Kathryn Lydia Chan
About
Visual and installation artist. Born Trinidad, West Indies 1960. Spent formative years practicing as a painter in watercolors and oils.
Studied at Parsons School or Design, New York and Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA and Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Canada.
Artist-in-residence: Asa Wright Nature Centre and Triangle Trust/Caribbean Contemporary Arts (CCA7), Trinidad; Civitella Ranieri, Italy; Triangle Trust, Uist, Scotland; Vermont Studio Centre, Skowhegan, and Virginia Centre for the Arts, USA; Gruber Jez Foundation, Mexico; Fellow at Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, USA.
Comb to the Wind, 2003
Found weathered agricultural machinery parts, whisky bottles, cut metal, wire. Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
Selection
Tear and Burn
2004
Series of photographs
Trinidad
Constellation
2004
Aluminum sheeting from newspaper printing, agricultural mesh
Show: Landings I, Cholul, Mexico
Curated by Juan Duran
Acknowledgement: Foundation Gruber Jez
Praise
2004
Aluminum sheeting from newspaper printing, scaffolding
Show: Landings, Cholul, Mexico
Curated by Juan Duran
Acknowledgement: Foundation Gruber Jez
and Virginia Centre for the Arts
Justice
2001
Silk, steel, wire rope
Installation: CCA7
Part of solo exhibition "Symbols of Endurance"