Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual Arts
Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts
Univeristy of Chicago
Formerly
Founding Department Chair and Assistant Professor of Visual Arts
Bard Early College Washington, D.C.
Bard College
Instructor of Record
Departments of Printmaking and Sculpture
Rhode Island School of Design
Graduate Assistant
Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
RISD Museum of Art
Director of Liberal Arts Studies
Inspire! Education, Shanghai, China
Art Educational Consultant
Catalyst Education, Shanghai, China
Teaching Fellow
Teach for China, Yunnan, China
Intern
Gensler, Shanghai, China
One-Person Exhibitions
2027
(forthcoming) Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL (Curator: Allison Peters Quinn, Executive Director and Chief Curator, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL)
2026
And Then Some: Works (mostly) from Tongji Philip Qian, Chosen (mostly) with Fan Ada Wang, Installed (in part) by McKinzie Trotta, Arranged (in part) by Si Tong, University of Chicago Center in Beijing, Beijing, China
Tongji Philip Qian: if i may (my favorite is TEN SECONDS YUNNAN RICE NOODLES), Chinese American Museum of Chicago, Chicago, IL (Curator: Larry Lee, Curator of Spotlight Series, Chinese American Museum of Chicago, Chicago, IL)
2025
Tongji Philip Qian: Alloyed Commitments, Logan Center Gallery, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago, IL (Curator: Andrew Witkin, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston, MA)
2023
Staycation in Greene; Away in the Catskills, Prattsville Art Center, Prattsville, NY (cataloguette)
Duration of Status, Daniel Arts Center, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Great Barrington, MA
Unveiling Serendipity, Cosmic Heart Gallery and Kismat Art Gallery, Mumbai, India (catalogue)
2017
Homage to the Element of Chance, Cosmic Heart Gallery, Mumbai, India (catalogue)
2016
Unchanced Chance, Kriti Gallery, Varanasi, India
Chance and Algorithms, Jaipur Art Summit at Ravindra Manch, Jaipur, India (catalogue)
2015
Wall Drawings, Timeless Space, Lijiang, Yunnan, China
2014
Constructivism, Timeless Space, Dali, Yunnan, China
Group Exhibitions
2027
(forthcoming) Lit&Luz: Live Magazine Show (Edge/Borde), Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico
2026
(forthcoming) Lit&Luz: Live Magazine Show (Edge/Borde), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
(forthcoming) Not Just Another Pretty Face, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
Zine* Together, Asia Art Archive in America, Brooklyn, NY
Ruminations: Our Stories In Paper, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD
Tone in Tongue, Letterform Archive, San Francisco, CA
Wild Thing, Arts of Life, Chicago, IL (Curator: Pia Singh, independent curator, Chicago, IL)
Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair with Reading Road Studio, Brooklyn, NY
92nd Exhibition of Visual Arts Members, Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
(two-person with Raja Ravi Varma) Echoes on Paper: Continuities of Craft and Consciousness, Cosmic Heart Gallery and Lalit Kala Akademi (Ministry of Culture), Mumbai, India
2025
Tone in Tongue, Bronze Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Tone in Tongue, Shanghai Printing Technology Research Institute, Shanghai, China
Annual AIDS Benefit, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston, MA
Tone in Tongue, Bolsky Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Vernacular Yet Curious, Yangdeng Art Museum, Yangdeng, China
(two-person with McKinzie Trotta) III, W.I.H.S.H. Projects, Chicago, IL
Part 2 / Among Others, Steve Sun Art Gallery, University of Chicago Center in Beijing, Beijing, China
Dieu Donné Spring Benefit, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, NY
Open carefully, Longino, I.A.H., Chicago, IL
2024
Annual AIDS Benefit, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston, MA
Resistance: Permanent Collection Installation, RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI
Eternal Paper, The Paper Academy, Gilleleje, Denmark (Curator: Helen Frederick, Founder of Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD)
1/20 of a millennium (and then some), Cochrane-Woods Art Center, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Multiple Formats with Radical Characters, Boston University, Boston, MA
Bees and Mead, Bergen House, Middletown, CT
2023
Eternal Paper, University of Maryland, Adelphi, MD (Curator: Helen Frederick, Founder of Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD)
Annual AIDS Benefit, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston, MA
Art and Design from 1900 to Now, RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI
Irodori, Ogawa Gallery, Ozu Washi, Tokyo, Japan
Multiple Formats Contemporary Art Book Symposium and Book Fair with Radical Characters, Boston University, Boston, MA
2022
Annual AIDS Benefit, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston, MA
Boston Art Book Fair with Radical Characters, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
New York Art Book Fair with Radical Characters, Printed Matter, New York, NY
Words Unbound, Howland Public Library, Beacon, NY
New Prints Off The Block, Richard F. Brush Art Gallery at St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY
New England Art Book Fair with Radical Characters, SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME
