RECOGNITION



Featured Artist, Calendar and Cultural Guide for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, Los Angeles, CA, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013


Artist of the Year Award for Distinguished Service to the Community. Studio Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA, 8/13/16


Featured Artist, Channel Islands National Park, Ventura, CA 4/9/16 Artist Spotlight, Focus on the Masters, Ventura, CA, 2/12/13.


Featured Artist, Moorpark Arts Festival, High Street Art Center, Moorpark, CA, 4/28/12.


Featured Artist, Ventura Harvest ArtWalk, Artist Union Gallery, Ventura, CA. 10/24-10/25/09


Featured Artist, Olympic Culture Festival, Beijing Art Museum, Beijing, China. 6/23-6/31/08.


Capital Museum, Beijing, China, 7/12-7/16/07.


Featured Artist, McDonald's website, 2012 2008


Emerging Artist Competition, Spring Arts Collective Gallery & SmashBox Studio, Los Angeles, CA. 5/13 -5/17/08.

Jurors: Howard Fox, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Curator

Rebecca Morse, Museum of Contemporary Art, Assistant Curator

John Murdoch, The Huntington, the Kully Director of Art Collections

Glenn Phillips, The Getty Research Institute, Consulting Curator

David Gere, UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures, Associate Professor

Stephenie Dillion, Capital Group Companies, Curator


In the details: Small Works, Studio Channel Islands Art Center, Camarillo, CA. 12/5/13-12/28/13. Juror: Jim Webb, Artist, 3rd Place.


Expressions of Movement, Ventura County Government Center, 3/9/13-4/9/13. Curator: Todd Collart, President of Ventura County Arts Council, Juror: Anonymous, 2nd Place.


Precious: Small Works, Studio Channel Islands Art Center, Camarillo, CA. 11/29-12/29/12. Juror: Debra McKillop. Honorable mention


Elements: Arts of the earth, wind, fire and sea, The Art Council of the Conejo Valley, Thousand Oaks, CA May 1-29/11. 3rd place. Juror: Michael Monroe, Chief curator and executive director Emeritus, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA.


Southern California Open Regional Exhibition VIII, VIVA Art Center, Sherman Oaks, CA. 1/6 – 1/29/10. Juror: Diane Caldon, Artist and Art Critic for ArtScene Magazine. Honorable mention


2010 Open Juried show, Thousand Oaks Art Association, Thousand Oaks, CA. Feb. 2-27/10 3rd Place. Juror: Donna Granata, Founder and executive director of Focus on the Masters.


22nd Open Competition, Buenaventura Art Association. Ventura, CA. 1/15-2/2/08. 3rd place, Juror: Michelle Depuy Levitt, Director of Studio Channel Islands Art Center.


Juried membership exhibition, Camarillo Art Center, Camarillo, CA. 4/26 – 5/18/08, 1st place. Juror: Jacqueline Cavish, Artist.


2008 Open Juried Show, Westlake Village Art Guild, Thousand Oaks, CA. 3/19-4/13/08 1st place. Jurors: Don Fey and Arthur Fernadez PhD, artists.


Harvest of colors, Juried membership exhibition, Camarillo Art Center, CA. 10/30 – 11/18/07, 1st place. Juror: Don Fey, Artist.


3D Open Competition, BuenaVentura Art Association, Ventura, CA. 10/25 – 11/15/07. Honorary mention. Jurors: Matt Furmanski, Assistant Professor of CSU Channel Islands Juried Member Show,


Camarillo Art Centre. Camarillo, CA, 4/8 - 4/30/06. Best of the show, Juror: Cynthia Minet, Professor of art, Moorpark college.



