SELECTED FILM AWARDS
Jury Choice Award, Thomas Edison Film Festival (formerly “Black Maria Film Festival”), Experimental Film, I Was There
Winner of Film Award, Antakya International Film Festival, Turkey, experimental film, I Was There
Award Winner of Short Documentary, Doc Screenings International Documentary Film Festival, Tbilisi, Georgia, experimental film, I Was There
Award Winner of Experimental Documentary, Experimental Film Odyssey, experimental film, I Was There
Award Winner, Toronto Couch Film Festival, experimental film, I Was There
Award Winner, AltFF Alternative Film Festival, experimental film, I Was There
Winner of Best Film [1], Italy Fiaticorti Film Festival, Experimental Film on Architecture, experimental documentary, Lighthouse
Finalist Film Award [2], Gdańsk DocFilm Festival, Waly Piastowskie 24, Gdansk, experimental documentary, Lighthouse
Distinction Prize Award [3], Poland IN-OUT Film Festival, organized by the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lazniz, Poland (Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Łaźnia), experimental documentary, Lighthouse
Best Film on Architecture, Asolo Art Film Festival, Asolo, Italy, experimental documentary, Glass House
Second Grand Prize Award, Athens International Film Festival, Athens, OH, experimental film, For the Unseen
Best of Film Festival, Thaw International Film and Digital Media Festival, Iowa City, IA, experimental film, Another Clapping
Finalist Award for Media Arts, Illinois Arts Council, Chicago, IL, experimental film, Another Clapping
Best Documentary Short, Georgetown Independent Film Festival, Washington, DC, experimental film, Another Clapping
Finalist Award, Asian American Film and Video Showcase, Chicago, IL, experimental film, Another Clapping
[1] Jury included the Andre Fratti Costa (Brazilian documentary filmmaker and professor), Amy Guggenheim (New York based writer, director, producer), Dustin Shum (Hong Kong based photojournalist), Steve Bisson (Italy based filmmaker and curator), Ljubica Milovic (architect, researcher and curator at Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina in Serbia). September 27 to October 13
[2] The three-judge panel of 8th Gdańsk DocFilm Festival consisting of the chairman Maciej Drygas, Małgorzata Taraszkiewicz-Zwolicka and dr Sebastian Jakub Konefał
FILM FESTIVALS & EXHIBITIONS
2024
The 70th Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen in Germany, International Competition (Experimental Film, I Was There Part II, World Premiere)
Invited and accepted for VdR–Film Market, Visions du Réel Festival International de cinéma Nyon, Switzerland ( I WAS THERE, Part II)
Onion City Experimental Film Festival (Experimental Film, I Was There)
Buenos Aires International Film Festival, Argentina (Experimental Film, I Was There)
The Doc Screenings Documentary Film Festival, Georgian Cinema House, Tbilisi, Georgia (Experimental Film, I Was There)
Carmarthen Bay Film Festival is Wales Premier Film Festival, a BAFTA Short Film & IMDb qualifier, (Experimental Film, I Was There)
COSMIC RAYS, Chapel Hill, NC (Experimental Film, I Was There)
USA Film Festival, Dallas (Experimental Film, I Was There)
2023
The 27th edition of Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, Competition Program, World Premiere, (Experimental Film, I Was There)
The 43rd Thomas Edison Film Festival (formerly “Black Maria Film Festival”), Jury Choice Award, (Experimental Film, I Was There)
Festival Film Dokumenter, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, (Experimental Film, I Was There)
The 11th Antakya International Film Festival, Turkey, Experimental Film Competition Program, Winner of Short Film Award, Competition Program, (Experimental Film, I Was There)
The 73th Montecatini International Short Film Festival, Italy, Italian National Premiere, (Experimental Film, I Was There)
Anti-War International Independent Film Festival, Estonia, (Experimental Film, I Was There)
Rome Prisma Film Awards, Rome, Finalist, Best Experimental Film, (Experimental Film, I Was There)
