Monica Chau
California Institue of the Arts, Valencia

Monica Chau's work as an artist and photographer explores locating and defining her cultural identity.  An inextricable part of her installation work juxtaposes text and image to comment upon the process of looking and being looked at, both as a woman and as an Asian-American.  She also collaborates with artist Daniel Mirer in installations which investigate historical similarities of Asian and Jewish stereotypes.  Their first collaborative project, Lofan/Shikseh, will be on view in Rochester, NY during Montage Ô93:  International Festival of the Image  in July, 1993. Chau, a second generation Chinese American, was born in Texas and received her B. S. in Finance at the University of Houston in 1984.  Later, she began post-baccalaureate studies in photography, and transferred to California Institute of the Arts.  Currently, Chau is a Helena Rubinstein Fellow in Curatorial Studies at the Whitney Museum of American Art.