Ecstatic Landscapes, Café Royale, San Francisco
Fantastic Amnesia, Playspace, San Francisco
Graduate Exhibition, Gallery 2, Chicago
Peripheries of Narrative,Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco
Seven From Austin: Recent Post-Pluralist Painting, Landmark Arts, Lubbock
The Language of Objects, Design Center of Austin, Austin
Press
2006
2004
2003
2001
Snap , Crackle, Pop. Playspace, San Francisco
Its a Small World: Scale in Contemporary Photography, San Jose Museum of Art
Awsome: The Contemporary Sublime, Playspace, San Francisco
2005
Education
2006
2004
2001
MFA, California College of the Arts
BFA, University of Texas at Austin
Post-Baccalaureate Certificate, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Selected Exhibitions
Helfand, Glen, “Critic’s Picks,” Artforum.com; June
2006
Solo Exhibition, New Gallery, Austin
Sublime Climate, The Cambridge School of Weston
Mystery Ball, (video installation), Headlands, Marin
Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure. San Francisco
Albedo, Eleanor Harwood Gallery. San Francisco
The Little Show, Swarm Gallery, Oakland
The Silhouette of Songs in conjunction with the De Young Museum's exhibition "Asian/ America/ Modern Art: Shifting Currents," the Sangati Center, San Francisco
2007
2008
2009
Butterflies Shift North (solo), Skydive, Houston, Texas
Klassmyer, Kelly “Susan Chen: Butterflies Shift North" Houston Press; January 13
2009
Indeterminate Landscapes, part of the Rising Tide Ecological Arts Conference
jointly hosted by California College of the Arts and Stanford University, April 17
25th Anniversary Art Auction, the Lab, San Francisco, March 21
Curatorial Experience
Urban Idiom (co-curated), Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, March 21-April 25
2009
This & That: International Mail Swap: a project Curated by Christine Wong Yap in Involved, Socially, Triple Base, San Francisco, CA. Curated by Michelle Blade.
Mixed Metaphors and Obsessive Compulsive Behavior, Michael Rosenthal Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Tell me everything, as you remember it. Curated by Leona Scull-Hons, Creative Research Laboratory. Austin, TX
2010
Grover, Andrea,”Buffet DVD, Volume 1,” Glasstire.com:
Lovett, Creg, “Buffet DVD Review,” SpaceCityRock.com: February 21
2010
New Enterprise, Phase 3. Site Specific installation curated by fine art base, Henry Miller Memorial Library. Big Sur, CA
Temescal Street Cinema. Curated shorts by Royal Nonesuch Gallery, Oakland, CA