Figure, Character, Sign, A plus A Gallery, Venice, Italy (catalogue)
Annual Collectors’ Night Benefit, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C. (catalogue)
2021
Annual AIDS Benefit, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston, MA
Sumi-Fusion: International Mokuhanga Exhibition, Nara Prefectural Cultural Hall, Nara, Japan
Radical Return, Faye G., Jo, and James Stone Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA (catalogue)
Radical Return, IS A Gallery, Shanghai, China (catalogue)
Alumni Showcase, Perlman Teaching Museum, Carleton College, Northfield, MN
2020
Darkest Before Dawn: Art in a Time of Uncertainty, Ethan Cohen Kunsthalle Beacon, Beacon, NY (Curators: Raul Zamudio, independent curator, New York, NY and Ethan Cohen, Founder of Ethan Cohen Gallery, New York, NY)
The Grad Show, RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI (catalogue)
Present Perfect Continuous, 30 Jahre Mecklenburgisches Künstlerhaus Schloss Plüschow, Schloss Plüschow Mecklenburgisches Künstlerhaus, Plüschow, Germany (catalogue)
Assemblage, The Olympia Project, Brooklyn, NY (Curators: Sophie Riese, founder of The Olympia Project, Brooklyn, NY and Julia Speed, Director at Luhring Augustine, New York, NY)
2019
Black: Color | Context| Meaning, Gelman Gallery, Providence, RI
The Boston Printmakers Student Print Exhibition, The Mazmanian Gallery, Framingham State University, Framingham, MA
Everyday Objects, Studio Montclair Gallery, Montclair, NJ
Global Synthesis, Yui Gallery at Yajun Studio, Shanghai, China
Kinshu, CfSHE Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
MI-LAB Advanced Residency Exhibition, CfSHE Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Global Synthesis, Yui Gallery at Yajun Studio, Shanghai, China
To Be Decided By Whom, Grace Dodge Hall 359 Gallery, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY
Crescendoing, The Wurks Gallery, Providence, RI
RISD Graduate Printmaking Biennial, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
2018
Transformative Connections, Yui Gallery, New York, NY
4th Annual Hand Pulled Prints: Current Practice in Printmaking, Site: Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (Curator: Jennifer Melby, Founder of Jennifer Melby Editions, Brooklyn, NY)
Textuality, Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, OH (catalogue)
2017
Nature and Neon, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN (catalogue)
Berufstätige Bevölkerung, Schloss Plüschow Mecklenburgisches Künstlerhaus, Plüschow, Germany (catalogue)
2014
In-Transit, 80WSE Gallery, New York, NY
2012
To Interlock, Columbia University Avery Hall Gallery, New York, NY
Sight-size Portraiture, Charles H. Cecil Studio, Florence, Italy
Behind Oresteia: Costume Design Concept, Perlman Teaching Museum, Northfield, MN
Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts
Univeristy of Chicago
Formerly
Founding Department Chair and Assistant Professor of Visual Arts
Bard Early College Washington, D.C.
Bard College
Instructor of Record
Departments of Printmaking and Sculpture
Rhode Island School of Design
Graduate Assistant
Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
RISD Museum of Art
Director of Liberal Arts Studies
Inspire! Education, Shanghai, China
Art Educational Consultant
Catalyst Education, Shanghai, China
Teaching Fellow
Teach for China, Yunnan, China
Intern
Gensler, Shanghai, China
One-Person Exhibitions
2027
(forthcoming) Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL (Curator: Allison Peters Quinn, Executive Director and Chief Curator, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL)
2026
And Then Some: Works (mostly) from Tongji Philip Qian, Chosen (mostly) with Fan Ada Wang, Installed (in part) by McKinzie Trotta, Arranged (in part) by Si Tong, University of Chicago Center in Beijing, Beijing, China
Tongji Philip Qian: if i may (my favorite is TEN SECONDS YUNNAN RICE NOODLES), Chinese American Museum of Chicago, Chicago, IL (Curator: Larry Lee, Curator of Spotlight Series, Chinese American Museum of Chicago, Chicago, IL)
2025
Tongji Philip Qian: Alloyed Commitments, Logan Center Gallery, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago, IL (Curator: Andrew Witkin, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston, MA)
2023
Staycation in Greene; Away in the Catskills, Prattsville Art Center, Prattsville, NY (cataloguette)
Duration of Status, Daniel Arts Center, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Great Barrington, MA
Unveiling Serendipity, Cosmic Heart Gallery and Kismat Art Gallery, Mumbai, India (catalogue)
2017
Homage to the Element of Chance, Cosmic Heart Gallery, Mumbai, India (catalogue)
2016
Unchanced Chance, Kriti Gallery, Varanasi, India
Chance and Algorithms, Jaipur Art Summit at Ravindra Manch, Jaipur, India (catalogue)
2015
Wall Drawings, Timeless Space, Lijiang, Yunnan, China
2014
Constructivism, Timeless Space, Dali, Yunnan, China
Group Exhibitions
2027
(forthcoming) Lit&Luz: Live Magazine Show (Edge/Borde), Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico
2026
(forthcoming) Lit&Luz: Live Magazine Show (Edge/Borde), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
(forthcoming) Not Just Another Pretty Face, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
Zine* Together, Asia Art Archive in America, Brooklyn, NY
Ruminations: Our Stories In Paper, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD
Tone in Tongue, Letterform Archive, San Francisco, CA
