| Artist: Cynthia Tom Title: Circus Series: The Cloud Walkers Size: 48" x 30"
Medium: Acrylic Presentation: Gallery Wrapped Canvas
Description: Cloud Rise, Consciousness, Play
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| Website: | www.cynthiatom.com
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| | Facebook: | www.facebook.com/cynthiatom6 |
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| | Biography: | Cynthia's work has been exhibited at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, the De Young Museum, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and various other galleries from New York to Washington to San Francisco. She lectures on her work, issues related to women, feminism in the arts and Asian American women in the arts, most recently for the College Art Association's Annual Conference. Cynthia is included in the text book, "Women Artists of the American West", edited by Susan Ressler, University of Purdue and "Traces of Migration and In-Betweeness: Poetics and Politics in Post-colonial Asian Women Artists", by Laura Fantone PhD, SF Art Institute ,University of Padua Press, Italy. Cynthia is currently Board President, Exhibitions Curator and Programs Chair of AAWAA, Asian American Women Artists Association.
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Cynthia Tom is a visual multi-media artist, passionate about social justice, women's issues and playing with the accepted norm. Surrealism is the platform for her ideas to ruminate, take form, solutions discovered and color to inspire. A seeker and philosopher about issues in her life, her ancestors and the community of women, she is inspired by dialog with friends and family, forming new themes and stories for her work. Collaboration and brainstorming are her passion. A third-generation Chinese American, Cynthia draws inspiration from divergent cultures. The resulting contradictions are expressed in a variety of ways. Eastern and Western symbols often share space on the same canvas. Fanciful dresses portray a prophetic wish for people to raise their consciousness and her strong female images evoke a longing for freedom of expression and a life of choice. Symbols, cues and clues fill her art, which is described as "Cultural Surrealism". Cynthia's paintings and installations persuade us to look beyond the aesthetic--to challenge stereotypes and traditional roles, questioning paradigms and encourages our internal dialogue. |
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| | Exhibitions: | Selected Solo Exhibitions and Artist in residence programs 2010-2011 SF Arts Commission -Art in Storefronts, Chinatown, 950 GRANT AVE., SF 2006 Undiscovered Research, Exhibition in conjunction with the Artist in Residence Program, The Legion of Honor, San Francisco 2005 February Arts in San Francisco, Borgia Fine Arts Gallery, S.F. 2003 Juried Exhibition, 2100 Webster Pan-Pacific Public Space, San Francisco, CA 2002 Exhibition in conjunction with the Artist in Residence, San Francisco Fine Arts Museums to coincide with the Legion of Honor's Surrealist Exhibition, Dreaming with Eyes Wide Open. 2000 The Artist's Studio Exhibition and Artist in Residence, M.H. de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA 1997 AstraMerck Gallery-Solo exhibition, Lynn Rolston, Sacramento, CA 1997 Midtown Arts Center-Solo exhibition, St. Louis, MO Selected Group Exhibitions 2011 INdiVisible, 3 Artists UC Santa Barbara MC Gallery, Santa Barbara 2011 Women Artists of the Bay Area, Donna Seagar juror, O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, CA 2011 Discards & Variances, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, RBI Gallery, San Francisco 2009-2011 Curator, A PLACE OF HER OWN, AAWAA, De Young Museum, Driftwood Salon, SOMarts Cultural Center, SF 2009 5th Annual National Self Portrait Exhibition, Zhou B. Art Center, Chicago. Juror: Gregg Hertzlieb, Director and Curator of the Brauer Museum of Art, Indiana. 2009 Hybridity-Guest Installation Artist, Rio Yanez Curator, SomArts Cultural Centre, San Francisco 2009 A Place Of Her Own, AAWAA, Curator and artist, de Young Museum, Artists in Residence, San Francisco 2008 East Meets West, ArtSF Gallery, 49 Geary Blvd., San Francisco 2007 Guest Curator and Artist: Cheers to Muses, Contemporary Works by Asian American Women, Chinese Culture Center, SF 2006 Invitational Artist, SomArts Cultural Center's Annual Day of the Dead Exhibition, Rene Yanez 2004 Guest Artist, Uncrossing the XX, The Feminine Identity, Delta Center for the Arts & The LH Horton Jr., Gallery, Stockton, CA 2004 Invitational Artist - Year of the Monkey: Chinese Artists, Different Continents, Univ. of Channel Islands, Santa Barbara, CA 2003 Guest Artist - The De Young Museum Topping Off Ceremony, Golden Gate Park, S.F. 2003 Woman as Symbol, juried group show, Ca Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco 2002 Artists of the Sunset - A Group Show, De Young Museum Art Center, San Francisco, CA 2002 Slowly Enter, SF Arts Commission Chinatown Gallery, San Francisco, CA Curator-Rachel Osajima, MOMA Rental Gallery and Richmond Art Center, CA 2001 Annual Bay Arts 2001, San Mateo County Arts Council, San Mateo; Curator - Phil Linhares, chief curator of the Oakland Museum, CA 2001 Crossing Bridges, CBS MarketWatch Studios, San Francisco, CA 2001 Angel Island: Chinese Immigration Experience, SF Arts Commission Chinatown Gallery 2000 Guest Artist - Annual Surrealism Exhibition, Goldstrom Gallery, New York, NY 2000 Passing, Euphrat Museum, Sunnyvale, CA 1999 Nine Lives, Works Gallery, San Jose, CA 1999 They Hold Up Half the Sky, SomArts Cultural Center-San Francisco, CA 1999 Family Diversity, Koret Gallery, Palo Alto, CA 1998 Asian American Women Artists, Center for Visual Arts, Oakland, CA 1998 Women of the Northwest, Wiseman Gallery, Grants Pass, OR |
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| | Awards: | Leadership Award by ABC TV, KGO TV 2009 Numerous best in show |
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| Education
| Self Taught. Mentors JoeSam, Chris Leib. Aspirations-Lenore Fini, Remedios Varo, Picasso, Vermeer
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