Ethereal Frames Film and Art Awards, Finalist, Best Short Film, (Experimental Film, I Was There)
Luleå International Film Festival, Finalist, Best Experimental Film, Sweden, (Experimental Film, I Was There)
Stockholm City Film Festival, Semi-finalist, Best Woman Filmmaker, Sweden, (Experimental Film, I Was There)
Experimental Film Odyssey, Surreel Award Winner, (Experimental Film, I Was There)
Couch Film Festival, Toronto, Ontario, Short Film Award Winner (Experimental Film, I Was There)
AltFF Alternative Film Festival, Toronto, Ontario, Short Film Award Winner (Experimental Film, I Was There)
Down East Flick Fest, Greenville, NC, (Experimental Film, I Was There)
Ecocine International Environmental and Human Rights Film Festival (Festival Internacional de Cinema Ambiental e Direitos Humanos), Brazil, Short Documentary Award Winner, (Experimental Film, I Was There, part III)
The 12th annual Seattle Asian American Film Festival, (Experimental Film, I Was There, part III)
2021
Antakya International Film Festival, Turkey, Experimental Film Competition Program, (Experimental Film, I Was There, part III)
Vienna International Human Rights Film Festival, Austria, Short Film Award Competition Program, (Experimental Film, I Was There, part III)
Chicago Underground Film Festival, the Logan Theatre, Chicago, Short Films Program, (Experimental Film, I Was There, part III)
Alytus International Film Festival, Lithuania, Short Film Award Competition Program, (Experimental Film, I Was There, part III)
2019
Lens Culture, the Netherlands, jury international photographic journal (Office 165, Wibautstraat 150, 1091GR Amsterdam), Ten photographs published from project series (Digital photography, Mcgaw-Hall Building (1963-2016) by Helmut Bartsch)
2018
London, “Now: A dialogue on female Chinese contemporary artists Vol. 1,” Film series from a symposium hosted by Tate Museum Research Centre in London: Asia, Symposium date: 22 February 2018
HOME, Manchester Arts Centre, 2 Tony Wilson Place First Street Manchester, London, England, (Manchester, England) Supported by British Council, a two-part moving image program of 14 artists selected and curated by Bren O'Callaghan, a Senior Producer, Visual Art and independent curator at HOME, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA), Nottingham Contemporary, and Turner Contemporary, (February 15 - March 19), London, Manchester and England, (Super-8 Experimental Film, Hannah and the Crystal Ball)
2017
The Media School of the University of Indiana at Bloomington, “China Remixed Initiative” curated and presented by Isaac Leung, director of Videotage and the University of Indiana, 32 filmmakers from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the U.S. The University of Indiana, Bloomington, IN (Experimental documentary, Dark River)
2016
Venice Experimental Video Architecture, ISOLAB Gallery, Italy, 16 international filmmakers were selected for the third edition of E.V.A. – Experimental Video Architecture. It is a part of the events taking place at the Architecture Biennale 2016 in Venice, Curate by Steve Bisson (Experimental documentary, Lighthouse)
Both Sides Now 3 – Final Frontiers on Displacement, Migration and Memory–the program presents contemporary and historical film and video work from the United Kingdom, Hong Kong and China. Curated by Isaac Leung, director of Videotape, and Jamie Wyld, director of VideoClub, International Touring Film Exhibitions (Experimental documentary, Dark River)
6 October – Fabrica, Brighton, United Kingdom
22 October – British Council, Hong Kong
30 October – Ray Art Centre, Shanghai, China
3 December – Exeter Phoenix, United Kingdom
3 December – ICA, London, United Kingdom
7 December – Phoenix, Leicester, United Kingdom
09 December–Woolloomooloo, Taipei (Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition)
10 December– Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
2014
