Maxine Leu

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EDUCATION

2020- Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture- The State University of New York at New Paltz, USA

2014- Bachelor of Fine Arts- Tainan University of Technology (TUT), Tainan, Taiwan

SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2023- The Eco Wanderers, Energy Square Lobby Gallery, Kingston, NY, USA

2022- Dear Pen Pal by Maxine Leu and Corina Willette, Worlds End Comics, Kingston, NY, USA

2020-The Idea Puzzle Cube, Kingston Library, Kingston, NY, USA, 2020

2016- Milliliter- Maxine Leu Solo Exhibit, The Corner, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2013- Universe X Earth Creation Exhibition by Yun-Zhen Zhu and Maxine Leu, Dream Mall, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE & EXHIBITIONS JURIED

2024- MAPC 2024 Themed Portfolio- Resurrected Beauty, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA, 2024

2024- President's Award for Public Art 2024-2025, SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY, USA

2022- ReThinking- Eco Arts Week, The D.R.A.W. Kingston, Kingston, NY, USA

2015- Painting of Dogs- Qiu-mei Lai Solo exhibition, Kaohsiung Cultural Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

2014- Variant Contemporary, 2013 Art Space, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2014- Environmental Art Creativity competition of Sticky Sculpture, Millennium Park, PingTung, Taiwan

2012- Carbon Exploration, National Cheng Kung University Art Center, Taina, Taiwan

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021-2025

Miniprint Kazanlak 2024, Art Gallery Kazanlak, Bulgaria, Europe, 2024
Earth’s Reflection International Juried Exhibition, invited as a panelist in a panel discussion about water and hydrology, The Trolley Barn, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA, 2024
Upstate Art Weekend!, Blue Marble Arts, Stone Ridge, NY, USA, 2024
MAPC 2024 Themed Portfolio- Resurrected Beauty, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA, 2024
Dreamscapes, Warner Gallery, Mamaroneck Public Library, Mamaroneck, NY, USA, 2023
2023 Atlanta Print Biennial, Kai Lin Art, Atlanta, GA, 2023
Painting is a Painting is a Painting, ArtPort Kingston, Kingston, NY, USA, 2023
HERstory, Arts Society of Kingston, Kingston(ASK), NY, USA , 2023
Is It Me? International Juried Exhibition, The Art Effect's Trolley Barn Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA, 2023
Climate Change 2023, Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA, USA, 2023
2022-2023 Exhibition of SUNY Art at the SUNY Rockefeller Institute, Albany, NY, USA, 2022
2022-2023 Exhibition of SUNY Art chancellor's Gallery, Albany, NY, USA, 2022
D.R.A.W. Teaching Artists Show, Energy Square Lobby Gallery, Kingston, NY, USA, 2022-2023
Black and White, Colors of Humanity Art Gallery, PA, USA, 2022
Un Voyage dans le bonheur: An ongoing Journey…, The CAW- Culture@Walfer, Luxembourg, Germany, 2022
Nature, Grey Cube Gallery, the online gallery at https://greycubegallery.com/current-show/index.html, 2022
Art in the Wild, New York University, NYC, USA, 2021
The Communication, Art, and Digital Media Faculty Exhibition, Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, NY, USA, 2021
Newburgh Now!, Holland Tunnel Gallery, Newburgh, NY, USA, 2021
Contempo: East to Perform, The Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, NY, USA, 2021
11th Annual Art & Earth Juried Exhibit, Berkeley Arts Council, Martinsburg, WV, USA, 2021
Exchanging Texture, Taina; Mbmore, Taipei; Taichung Municipal Wen-Hua Senior High School, Taichung; Graphics Life Studio, Tainan, Taiwan, 2021
PLAY, The Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, 2021