museum



Arte Forastero, Museum of Ventura County & Ventura Botanical Garden, Ventura, CA, 8/15-/11/30/2020.Jurors: Peter Tyas @Studio Channel IslandsChris Beirne @Ojai Studio Artists,Matthew Furmanski @California State University, Channel Islands,Michael Pearce @California Lutheran University,Barbara Brown @Ventura Botanical Garden,Denis Sindelar @Museum of Ventura County.
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition: I want the wide American earth: Asian Pacific American stories, ​Museum of Ventura County, Ventura, CA, 6/18-8/28/16. Curator: Anna Bermudez
Evolutionary Art, Channel Islands National Park, Ventura, CA, permanent installation. Curator: Derek Lohuis Scientific Art,
Museum of Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, 4/2-4/22/15. Curator: YiMing Li
Art Alfresco, Museum of Ventura County, Ventura, CA 8/17/13. Curator: Robin Woodworth
Birthday Party! Museum of Ventura County, Ventura, CA, 3/23/13-5/19/13. Curator: Ariane Karakalos
Greeter, Gull Wings Children's Museum, Oxnard, CA, 9/10/12 - permanent. Curator: Julia Chambers.
Hidden Voices - The Chinese of Ventura County, Museum of Ventura County, Ventura, CA, 9/1 - 11/25/12. Curator: Ariane Karakalos.
Butterfly Trail, Agriculture Museum, Santa Paula, CA, 9/15/11 - present. Curator: Bruce Freeman.
Splash, Museum of Ventura County, Ventura, CA, 7/2 - 9/18/11. Curator: Ariane Karakalos.
Feel at Home, Museum of Ventura County, CA, 2/6/11 - 1/27/12. Curator: Ariane Karakalos.
Object, No Object: Sculpture of Ideas, Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art, Fort Collins, CO, 12/3/10, and concurrent online, 12/3 – 3/3, ’11. Curators: Museum & Gallery Studies of Front Range Community College, Fort Collins, CO.
Wild Things, Annmarie Garden - a Smithsonian Affiliate, Solomans, MD, 5/30- 8/30/09.Jurors: Dr. Don Moore, Associate Director, Smithsonian National ZooProfessor Sue Johnson, Department of Art & Art History, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Olympic Culture Festival, Beijing Art Museum, Beijing, China. 6/23-6/31/08. Curators: Olympic Cultural Festival Committee.
Olympic Culture Festival, Capital Museum, Beijing, China, 7/12-7/16/07. Curators: Olympic Cultural Festival Committee.
Spectrum, Micro Museum, Brooklyn, NY, 4/10/05, Curators: Susan Cohen & Anita Inz.


GALLERY



Impact Project, Focus on the Masters, Ventura County Government Center, Ventura, CA 10/14-11/14/2022


Members Exhibition, Studio Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA 12/2-12/18/2021, Curator: Peter Tyas.


For the Love of Nature, The Hillcrest Center for Arts, Thousand Oaks, CA, 7/23-11/8/2021, Curators: Connie Tunick and John Johnson


Elemental Dreams, Studio Channel Islands, 12/1/20-1/16/21. Curator: Peter Tyas.


Zen Space, Public art at Westfield Valencia Town Center, Santa Clarita, CA, 1/8-4/17/18, Curator: City of Santa Clarita.


Good Things Come in Small Packages, Blackboard Gallery, Camarillo, CA, 11/30-12/16/17, Juror: Hiroko Yoshimoto.


Black and white magic, The Hillcrest Center for Arts, Thousand Oaks, CA, 2/24-4/24/17, Curators: Connie Tunick and John Johnson.


Wild about paper, Buenaventura Art Association, Ventura, CA, 6/28 - 7/24/16 Curator: Janet Black


A cut above: artful uses of paper, Atrium Gallery, Ventura County Government Center, CA, 10/16-12/1/15. Curator: Janet Black.


Kinetic lines, Blackboard Gallery, Camarillo, CA, 6/4 - 6/26/15, Curator: SCIART Standard Committee.


3D defined - A sculpture show, Hillcrest Center for the Arts, Thousand Oaks, CA, 10/8 - 12/15/14, Curators: Connie Tunick and Janet Amiri, Arts Council of the Conejo Valley.


Bigger is better, Hall of Administration, Ventura County Government Center, Ventura, CA, 8/29 - 10/7/14, Curator: Todd Collart,


Ventura County Arts Council. Roosting, Hall of Administration, Ventura County Government Center, Ventura, CA, 6/16 - 7/16/14. Curator: Todd Collart, Ventura County Arts Council.


Black & White, UBS bank, Westlake Village, CA, 3/11-7/8/12, Curator: Geri Schonberg, Arts Council of the Conejo valley.


