Eric Chan (born 1963) and Heather Schatz (born 1968) are artists based in New York City who worked collaboratively under the name ChanSchatz.
Chan was born in Tokyo and Schatz in Dallas. The couple make works based on information gathered from invited guests to their studio using a mixture of traditional and digital techniques.MassimoAudiello The collected data is transformed into large-scale paintings and silkscreened images.Sheets, Hillarie M, A Push Between the Two Dark Areas, Newsgrist.Typepad.com Their work references ideas of identity and social relationships through their openly collaborative process.
The parties filed for divorce in 2015 and were parties to a suit in Federal Court in New York, New York, regarding authorship rights.
Selected exhibitions 1998 XXIV Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil 1999 The Production of Production, Apex Art Curatorial Program, New York Too Wide Enough, Swiss Institute New York 2000 Representing: A Show of Identities, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton 2003 City Mouse/Country Mouse, Space 101, Brooklyn Before and After Science, Marella Contemporary Art, Milan dsp.0034, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara 2004 Multiple Strategies, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati 2006 Mutiny, The Happy Lion, Los Angeles Here and There, Massimo Audiello, New York 2007 Blood Meridian, Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin Together, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga In Situ, Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne 2008 Paragons, University of Toronto, Toronto Lever House, New York 2010 Looking for the Face I Had Before the World Was Made, MCA Denver
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External links Article from Akrylic.com ChanSchatz on ArtNet.com Artists’ official site ChanSchatz on ArtFacts.net Further information from the Saatchi Gallery