CV
Born 1985, Singapore
Based in Vancouver, BC, Canada
Education
| 2010 | Master of Fine Arts, Visual Art, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC |
| 2008 | Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), Photographic Studies, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON |
Solo Exhibitions / Performances
| 2020 | Both/and: Artist-parents in conversation + a performance, Future Forum, Emily Carr University, March 28, Vancouver, BC (forthcoming) |
| 2019 | common wealth, Alternative Creations Studio, April 11-17, Vancouver, BC |
| 2013 | Neither/nor, Both/and, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, July 3-31, Vancouver, BC |
| 2011 | 6th Biennale Image and Imagery Conference: Silence and the Silenced, Brock University, Oct 29, St. Catharines, ON (performance) |
| 2017 | Bystander, Ryerson University School of Image Arts Gallery, Nov 19-23, Toronto, ON |
Group Exhibitions
| 2019 | Negotiating “Asian-ness” in Canada, The Works Art and Design Festival, June 20 – July 2, Edmonton, AB |
| 2019 | The Caress and The Sting, Britannia Art Gallery, May 1-31, Vancouver, BC (two-person with Garrett Andrew Chong) |
| 2019 | Makers Artists United Pop-Up Exhibition, BC Artscape Sun Wah, January 11-13, Vancouver, BC |
| 2018 | Spaces, Places and Traces, The Arts Factory, October 27-November 11, Vancouver, BC |
| 2018 | THE-MOBILE-POST-CARD-SHOW, Filiale / Berlin-Pankow, May 25-27, Berlin, Germany |
| 2017 | Lore of the Land: art and oral traditions, 5479 Seventh Line, November 4, Rockwood, ON |
| 2017 | AND…, Two Rivers Gallery, January 19 – April 27, Prince George, BC |
| 2016 | Body Talk, The Beaumont Studios, September 21 – October 5, Vancouver, BC |
| 2016 | BLOOM, Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre, May 17-28, Burnaby, BC |
| 2013 | Generation One, UBC Asian Centre, May 20-27, Vancouver, BC |
| 2013 | Boxed In!, The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery & The Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador, Jan 25-Apr 14, St. John’s, NL |
| 2012 | MAMA: Motherhood Around the Globe, International Museum of Women (now Global Fund for Women), online |
| 2011 | Your Voices: On Motherhood, International Museum of Women (now Global Fund for Women), online |
| 2011 | Connecting the Dots, Five Sixty, Oct 1-2, Vancouver, BC |
| 2010 | E-mixer, Surrey Art Gallery, Oct 28, Surrey, BC |
| 2010 | Here today, gone today, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Sep 3-19, Vancouver, BC |
| 2010 | Sights/Sites of Spectacle, AHVA Gallery, Jan 29-Feb 27, Vancouver, BC |
| 2009 | The Bookmark Project, Koffler Gallery/Jewish Book Fair, Oct 24-Nov 1, Toronto, ON |
| 2008 | Recent Memories, Ben Navee Gallery, May 10-19, Toronto, ON |
| 2008 | Maximum Exposure 13, Gladstone Hotel, April 17-20, Toronto, ON |
| 2007 | City At Night: Tribute to Brian Kipping, Bau-Xi Gallery, Sep 29-Oct 6, Toronto, ON |
| 2007 | Square Foot, AWOL Gallery, Aug 10-Sep 2, Toronto, ON |
| 2007 | True and False, Niagara Gallery, May 15-26, Toronto, ON |
| 2007 | Third Year Photography Show, Ryerson Gallery (now I.M.A. Gallery), Jan 21-Feb 17, Toronto, ON |
| 2006 | Figure in Place, Ryerson University School of Image Arts, Oct 23-Nov 3, Toronto, ON |
| 2006 | Friends and Strangers, On the Curve, Sep 1-30, Mississauga, ON (two-person) |
| 2006 | Plastic, mooncruise* | gallery, Jul 14-Aug 30, Vancouver, BC |
| 2006 | dis.connect, Toronto Image Works, Jul 5-Aug 30, Toronto, ON |
| 2006 | Imagining Ourselves, International Museum of Women (now Global Fund for Women), online |
| 2003 | Marshall McLuhan Multimedia Festival, Ontario Science Centre, May 15-18, Toronto, ON |
| 2003 | Pop, Gallery 44, Apr 16-24, Toronto, ON |
Public Projects
| 2018 | Indian Summer Festival x Vancouver Art Gallery – Museum Bhavan with Dayanita Singh, July 5-15, Vancouver, BC |
| 2012-13 | City Panorama, Photo Centre NW, 4Culture and King County Metro, Seattle, WA, USA |
| 2012 | Concept development for public art commission for The Sharing Farm as part of the City of Richmond Community Public Art Program, Richmond, BC |
Artist Talks & Guest Lectures
| 2019 | People Doing Things podcast, Episode 262, Vancouver, BC, April 27 |
| 2018 | A Quiet Resistance: Reconciling diasporic ruptures through food and readymades in Have You Eaten Yet?: A Discussion of Food, Culture, Design & Race (HUMN 305/306), Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC, May 23 & October 10 |
| 2016 | People Doing Things podcast, Episode 118, Vancouver, BC, April 27 |
| 2016 | Interrogating and articulating, from the center and the sidelines in Feminist Anti-Racist Pedagogies (GRSJ 320), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, March 17 |
