Syau-Cheng Lai Gallery

Artist's Resume


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Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007 Visualizing 'for Bunita Marcus' The Olive Tjaden Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
2002 Polyphony The State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, New York
2000 Rococo Extravaganza The Clinton House Artspace, Ithaca, New York
1998 Chromatic Fantasy The State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, New York


Selected Two and Three Person Exhibitions
2007 Transformations, with Ann Johnson Miller The Upstairs Gallery, Ithaca, New York
2007 Material Dreams, with Fernando Llosa and Andreas Rittmeyer The Oxford Gallery, Rochester, New York
2007 Mixed Media Works, with Stephen Datz and Aida Khalil The Gallery at the Ann Felton Multicultural Center, Onondaga Community College, Syracuse, New York
2006 Optical / Lyrical, with Beth Hylen The Houghton Gallery at Cedar Art Center, Corning, New York
2005 Painting Exhibit: Recent Works, with Linda Bigness The String Room Gallery, Wells College, Aurora, New York
1999 Touched by Gold, with Tim Merrick and Susan Thomas 171 Cedar Art Space, Corning, New York


Selected Group Exhibitions
2006 Current, An Exhibit of Four Painters The Art Mission Gallery, Binghamton, New York
2006 untitled The Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, Massachusetts
2006 Summer Exhibit The Blink Gallery, Andes, New York
2006 Art on Water Festival Vanishing Point Studio and Art Gallery, Lockwood, New York
2005 December Exhibition Community School of Music & Arts, Ithaca, New York
2003, 2004 Regional Exhibit Wessex-Bristol Gallery for the Arts, Ithaca, New York
2001 TEXT/Image Exhibit New York Tompkins County Public Library, Ithaca, New York
2001 Award Winners Group Exhibition
The Stage Gallery, Merrick, New York
2001 Fourth Annual Art Exhibition Studio Montclair Inc., Upper Montclair, New Jersey
1999, 2000 Made in New York Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, New York
1999 International Juried Show New Jersey Center For Visual Arts, Summit, New Jersey
1998 Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club 102nd Annual Exhibition The National Arts Club, New York, New York
1998 5th National Juried Art Exhibition Highland Cultural Center Art Gallery, Highland, New York
1997 The 62nd Annual National Exhibition & Essential Art: 6th Annual Regional Art Show Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, New York
1997-2002 Members Show The State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, New York


Selected Recitals
2007 For Bunita Marcus by Morton Feldman, solo piano performance Barnes Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
2004 Vingt regards sur l'Enfant-Jesus by Olivier Messiaen, solo piano performance Barnes Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
2003 Piano Quintet, Op. 57, by Dmitri Shostakovich, with the Lilac String Quartet First Presbyterian Church, Ithaca, New York
1998 Piano Etudes, nos. 4 & 5 by György Ligeti, solo piano Unitarian Church, Ithaca, New York


Collaborations
1999

The Hundred Years War, a dance shown on Dance Concert '99, the annual concert of faculty and student work by the Cornell University Dance Program. Projections of art works shown in collaboration with choreographer Jumay Chu and composer Allen Fogelsanger.

Proscenium Theater, Center for Theatre Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
1998 A Celebration of the Creative Spirit: New Music, Art, and Dance. Slide projections of art works shown in collaboration with performance by new music ensemble Chiron. Tiamat Loft, Ithaca, New York
1994 Timepiece, a program of twentieth-century music and dance. Costume design in collaboration with choreographer Peggy Lawler and Ithaca Opera Association, Cornell Musica Nova. Barnes Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York


Grants & Awards
2006-2007 CCA Individual Artist Grant Cornell Council for the Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
2006 CAC Artists Residency Fellowship Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, Massachusetts
2004 United Arts Fund Fellowship Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County, New York
2002Individual Artist Grant Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts
1999-2001, 2005-2007 Special Opportunity Stipend New York Foundation for the Arts and Upper Catskill Community Council of the Arts


Publication
2001 1 by 8 by 3, music compact disc cover original art design. Music composed and directed by Allen Fogelsanger in collaboration with Max Buckholtz and Rob Collins. 2000 MRA Publishing


Education
1994 Ph.D. in Biopsychology Cornell University, USA
1987 M.S. in Animal Science Cornell University, USA
1985 B.S. in Animal Science National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan


Bibliography
May 9, 2007 Transformations, by Arthur Whitman The Ithaca Times
March 2007 Critic's Commentary, by James Hall The Oxford Gallery Online, Rochester
March 11, 2007 Mixed Media, Tied Together, by Katherine Rushworth The Syracuse Post-Standard
February 5, 2007 Visualizing, by Arthur Whitman thethinkingi.blogspot.com, Ithaca
February 1, 2007 Unfolding Art, by Jim Catalano The Ithaca Journal
January 31, 2007 An Unlikely Marriage, by Natasha Li Pickowicz The Ithaca Times
November 30, 2006 Deck the Halls with an Arty Twist The Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin
May 15, 2002 Mixing Media, by Donna Bloom The Ithaca Times
May, 2002 Artist Featured Special Peggassy TV, Ithaca
March 21, 2001 Extra Texture, by Emily Johnson The Ithaca Times
December, 2000 Featured New York Artist, Morning News WCNY Public TV, Syracuse
November 2, 2000 Imagination Takes Off with Lai's Exhibited Works, by Roger & Adrienne Bea Smith The Ithaca Journal
August, 2000 Art Review, by Nancy Green The Ithaca Times
August 17, 2000 In Search of Ithacans in Auburn, by Roger & Adrienne Bea Smith The Ithaca Journal
December 16, 1999 Gallery's Show Eyes Millennium's Close, by Nancy Green The Ithaca Times
March 3, 1999 171 Cedar Arts Center Has New Exhibit Glittering with Gold, by Lydia Fernandez The Elmira Star-Gazette
June 25, 1998 Paintings by Syau-Cheng Lai Weave Cultures, Pull You Close, by David Estes The Ithaca Journal
June 25, 1998 Worldly Abstractions, by Alison Shaw The Ithaca Times


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