Fay Ku—Taipei, Taiwan-born and Brooklyn, New York-based—is best known for her works on paper she exhibits nationally and internationally. She has been awarded solo museum exhibitions at New Britain Museum of American Art in New Britain, CT and The Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, HI. Other solo exhibitions include venues Goedhuis Contemporary in Manhattan, Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT, Sam Lee Gallery in Los Angeles and Galerie L MD in Paris, France. She was commissioned to create original artwork in May 13, 2007 issue of The New York Times Magazine and she was the subject of a short Sundance Channel feature in 2008. She is the recipient of the Urban Artist Initiative grant from 2006, a 2007 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant, a 2007 and 2009 recipient of the National Performance Network/Artist Network Project Grant and a 2009 New York Foundation for the Arts fellow in Printmaking/Drawing/Artists Books. Since 2006, her artist residencies include Weir Farm Art Center in Wilton, CT, Santa Fe Art Institute, Bemis Center for the Contemporary Art in Omaha, NE, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, the Contemporary Museum, Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY, Artist Alliance Inc.’s Lower East Side Rotating Studio Program and the Lower East Side Print Shop in Manhattan and the Hermitage Artist Retreat in Sarasota, FL. She holds a MFA in Studio Art and MS Art History, Criticism and Theory from Pratt Institute and a dual-degree BA from Bennington College, Bennington, VT in Literature and Visual Arts.
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