Irene Chan
Professor
Print & Intermedia Arts
Affiliate Professor of Asian Studies
FA 326
ichan@umbc.edu
Irene Chan is a multidisciplinary artist who works conceptually in print media, papermaking, installation art, storytelling performance, and book arts on subjects of Taoism, personal immigrant narratives, and forgotten histories. Her books and works on paper have been exhibited internationally and held in 111 public collections including the Walker Art Center, National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), Whitney Museum of American Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Tate Modern, Victoria & Albert Museum, and British Library in London. Chan established Ch’An (ch’ ahn) Press through which she has self-published prints and 43 artist books to date. She is the recipient of grants and awards from Erasmus+MobileUP, the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Arts Council, Maryland State Arts Council, Washington D.C. Commission of the Arts and Humanities, of fellowships to 25 artist residencies, and has exhibited and performed in 35 venues in the last ten years. Chan is a 2025-26 Fulbright U.S. Scholar of Teaching/Research at the University of Art and Design, Cluj Napoca, Romania.