liane chan

lichan.art99@gmail.com  |  @lichan_art
b. 1999, Toronto, ON. Based in Ajax and Toronto, ON.

education

2024 Honours Bachelor of Fine Arts, OCAD University, Toronto: Maj. Drawing and Painting, Min. Art and Social Change

2019 Honours Ontario College Certificate, Sheridan College, Oakville: Art Fundamentals

selected exhibitions

2024 EMERGING NOW, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON

2024 GradEx 109, OCAD University, Toronto, ON

2022 Blueprint for a Collective Home, Great Hall Gallery, OCAD University, Toronto, ON

2022 Making Gender: LGBTQ2S+ Studio, OCAD University (collaboration with Centre for Feminist Research, York University), online

2020 The Exploration of Drawing, OCAD University, online

2019 ARThropod, Cambridge Butterfly Conservatory, Cambridge, ON 

artists talks & presentations

2022 Artist Talk, OCAD University, Toronto, ON

2017 Artist Talk and Colour Theory Workshop, Pickering High School, Ajax, ON

publications

2023 Hong Kong Iced Tea and Egg Drop Soup, Morningdew Magazine, Issue 2: Connective Tissue, August. (Recipes and illustrations)

2022 Liane Chan, Morningdew Magazine, Issue 1: Under the Microscope, April. (Interview)

2022 Asian Artists Manifesto, in collaboration with Shoes Off Collective, March. (Writing and design)

2021 watch your step III, HOBICORE: A Fashion Zine, March. (Illustration)

awards & grants

2022 Wendy Coburn Scholarship for Art and Social Change, OCAD University

2022 #RisingYouth Community Service Grant, TakingITGlobal

2019 Sybil Goldstein Painting Award, Sheridan College

2017 Certificate of Endorsement, Art Studies, Pickering High School

2017 heARTbeat Juried Art Show Award, Ajax Public Library

2017 Art and Essay Competition, Durham District School Board

community engaged work

2022 Project coordinator, Communities in Relation: Bamboo Sticky Rice Mutual Aid, collaboration with Aimee Galvez, Emerald Repard-Denniston, and Shoes Off Collective. OCAD University, Toronto, ON

related experience

2022 Juror, New York City Open Call, apexart, New York, NY

2016-17 Peer Tutor, Visual Art, Pickering High School, Ajax, ON