ONE PERSON SHOWS:


2024

JJ Murphy Gallery, Frequency Surfing, New York, NY

2023

LaiSun Keane Gallery, Rhyming the Invisible, Boston, MA

2022

Pierogi Gallery, Slippery Harmonics of Imagined Phenomena, Brooklyn, NY

Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Between Here and Now, Hudson, NY

2021

490 Atlantic, Future Paradise, Brooklyn, NY

2020

Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Itinerant Visualist, Hudson, NY

2016

Studio10, Crypto-somatic Incantation, Brooklyn, NY

2012

Valentine Gallery, You Are the Center of the Universe, Ridgewood, NY

2010

Robert Henry Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY

2007

ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA

2004

Metaphor Contemporary Art, Psychographic, Brooklyn, NY

2001

Asian American Art Centre, Point Arabesque, New York, NY

2000

Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY

1997

Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY

1994

Leo.Tony Gallery, Recent Paintings, New York, NY

1993

Art in General, Casbah Paintings, New York, NY

1978

The Downtown Gallery, Recent Paintings, Honolulu, Hi


SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS:


2018

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow

Tao Hua Tan Art Residency, Anhui, China

2016

University of VIrginia, visiting artist

2011

Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation

2009

University of Hawaii, visiting artist

2006

Joan Mitchell Foundation, Painters & Sculptors Grant Award

1993

Artists’ Projects: New York State Regional Initiative, jointly supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, Andy Warhol Fund, N. E. A., and, the Jerome Foundation

1983

Artist in Residence, Asian Arts Institute and New York State Council for the Arts


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:


2024

Eric FIrestone Gallery, Godzilla, Echoes From the 1990s Asian American Arts Network, New York, NY, curator: Jennifer Samet

2023

Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Booked, Hudson, NY

2022

The Armory Show, Pierogi booth, New York, NY

Art on Paper Show, LaiSun Keane booth, New York, NY

2021

Pierogi, Pulp, Brooklyn, NY

Pierogi, Naked in Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY

LaiSun Keane Gallery, Home Cooking, Boston, MA, curator: John Yau

2020

September Gallery, A Show of Hands, Hudson, NY

Pierogi Gallery, First, Second, and Third Person at Pierogi, New York, NY

Museum of Contemporary Art Long Island, Consummate Plush, Patchogue, NY, curator: Janet Goleas

2019

The Mueller Gallery at Caldwell University, The Thought of the Heart and the Soul of the World, Caldwell, NJ.

2018

Anhui Modern Art Museum, Tao Hua Tan, Hefei China.

The Charles B. Wang Center, Stony Brook University, Potasia: Potatoism in the East, NY

2016

David Schweitzer Contemporary, Making the Future, Brooklyn, NY

2015

Westbeth Gallery, The Human Condition, New York, NY

490 Atlantic, Three Rooms, Brooklyn, NY

2014

Stephen Romano Gallery, Mysterium Cosmographicum, Brooklyn, NY

Pierogi Gallery, Pierogi XX, Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY

2013

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, "Little Languages, Coded Pictures," New York, NY

2012

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, Little Languages, Coded Pictures, New York, NY

2011

Luise Ross Gallery, Size Matters, New York, NY

Mulherin + Pollard, Mundus Incognita, New York, NY

2010

Leslie Heller Gallery, Cognitive Unconscious, New York, NY

2009

The Contemporary Museum, 20 Going on 21, Honolulu, HI

A-Locatie, Kuf-Mold, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2008

Metaphor Contemporary Art, Social Studies, 2 person show, Brooklyn, NY

Jan Colle Gallery, “Kuf-Mold," Ghent, Belgium

2007

Barbara Gillman Gallery, Head to Head, Miami, FL

ADA Gallery, 3 person show, Richmond, VA

The Grand Bazaar, “Kuf-Mold,” Istanbul, Turkey

2006

Scope London, ADA Gallery, London, UK

2005

The Contemporary Museum (downtown), HNL to NY, Honolulu, HI

2004

Brooklyn Museum of Art, Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY

2003

Metaphor Contemporary Art, Paper 2003, Brooklyn, NY

2002

Elizabeth Harris Gallery, Curious Terrain, New York, NY

2001

Hunterdon Museum of Art, Degrees of Figuration, Clinton, NJ

Elizabeth Harris Gallery, “Hidden Identity," New York, NY

Deutsche Bank Lobby Gallery, Expanding Tradition, Contemporary Works Influenced by Indian Miniatures, curator: Susan Leopold, New York, NY

Art in General and Godzilla, “Why Asia," silk-screened banners on Canal Street, New York, NY

2000

Mathew Marks Gallery, City Arts Benefit, New York, NY

Pierogi 2000, Super Duper New York, Brooklyn, NY

Museum of Modern Art, Coat Room, Checked (guerilla action), New York, NY

1999

Elizabeth Harris Gallery, Summer Show, New York, NY

Saks Fifth Avenue, Freudian Slips, New York, NY

1998

New York State Museum, The 1998 New York State Biennial, Albany, NY

New Museum (Godzilla), Urban Encounters, New York, NY

1997

Brooklyn Museum of Art, Current Undercurrent: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY

Elizabeth Harris Gallery, Alive & Well, New York, NY

Robert Steele Gallery, Intimate Universe [Revisited], New York, NY, curator: Michael Walls

1996

Elizabeth Harris Gallery, Dreams and Dislocations, New York, NY (three person show)

Franklin Furnace, Voyeur’s Delight, New York, NY, curated by Barbara Rusin and Grace Roselli

Livestock Gallery, Round Up, New York, NY

1995

Tweed Gallery, From the Dragon’s Cloud, the Art Commission of New York, New York, NY, curator: Dik Liu

1994

Bixler Gallery, To Enchant (Blue), New York, NY curator: Michael Walls

Columbia University and Asian American Arts Centre, Betrayal/Empowerment, New York, NY

Tweed Gallery, Celebration of Asian American Month, the Art Commission of New York, New York, NY, curator: Robert Lee

1993

Artists Space, Artists Select, Part I, New York, NY

Artists Space, The New World Order III, The Curio Shop, New York, NY organized by Godzilla

1992

Guadalupe Cultural Center, (en)Gendered Visions: Race, Gender and Sexuality in Asian American Art, Guadalupe, TX

1989

Blum Helman Warehouse, Tiananmen Square Show, New York, NY

City Gallery, Uptown Downtown, New York Department of Cultural Affairs and Asian Arts Institute, New York, NY

1988

Hallwalls, Double Vision, Buffalo, NY, and Bronx Council on the Arts, Bronx, NY

1987

Asian Arts Institute, Yesterdays, New York, NY

1986

Exit Art, Transculture/Transmedia, New York, NY

The New Museum, Mass, New York, NY organized by Group Material

Asian Arts Institute, Orientalism, two person show, New York, NY

Catherine Gallery at Basement Workshop, Two person show, New York, NY

1985

Exit Art, Surplus, Today’s Art in an Overpopulated City, New York, NY

Bronx River Gallery, Another World, Bronx, NY curator: Fred Wilson

1984

Artists Space, Selections from the Artists File, New York, NY curator: Valerie Smith

Judson Memorial Church, Art Against Intervention in Central America, New York, NY

1983

Kenkeleba Gallery, Hong Kong-Tokyo-New York, New York, NY curator: John Woo

1982

Kenkeleba Gallery, Ritual and Rhythm: Visual Forces for Survival, New York, NY curator: Juan Sanchez

1981

Newark Museum, New Jersey Artists, Third Biennial Exhibition, Newark, NJ, curators: Linda Shearer and Paterson Sims


SELECTED PRESS:


2024

Hyperallergic, Vartanian, Hrag, My Top Art & Art Book Picks for September 2024, September

2023

Boston Globe, Cate McQuaid, Charles Yuen’s paintings are cosmic puzzles to be pondered, May 9, 2023

Boston Art Review, Fatima Swaray, In “Rhyming the Invisible,” Charles Yuen Scripts a Planet into Existence through his First Solo Exhibition in Boston, May 27, 2023

ArtDaily.com, Exhibition at LaiSun Keane Gallery features works by Charles Yuen

2022

Two Coats of Paint, Wells Chandler, Charles Yuen's spores and magic, August 26

2021

Pierogi 2000, Viewing Room, Home Studio Charles Yuen, October 31

2020

Hyperallergic, John Yau, Charles Yuen’s Time is Now, August 8

2016

Hyperallergic, Jennifer Samet, Beer with a Painter: Charles Yuen, July 23

Arte Fuse, Robert C. Morgan, Crypto-Somatic Incantation: New Paintings by Charles Yuen at Studio 10, July 27

ArtCritical, Drew Lowenstein The Somnambulist: Charles Yuen’s Painterly Waking Dreams, February 27

2014

Romanov's Grave, Studio Visits: Charles Yuen, Lawrence Haggerty and Jennie Nichols

2011

The Brooklyn Rail, Kalm, James, Brooklyn in the Extreme, February 2011

2005

Mutant Eggplant, Vitro Nasu: Charles Yuen - Honolulu to New York, September 1

2004

OffOffOff.com, Rachel Youens, Surreal Stories, illus.

Time Out New York, Reviews, Linda Yablonski

2001

New York Times, William Zimmer, The Human Figure as Myth, December 23, illus.

Up & Coming, an Inside Guide to the Emerging Art Scene in New York, Micheal Steinberg, pg. 62, 135, illus.

Art Papers, Timothy Liu, September/October, illus.

New York Times, Art in Review, Holland Carter, Expanding Tradition, May 4

1998

Art in America, Gerrit Henry, Reviews, April, illus.

House Beautiful, Small Spaces, Hearst Books, pg. 131, illus.

1997

Cover, Rachel Youens, Charles Yuen’s Introspective Infinities, Romance of the Trance, vol. 12, #1, illus.

Review, Robert M. Murdock, Alive & Well at Elizabeth Harris, October 1

1996

Review, J. Bowyer Bell, Dreams and Dislocations, September 15

1995

Art in America, Janet Koplos, Reviews, April, illus.

1994

New York Times, Roberta Smith, Art in Review, January 7


EDUCATION:


1981 M. F. A. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

1975 B. F. A. University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI