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May Sun

May Sun (born 1954) is a Los Angeles–based artist known primarily for her public art projects.[1] Sun works in the mediums of sculpture, mixed media, photography and installation. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She was born in Shanghai, China, moved to Hong Kong at the age of two with her family and immigrated to the United States in 1971 to attend the University of San Diego. "May Sun often refers to aspects of her Chinese heritage in her work, which consistently crosses cultural and political boundaries as well as the boundaries traditionally separating art forms and disciplines."[2]

Her installation "UnderGround"[3] is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Her multi-media installation "L.A./River/China/Town" premiered at the Santa Monica Museum of Art's Art in the Raw series in 1988, and the MOCA-produced radio version of the installation won a Silver Award from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Her installation "Fugitive Landing", created at Capp Street Project in San Francisco, moved on to the MIT List Visual Arts Center in 1991 and to the Asia Society Galleries in New York City in 1994. She has won numerous awards and fellowships, including two National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist's Fellowships[4] and a Getty Fellowship for the Visual Arts.[citation needed]

Sun received her B.A. in Art (Painting/Sculpture/Graphic Arts) from UCLA and attended the MFA program at Otis Art Institute (now Otis College of Art and Design), Los Angeles. She was on the faculty at California Institute for the Arts, and is a visiting artist and lecturer at art schools and colleges nationally.

Selected exhibitions

Public art

Sun's public art commissions include the Hollywood and Western Red Line Subway Station in Hollywood, CA;[7] Union Station Gateway Center, Los Angeles; City Hall in Culver City; Warner Center, Woodland Hills; San Antonio International Airport, San Antonio, Texas; the Best Friends Animal Society in Mission Hills, Los Angeles;[8] the Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston, Massachusetts and the Robert F. Kennedy Inspiration Park at the site of the former Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.[9] Her installations and public art projects are heavily researched and she draws inspiration from the history and surroundings of the site.[10]

List of Sun's public commissions

References

  1. ^ Breslauer, Jan. "Past, Present and P.C. : May Sun's art was politically correct before it was fashionable and much of it is out there for the world to see". LA Times. Retrieved 20 March 2013.
  2. ^ "May Sun: Artist-in-Residence". 11 April 2014. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
  3. ^ "May Sun: Culver City". Archived from the original on 3 November 2013. Retrieved 31 Oct 2013.
  4. ^ "National Endowment for the Arts 1990 Annual Report" (PDF). National Endowment for the Arts. Retrieved 2022-08-16.
  5. ^ "Doin' It in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman's Building". Retrieved 17 Nov 2014.
  6. ^ "Unjustified". Retrieved 17 Nov 2014.
  7. ^ "Hollywood + Western Public Art". Retrieved 31 Oct 2013.
  8. ^ "See Echoes of Saint Francis by May Sun at Best Friends Animal Society, Los Angeles". www.wescover.com. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
  9. ^ "Art Reception at RFK Inspiration Park". 18 November 2010. Retrieved 31 Oct 2013.
  10. ^ "Visiting-artist-may-sun-joins-us-on-thursday-926/". Archived from the original on 2013-11-02. Retrieved 31 Oct 2013.
  11. ^ File:Robert F Kennedy Community Schools from Wilshire pocket park.jpg
  12. ^ "Airport Terminal A - May Sun". Public Art San Antonio. Retrieved 20 March 2013.
  13. ^ "Art – Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority". 23 May 2023.
  14. ^ "May Sun, Listening for the Trains to Come, Chinatown, Los Angeles".
  15. ^ Reinhold, Robert (4 August 1991). "In Land of Movies, Mass Transit to Use Fantasy to Lure Riders". The New York Times.
  16. ^ "Art – Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority". 23 May 2023.

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