Dr. Michelle Choy Sun - Paint Artist, Installation Artist, Art Counseling

Recipient of Doctor of Education, Master of Education, Master of Arts from

Columbia University

Recipient of Bachelor of Arts from University of Hong Kong

Taught at Long Island University, Community College of Philadelphia, City College of New York        

Visiting Scholar at the Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua University   2008-2010   Mentor: Professor Wang Hongjian (Gold medalist of the National Art Exhibition Of China and recipient of the Italian 2015 VX Premio Internazionale “Le Muse” )

Participant in the masters copying program at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC  2010-2011   

Selected to participate at the Fukuoka International Seminar to examine art and culture of China, Japan and Korea 2008

Recipient of Korean Cultural Studies 2007    

Recipient of the Freeman Foundation Scholarship，researched Japanese woodblock art  and Chinese art 2005

Participant of the masterpieces project at the Philadelphia Museum of Art 2013- 2014     

Participant of copying at the 500 Anniversary of Leonard da Vinci at the Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London, summer of 2018  

 

  

 International exhibits and meetings

Critique of my project “Da Vinci Meets Da Vinci: If Da Vinci were to live in the 21st century, what would he draw?” at Windsor Castle with Martin Clayton, director of Royal Print Collection, London, February, 2020. He was the curator for the 2019-2020 exhibit Leonardo da Vinci: a Life of Drawing at the Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace

 

 “Peony Intelligences: Patterns, Conversations and Dynamics,” Ashok Jain Gallery, New

  York, October, 2018 (solo)

 

  “Drift –Float” at the Elga Wimmer PCC, New York, September, 2018 (joint)

  “When the Peony Meets the Poet: A Symphony of Visual Art and Literary Messages,”     at Galerie Panisa, Thailand, June, 2017 (solo)

Critique and exhibit of my project “Angiosperms and Peonies” at Oak Spring Garden Foundation with Sir Peter Crane and Else Marie Friis, Virginia, September 2016.  Sir Peter Crane is President of the Oak Spring Garden Foundation and Senior Research Scientist in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University. Else Marie Friis was head of paleobotany at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm, 1987-2015 and received Linneus gold medal from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 2014

 

  “Peonies Rhapsody,” at Galleri Terseaus, Stockholm, May, 2016 (solo)

   “Large Format of Art,” at the Philadelphia Sketch Club, October 2015 (joint)

 “The Peony Symphony,” at Baiyaxuan Art Gallery（debuted on March 8 Women’s Festival, Beijing, March 2014） (solo)

Baiyaxuan Art Gallery is the exclusive sales representative gallery for Wu Guanzhong，a founder of modern Chinese painting and the first living Chinese artist to exhibit at the British Museum

 

Exhibits of Visiting Scholar at the Academy of Art and Designs Tsinghua University, Beijing, June 2009, 2011, 1012 (joint)

 “Five Year Anniversary of China Art” at The China Millennium Monument, Beijing, November 2012 (joint)

 “White Peonies: Pure in Love,” at Asian Art Expo, Guomao Exhibition Hall, Beijing, January 2011 (solo)

 “The Glory of Night Beauties” at Cairn University, USA, 2011 (solo)

 “Eternal Praise of the Night Blooming Cereus” at Philadelphia Biblical University, USA, September 2008 (solo)

 “East and West as thy Neighbors,” at the Academy of Art and Designs, Tsinghua University in April 2007, Beijing (solo)

 “Zhouzhuang and Venice: Fusing Chinese and Western Art, Poetry and Calligraphy,” at Burrison Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania, in September 2006 (solo)

 “An Arena of Western and Chinese Delights,” at Friends Select Academy, Philadelphia, February 2006 (solo)

The annual juried art exhibition at Immaculata University Art Show, Pennsylvania, April 7, 2006 (joint)

 “A Window of Color and Life” at Community College of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, February 2005 (solo)

Joint juried exhibit at Smithtown Township [New York] Arts Council from October to December 2005 (juror Claudia Altman-Siegel, director of  Luhring Augustine)

                         “Vibrancy in Winter,” at Episcopal Academy, Philadelphia, in February

                      2005 (solo)

 

                      Juried Art Exhibition at Yellow Springs Art Show, at Pennsylvania April 2005 and

                      2004 (joint)

                        

Seminars

Numerous presentations of seminars in the United States, China, Canada and Switzerland, which include

“Western Abstract Expressionism and Chinese Minority Art: Past and Present, Boldness and Delight,” Guizhou Ethnic University, Guiyang, China, June, 2018

