CURRICULUM VITAE

Currently based in Auckland, New Zealand.

2003 Master of Fine Arts (Distinction) in Design, University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts, Christchurch
2001 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts, Christchurch

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
       
2010 Strangeland, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney
2009 Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
2009 Motel, Bartley and Company Art, Wellington
2009 Black Candy, City Art Rooms, Auckland  
2009 Auckland Art Fair, represented by Martin Browne Fine Art, Auckland
2009 A Fragile State, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney, Australia
2008 64, 64zero3, Christchurch     
2008 Art Suitcase, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland   
2008 Wallace Art Awards Finalists Show, Aotea Centre Gallery, Auckland & TheNewDowse, Lower Hutt 
2008 Bridge Art Fair, represented by City Art Rooms, Berlin
2008 Contours + Conditions, City Art Rooms, Auckland 
2008 New Victorians, University Art Gallery, University of Sydney, Australia
2008 9, 64zero3, Christchurch (solo)
2008 The Gravy Launch Exhibition, St Paul Street Gallery 3, Auckland
2008 Drawing Wall, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Manukau City
2008 Back to Front, 64zero3, Christchurch
2008 Coca Anthony Harper Award Exhibition, Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch      
2007 HOT, 64zero3, Christchurch
2007 Of Deities or Mortals, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, Christchurch
2007 Art School 125, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, Christchurch
2007 A Humid Day, The Gus Fisher Gallery, University of Auckland, Auckland (solo)
2007 Liyen Chong | Angela Singer | Sarah Smuts-Kennedy, Roger Williams Contemporary, Auckland
2007 Auckland Art Fair, represented by 64zero3, Auckland
2007 Ficciones, curated by Andrew Paul Wood, 64zero3, Christchurch
2006 Drawings I would like to sell you for the rest of my life, 64zero3, Christchurch (solo)
2006 Recovered Memory, curated by Lara Strongman, The Suter Te Aratoi o Whakatu, Nelson
2005 Thread, 64zero3, Christchurch
2003  A Third Place, curated by Ewen McDonald, University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts Gallery, Christchurch

COLLECTIONS
                                   
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
The Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, Toi o Tamaki, New Zealand
University of Canterbury Fine Art Collection, New Zealand
Private collections throughout New Zealand, Australia and the U.S. 

SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS

2008 2nd Runner Up Award, The 17th Annual Wallace Art Awards       
2008 Finalist, Coca Anthony Harper Award
2004 The Ethel Susan Jones Travel Scholarship (sole recipient)
2002 The Ethel Rose Overton Scholarship     
2001 The Seagar Prize in Fine Arts
2001 The Ethel Rose Overton Scholarship
2000 Grant-Lingard Scholarship (full fees scholarship)        
1999 The Bickerton-Widdowson Memorial Scholarship
1999 The Lonsdale-Edgar Junior Prize for Drawing

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Clement, Tracey. “Dead Certain.” The Sydney Morning Herald Metro, 29 Aug. 2008: p21
“Close Up” Pre. Mark Sainsbury. TVNZ 1. 11 Jul. 2008
Shiels, Rosa. “Stitching in Hair.” The Christchurch Press, 9 Jul. 2008.
“The Gravy Series 2, Episode 4.” Dir. Simon Raby. TVNZ 6. 6 Apr. 2008.
McNamara, T.J. “The Galleries: History in the making.” The New Zealand Herald, 20 Dec. 2007.
Baker, Kriselle, The Enchantment of Irony, 9, Liyen Chong, 2008, exhibition catalogue/artist’s book
Brown, Warwick, Seen This Century, Random House, 2009, p. 64-67
Boyce, Roger, Garden of Forking Paths, Art New Zealand, No. 124 2007, p. 38-40
Brettkelly-Chalmers, Kate, Untitled, 2007, exhibition catalogue
Chong, Liyen, Medicine Packet, Landfall 211 ‘Borderline’, Issue 211 2006, p. 200
Hall, Ken, Of Deities or Mortals, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, Christchurch, 2007, exhibition catalogue
Strongman, Lara, Recovered Memory, The Suter Te Aratoi o Whakatu, Nelson, 2006, exhibition catalogue
Wood, Andrew Paul, Ficciones, 64zero3, 2007, exhibition catalogue
McDonald, Ewen, A Third Place, University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts Gallery, 2003, exhibition catalogue
Watson, Aaron, Hair Style, Artzone, No. 18 2007, p. 29-35
Were, Virginia, Conjuring Tricks, Art News, Autumn 2008, p. 104-105
Boccalatte, Suzanne, and Jones, Meredith eds. Trunk; Volume One: Hair, Bocalatte Publishing, 2009, p. 92,94


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