Wild Thing, Arts of Life, Chicago, IL (Curator: Pia Singh, independent curator, Chicago, IL)
Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair with Reading Road Studio, Brooklyn, NY
92nd Exhibition of Visual Arts Members, Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
(two-person with Raja Ravi Varma) Echoes on Paper: Continuities of Craft and Consciousness, Cosmic Heart Gallery and Lalit Kala Akademi (Ministry of Culture), Mumbai, India
2025
Tone in Tongue, Bronze Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Tone in Tongue, Shanghai Printing Technology Research Institute, Shanghai, China
Annual AIDS Benefit, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston, MA
Tone in Tongue, Bolsky Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Vernacular Yet Curious, Yangdeng Art Museum, Yangdeng, China
(two-person with McKinzie Trotta) III, W.I.H.S.H. Projects, Chicago, IL
Part 2 / Among Others, Steve Sun Art Gallery, University of Chicago Center in Beijing, Beijing, China
Dieu Donné Spring Benefit, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, NY
Open carefully, Longino, I.A.H., Chicago, IL
2024
Annual AIDS Benefit, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston, MA
Resistance: Permanent Collection Installation, RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI
Eternal Paper, The Paper Academy, Gilleleje, Denmark (Curator: Helen Frederick, Founder of Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD)
1/20 of a millennium (and then some), Cochrane-Woods Art Center, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Multiple Formats with Radical Characters, Boston University, Boston, MA
Bees and Mead, Bergen House, Middletown, CT
2023
Eternal Paper, University of Maryland, Adelphi, MD (Curator: Helen Frederick, Founder of Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD)
Annual AIDS Benefit, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston, MA
Art and Design from 1900 to Now, RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI
Irodori, Ogawa Gallery, Ozu Washi, Tokyo, Japan
Multiple Formats Contemporary Art Book Symposium and Book Fair with Radical Characters, Boston University, Boston, MA
2022
Annual AIDS Benefit, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston, MA
Boston Art Book Fair with Radical Characters, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
New York Art Book Fair with Radical Characters, Printed Matter, New York, NY
Words Unbound, Howland Public Library, Beacon, NY
New Prints Off The Block, Richard F. Brush Art Gallery at St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY
New England Art Book Fair with Radical Characters, SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME
Figure, Character, Sign, A plus A Gallery, Venice, Italy (catalogue)
Annual Collectors’ Night Benefit, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C. (catalogue)
2021
Annual AIDS Benefit, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston, MA
Sumi-Fusion: International Mokuhanga Exhibition, Nara Prefectural Cultural Hall, Nara, Japan
Radical Return, Faye G., Jo, and James Stone Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA (catalogue)
Radical Return, IS A Gallery, Shanghai, China (catalogue)
Alumni Showcase, Perlman Teaching Museum, Carleton College, Northfield, MN
2020
Darkest Before Dawn: Art in a Time of Uncertainty, Ethan Cohen Kunsthalle Beacon, Beacon, NY (Curators: Raul Zamudio, independent curator, New York, NY and Ethan Cohen, Founder of Ethan Cohen Gallery, New York, NY)
The Grad Show, RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI (catalogue)
Present Perfect Continuous, 30 Jahre Mecklenburgisches Künstlerhaus Schloss Plüschow, Schloss Plüschow Mecklenburgisches Künstlerhaus, Plüschow, Germany (catalogue)
Assemblage, The Olympia Project, Brooklyn, NY (Curators: Sophie Riese, founder of The Olympia Project, Brooklyn, NY and Julia Speed, Director at Luhring Augustine, New York, NY)
2019
Black: Color | Context| Meaning, Gelman Gallery, Providence, RI
The Boston Printmakers Student Print Exhibition, The Mazmanian Gallery, Framingham State University, Framingham, MA
Everyday Objects, Studio Montclair Gallery, Montclair, NJ
Global Synthesis, Yui Gallery at Yajun Studio, Shanghai, China
Kinshu, CfSHE Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
MI-LAB Advanced Residency Exhibition, CfSHE Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Global Synthesis, Yui Gallery at Yajun Studio, Shanghai, China
To Be Decided By Whom, Grace Dodge Hall 359 Gallery, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY
Crescendoing, The Wurks Gallery, Providence, RI
RISD Graduate Printmaking Biennial, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
2018
Transformative Connections, Yui Gallery, New York, NY
4th Annual Hand Pulled Prints: Current Practice in Printmaking, Site: Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (Curator: Jennifer Melby, Founder of Jennifer Melby Editions, Brooklyn, NY)
Textuality, Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, OH (catalogue)
2017
Nature and Neon, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN (catalogue)
Berufstätige Bevölkerung, Schloss Plüschow Mecklenburgisches Künstlerhaus, Plüschow, Germany (catalogue)
2014
In-Transit, 80WSE Gallery, New York, NY
2012
To Interlock, Columbia University Avery Hall Gallery, New York, NY
Sight-size Portraiture, Charles H. Cecil Studio, Florence, Italy
Behind Oresteia: Costume Design Concept, Perlman Teaching Museum, Northfield, MN
