Art, Art History, and Film Faculty
Sammy Chong
Assistant Professor of the Practice, Studio Art
Faculty Advisor, Boston College Art Club
Sammy Chong
M.F.A.
Contact
Devlin Hall 421
Telephone: 617-552-8594
Email: sammy.chong@bc.edu
Education
- Bachillerato, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia
- Continuing Education, Massachusetts College of Art
- M.Div., Weston Jesuit School of Theology, Cambridge
- S.T.L., Weston Jesuit School of Theology, Cambridge
- M.F.A., Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts
Courses
The Art of Portraiture
Courage to Know
Drawing I: Foundations
Drawing the Figure: Observation to Expression
Making Art Through the Ignatian Lens
Painting I: Foundations
Bare Naked Approaches
Biography
Sammy Chong is an interdisciplinary artist who practices mainly in drawing and painting. Chong has an academic background in philosophy and theology, and obtained his MFA in Studio Art from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2012). Chong has exhibited in the US and in South America. In the past, he has taught courses in the History of Christian Art, and Theology and Film, at Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador. Currently he teaches Portraiture, Figure Drawing, and Bare Naked Approaches (Figure Painting) among other studio art courses at Boston College. Chong's studio practice builds on the notion of individual identity and transcendental meaning in contemporary society.
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Shows
- 2018 - "[un]visibles," Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY
- 2018 - "THEM," 3S Artspace, Portsmouth, NH
- 2017 - "The Twelve" (the Biennial 2017 Alexander Rutsch Award for Painting exhibition), Pelham Arts Center, Pelham, NY
- 2017 - "MINOS: Tribulations of an Imagined or Not Creature," Level One Gallery, O'Neill Library, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
- 2015 - "Tales of [dis]Engagement," Carney Gallery, Regis College, Weston, MA
- 2015 - "The Pilgrim," Carney Gallery, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
- 2015 - "ENG," McDavitt Center, Watertown, MA
- 2015 - "Layered Effects" (two-person show with Rutt Terrill), Krause Gallery, Providence, RI
- 2014 - "Ex Situ," ArtSpace Gallery, Maynard, MA
- 2014 - "Asterion," Milton Art Museum, Canton, MA
- 2014 - "[in]terim," Carney Gallery, Regis College, Weston, MA
- 2013 - "Far Away, So Close," Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA
- 2013 - "Amidst," Bapst Gallery, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
Selected Group Shows
- 2021 – “New England Now: People,” Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT
- 2020 – “Totems,” Beacon Gallery, Boston, MA. (Juried)
- 2020 – “13th Annual Foundation Show,” PAC Mill Gallery, Pawtucket, RI. (Juried)
- 2019 – “We The People,” Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA. (Juried)
- 2019 – “12th Annual Foundation Show,” PAC Mill Gallery, Pawtucket, RI. (Juried)   Â
- 2017 - "The Gig Economy: Depictions of Life and Responses to Wrok in the Digital Bazaar" (the Boston Center for the Arts' 25th annual drawing show), Mills Gallery, Boston, MA
- 2017 - "The Future of Work," The Gallery at Atlantic Wharf, Boston, MA
- 2017 - "2017 National Prize Show," Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA
- 2017 - "Public Domains," Chazan Gallery, Providence, RI
- 2017 - “Inter-Dimensional Ports of Whatsoever”, Atlantic Wharf Gallery, Boston, MA. (Juried)
- 2016 - “Emerging Artists 2016”, Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY. (Juried)
- 2016 - “25th Annual Juried Competition”, Bowery Gallery, New York, NY. (Juried)
- 2016 - “Boston Biennial 4”, Atlantic Work Gallery, Boston, MA (Juried)
- 2016 - “First Annual Juried Exhibition”, Gallery 334, Milton, MA Juried)
- 2016 - "Violence Transformed," Harriet Tubman Gallery, Boston, MA
- 2016 - "Embracing Our Differences," Sarasota's Bay Front, Sarasota, FL
- 2016 - “Nowhere, Everywhere”, Thompson Gallery, Weston, MA (Juried)
- 2016 - "2nd Annual Figures & Faces," Fusion Art Gallery, Palm Springs, CA
- 2016 - "Jesuit Spirit in the Arts" (40th Anniversary Exhibition), St. Joseph University Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- 2016 - "Projections," Parker Room Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA
- 2016 - "Frameworks, Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA
- 2015 - “14th National Prize Show”, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA (Juried)
- 2015 - “The XXI Century Body: Thinking Merleau-Ponty In and Out of Time”, Alden Memorial Hall, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA. (Juried)
- 2015 - "Drawing the Line," Atlantic Wharf Gallery, Boston, MA
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
- 2020 – ChaNorth - Artist Residency Program, Pine Plains, NY
- 2019 – Vermont Studio Center - Artist Residency Program, Johnson, VT
Honors & Awards
- 2018 – Winner, “Who.Are.You?: (Re)Presentation and Challenge.” (Juror: Karen Kettering Dimit). Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY
- 2018 – 1st Place, “Facing the Wall”, VETS Gallery/Art League Rhode Island, Providence, RIÂ
- 2017 - Winner, The Biennial 2017 Alexander Rutsch Award, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY
- 2016 - Juror's Painting Award, "First Annual Juried Exhibition" (Juror: Kaveh Mojtabai, Founder and Publisher of Artscope magazine), Gallery 334, Milton, MA
- 2016 - Best-in-Show, "Figurative," Urban Riche Online Gallery
- 2015 - Juror's Choice Award, "The 2015 Williams Prize in Drawing for Emerging Artists," The Artists for Artists Project, Simsbury, CT
- 2014 - 1st Place, "The 3rd Annual Juried Competition"  (Juror: Kaveh Mojtabai, Founder and Publisher of Artscope magazine), Milton Art Museum, Canton, MA
- 2014 - The Marie Perry Award, "Celebration of 50 Years" (Juror: John Udvardy, R.I.S.D.), Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI
- 2014 - Honorable Mention, "Works on Paper" (Juror: Al Miner, Assistant Curator of Contemporary art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA
- 2013 - People's Choice Award, "10th Annual Spring Art Exhibition," the Stove Factory Gallery, Charleston, MA