2016-2020

Let the Good Times Roll, ArtPort Kingston, Kingston, NY, USA, 2020
Breaking Through, SUNY New Paltz MFA Thesis Exhibition, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art's Alice and Horace Chandler Gallery and North Gallery, New Paltz, NY, USA, 2020
Big Read Art Exhibits, Adriance Memorial Library and Boardman Road Branch Library, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA, 2020
Art Show in celebration of Local Art, Wired Gallery, Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz NY, USA, 2020
Other Worlds Are Possible- SUNY New Paltz Spring 2020 MFA Thesis show, the online gallery, 2020 at http://sunynpmfa.com/, 2020
Time, BAU Gallery, Beacon NY, USA, 2020
Outdoors In, Unison Art Center, New Paltz, NY, USA, 2020
The Shape of Memories, The Loft Artists Association, Stamford, CT, USA, 2019
Entomology, Manny's Art Supplies, New Paltz, NY, USA, 2019
Composed to Decompose outdoor exhibit, Unison Art Center, New Paltz, NY, USA, 2019
Eye of the Beholder, MD Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD, USA, 2019
Exchanging Texture, Texture Studio, Taina; Mbmore, Taipei; Taichung Municipal Wen-Hua Senior High School, Taichung; Error 22, Tainan, Taiwan, 2019
Recycle 2019 Art Exhibition, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC), Brooklyn, NY, USA, 2019
The Earth Speaks V, Dunning Art Gallery, Tannersville, PA, USA, 2019
Sublime Concepts, Bethany Arts Community, Ossining, NY, USA, 2019
2019 SUNY Student Art Exhibit and Best of Show Awards- SUNY System Administration, Albany, NY, USA, 2019
President's Residence, New Paltz, NY, USA, 2018
What’s Next? The experimental outdoor exhibition, Unison Art Center, New Paltz, NY, USA, 2018
International Biennial Print Exhibit: 2018 ROC, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, 2018
Recycle 2018 Art Exhibition, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC), Brooklyn, NY, USA, 2018
ReUse Sculpture, Clean Water Park, New Paltz, NY, USA, 2017
Installations in White Cube, SUNY New Paltz Fine Art Building Rotunda, New Paltz, NY, USA, 2017

2010-2015

The Pastel Art Work Group Exhibition, Art Center of Tainan University of Technology, Tainan, Taiwan, 2015
A = HC∞- The 2014 Graduate Exhibition, Kaohsiung Cultural Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2014
It's You Again- The Third Space, National University of Tainan, Tainan, Taiwan, 2014
Love Art in Life, Art-Gate Group Exhibition of Oil Painting, National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Taipei, Taiwan, 2014
Unfathomable Mystery, Exhibition of the Art Education on Surrealism in Taiwan, Pingtung Art Museum, Pingtung, Taiwan, 2013
Treasure Art Exhibition, National Kaohsiung Marine University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2013
Thin-king, Yongkang District Social Education Center, Tainan, Taiwan, 2013
Tainan Local Fine Arts Exhibition, Tainan Municipal Culture Center, Tainan, Taiwan, 2013
The 13th Huang Shi Art Exhibition, Changhua County Culture Affairs Bureau, Changhua, Taiwan, 2012
Centennial Invitational Exhibition of Taiwan Traditional Printmaking, Wenying Collection Room, Museum of Taiwan Traditional Wood Block, Taichung, Taiwan, 2011

