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Chan Chao Adjunct Professorial Lecturer SOC Faculty

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Chan Chao
SOC | General Academics & Research
Bio
Chan Chao was born in Kalemyo, Burma.  His family immigrated to the United States in 1978. He has published four photography books, “Burma: Something Went Wrong”,“Letter from PLF”, “Echo” and “Two Places on Earth”. Chao’s Burma portraits were featured in the 2002 Whitney Biennial. His photographs has been exhibited at Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York, NY, G Fine Art in Washington DC and Mark Moore Gallery in Santa Monica, CA. Chao’s photographs are in the permanent collection of major museums across the US, including Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The National Gallery of Art, The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Huston Museum of Fine Art, L. A. County Museum of Art and The Denver Art Museum.
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Teaching

Fall 2024

  • COMM-330 Principles of Photography