Lillian Chun is an artist, photographer and art educator based in Ellicott City, MD, originally from Allentown, PA. Lillian attended the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD, where she received a Masters in Art Teaching (MAT) in 2012 and a Bachelors in Fine Art (BFA) in 2011. Moments of personal paradox, complicated experiences within our memories and honoring anxiety among womxn, are often subjects within her mixed media paintings and photographs.
As her work blurs boundaries between real life and abstraction, Lillian aims to expose and honor vulnerable moments that are often behind the scenes or too vulnerable for everyday life situations. With an unusually painful background story of childhood trauma and loss at an early age, Lillian was broken wide open as a result and carries a heightened sensitivity and awareness to the complex emotions and anxiety that womxn’s bodies carry over time. This work has become a route for self-discovery and helping others uncover these cavernous layers that weigh us down.
Education
2016 Arts Integration Post Baccalaureate Degree
Towson University, Towson, MD
2012 Masters in Art Teaching (MAT)
The Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2011 General Fine Arts, BFA
Exhibitions
2020-21 If She Could Do It All, She Would, Members Exhibition, Spilt Milk Gallery
2020 Focus: National Juried Photography Exhibition, Delaplaine Arts Center, Frederick, MD
2018 Teacher as Artist Showcase, HCPSS, Clarksville, MD
2016 Annual Members Exhibit, Baltimore County Arts Guild, Catonsville, MD
2014 Demo Studio, D-Center, Baltimore, MD
2013 Relationships: Love & Loss, XS, Baltimore, MD
2012 Phases, MAT Graduate Thesis Show, Fox Gallery, MICA , Baltimore, MD
2011 Relationships, Undergraduate Thesis Show, Main Building, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2011 Dis/Order, Brown Center Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2010 Figuring Bodies, Brown Center Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2010 General Fine Arts Show, Main Building, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2008 Foundation Exhibition, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
As her work blurs boundaries between real life and abstraction, Lillian aims to expose and honor vulnerable moments that are often behind the scenes or too vulnerable for everyday life situations. With an unusually painful background story of childhood trauma and loss at an early age, Lillian was broken wide open as a result and carries a heightened sensitivity and awareness to the complex emotions and anxiety that womxn’s bodies carry over time. This work has become a route for self-discovery and helping others uncover these cavernous layers that weigh us down.
Education
2016 Arts Integration Post Baccalaureate Degree
Towson University, Towson, MD
2012 Masters in Art Teaching (MAT)
The Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2011 General Fine Arts, BFA
Exhibitions
2020-21 If She Could Do It All, She Would, Members Exhibition, Spilt Milk Gallery
2020 Focus: National Juried Photography Exhibition, Delaplaine Arts Center, Frederick, MD
2018 Teacher as Artist Showcase, HCPSS, Clarksville, MD
2016 Annual Members Exhibit, Baltimore County Arts Guild, Catonsville, MD
2014 Demo Studio, D-Center, Baltimore, MD
2013 Relationships: Love & Loss, XS, Baltimore, MD
2012 Phases, MAT Graduate Thesis Show, Fox Gallery, MICA , Baltimore, MD
2011 Relationships, Undergraduate Thesis Show, Main Building, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2011 Dis/Order, Brown Center Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2010 Figuring Bodies, Brown Center Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2010 General Fine Arts Show, Main Building, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2008 Foundation Exhibition, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA