Photo: Christina House
Audrey Chan (b. 1982, Chicago, Illinois) is a Los Angeles-based artist, illustrator, and writer. Her research-based projects center community storytelling through drawing, painting, and public art to challenge dominant historical narratives through allegories of power, place, and identity. Public art commissions include Will Power Allegory (2022) for Metro Art at the Little Tokyo/Arts District Metro Regional Connector Station and The Care We Create (2020) at the Los Angeles offices of the ACLU of Southern California, where she was the organization's inaugural artist-in-residence. Chan has been awarded fellowships with Artists at Work and the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy at the Japanese American National Museum, California Arts Council, and California Community Foundation. In 2021, she was recognized as a DCA Cultural Trailblazer by Los Angeles’ Department of Cultural Affairs. In 2023, she was named an 18th Street Arts Center California Creative Corps Fellow. In 2024, Chan was named USC Pacific Asia Museum’s Artist Awareness and Impact Honoree. She has been an artist-in-residence with OxyArts’ Encoding Futures Summer Residency (with Monument Lab and the Mellon Foundation), Sam Francis Gallery, and l’école régionale des beaux arts de Nantes. Chan received an MFA from California Institute of the Arts and a BA with Honors from Swarthmore College.