AWARDS & GRANT

2020-2025

The Monthly Art Award- ⁠December theme: Visual Story( Dec.2022⁠), Boynes Emerging Artist Award, 2023
Art grant for The Fuller Moon Arts Festival at Wickham Work, Warwick NY, USA, 2022-2023
Art grant for Earth Fest with collaborator artist Joseph Kattou at Wickham Work, Warwick NY, USA, 2022
Art grant for The Rye'sAbove Project, The Rye Arts Center and The Rotary Club of Rye, Rye, NY, USA, 2021- 2024
Maxine Leu's been nominated by the associate professor of critical studies, Matthew Friday and associate professor of Art, Emily Puthoff as the SUNY Chancellor’s Award 2020, NY, USA, 2020
ARTSPACE Student Award of The Earth Speaks V, Tannersville, PA, USA, 2019
Art grant for SunCommon’s Community Solar Array Project with collaborator artist Michael Asbill, Orange County, NY, USA, 2019
Peoples' Choice of Recycle 2018 Art Exhibition, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC), Brooklyn, NY, USA, 2018
Selected Prize of International Biennial Print Exhibit: 2018 ROC, Taiwan, 2018
The Best show in 2018 Group Award of Sculpture Jam, with collaborator team Sculpture Narwhal, Sculpture Space, Utica, NY, USA, 2018
Graduate Student Research and Creative Project Award (RCPA), SUNY New Paltz, NY, USA, 2017-2019
Empathy in Action- the 2017 Annual Conference logo design contest winner, New York State Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages(NYS TESOL), 2017
The First Place Award in Peculiar Pumpkin of The Night of 100 Pumpkins, New Paltz, NY, USA, 2016-2017
Merit Award of the Talking About Printmaking Art Exhibition, Tainan, Taiwan, 2014
Perfect Attendance Award (2007-2014), Tainan University of Technology, Tainan, Taiwan
Outstanding Student Award of the 2014 Graduate Exhibition, TUT, Tainan, Taiwan, 2014
Honorable Mention of the 2013 Tainan Local Fine Arts Exhibition, Tainan, Taiwan, 2013
Silver Medal Award of the 3rd Southern Art Exhibition, Tainan, Taiwan, 2012
Judges’ Award of the 13th Huangsi Art Exhibition: 3D crafts and photography, Taiwan, 2012
Merit Award of the 27th Annual Exhibition of New Year Prints, Taiwan, 2012

Artist Residency

From Island to Island, TAAC (Taiwanese American Arts Council), Governors Island, NY, USA, 2023
Habitat For Artists, Woodstock Artists Association and Museum(WAAM), Woodstock, NY, USA, 2018

COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS & COMMISSIONS

Eco Arts Week initiator and producer, D.R.A.W. Kingston, Kingston, NY, USA, 2022-2025
Habitat For Artists 2021 artist residency documenting, ArtPort Kingston, NY, USA, 2021
PLAY @ The Staatsgalerie Stuttgart intro video editing for ArtPod Berlin, 2021
Artist in the collaboration of community, Community of Peace: An artistic study on what brings us together, New Paltz Regional Chamber of Commerce, New Paltz, NY, USA, 2020
Artist in the upcycling crafts workshop, O+X= Do and Don't, and the walking tour, Stories of Water and Waste, O+ Festival, Kingston, NY, USA, 2019
Listen to them, intro video editing and Chinese subtitle translating for the artist, Megumi Naganoma, 2019
The Volcano, Courtyard Garden of New Paltz High School, New Paltz, NY, 2018
Identified the 19th Chinese painter, Ke-Chang Dai of a Mi Fu painting, research completed by Maxine Leu at SUNY New Paltz with assistance from Professor Yang Sheng-fa, professor of History of Eastern Art at Department of Fine Arts, Tainan University of Technology, Tainan City, Taiwan for The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY, USA, 2017

PUBLICATIONS

Leu, Maxine. HFA 2021 Project @ArtPort Kingston. YouTube. uploaded by Maxine Leu, 25 May, 2021

Leu, Maxine. Made in the USA, When gnomes need to clean their homes: MFA Thesis-Sculpture, SUNY DSpace, May, 2020

Leu, Maxine. Earth Day Action - Two Hour Collection. YouTube. uploaded by Maxine Leu, 7 February, 2020

Leu, Maxine. Plastic bag mummy cleans streets, New Paltz Times, 25 April, 2019

Leu, Maxine. The Bags. YouTube, uploaded by Maxine Leu, 23 June 2018.

Leu, Maxine. How To Do Pumpkin Carving, THE ESL TIMES, May 2017

Leu, Maxine. Qiumei Lai Oil Painting Solo Exhibition, 476th Art Exhibition News, Artist Magazine, 2015

Leu, Maxine. Not Junk: Virtual Curation, Ph.D.Huang Chin Fu Academic Platform, 2013