Winner of Best Film, Italy Experimental Video Architecture at the Fiaticorti Film Festival, Jury included the Andre Fratti Costa (Brazilian documentary filmmaker and professor), Amy Guggenheim (New York based writer, director, producer), Dustin Shum (Hong Kong based photojournalist), Steve Bisson (Italy based filmmaker and curator), Ljubica Milovic (architect, researcher and curator at Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina in Serbia). (Experimental documentary, Lighthouse)
2013
Vietnam, Hanoi Center for the Moving Image, Hanoi Doclab, and Video Data Bank (USA) present short videos by international artists from the collection of the Video Data Bank– “CHÙNG”; SHORT VIDEO BY INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS, featured 5 international video artists, Big Hall, Goethe Institute 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Hanoi, Vietnam (Experimental documentary, Lighthouse)
Gallery 400, “Barriers to Entry” curated by Josh B. Mabe, Program Director at Chicago Filmmakers, featuring 8 national video artists, Invitational, 400 South Peoria Street, Chicago, IL (Experimental documentary, Lighthouse)
2011
Toronto International Film Festival, film program “Wonders of Progress and Money Go Round”, Curated by German film critic Florian Wüst, Toronto, Canada (Experimental documentary, Lighthouse)
European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrueck, Germany (Experimental documentary, Lighthouse)
Sullivan Galleries—The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, "In-Focus"—exploring themes of sight, observation, and perception through the media of photography and video. Artists include Lucy Cash, Tirtza Even, Susan Giles, Jacqueline Goss, Deborah Stratman, Chi Jang Yin, and Haggith Gor Ziv. Curated by Amelia Love with support from Trevor Martin and co-sponsored by the Video Data Bank, Abina Manning and Lindsay Bosch. Chicago IL (Experimental documentaries: Another Clapping, For the Unseen and Photography: Chinese Playground)
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Electromediascope Film Series–Lives on Hold: Searching for Agency and Identity in a Changing World, curated by Patrick Clancy. Programs present works by artists from the United States, Switzerland and China: artists include, Chi Jang Yin, Jacqueline Goss, and Deborah Stratman. (September 16), Kansas City, MO (Experimental documentary, Lighthouse)
The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Video Playlist: Intimate Civics and Everyday Explorers, (June 17), Chicago IL 60614, Curator: Kate Bowen and David Oresick, Featured artists Chi Jang Yin, Paul Chan, Olivia Ciummo, Coco Fusco, and Jillian Mayer. (Experimental documentary, Lighthouse)
Solo Film Program, DePaul Art Museum, New Experimental Short Films by Chi Jang Yin, Chicago, IL
2010
Distinction Prize Award and Honorable Mention, Poland Gdańsk DocFilm Festival, Tri-City Theater, Gdańsk, Poland (Experimental documentary, Lighthouse)
Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Jihlava, Czech Republic (Experimental documentary, Lighthouse)
Chicago Underground Film Festival, The Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL (Experimental documentary, Lighthouse)
22nd Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Chicago Filmmakers, juried by Carolyn Faber, Jodie Mack and Alexander Stewart, Chicago, IL (Experimental documentary, Lighthouse)
Athens International Film and Video Festival, (Short Competition Program), Athena Cinema, Athens, OH (Experimental documentary, Lighthouse)
The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, The American Architect in Focus, Curated by director of The Block Cinema: Mimi Brody, Evanston, IL (Experimental documentary, Glass House)
The Chicago Architecture Foundation (September 22) and Chicago Filmmakers (September 25), Chicago Architecture in Motion, Curator: Todd Lillethun, Chicago, IL (Experimental documentary, Glass House)
Chicago Filmmakers, Super 8 Film Rides (commissioned and sponsored by Kodak), Curator: Todd Lillethun, (August 6), Chicago, IL (Super 8 experimental film, Hannah and the Crystal Ball)
Direct Arts, Take Two, Curator: Victoria Linchong, (March 9), New York, NY (Experimental documentary, Another Clapping)
College Art Association, Artspace, Dear Shelter, Hyatt Regency Chicago, video installation exhibition, Curator: Dolores Wilber, Chicago, IL (Experimental documentary, Dark River)
Solo Film Program, Chicago Filmmakers, New Films by Chi Jang Yin, invitational, Chicago, IL
2009
World Premiere, Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival (IDFA), CINEAC Theater, jury led by IDFA programmers Joost Daamen, Anna Abrahams and the programming committee, Amsterdam, The Netherlands(Experimental documentary, Lighthouse)
Beyond Media Festival, Florence, Italy, (Experimental documentary, Icon)
Awarded Distinction Prize and Honorable Mention, Poland IN-OUT International Festival, the Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art, juried by Marco Manusco, Jason Waite and Witoslaw Czerwonka, Łaźnia, Poland, (Experimental documentary, Lighthouse)
Rondo Sztuki Gallery in Poland, The Memory Labyrinth. Faces of Evil, 1939-2009, sponsored by the Poland Cultural Institution of Ars Cameralis, Artworks by 28 artists including: Paul Chan, Gordon Matta-Clark, Nam June Paik, Martha Rosler and Bill Viola, Curator: Marek Zieliski, (represented by Video Data Bank), international film exhibition, Katowice, Poland (Experimental documentary, Another Clapping)
Asian American Showcase: Encounter with Distance, The Gene Siskel Film Center, Curator: Fang-Tze Hsu, Chicago, IL (Digital photography, Chinese Playground–Series Three: Beyond the Wall)
Links Hall, Memory as Innovation, Curators: Amina Cain and Jennifer Karmin, Chicago IL (Experimental videos: Icon and For the Unseen)
Solo Film Program, Sun Yat-sen University, Experimental Documentary by Chi Jang Yin, Guangzhou, China
2008
Athens International Film and Video Festival, Ohio University, Athens Cinema, Athens, OH (Experimental videos: Icon and For the Unseen)
Los Angeles Festival (LAFF), National Premiere, Short Film Competition, Majestic Crest Theatre, featured in LIFE Magazine, Los Angeles, CA (Experimental videos: Icon and For the Unseen)
19th Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Chicago Filmmakers, catalogued, juried by programming committee, Chicago, IL (Experimental videos: Icon and For the Unseen)
Experimental in Cinema, Guild Cinema, juried by Bryan Konefsky and the programming committee, Albuquerque, NM (Experimental video, Icon)
Beijing University, visiting artist, Topic on Experimental Documentary, curated by Professor Hu Yong of the College of Communication, Beijing, China (Experimental documentary, Another Clapping)
Italy Rimini al Cinema in Cineteca (Rimini Cineteca Theater), L' Immaginario Possibile, arranged by the Ordine degli Architetti di Rimini, international architecture film exhibition, Rimini, Italy (Experimental documentary, Glass House)
Chicago Cultural Center, Site Unseen 2008, Curator: Dolores Wilber and Julie Laffin, video and performance exhibition, Chicago, IL (Experimental video, Icon)
Mason Murer Fine Art Gallery, art auction for Art Papers Magazine, international photography and fine arts exhibition, Atlanta, GA (Digital photography, Chinese Playground–Series Two: Measure of Things, 28x35 inches)
The Nightingale, Fading out/Fading in–Identities in Transit, Curators: Casey Gibbs and John Lou, Chicago, IL(Experimental documentary, Another Clapping)
A Perfect Life, live performance directed by Japanese artist Takao Kawaguchi, performer (role as a monk), DePaul University, Chicago, IL
2007
Awarded Best Film on Architecture, Asolo Art Film Festival, Asolo, Italy (Experimental documentary, Glass House)
Sweden Nordic Art Video Festival, TRUNK–Cinema Regina, supported by the Consulate of Art at the County Council of Jamtland, Östersund, Sweden (Experimental video, Icon)
Asian American Showcase Film Festival, The Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL (Experimental documentary, Glass House)
Women of Color Film Festival, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC (Experimental video, Icon)
Antimatter Underground Film Festival, Victoria, Canada (Experimental video, Icon)
Takoma Park Film Festival, Ohio University, Curator: Agnes Moon, Takoma Park, MD (Experimental video, Untitled Affair)
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Asian Art Biennial, international premiere, Taichung, Taiwan (Experimental video, For the Unseen)
Beijing Central Academy of Fine Arts, Experimental Films, Curator: Jeffrey Skoller (Professor of Film Studies at the University of California Berkeley), Beijing, China (Experimental documentary, Another Clapping)
Catherine Edelman Gallery, The Chicago Project, Chicago, IL (Digital photography, digital inkjet print Chinese Playground–Series One, 35x44 inches)
Mason Murer Fine Art Gallery, art auction for Art Paper Magazine, international photography and fine arts exhibition, Atlanta, GA (Chinese Playground–Series Two: Five O’Clock, digital photography, digital inkjet print, 35x48 inches)
Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago’s Own, Curator: Patrick Friel, Chicago, IL (Experimental documentary, Glass House)
2006
Dallas Video Festival, Dallas, TX (Experimental documentary, Icon)
Festival de Cine Internacional de Barcelona, Spain (Experimental documentary, Icon)
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Love is a Battlefield, Curator: KJ Mohr, (February 9), Washington, DC (Experimental video, Untitled Affair)
Phoenix Art Museum, Asian Lives, Phoenix, AZ (Experimental documentary, Another Clapping)
The Gene Siskel Film Center, Asian American Pop Art, Chicago Asian American Showcase, Curator: Larry Lee, Chicago, IL (Experimental video, Icon)
Directors Lounge Berlin, Urban Research on Film, Curator: Klaus W. Eisenlohr, Berlin, Germany (Experimental documentaries, Icon and Glass House)
Un peu d'Alice, Carte blanche à l'underground Chinnois, Friche Belle de Mai [A Little Alice: White Chart with the Chinese Underground at Theatre Massilia], (June 16), Cabaret Aléatoire, Marseille, France (Experimental documentary, Another Clapping)
Portobello Film Festival, London, England (Experimental documentary, Icon)
Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee, Kansas City, KS (Experimental documentary, Glass House)
Phoenix Gallery, judged by Tricia Paik (curatorial assistant of the Museum of Modern Art in New York), competitive juried national exhibition, New York, NY (Digital photography, Chinese Playground–Series One 35x48 inches)
Mason Murer Fine Art Gallery, Art Auction by Art Paper Magazine, international photography and fine arts exhibition, Atlanta, GA (Digital photography, Chinese Playground–Series One, 35x44 inches)
2005
Kara International Film Festival, World Premiered, juried by David Chalmers Alesworth, Hameed Haroon and Khusro Mumtaz, Karachi, Pakistan (Experimental documentary, Glass House)
The Center of Contemporary Art in Bulgaria, International Project for Low and High Techniques in Contemporary Media Art: Critique of Pure Image—Between Fake and Quotation, sponsored by the Art Today Association, Curator: Dimitrina Sevova, international film and performance art exhibition, Old Turkish Baths, Plovdiv, Bulgaria (Experimental documentary, Icon)
2004
eKsperim[E]nto Film & Video Festival, Manila, Philippines (Experimental video, Untitled Affair)
Women of Color Film Festival, University of California Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA (Experimental documentary, Another Clapping)
Film Art Foundation Film and Video Festival, San Francisco, CA (Experimental video, Untitled Affair)
Cheekwood Museum, Navigate Cultural Displacement—Neither Here Nor There: Video Artists, Curator: Terri Smith, Nashville, TN (Experimental documentary, Another Clapping)
Sun Yat-sen University, Philosophy Department and Comparative Literature Department, Mediation: The Virtual Body in Motion, Curators: Trevor Martin and Chi Jang Yin, (December 18–20), Guangzhou, China (Experimental documentary, Another Clapping)
The School of Art Institute of Chicago, Betty Rymer Gallery, Occurrences: The Performative Space of Video, Curator: Trevor Martin, Chicago, IL (Experimental video, Untitled Affair)
The Portland Mercury (Peripheral Produce), The Know: Film Series, Curator: Sarah Halpern, Portland, OR (Experimental documentary, Another Clapping)