“Peony Memories as Symbolism of East-West Traditional and Contemporary Values,” at Rajabhat University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, June, 2017

“Luminous simplicity of the East and West,” at Galleri Terseaus, Stockholm, May, 2016

 “American Contemporary Art and Fashion,” at Yunnan Ethnic University, Yunnan, China, June, 2016

“American Contemporary Art and Its Impact on Fashion Trends,” at Qingdao University, Qingdao, China, May, 2015

“Art Philosophy of the East and West: A Comparative Study of the Greek and Daoist Traditions,” at the Academy of Art and Designs Tsinghua University, March 2013

“Multiculturalism: Forever Heaven and Earth,” at the Museum of Martygn, Switzerland, November 2009

"International Borrowing: Japanese Woodblock Values on Impressionism," at the Asian Studies Development Program National Conference, Chicago, March 2008

“International Crossover: Impressionism and Japanese Woodblock,” at the Free Library of Philadelphia, April 2007

 

             “Impressionism Rooted in Aesthetics of Japan and China” at Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 2006

             “East and West Art Movements,” at University of Hawaii, 2007

            "Intercultural Crossover in Art between East and West: Investigating Impressionism and Japanese Art," at Japan Studies Association Annual Conference, Hawaii, January 2006

            “Humor, Literature, and Chinese Identity,” at 32nd Conference of Association for Asian Studies, Washington D.C., October 2003

            “Humor Literature as a Lens to Chinese Identity,” at Asian Studies Development Program 9th Annual National Conference, Arizona, March 2003

             “Humor Literature: Lu Hsun's The Diary of Ah Q and Woodblock Prints of His Contemporaries,” at Community College of Philadelphia, April 2003

 

Publications  

             

 “The Dream of Peonyland,” in Stars Art, a publication of Chinese Academy of Oil Painting and Chinese Art Research Institute, July 2015

 “Soul of Flowers,” in Art Observation 2014, a publication of the Chinese Art Research Institute, classified as a national art journal, May 2014

“Cadenza of Forever Heaven and Earth,” in Huajie, 2010 ( March) in Beijing

 “A Study of Wang Hongjian’s latest Work,” In Aesthetics and Time, 2010 (February) in Beijing

“Humor Literature as a Lens to Chinese Identity.” East-West Connections: Review of Asian Studies. A publication of the Asian Studies Development Program National Centers, Volume 2, Number 1, 2003

 

Critiques

Arthur Wheelock, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC 

 

Michelle Zhuomin’s peony paintings are awesome. She focuses on the energy toward the core of the compositions and the rhythm that capture the feeling and life force of the flowers. Viewers can feel the intensity and the life force of her floral images. Her titles work closely with her motifs. (Excerpt)

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Arthur K Wheelock, Jr is the Curator of the Northern European Art Collection at the National Gallery of Art, in Washington DC. He is a renowned authority on Vermeer studies. He has organized a number of major exhibitions over his career, including Johannes Vermeer (1995), in which he arranged to exhibit 22 out of the existing 36 paintings of Vermeer in the world.

 

Professor Ban Wang, Stanford University

“Looking at Michelle Cai Sun’s  peony series, one is drawn into the rich and complex universe of Chinese art.  The demure but noble flowers not only envelope the viewer with a profuse aura of elegance, purity, and refined taste, but also lift you with a soaring momentum toward the transcendental realm of Heaven toward the unspeakable Tao that underlies our being. The peonies elevate you to the mythical, ethereal state of musing and transport you into other-worldliness. What a pleasant surprise that such exquisite, feminine pedals, an age-old genre, could all of sudden become so sublime and divine.”

Professor Wang Ban excels in comparative literature and aesthetics. He has been a recipient of research fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton. He taught at Beijing Foreign Studies University and Harvard University before he came to Stanford.

 

Professor Frank L. Chance, University of Pennsylvania, Director of Center of

East Asian Studies and Professor of Art History

                                               

“Michelle Zhuomin covers large canvases with richly detailed images of immense flowers.  However, the extravagant blooms rarely remain mere flowers—petals transform into mountains or clouds, waterfalls or tempests, or sometimes just purely abstract color fields.  The images are compelling, and the viewer can easily dissolve into contemplation of the infinite within them.” (Excerpt)

 

Member of Oil Painters of America

Member of National Association of Women Artists

Paintings purchased by collectors of the United States, Sweden, China, Canada, Thailand, Hong Kong and other countries