Chop Suey with the Chens

December 17, 2022

A guided tour and conversational dinner at the Chinese American Museum of Chicago, led by Phillip Chen. This event responds to the ongoing exhibition Chinese Cuisine in America: Stories, Struggles and Success. This gathering is organized by curator Ji Yang, as a part of the ongoing project Justice Hotel.

Phillip Chen received his undergraduate degree in Studio Art from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a graduate degree in Print Media from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His prints have been exhibited extensively throughout the United States and abroad and are held by public collections that include the Brooklyn Museum, New York Public Library, Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, and San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts. He has served as an evaluator for the National Endowment for the Arts, College Art Association, and the John D. and Catherine I. MacArthur Foundation. His creative activities have been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, Louis B. Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and others. In 2018 he was named a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Phillip Chen is the Ellis and Nelle Levitt Distinguished Professor of Art at Drake University, where he teaches drawing and printmaking.