Paper & Beyond - BiJian Fan Show, Ojai Art Center, Ojai, CA, 3/29 - 5/8/14.


Less is more, much more, Blackboard Gallery, Camarillo, CA, 3/1-3/22/14, Juror: Khaled Al-Awar, Gallery Owner. Honorable Mention.


View from the Within, Blackboard Gallery, Camarillo, CA, 10/2-10/28/13, Juror: Michael Pearce, Ph.D. Professor of California Lutheran University.


6th Jazz on the Grass, Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation, 10/6/13. Juror: LA Dodgers Foundation.


Unlimited, Blackboard Gallery, Camarillo, CA, 8/2-8/31/13, Juror: Gary Lang, Artist


BiJian Fan & Peggy Pownall show, Fox Fine Jewelry, Ventura, CA. 7/11-9/14/13, Curator: Debbie Fox, Gallery Owner.


Eco-Conscious Art for Living, Malibu Lumber Yard Gallery, Malibu, CA, 7/17-8/11/13. Juror: Seta Baghdasarian, Gallery Director.


It's really all about me, Ojai Art Center, Ojai, CA. 5/3/13 - 5/30/13. Curator: Ojai Art Center


Artist Collection II, Jewelry Couture, Ventura, CA. 3/16/13-4/10/13. Curator: Layla Halberg


Art in the Theater, Rubicon Theater, Ventura CA. 3/6/13-3/31/13. Curator: Layla Hallberg


On the Level, Studio Channel Islands Art Center. Camarillo, CA. 3/6/13-3/29/13. Curator: Karin Geiger, Executive Director of SCIART.


Essence, Studio Channel Islands Art Center, Camarillo, CA. 1/31-2/23, ’13 Juror: Johanna Spinks, Artist


27th annual Open Competition, Buenaventura Art Association, Ventura, CA 1/8-1/26, ’13 Juror: Katrina McElroy, Artist


Precious: Small Works, Studio Channel Islands Art Center, Camarillo, CA. 11/29-12/29, ’12 Juror: Debra McKillop


Essential Elements - A Sculpture Show, Hillcrest Center for the Arts, Thousand Oaks, CA 10/19-12/17/12, Curators: Janet Amiri and Connie. Tunick, Arts Council of the Conejo Valley


Works on Paper, Muse Gallery. Philadelphia, PA, 1/31-2/28/07. Juror: Susan Isaacs, Ph.D. adjunct curator of Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts.


National Small Sculpture Invitational, Desert Art Collection & Sculpture Garden, Palm Desert, CA, 11/1-11/28/08, Juror: Harrison Wick, Architect/Designer/Artist


Fiber Open, Studio Channel Island Art Center, Camarillo, CA, 5/16–7/4/09. Juror: Carol Sauvion, Executive director of Craft in America on PBS, founder of Freehand gallery in Los Angeles.


Southern California Open Regional Exhibition VI, Valley Institute of Visual Art Gallery, Sherman Oaks, CA, 10/31-11/17/07. Juror: Michael Zakian, Director of the Friederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University.


Honoring the mothers, Lana Santorelli Gallery. Southampton, NY, 4/28-5/21/07. Juror: Lana Santorelli, artist, curator, and owner of Lana Santorelli Gallery.


Art for Peace, Ojai Art Centre, Ojai, CA, 9/3-9/28/06. Juror: Hiroko Yoshimoto, Professor of Ventura college


Art for AIDS, ArtHaus Gallery. San Francisco, CA, 7/1-7/30/06. Juror: Art for AIDS committee.


Black and White, Caladan Gallery, Beverly, MA, 5/10-6/6/06. Juror: Caladan Gallery Staff.


Spectrum, Micro Museum. Brooklyn, NY, 4/27-4/28/05. Juror: Susan Cohen, curator.


5 things, Coma Alternative Space, Los Angeles, CA, 9/13-10/11/08. Juror: Mike Coulson, artist/curator.


Changing Time, Infusion Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. 5/2 - 5/27/06. Juror: Dover Abrams, artist, curator, and owner of Infusion gallery.


