposciones, Madrid, Spain, 11/17/82-1/8/83 |
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Germanishes National Museum, Nuremberg, Germany, 2/11-4/10/83 |
| 1981-83 |
"Deja Vu: Masterpieces Updated," Western Association
of ArtMuseums traveling exhibition: El Paso Museum of Art,
El Paso,TX, 2/1-3/1/81 |
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Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane, WA, 4/15-5/15/81 |
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Arapaho Community College, Littleton, CO, 7/8-8/14/81 |
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Roanoke Fine Arts Center, Roanoke, VA, 10/1-10/30/81 |
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Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO, 11/20-12/18/81 |
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Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH, 2/13-3/21/82 |
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Pacific Union College Art Gallery, Angwin, CA, 4/20-5/20/82 |
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Art Center, Inc., South Bend, IN, 8/15-9/12/82 |
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Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont, TX,10/1-10/30/82 |
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University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, 11/15-12/15/82 |
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Santa Fe Community College Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM,
1/10-2/15/83 |
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Bass Museum, Miami Beach, FL, 3/1-3/29/83 |
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The Fine Arts Center, Nashville, TN, 4/19-6/13/83 |
| 1982 |
"Contemporary Realism," A Three Gallery Exhibition:
"The Figure,"The Castle Gallery, New Rochelle,
NY, January 24 - February 21 |
| 1982 |
Photographs by the Photorealists," Fort Wayne Museum
of Art, IN, Jan. 8-31 |
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Cleveland Museum of Art, OH, Feb. 11-28 |
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Ball State Museum, Muncie, IN, March 7-31 |
| 1982 |
"Louis K. Meisel Gallery in Brussels," Galerie
Isy Brachot, Brussels, Belgium, April 22 - May 22 |
| 1982 |
"The Artist and the Airbrush," San Jose State
University, San Jose, CA, February 1 - March 12 |
| 1982 |
"An Appreciation of Realism," Munson-Williams-Proctor
Institute, Utica, NY, February 13 - April 11 |
| 1982 |
"The Chinese Response-Paintings by Leading Overseas
Artists," |
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Hong Kong Museum of Art, April 1 - May 30 |
| 1982 |
Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, Oct. 9 - Nov. 7 |
| 1983 |
"Noho, Soho and Tribeca," Maier Museum Of Art,
Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, VA, March 20
- April 10 |
| 1983 |
"The American Photorealists," Fischer Fine Art,
London, England, May 6 - June 3 |
| 1983 |
"10th Anniversary Exhibition," Louis K. Meisel
Gallery, New York, NY, October 8-29 |
| 1983 |
"Modern Nude Painting 1880-1980," The National
Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan, October 8 - December 4 |
| 1984 |
"Important Recent Acquisitions and New Directions,"
Byer Museum of The Arts, Evanston, IL, March 16 - May 20 |
| 1984 |
Martha White Gallery, Louisville, KY, January |
| 1984 |
"Flower as Image," Wave Hill, Bronx, NY, February
8 - May 7 |
| 1984 |
“Aspects of Realism,” Walter Moos Gallery,
Toronto, Canada, Sept. 15 - Oct. 15 |
| 1984-85 |
"New Realism," Robert L. Kidd Gallery, Birmingham,
MI, Dec. 15 - Jan. 19 |
| 1985-86 |
Beaux Art Collectors Gallery, Columbus Museum of Art,
Columbus, OH, Jan. 24 - Jan. |
| 1985 |
Park Synagogue Art Festival X, Cleveland, OH, April 27
- 30 |
| 1985 |
"49th Annual National Midyear Show," The Butler
Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, June 30 - Aug.
