Artists & Projects Directory
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SUNGMYUNG CHUN
Sungmyung Chun received his B.F.A and M.F.A from Suwon University
in South Korea.
Chun's seventh solo exhibition Swallowing
the Shadow was recently held at TouchART Gallery in Heyri
Art Valley,
Paju, Korea. Chun participated in ARCO
2007, Art Rotterdam 2007, Busan Biennale 2006 and Gwangju Biennale 2000 as well
as various group exhibitions worldwide including in Italy,
France, Israel, Spain,
and China.
He is the recipient of the grand prize at the Kim Sejoonj Young Scupltor Awards
and the third prize at the 2007 Mircro-Narratives, October Salon, in Belgrade, Serbia.
Chun's works can be found in the collections of Musée dÇart Contemporain
de Montréal, Canada
and Gyeonggido Museum of Art, Ansan,
South Korea. He lectures in the college of fine arts, Kyunghee University
and Chugye University for the Arts. A book of Swallowing
the Shadow was published by TouchArt in 2008.
MICHAEL KAMBER
Michael
Kamber was born in Maine
in 1963. He attended Parsons School of Design and has worked as a freelance
photojournalist and journalist since 1986. He has
covered conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Liberia,
the Sudan, Cote d'Ivoire, Somalia,
Haiti, Israel, the Congo and other countries. He has also
worked as a writer for The New York Times, contributing articles from Haiti, Iraq
and West Africa. His photos have been
published in nearly every major news magazine in the United
States and Europe, as
well as in many newspapers.
Kamber is a
former Revson Fellow at Columbia
University. He is the
winner of the Mike Berger Award, the Missouri School of Journalism's Lifestyle
Award, the Society of Professional Journalists Deadline Club Award, American
Photo Images of the Year, a New York Press Photographers Award and is a member
of the New York Times team that won the 2003 Overseas Press Club Award. He has been
nominated three times for the Pulitzer Prize-- twice for photography, and once
for reporting.
GANDALF GAVAN
Working in diverse media including blown and slumped glass, Gaván
creates drawings and large-scale installations that explore contemporary social
themes. Gaván was born in Berlin,
Germany in
1975. He received his BFA from Bard College in 1998, and his MFA from Columbia University
in 2005. He has taught printmaking and sculpture at Columbia University.
In 2005 he received the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant and in 2006 the Mortimer
Frank Traveling Fellowship.
Gaván has exhibited at museums and galleries around the
world, including in Spain, Germany, Austria,
Peru, and Mexico, where he had a solo exhibition at the
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Oaxaca.
Other solo exhibitions have taken place at N2 Galeria in Barcelona, Spain;
Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York; P.S.1, Long Island City, New York; Bertrand
and Gruner, Geneva, Switzerland; and Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins
College, Winter Park, Florida.
STEPHEN VITIELLO
Electronic
musician and sound artist Stephen Vitiello has composed music for independent
films, experimental video projects and art installations, collaborating with
artists, musicians and choreographers including Dara Birnbaum, Jem Cohen, John
Jasperse/White Oak Dance Project, Pauline Oliveros, Tony Oursler, Andrew Deutsch,
Eder Santos, and Nam June Paik.
He has
received several awards for his work including: a 2006 Creative Capital
Emerging Fields, and Innovative Literature Award; a 2003 New York Foundation
for the Arts Fellowship; the Penny McCall Award in 2001; and an Independent
Radio and Sound Art Fellowship from the Jerome Foundation/Media Alliance in
1999.
As an
installation artist, he is particularly interested in the physical aspect of
sound and its potential to define the form and atmosphere of a spatial
environment. Recent solo exhibitions have been held at Museum 52, London;
DiverseWorks, Houston, TX; The Project, New York and Los Angeles; Galerie
Almine Rech, Paris; and 111 Gallery at the iEAR program at Rensealear
Polytechnic, Troy, NY. Vitiello has also performed worldwide, including at the
Tate Modern, London; the 5th International Electronic Art Festival, Sao Paolo,
Brazil; San Francisco Electronic Music Festival; The Kitchen, NYC; Whitney
Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, NYC; and per/Son, Cologne, Germany.
As a curator he has contributed to exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, NY;
The Kitchen Gallery, NY; Town Hall, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon; 1st Valencia Bienale, Spain; 9th Biennial of the Moving Image,
St-Gervais, Geneva. In 2000 he curated the Sound Art component to the Whitney Museum's exhibition The American Century: Art and Culture 1950-2000.
New media productions include work for the internet: Sound Archive 7.01-7.31.01 for the San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art in collaboration with The Walker Art Center, and ZKM and Tetrasomia, for
the Dia Center for the Arts.
Vitiello is currently Assistant Professor of Kinetic Imaging at Virginia
Commonwealth University (VCU).
VINCENT VIGILANTE
Vincent Vigilante is a SUNY Newpaltz graduate with a BA in
Theater Performance and Technology. He has been working in the New York Dance
& Theater scene for the past five years. Currently living in Brooklyn and
running his own lighting design company, Vigilante Design, Vincent is the
Lighting Supervisor for Dance Theater Workshop, as well as a founding member
and Production Manager of The Clockwork Theatre. He is the resident designer
for Gallim Dance and most recently designed a piece in collaboration with
Andrea Miller for Ballet Hispanico. Previous design credits include: Scenic
design: True West, Cherry Smoke (The
Clockwork Theatre). Lighting design: True West, Underground (The Clockwork Theatre); No mans Island (Gutworks); Gallim Dance - Andrea Miller's Blush (Joyce SoHo/ Jacobs Pillow); Dean
Moss & Yoon Jin Kim Kisaeng becomes
you, Melanie Marr's Phenomenal Bodies, FreshTracks ‘09 (Dance Theater
Workshop); , Dance and Process' 05,' 06,'
07, Robert Melee's Talent Show, Raz Mesinai's Myth of Nations, John Hollenbeck's Inspirations and Aspirations, Padma Newsome & Bryce Dessner Clogs, Mike Ladd's Domestica, Caitlin Cooks Skint,
Aida Ruilova The Sliver Globe (The
Kitchen).