Touching the Arts, exhibition for visual impairments, Proverbs CoffeHouse, Camarillo, CA, June 4-18/11 Curator: John Johnson of Proverbs House


25th Open Competition, Buenaventura Art Association, Ventura, CA. Jan. 11-29/11. Juror: John Carlander, Professor of Art at Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA.


Black & White Magic, Proverbs CoffeeHouse, Camarillo, CA, Jan. 29-Feb. 12/11. Curator: John Johnson


2011 Open Juried show, Thousand Oaks Art Association, Thousand Oaks, CA. Feb. 2-27/11. Juror: Chris Hero, Artist.


Auxiliary Showcase of RAW Artists, Angeleno Hotel, Los Angeles, CA 4/18/10. Juror: Heidi Luerra, Executive Director of RAW Artists.


2010 Topanga Canyon Gallery Juried Open, Topanga, CA, 1/13 – 2/7/10. Juror: Peter Mays, Executive Director, Los Angeles Art Association & Gallery 825.


Small Wonders III, Pharmaka Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. 12/8-12/22/07. Juror: Holly Meyers, Los Angeles based writer, critic, and freelance curator.


3D Open Competition, BuenaVentura Art Association, Ventura, CA. 10/1 – 11/9/09. Juror: Dane Goodman, director, Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara City College.


3D Open Competition, BuenaVentura Art Association, Ventura, CA. 10/1-11/3/08. Juror: Ken Bortolazzo, Sculptor


24th Open competition, Buenaventura Art Association, Ventura, CA. 1/5 -1/30, '10. Juror: Dane Goodman, Director, Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara City College.


21st Open Competition, Buenaventura Art Association. Ventura, CA, 1/16-2/3/07. Juror: Matt Furmanski, Associate Professor of art at California State University Channel Islands.



PUBLICK TALK



Artistic Exploration, One city one read, Camarillo Public Library, Camarillo, CA 10/4/2022


See you in the Studio! Focus on the Masters, 7/27/21


Paper Art, Simi Valley Artist Association, Simi Valley, CA, 6/15/17, 2/15/13 ​


Origami Memory Gymnastics, Camarillo Health Care District, Camarillo, CA. 7/26/17


Paper art and science, Simi Valley Art Association, Simi Valley, CA. 6/15/17


Origami Math Genius, Ventura County Office of Education, Camarillo, CA. 3/16/17


Art advanced by Science, Westlake Village Art Guild, Westlake, CA. 11/1/16


Art in National Parks, Channel Islands National Park, Ventura, CA. 4/9/16 ​


Scientific Art, California State University Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA. 10/19/15


Paper art and science, Arts Club of Leisure Village, Camarillo, CA, 8/4/15


Science - Art Integration, California State University Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA, Winter 2015 & Summer 2014.


Artist Spotlight, Focus on the Masters, Ventura, CA, 2/12/13


A Journey through Paper Art, Museum of Ventura County, Ventura, CA, 11/18/12


Paper on water, Santa Clarita Artists Association, Santa Clarita, CA, 9/19/11


Paper sculpting, the 8th Thousand Oaks Arts Festival, Thousand Oaks, CA, 9/18/11


Paper on water, Museum of Ventura County, Ventura, CA, 7/8/11


Metal's 2D to 3D transformation, Westlake Village Art Guild, Westlake Village, CA. 5/3/11



publication



BiJian's Weekly Art, BiJian.com, 2006 - present


Calendar and Cultural Guide - Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month, City of Los Angeles, May, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017,2016, 2015, 2014, 2013


Swan Song, The Confluence of Science and Art, Slippage, No. 2, 2014.


Float, Pomona Valley Review No.7, 2013, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA.


Celestial Messenger, S.T.E.A.M. Journal (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics), No.2, 2013 Claremont Graduate University, Los Angeles, CA.


Broken Bond, Wilde Magazine, No. 1, 2012 Greeter (logo), Gull Wings Children's Museum, 2012


Dragon's Golden Arch, McDonald's Dragon Calendar, 2012


Feather her Nest, Fiber II at SCIART, Craft Art International, No. 77, 2009


Incubation Ground, LuLu Press, 2009. Technical Publication 20+ articles (available upon request)