25 |
| 1986 |
"Erotica Two," Brenda Kroos Gallery, Columbus,
OH, Feb. 14-March 23 |
| 1987 |
"Realism: The New Generation," R.H. Love Modern,
Chicago, IL, June 5 - July 13 |
| 1988 |
"20th Anniversary (15 in SoHo)-Artists & Movements
From Our First Two Decades," Louis K. Meisel Gallery,
New York, NY, Nov.5 - 26 |
| 1989-91 |
"At The Water's Edge: 19th and 20th Century American
Beach Scenes," |
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Traveling Exhibition: Tampa Museum of Art, FL, 12/9/89-2/25/90 |
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Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL, 5/4-6/17 |
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Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, VA, 7/8-9/2 |
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The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR, 11/8/90-1/6/91 |
| 1990 |
"Amerikansk Fotorealism," Art Now Gallery, Gothenburg,
Sweden, October 20 - November 25 |
| 1991 |
"Love, Sex and Romance," Vered Gallery, East
Hampton, NY, July 20 - August 8 |
| 1991 |
"Taipei - New York: Confrontation of Modernism,"
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, July 6 - September
29 |
| 1991 |
“The 35th Anniversary of Ton-Fan and Wu-Yan,”
Contemporary Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 1992 |
“The 13th National Art Exhibition,” National
Taiwan Art Museum, Traveling Exhibitions: Taipei, Taichung,
Kausheng and Falang, Taiwan |
| 1992 |
“1992 Taiwanese Modern Art,” Modern Art Gallery,
Taichung, Taiwan |
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1992 Art Galleries Fair R.O.C.,” Taipei, Taiwan |
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"Photorealism From Nashville Collections," Cheekwood
Fine Arts Center, Nashville, TN, June 13-21 |
| 1993 |
"Really, Real, Realism Show," Jack Wright Gallery,
Palm Beach, FL, January 8-29 |
| 1993 |
“1993 Art Galleries Fair R.O.C.,” Taichung,
Taiwan |
| 1994 |
“1994 Art Galleries Fair R.O.C.,” Taipei,
Taiwan |
| 1997 |
“Photorealism,” Jaffe Baker Gallery, Boca
Raton, FL, Jan. 9-31 |
| 1997 |
“Surfin’ The Wave,”, Brevard Museum
of Art and Science, Melbourne, FL, January 10 - March 23 |
| 1998 |
“Photorealism”, Jaffe Baker Gallery, Boca
Raton, FL, February 12 – March 7 |
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PUBLIC COLLECTIONS |
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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY |
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San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose CA |
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Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan |
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Taiwan Museum of Arts, Taichung, Taiwan |
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Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI |
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| SELECTED PUBLICATIONS |
| 1974 |
Soho Weekly News, New York, January 31, p.9 |
| 1974 |
"Reviews," Soho Weekly News, New York, February
7, p.12 |
| 1974 |
Van Baron, Judith. "Review," Arts Magazine,
April |
| 1974 |
Hughs, Robert. "An Omnivorous and Literal Dependence,"
Arts Magazine, June, p.29 |
| 1975 |
Mikotajuk, Andrea. "American Realists at L.K.M.G.,"
Arts Magazine, January, pp.19-20 |
| 1975 |
Bromhead, Peter. "Going Back In Town," The Auckland
Star, July 23 |
| 1975 |
Belden, Dorothy. "Realism Exaggerated in Ulrich Art
Exhibition," Wichita Eagle, March, Lifestyle Page |
| 1976 |
Schultze, Sabine. "Fleisch, Fassaden und Feuerstible,"
Germany |
| 1976 |
Fesser, Sigrid. "Fotorealismus, eine neue Salonkunst?"
Manheimer Morgan, West Germany |
| 1976 |
"Das Ende ist uberall," Frankfurter Rundschau,
West Germany |
| 1976 |
"Investing In Young Artists," Business Week,
May 3, pp.127-134 |
| 1976 |
Brown, Gordon. "Group Show," Arts Magazine,
September, p.37 |
| 1976 |
Allen, Barbara. "For The First Time...I Like What
I Am Doing," The Stars & Stripes, West Germany,
December 17, p.9 |
| 1978 |
Zimmer, William. "Ferrara's Wood," The Soho
Weekly News, New York November 2, p.31 |
| 1979 |
"Playboy's Roving Eye," Playboy, March, pp.246-247 |
| 1980 |
"Contemporary & Modern Art to be Offered June
10 At Christie's East," Antiques & The Arts Weekly,
June 6, p.38 |
| 1980 |
Meisel, Louis K. "Hilo Chen," Arts Magazine,
December, p.57 |
| 1981 |
Karmel, Pepe. "Photographs by the Photorealists,"
Art in America, May, p.140 |
| 1981 |
Yoskowitz, Robert. Arts Magazine, December 1981, p.14 |
| 1982 |
"New York a Bruxelles et vise-versa," Libre
Belgique, Brussels, Belgium, May 7 |
| 1982 |
Ray, Stephane. "La Galerie Brachot et la Galerie
Louis K. Meisel," Echo de la Bauru, May 9 |
| 1982 |
Gillemon, Daniele. "Une galerie Bruxelloise a l'heure
New Yorkaise," Le Soir, Brussels, Belgium, May 12 |
| 1984 |
"Penthouse Forum," Penthouse Magazine, Sept.,
p.10, illustration |
| 1987 |
Ligocki, Gordon. "Photorealism holds on to 1980's
Audiences," The Times, Hammond, IN, July 3, p.B-7 |
| 1989 |
Penthouse Letters, January, ill. p.3 |
| 1989 |
Penthouse Letters, October, ill. p.56 |
| 1990 |
Penthouse Hot Talk, Jan./Feb. ill. pp.28-29 |
1991 |
Tansug, Sezer. "Türk Koleksiyonculugunda Uluslarasi
Boyutlar," Antik & Dekor, Istanbul, Turkey, p.
