YaQin Betty Chou

YaQin Betty Chou received a B.A. in studio art with a concentration on Multi-Ethnic Studies from Bard College and her Master in Social Work from Hunter College. She was a Long-Term Keyholder recipient at the Lower East Side Printshop. She has participated in art shows through out New York City, Boston, Chicago and Venezuela, S. A. Over the past ten years, her involvement as an artist extends outside the boundaries of her studio as a community social activist in the Lower East Side and youth art educator throughout New York. She is currently working and making art in New York City.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2004	Nothing in Common, ACC Studio South Beach, Miami, FL Who Am I: Chinese Contemporary Art by Chinese and Chinese American Women Artists. Chinese American Arts Council, New York, NY. 5 X 5 Acarigua-New York, Curated by Juana Valdes, Museo de Arte de Acarigua-Araure, Venezuela
2003	Traveling Shows: The Art of Contemporary Asian Women: If the Shoe Fits and Verna Visions, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson NY Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
2002	The Big Group Show, M3 Projects Gallery, Brooklyn NY 4B, The Annex, New York, NY Physical Units: Fragments of the Human Form, Bronx River Art Center Bronx, NY Ladies Drawing and Photo Show, Brooklyn, NY
2001	Confessions: Contemporary Art by Asian Women, Hammond Museum & Japanese Stroll Garden, North Salem, NY
2000	Refugees and Migration, Boston, MA

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Zimmer, Bill. Femininity Defined, In Bare Feet or Shoe, The New York Times Westchester, April 14, 2002:Pg. 10
Cotter, Holland. Femininity in Contemporary Asian Art, The New York Times,
April 26, 2002: Pg. E33

VISITING ARTIST LECTURES
February 8, 2003- Panel Speaker: Contemporary Asian American Women Artists, Bard College, Annandale-on Hudson, NY
Spring 2002- Panel speaker: The players: Asian American Art, NYU, New York, NY
Spring 1998- Guest speaker: Asian American Artists and Community Organizers, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA

OTHER EVENTS
August 2001- Visiting Artist: Art Ship Art Benefit, Chicago, IL

email info: yqbetty@hotmail.com