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Artist Statement:
Art Statement
Cynthia Tom is a visual
multi-media artist, passionate
about social justice, women’s
issues and playing with the
accepted norm. Surrealism is
the platform for her ideas to
ruminate, take form, solutions
discovered and color to
inspire.
A seeker and philosopher
about issues in her life, her
ancestors and the community of
women, she is inspired by
dialog with friends and
family, forming new themes and
stories for her work.
Collaboration and
brainstorming are her passion.
Her work has been
exhibited at the Legion of
Honor in San Francisco, the De
Young Museum, and Yerba Buena
Center for the Arts and
various other galleries from
New York to Washington to San
Francisco. She lectures on her
work, issues related to women,
feminism in the arts and Asian
American women in the arts.
Cynthia is included in the
text book, “Women Artists of
the American West”, edited by
Susan Ressler, University of
Purdue and “Traces of
Migration and In-Betweeness:
Poetics and Politics in
Post-colonial Asian Women
Artists”, by Laura Fantone
PhD, SF Art Institute
,University of Padua Press,
Italy. Cynthia is currently
Board President, Exhibitions
Curator and Programs Chair of
AAWAA, Asian American Women
Artists Association.
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Exhibitions for Cynthia Tom:
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Medium
Painting, mixed media, installation, cultural and social issues, curatorial projects
Selected Solo Exhibitions and Artist in residence programs
2010-2011 SF Arts Commission -Art in Storefronts, Chinatown, 950 GRANT AVE., SF
2006 Undiscovered Research, Exhibition in conjunction with the Artist in Residence Program, The Legion of Honor, San Francisco
2005 February Arts in San Francisco, Borgia Fine Arts Gallery, S.F.
2003 Juried Exhibition, 2100 Webster Pan-Pacific Public Space, San Francisco, CA
2002 Exhibition in conjunction with the Artist in Residence, San Francisco Fine Arts Museums to coincide with the Legion of Honor’s Surrealist Exhibition, Dreaming with Eyes Wide Open.
2000 The Artist’s Studio Exhibition and Artist in Residence, M.H. de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
1997 AstraMerck Gallery-Solo exhibition, Lynn Rolston, Sacramento, CA
1997 Midtown Arts Center-Solo exhibition, St. Louis, MO
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 INdiVisible, 3 Artists UC Santa Barbara MC Gallery, Santa Barbara
2011 Women Artists of the Bay Area, Donna Seagar juror, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, CA
2011 Discards & Variances, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, RBI Gallery, San Francisco
2009-2011 Curator, A PLACE OF HER OWN, AAWAA, De Young Museum, Driftwood Salon, SOMarts Cultural Center, SF
2009 5th Annual National Self Portrait Exhibition, Zhou B. Art Center, Chicago. Juror: Gregg Hertzlieb, Director and Curator of the Brauer Museum of Art, Indiana.
2009 Hybridity-Guest Installation Artist, Rio Yanez Curator, SomArts Cultural Centre, San Francisco
2009 A Place Of Her Own, AAWAA, Curator and artist, de Young Museum, Artists in Residence, San Francisco
2008 East Meets West, ArtSF Gallery, 49 Geary Blvd., San Francisco
2007 Guest Curator and Artist: Cheers to Muses, Contemporary Works by Asian American Women Chinese Culture Center, SF
2006 Invitational Artist, SomArts Cultural Center’s Annual Day of the Dead Exhibition, Rene Yanez
2004 Guest Artist, Uncrossing the XX, The Feminine Identity, Delta Center for the Arts & The LH Horton Jr., Gallery, Stockton, CA
2004 Invitational Artist – Year of the Monkey: Chinese Artists, Different Continents,Univ. of Channel Islands, Santa Barbara, CA
2003 Guest Artist – The De Young Museum Topping Off Ceremony, Golden Gate Park, S.F.
2003 Woman as Symbol, juried group show, Ca Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco
2002 Artists of the Sunset – A Group Show, De Young Museum Art Center, San Francisco, CA
2002 Slowly Enter, SF Arts Commission Chinatown Gallery, San Francisco, CACurator-Rachel Osajima, MOMA Rental Gallery and Richmond Art Center, CA
2001 Annual Bay Arts 2001, San Mateo County Arts Council, San Mateo;
Curator - Phil Linhares, chief curator of the Oakland Museum, CA
2001 Crossing Bridges, CBS MarketWatch Studios, San Francisco, CA
2001 Angel Island: Chinese Immigration Experience, SF Arts Commission Chinatown Gallery
2000 Guest Artist - Annual Surrealism Exhibition, Goldstrom Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Passing, Euphrat Museum, Sunnyvale, CA
1999 Nine Lives, Works Gallery, San Jose, CA
1999 They Hold Up Half the Sky, SomArts Cultural Center-San Francisco, CA
1999 Family Diversity, Koret Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1998 Asian American Women Artists, Center for Visual Arts, Oakland, CA
1998 Women of the Northwest, Wiseman Gallery, Grants Pass, OR
Selected Publications and Interviews
2011 Entering the Picture: Judy Chicago, The Fresno Feminist Art Program, and the Collective Visions of Women Artists (New Directions in American History) edited by Jill Fields.
2011Sydnie Kohara, CBS TV, A PLACE OF HER OWN
2011KPFA Radio – A PLACE OF HER OWN, The Curator,Veronica Faisant,NPR
2010 NPR Radio- Tell Me More-Tony Cox, Wash, D.C., Women Artists Find Their Place
2009-2011 Traces: Politics and Poetics of post-colonial East-Asian women artists in California by Laura Fantone PhD, Italy, Scholar-in-residence, UC Berkeley for Gender, Beatrice Bain Research Group, professor Art Institute of San Francisco
2009 SF Chronicle's 96 Hours Visual Arts- Featured artist for SF Open Studios
2008 ABC Channel 7 - Profiles of Excellence, Emerging Leaders in San Francisco
2007 Cheers To Muses, an Anthology of Contemporary Work by Asian American Women.
2005 Interview for television: Mandalay Productions, Intl.: Quest for Beauty, Women Who UseBeauty as a Commodity.
2004 Book cover: The Experience of Modernity, Janet Ng, Univ. of Michigan Press.
2003 Art and Soul, the SF Sunset Beacon –Jonathan Farrell
2003 Women Artists of the American West, Book and CD and curriculum, Susan Ressler PhD., editor, Purdue University Press.
2002 Dreaming with Eyes Wide Open, Artist in Residence at the San Francisco Fine Arts Museums,SF Arts Monthly
2001 Art That Moves, Ron Curran, editor-BANG magazine
1999 Re-Orientation: Washington Square Gallery- Gennie Rim, AsianWeek
1999 Art Review, Koret Gallery - San Jose Mercury News
1998 Of Our Own Voice, Asian American Women Artists –Anthology
1998 Women of the Northwest – Univ.of Oregon, Wiseman Gallery, OR
Organizations
Board President- AAWAA, Asian American Women Artists' Association. College Art Association Affiliate,CA Lawyers for the Arts, Women’s Caucus for the Art, International Museum of Women, De Young Museum’s Asian American Audience Development Committee
Selected Guest Lectures and Workshops
2011 State of Asian American Women in the Arts, College Art Association, New York
2011 Re-Pairing, re-imagine discarded treasures, sewing, mixed media, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF
2010 A Place of Her Own – Workshops with Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach
2009- 2011 Cynthia Tom, Her Art, Feminism and Asian American women artists, UC Berkeley and San Francisco State Asian American studies
2009 Asia Society presents Asian American Art: Feminism and the Arts: Panel Discussion
2008 Asian American Art, Where Are We Now? - UC Berkeley, Calif.
2007 Chinese Culture Center, Cheers to Muses, Curatorial Director
2005 Artists and the Business of Art, Marketing yourself. AAWAA newsletter and workshops.
2005 Mills College, Asian American Women Artists’, Their Work, Their Process, Their Progress.Cynthia Tom’s Concepts, Art Dept., Mills College, Oakland, CA
2003 The De Young Museum, S.F., Celebration, collage workshop-Concourse GG Park.
2002 The De Young Art Center, San Francisco&<61485; Intuitive Collage, a mixed media workshop
2002 The Legion of Honor and the de Young Museum Art Center, San Francisco Artist demonstrations and process workshops during Artist in Residence.
2002 City College of San Francisco, Rick Rodriquez-professor – Surrealism and the Psychology of
my art process.
2001 SF ArtSpan/Open Studios Preview Event, Art, The Artist, the Buyer.
2000-2002 U.C. Berkeley and SF State University&<61485;Artists and the Business of Art
1999 CA College of Arts and Crafts&<61485;The Business of Art
1999 Euphrat Museum, Sunnyvale, CA. Guest artist and speaker
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