2003
Second Grand Prize Award, Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, OH (Experimental video, Untitled Affair)
Kasseler Dokumentarfilm-und Videofest, Kasseler, Germany (Experimental video, Untitled Affair)
Cinematexas International Short Film Competition, Austin, TX (Experimental video, Untitled Affair)
Brooklyn Art Council 37th International Film Festival, BAC Gallery, New York, NY (Experimental video, Untitled Affair)
Asian Pacific American Film Festival, Washington, DC (Experimental documentary, Another Clapping)
Georgetown Independent Film Festival, Washington, DC (Experimental video, Untitled Affair)
Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago's Own, Curator: Patrick Friel, Chicago, IL (Experimental video, Untitled Affair)
2002
Best Film Award, Thaw International Video, Film and Digital Media Festival, Iowa City, IA, (Experimental documentary, Another Clapping)
Brooklyn Arts Council 36th International Film and Video Festival, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, New York, NY, (Experimental documentary, Another Clapping)
Asian Women Warrior Festival, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL, (Experimental documentary, Another Clapping)
Arizona International Film Festival, Tucson, AZ, (Experimental documentary, Another Clapping)
Oculars Short Film, New York, NY, (Experimental documentary, Another Clapping)
Columbia College Chicago, TicToc Chicago Performance Art Festival, role: director, (performers: Sheelah Murthy, Anuj Vadya, and Chi Jang Yin), Chicago, IL, (Live performance, A Salesman’s Note)
Contemporary Art Council Chicago, title of exhibition: Arranged Marriage, Curator: Marji Vecchio, Chicago, IL
2001
Finalist Award, Asian American Showcase, The Gene Siskel Film Center, juried by programming committee, Chicago, IL, (Experimental documentary, Another Clapping)
Best Documentary Short Award, Georgetown Independent Film Festival, Washington, DC, (Experimental documentary, Another Clapping)
Del Corto in Sabina International Film Festival, Rome, Italy, (Experimental documentary, Another Clapping)
NextFest Digital Motion Picture Festival, Saskatoon, Canada, (Experimental documentary, Another Clapping)
Northern Visions Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, (Experimental documentary, Another Clapping)
Global Vision Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada, (Experimental documentary, Another Clapping)
The Spareroom, Techno Buddhist, video, collaboration, performers: Chi-Jang Yin, Sheelah Murthy, and Anuj Vadya, live performance, Chicago, IL
Insight Art, Where You Stand, solo live performance, Chicago, IL
The Spareroom, Flash-Backward, collaboration, performers Chi Jang Yin and Yuko Yamamoto, livel performance exhibition, invitational, Chicago, IL
2000
Anthology Film Archives, Maya Deren Theater, New York, NY, (Experimental documentary, Another Clapping)
Film Arts Foundation Film Festival, San Francisco, CA, (Experimental documentary, Another Clapping)
1926 Roger Brown Gallery, Art of Displacement, Curator: Marcelino Stuhmer, Three
Whales, collaboration, performers: Chi Jang Yin and Yuko Yamamoto, live performance exhibition, invitational, Chicago, IL
1999
LaSalle Bank, Photography in Technology and Human Conditions, national juried photography exhibition, Chicago, IL
Insight Art Women Performance Festival, That is Not What I Want, solo live performance, Chicago, IL
Two Tracy, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL, 1999
Mimesis: Dumb-Type Tracy, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL, 1999
1998
Boston University, Photography Resource Center, MA
Nippon Steel U.S.A. Photography Exhibition, Chicago IL
Looking Up-High, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL
Not A Performance, live performance, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Gallery X, The Invisible Body, Two-person photography show, The School of Art Institute of Chicago
University of Chicago, Elevator, Radio Broadcast Station, Chicago IL
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