| 2015 | Tip of my tongue in Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Representation in Modern Asia (GRSJ 230), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, October 14 |
| 2010 | Here today, gone today, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, September 15 |
| 2010 | Ourtube: The Havana Report, Centre A, Vancouver, BC, June 3 (via Skype) |
| 2010 | Sights/Sites of Spectacle, AHVA Gallery, Vancouver, BC, January 29 |
Bibliography & Publications
| 2021 | PUBLIC 63: Unsettling Settler Canadian Nation-Building, editors Dr. Leah Decter and Dr. Carla Taunton (forthcoming) |
| 2021 | Graphic History Collective, Remember | Resist | Redraw: A Radical History Poster Project (forthcoming) |
| 2018 | Michelle Blackwell, UBC Library, ”From Open Collections to Art: Local artists use UBC Collections to inspire calendar celebrating Chinatown’s history,” November 16 |
| 2018 | CTV News, ”Vancouver-based artists open studios for Eastside Culture Crawl,” November 15 |
| 2017 | BC Artscape, ”BC Artscape Sun Wah Founding Tenants 創建租戶,” October 11 |
| 2017 | Lost Rolls America – The Archive, “An image from 2016,” Summer |
| 2017 | Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, Reflections of Canada: Illuminating Our Opportunities and Challenges at 150+ Years, Vancouver, BC, UBC Press (photographs) |
| 2017 | Two Rivers Gallery, “Past, Present & Future: How We’re Marking Canada’s 150th Anniversary,” February 8 |
| 2017 | Allan Cho, Ricepaper Magazine, “Interview with Visual Artist Clare Yow,” January 12 |
| 2016 | Haley Lewis, The Thunderbird, “Indigenous art show hopes to create dialogue at Vancouver gallery,” November 21 (photograph) |
| 2016 | Sima Sahar Zerehi, CBC North, “Tanya Tagaq teams up with Greenlandic mask dancer for ‘incredibly intense’ music video,” November 6 (photograph) |
| 2016 | The Express Tribune, “Tip of my tongue: Navigating the silences of being Chinese and female,” April 8 |
| 2015 | Julius Schrijvers, Hybrid Identities: The making and unmaking of Chinese-Canadian identity, BA Cultural Anthropology thesis, Utrecht University |
| 2010 | Clare Yow, “A Question of Priorities: Unmapping Through a Diasporic Femininity,” University of British Columbia Master of Fine Arts – Visual Art thesis |
| 2010 | Debra Zhou, “Living Through the Female Body,” Here today, gone today exhibition catalogue |
| 2009 | Teresa Aversa, Obsolete exhibition essay, The Bookmark Project, Koffler Gallery |
| 2008 | Function, Vol.9 |
| 2007 | Light Leaks, Issue 5 (Winter) |
| 2007 | Inside Mississauga, “Mississauga Portfolio” – Vol.1,4 (May/June) |
Professional Experience
| 2020 | Organizer of Both/and: Artist-parents in conversation + a performance, Future Forum, Emily Carr University, March 28, Vancouver, BC |
| 2017 | City of Richmond Public Art Selection Panel, Richmond, BC |
| 2016 | Direction for Chinese Vaginies by Natalie Gan, Walk the Walk: National Festival of Asian Canadian Women, fu-GEN Theatre Company, June 17, Toronto, ON |
| 2014-15 | Cinevolution Media Arts Society, Board of Directors, Richmond, BC |
| 2011-13 | City of Richmond – Community Art Roster, Richmond, BC |
| 2010 | Cultural exchange with Manuel Piña, artist and professor, Havana, Cuba |
| 2008-10 | University of British Columbia Dept. of Art History, Visual Art and Theory Teaching Assistant (VISA 110, VISA 183), Vancouver, BC |
| 2009 | Biodiversity/Visual Art Elementary School UBC Outreach Program pilot project, Vancouver, BC |
| 2008 | Studio Assistant to Eldon Garnet, artist, Toronto, ON |
| 2007 | New Media Resources Intern, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON |
| 2007 | Co-curation of Illuminating Morocco: The Architectural Photographs of D.R. Cowles, Ryerson Gallery (now I.M.A. Gallery), Toronto, ON |
Fundraisers
| 2017 | 20th Anniversary Gala, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – BC office, Vancouver, BC, Oct 19 |
| 2016 | XXV: Annual Auction Fundraiser, Access Gallery, Vancouver, BC, November 19 |
| 2016 | BLOOM: Ink, Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre, Burnaby, BC, May 17-28 |
| 2010 | Cuba Libre, AMS Gallery, Vancouver, BC, April 9 |
| 2009 | WEAREART, AMS Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Sept 13; AHVA Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Sept 18-21 |
| 2008 | SNAP!08, Live Auction for AIDS Committee, National Ballet School, Toronto, ON, March 2 |
Achievements
| 2020 | British Columbia Arts Council Microgrant |
| 2010 | UBC Go Global International Learning Programs Award |
| 2009-10 | SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship |
| 2008 | UBC Faculty of Arts Graduate Student Initiative Award |
| 2008 | SNAP!Star TD Award |
| 2007 | 8 Elm Photo/Video Award |
| 2003 | Queen Elizabeth II “Aiming For the Top” Scholarship |