Spring Visiting Artist at Groton School: Wen-hao Tien

The Christopher Brodigan Gallery at Groton School presents ‘Pure Language’, a solo exhibition by Boston-artist, Wen-hao Tien.

Artist Reception: Sunday, May 5th 2024 at 6:00 PM

Address: Groton School, 282 Farmers Row Groton MA 01450.

For parking, pull into the Dining Hall lot entrance.

Wen-hao Tien is an artist, teacher, and curator who bridges communities across divergent fields.

Along with being one of the founding members of the exhibition program at Harvard’s Center for Government and International Studies in 2006, she has curated shows and organized interdisciplinary symposiums in universities and unconventional contemporary art spaces. She teaches Chinese calligraphy and conceptual art at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, Boston University, and Northeastern University.

Additionally, as an East Cambridge resident, she lobbied for the establishment of The Foundry, Cambridge, MA, and is an active member there, contributing to its workshops and creative network. Her public art, In Other Eyes, at The Foundry, is an ongoing project that forges nuances in Multi-culture Cambridge.  As the 2020 Artist-in-Residence at Boston’s Pao Art Center, she produced a body of work during a pivotal time in the Asian American civic movements in Boston’s Chinatown.

Her art is exhibited frequently in the northeast and presented at the Boston Sculptors Gallery where she is a member. Tien received an MPH at Columbia University and an MFA at Lesley University College of Art and Design. Her project, Weed Out, is featured in a new book, Crossing Boundaries & Confounding Identity: Chinese Women in Literature, Art, and Film, SUNY Press 2023.

For more information or directions please contact Gallery Director, Jenn Ho at jho@groton.org or 978-448-7415.