181, ill. |
1992 |
Penthouse, March, ill. p. 6 |
| 1997 |
Harbaugh, Pam. “New Museum Explores The World
of Water”, Florida Today, Melbourne, FL, January
17, Section D, pp.1D-2D. |
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| SELECTED BOOKS |
| 1975 |
Kulterman, Udo. Neue Formen Des Bildes, Verlad Ernst Wasmuth,
Tubingen, West Germany, p.26 illustration |
| 1978 |
Krantz, Les. The New York Art Review, The Krantz Company,
New York |
| 1980 |
Smith, Bradley. 20th Century Masters of Erotic Art, Crown
Publishers, New York |
| 1980 |
Lindey, Christine. Superrealist Painting and Sculpture,
William Morrow & Company, Inc., New York, pp.80,85 |
| 1980 |
Meisel, Louis K. Photorealism, Harry N. Abrams, Inc.,
New York |
| 1982 |
Krantz, Les. The New York Art Review, The Krantz Company,
New York, illustration |
| 1985 |
Krantz, Les. American Art Galleries, Facts on File Publications,
New York, NY, p.211 |
| 1985 |
Krantz, Les. American Artists-An Illustrated Survey of
Leading Contemporary Americans, Facts on File Publications,
New York, NY, p. 45, illustration |
| 1985 |
Paschal, Robert W. & Anderson, Robert R. The Art of
The Dot (Advanced Airbrush Techniques), Van Nostrand Reinhold
Co., Inc., New York, NY, p.51, Illustration |
| 1988 |
Krantz, Les. The New York Art Review, American References,
Inc., Chicago, IL, p.380 |
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| SELECTED CATALOGS |
| 1978 |
Browning, Robert H. "Ancient Heritage-New Directions,"
Alternative Center for International Arts, Inc. October
18 - November 18 |
| 1979 |
Gerling, Steve. "Photo Realism: Some Points of View,"
Jorgensen Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT,
Mar.19-April 10 |
| 1980 |
Styron, Thomas W. "American Figure Painting 1950-1980,"
The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, October 17- November 30,
p.30 |
| 1981 |
"Cityscapes," The Column, Arnot Art Museum,
Elmira, NY, July-Aug. |
| 1981 |
"Changes: Art in America," Marquette University,
Oct. 5 - Nov. 6 |
| 1982 |
"The Artist and the Airbrush," Art Department,
San Jose State University, CA |
| 1983 |
"Modern Nude Paintings, 1880-1980," The National
Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan, p.85, Illustration |
| 1989 |
Lynes, Russell, William H. Gerdts, and Donald B. Kuspit.
"At The Water's Edge: 19th and 20th Century American
Beach Scenes," Tampa Museum of Art, FL, Traveling Exhibition,
pp. 111,128, |
| 1991 |
Jen Shih, Jui; Ling Lai, Hsiang. "Taipei - New York:
Confrontation of Modernism," Taipei Fine Arts Museum,
Taiwan, R.O.C, July 6 - September - 29, pp.19-23 |
| 1991 |
“Hilo Chen,” Nan Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 1991 |
“The 35th Anniversary of Ton-Fan And Wu-Yan,”
Contemporary Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 1992 |
“The 13th National Art Exhibition,” National
Taiwan Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 1992 |
“1992 Taiwanese Modern Art,” Modern Art Gallery,
Taichung, Taiwan |
| 1993 |
“Hilo Chen,” Modern Art Gallery, Taichung,
Taiwan |
| 1993 |
“Paintings by Hilo Chen,” Apollo Art Gallery,
Taipei, Taiwan |
| 1994 |
“Paintings by Hilo Chen.” Apollo Art Gallery,
Taipei, Taiwan |
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