Kristiana Chan 莊礼恩 is a multimedia visual artist from the American South based in the Bay Area. Her work examines the material memory of the landscape as a living archive, which serves as evidence of survival and resilience. Chan is interested in themes of science and speculative fiction, and often considers littoral coastal zones in her artistic practice, gleaning ancient wisdom from environments and organisms that have adapted to rapidly changing conditions. Expanding her scope into cyclical, cosmological, and geological time, Chan investigates evolutionary morphologies, both real and fictive, and more-than-human interspecies entanglements with the anthropocentric built environment.
Chan is a recipient of the Murphy Cadogan Award and the Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship, and has held residencies at ACRE, Steuben, Wisconsin; Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, Colorado; Tides Institute of Art and History, Eastport, Maine; and Stelo Arts, Portland, Oregon. She has received support from the Arts Research Center, Asian American Research Center, Art and Climate Action Network, and NCECA Graduate Student Fellowship. She has exhibited at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco; the Montalvo Art Center, Saratoga, California; the Bolinas Museum, California; the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History; Morgann Trumbull Projects, Emeryville, California; SOMArts, San Francisco; Vessel Gallery, Oakland; Kearny Street Workshop, San Francisco; and the Monterey Art Museum.
Resume available upon request.