EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts, Scene Design 2019 – 2022, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Textiles 2010 – 2014, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
RESIDENCIES
Reef Residency, The Reef, Los Angeles, CA - 2024 -2025
Greenhouse Lab, Orchard Project, NY - 2022 -2023
NIGHT LIGHTS Artists-in-Residence, Open Signal Portland Community Media Center, OR - 2018
Open Style Lab Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA - 2014
PRESS
https://shoutoutla.com/meet-amy-chiao-performance-installation-artist-color-materials-designer/
https://hyperallergic.com/772908/seven-indie-art-spaces-to-check-out-in-los-angeles/
https://cohoproductions.org/amy-chiaos-visual-vocabulary-philips-glass-menagerie/
https://our.risd.edu/post/70219298698
PERFORMANCE
ur already in eutrophia, Anti-Frieze: LA Performance Festival, The Reef LA, CA - February 2025
0nlyb0ne$, The Elysian Theater, Los Angeles, CA - August 2023
Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA - February 2023
Open for Bone Business, The Elysian Theater, Los Angeles, CA - October 2022
Managing post~CORP(or)*%aTE styles (MPCS), Walt Disney Modular Theater Lobby, CA - May 2022
Miss Lee’s Merchandise Awakenings (Twitch Stream) - February 2022
Bed, Bath, and Beyond Tours with Sandy Clarita (Twitch Stream) - May 2021
A Melon Baby’s Falsetto Sounds Better in the Bathroom, Killjoy Collective, OR - 2018
Dance Dance Karaoke Revolution for Systems for Play, Granoff Center, Providence, RI -2014
Body Wrap for Locally Made: One Room RISD Museum, Providence, RI -2013
PUBLIC ART
Heal Hear Here, LA Freewaves / Gyopo, LA State Historic Park, CA - 2023
Phil Outings for Night Lights, Open Signal Portland Community Media Center, OR - 2018
EXHIBITIONS
The Circadian Support Cycle, Fuller Rosen Gallery, Philadelphia, PA - 2024 (SOLO SHOW)
Little Spitfires, New Arts Foundation, The Hollywood Roosevelt RM 111, Los Angeles, CA - 2024
JoyRide, The Warner Gallery, Millbrook School, Stanford, NY - 2024
Homesick, Fuller Rosen Gallery, Philadelphia, PA - 2023
Funny Stuff, Andrew Logan Project, Brookyln, NY - 2023
Tense Renderings, The Reef, Los Angeles, CA - 2022
Interior Fiction, The Vast, LAB, Los Angeles, CA - 2018
A Melon Baby’s Falsetto Sounds Better in the Bathroom, Killjoy Collective, OR - 2018 (SOLO SHOW)
Narrowcast, Open Signal Portland Community Media Center, OR - 2017
Nasty Women, Killjoy Collective, Portland, OR - 2017
Gallery Damacy, Hidden Dog, Chicago, IL - 2015
Fourplay, Benson Hall, Gallery, Providence, RI - 2014 (SOLO SHOW)
Opensignal Festival, Granoff Center, Providence, RI - 2014
Spinning Beach Ball of Death, Granoff Center, Providence, RI - 2014
Funhaus, Risd Expose Gallery, Providence, RI - 2013
Body: Talk, German Gallery, Providence, RI - 2013
Textiles Triennial, Woods Gerry, Providence, RI - 2012
Designing Traditions III, RISD Museum, Providence, RI - 2012
SCREENINGS
Talent Show, REDCAT, CA - April 2023
Bijou Festival, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA - 2021
Feeler Gauge Festival, Virtual - 2021
Portland Underground Film Festival, Clinton Street Theater, Portland, OR - 2018
Abstract Perceptions, POW Fest NW Documentary, Portland, OR - 2018
Broadcast II, Killjoy Collective, Portland, OR - 2018
Reel Music: Northwest Music Video Showcase, Portland, OR - 2018
Movement & Flow: Portland Dance Films, Whitsell Auditorium, Portland Art Museum, OR - 2017
Portland Underground Film Festival, Clinton Street Theater, Portland, OR - 2017
UP(LYFT) Otion Front Studio, Brookyln, NY - 2016
PRODUCT DESIGN
Sr. CMF (Color, Material, Finish) Designer, Apptronik Inc., Austin, TX - 2024 - present
Color & Materials Automotive Designer, Fisker Inc., Manhattan Beach, CA - 2022-2024
Footwear Materials Designer, NIKE INC., Beaverton, OR - 2014-2017
LIVE PERFORMANCE DESIGN & DRAMATURGY
Tired Music Concert directed by Kensaku Shinohara - Dramaturgy, NOW Festival 2024, REDCAT, CA - November 2024
Vestige of a Trace directed by Alexsa Durrans - Scenic Design & Dramaturgy, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA - February 2022
Tenor By Night Productions - Producer, Casting, Scenic & Projection Design, El Portal Theatre, North Hollywood, CA - September 2018
Philip’s Glass Menagerie directed by Philip Cuomo - Production Designer, Coho Theater, Portland, OR - January 2018
Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble’s UNCLE VANYA - Props Designer, Reed College Divers Theater, Portland, OR - January 2018
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Material Workshop co-taught with Molly Haynes “Sea-weaving: Experimenting with Algae Yarn Weaving,” Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA - January 2025
Graduate Teaching Assistant for “Interpretative Strategies for Performance Seminar” taught by Asher Hartman & José Luis Blondet, California Institute of the Arts, School of Theater, Valencia, CA - Spring 2022
Graduate Teaching Assistant for “Dramaturgies Seminar” taught by Mona Heinze, California Institute of the Arts, School of Theater, Valencia, CA - Fall 2020
AWARDS
Harold & Jetta Goudal Grieve Scholarship - 2022, 2021
Lillian Disney Scholarship - 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019
RISD Honors Student– 2014, 2013, 2012
Most Innovative Textile for FABRICUT TRADITIONAL HOME sponsored RISD Textile Competition – 2013
John Demott Scholarship – 2009, 2008