RESUME

Takming Chuang
Born New York, NY
Lives in San Francisco, CA Works in Oakland, CA

Education
05/2017 University of California, Berkeley, CA, Master of Fine Arts, Art Practice
05/2000 Binghamton University, State University of New York, NY, Bachelor of Arts, Economics

Awards
06/2019 Merit Scholarship, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, ME
04/2017 The Eisner Prize, Creative Achievement of the Highest Order, Art Practice, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
03/2017 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, GSI Teaching and Resource Center, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

Residencies
06/2019 Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Summer Residency, Ephemerality in Clay, Newcastle, ME 08/2018 London Summer Intensive, Camden Arts Centre and the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK 05/2017 Graduate Fellowship, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

Public Collections
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA

Affiliations
2017 – Present, Programming Committee, Right Window, San Francisco, CA
2018 – 2020, Affiliate Artist, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
2018 – 2019, Planning Committee, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017 – 2018, Creative Dissent Fellow, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA 

Selected Exhibitions (*solo)
12/2023 *Compressions, San Gallery, Tainan, Taiwan 
03/2023 The Color Network: Project M, Core Clay, NCECA Conference, Cincinnati, OH 
02/2023 White Columns Online: A Shapeshifter with a Heavenly Secret, White Columns, NY, NY
10/2021 Takming Chuang and Amy Nathan in /room/, (slash), San Francisco, CA
12/2020 *Latent, Right Window, San Francisco, CA
09/2020 Somatic’s Grocery, Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard Galleries, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
04/2019 The Body Electric, Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco at 41 Ross, San Francisco, CA
01/2019 In Practice: Other Objects, SculptureCenter, NY, NY
08/2018 London Summer Intensive Showcase: Work In Progress, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
05/2018 Great Worry, Or Great Freedom, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
05/2017 The 47th Annual University of California, Berkeley MFA Graduate Exhibition, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA 05/2017 Dear SF. Love, Berkeley, Right Window, San Francisco, CA
09/2016 Marking New Paths, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
01/2016 Roll a Zero, Worth Ryder Art Gallery, Berkeley, CA
08/2015 Postcard, Artbox benefit exhibition, Fold Gallery, London, UK
01/2014 *Index, Tyler Wood Gallery, San Francisco, CA
09/2013 Tightrope, Sumarria Lunn, London, UK
06/2013 Attract Theory, Soka Art Center, Tainan, Taiwan
02/2013 *Bodyblocked, Right Window, San Francisco, CA
12/2012 Point of No Return, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
 

Teaching
2022 Spring, Visiting Lecturer, Sculpture: Foundations, UC Berkeley, CA
2022 Spring, Visiting Lecturer, Ceramics: Foundations, UC Berkeley, CA
2021 Fall, Visiting Lecturer, Intermediate/Advanced Ceramics, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA
2021 Fall, Visiting Lecturer, Beginning Ceramics, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA
2021 Summer, Visiting Lecturer, Ceramics: Foundations, UC Berkeley, (distance learning), CA
2021 Spring, Visiting Lecturer, Beginning Ceramics, Sonoma State University, (distance learning) Sonoma, CA
2020 Fall, Outside Advisor, Senior Projects, Art Practice, UC Berkeley, (distance learning), CA
2019 Spring, Visiting Lecturer, Collaborative Innovation, interdepartmental Art Practice/Haas/TDPS, UC Berkeley, CA          2018 Spring, Visiting Lecturer, Collaborative Innovation, interdepartmental Art Practice/Haas/TDPS, UC Berkeley, CA                  2017 Summer, Visiting Lecturer, Introduction to Visual Thinking, Art Practice, UC Berkeley, CA
2016 Fall, Instructor, Introduction to Visual Thinking, Art Practice, UC Berkeley, CA
2016 Spring, Graduate Student Instructor, Collaborative Innovation, interdepartmental Art Practice/Haas/TDPS, UC Berkeley, CA

Curation
11/2021 group exhibition, Amalgamation, Rage Gallery, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA
09/2021 two person exhibition, David Bell, iris yirei hu, Infinite, Right Window, San Francisco, CA
09/2019 two person exhibition, Isaac Vazquez Avila, Lauren Rose D’Amato, Bootleg Milagros, Right Window, San Francisco, CA 09/2018 solo exhibition, Eilen Itzel Mena, Once It Fell..., Right Window, San Francisco, CA
05/2017 group exhibition, Dear SF. Love, Berkeley, Right Window, San Francisco, CA
12/2017 group exhibition, Inspiration, Reflection, _______, UC Berkeley, CA
09/2016 group exhibition, Marking New Paths, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA

Performances
07/2018 Cecilia Vicuna in Performance, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
06/2018 (M)ovement (B)ased (T)hing with Bradley Smith, A Day of Movement Toward Utopian Sports by Justin Carder for YBCA Public Square, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
08/2017 Seth Speaks, play by Kevin Killian, Karla Milosevich, and Craig Goodman, Right Window, San Francisco, CA
05/2016 From Where I Stand: Constellations, by Otobong Nkanga, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
03/2016 Body of Knowledge, Ridge Space, Oakland, CA
01/2014 Exercise in Futility, Tyler Wood Gallery, San Francisco, CA
02/2013 Reps, Right Window, San Francisco, CA

Commissions
06/2012 Headpiece for Visitor Owl performance by Darrell Alvarez & Kevin Killian, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA 03/2007 Series of three paintings, Puccini Group, San Francisco, CA
11/2006 Series of ten paintings, Daniel Piana & Associates, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Bibliography
02/2019 In Practice: Other Objects, Exhibition Catalog, SculptureCenter, New York, NY
10/2018 Collaborative Innovation: Exploring the Intersections among Theater, Art, and Business in the Classroom by Sara Beckman, Stacy Jo Scott, and Lisa Wymore, Journal of Open Innovation, MDPI, open access
06/2018 (M)ovement (B)ased (T)hing, Demand Utopian Sports, Wolfman Books, Oakland, CA
11/2017 Exploration of Body and Self Through Ceramics, by Connie Reyes, Placeholder Magazine, Stockton, CA
06/2017 UC Berkeley MFA Graduates Exhibit Innovative Explorations of Identity, Change at BAMPFA by Lynn Zhou, The Daily Californian, Berkeley, CA
05/2017 New Works by UC Berkeley Graduates at BAMPFA, by Ruth Gebreyesus, East Bay Express, Oakland, CA
03/2015 Fat-Free, Baumtest, Issue 5, Los Angeles, CA
09/2013 New Bodies of Work, by Nuala Calvi, Mayfair Times, London, UK
06/2013 Attract Theory, by Weifun Chen, China Daily News, Taiwan
02/2013 Body Blocked, by Zachary R Scholz, Art Practical, Issue 4.10, San Francisco, CA
05/2012 Graphite Interdisciplinary Journal of the Arts, Issue #3, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA