Claire Pei, also known as Pei Zaimei, is a Seattle based Taiwanese author and an abstract painter who had numerous art exhibits in both US and Taiwan. She published 13 books including short stories, novels, screenplays and non-fiction in both Taiwan and China. Her short story “Child Favored by Jesus” won the grand prize from China Times Literature Competition Awards 1993. Her novel “Suspicion and Temptation” was one of three works nominated for Baiwan Fiction Award 2000 and won Reader’s Choice Award. She has also won several Outstanding Screenplay Awards from Office of Information Bureau1985-1994.
Her recent publications are: a non-fiction book “The Shrouded Time” (Unitas Literary Publishing Co., Taiwan. 2006) focused on contemporary art, cinema and literature of the West; A collection of short stories and novellas “Beauty and sadness in Taipei” (Shanghai Literary Publishing Co., China 2007) which is about the lives and stories of Chinese immigrants living in Taiwan after 1949, and the stories of Taiwanese immigrants in US.
“The Houseman” (Unitas Literary Publishing Co., Taiwan. 2009), is a series of short stories focused on the life and the struggle of an isolated individual in the postmodern urban setting; A non-fiction book “Goodbye, My House in the Woods” ( Unitas Literary Publishing Co., Taiwan. 2012) which is about her ordeals and inspirations during recent years of living in Seattle.
Education:
B.A. Degree from Southern Connecticut University
Diploma from Institute of New Cinema Artists and The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, New York..
Selected Exhibitions ( Partial List):
2012 Group show. Installation, Kao Shiong City Art Museum, Taiwan.
2003 Group show. Global Art Venue, Seattle.
1997 Group show. International Art Festival, Los Angeles.
1995 Four persons show. Torrance Joslyn Fine Art. Los Angeles.
1994 Solo show. Palos Verdes Art Center. Los Angeles
1994 Solo show. Crown Art Center. Taipei, Taiwan.
1993 Four persons show. Los Angeles County Museum, Art Rental and Sales Gallery. Los Angeles.
1989 Solo show. Asian Art Center. Taipei, Taiwan
1984 Group Show, installation “The Third Space”, Spring Gallery. Taipei.
Awards:
1991 “Green Series #1” second place in Juried Membership Exhibition,
Palos Verdes Art Center, Los Angeles.
Teaching experiences, Lectures, Seminars, Conferences and Art workshop:
2012 Teaching:
• Bellevue College, Bellevue, Washington. Teaching Contemporary and abstract art
2008 Conference:
• University of California, Santa Barbara
Department of East Asian Language and Literature
Modernism Revisited: Pai Hsien-Yung and Chinese Literary Modernism in Taiwan and Beyond. http://www.eastasian.ucsb.edu/projects/Modernism/index.html
Writer Roundtable Discussion
2006 Lectures:
• National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
Department of Fine Arts: Blurring of the Boundary in Art and Life
• National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
Graduate School of Contemporary Literature: Immigrant Literature: Ha Jin, Kiran Desai, Jhumpa Lahiri and other The New Yorker short story authors.
• Chinese Culture University, Taiwan. Department of Fine Art
Seeing Literature in Art: The Pulse of Women Artists.
Department of Cinema Study: Translating Literature on Film: “Brokeback Mountain” “Sense and Sensibility” “Ice Storm” by Ang Lee.
• Yuan Ze University, Taiwan
College of Humanity: Women artists today: Sophie Calle, Maya Lin and Lin Tian Miao
• Eslite Bookstore, Xinyi district, Taipei, Taiwan
Seminar and book signing for “The Shrouded Time”
2005 Seminar:
• National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Graduate School of Taiwanese Literature: Discussion on two short story collections: “Brook Ran Thru” and “Beauty and Sadness of Taipei”.
1998 Conference:
• Columbia University, New York
Department East Asian Language and Literature
Writing Taiwan: Strategies of Representation
An International Symposium on Chinese Literature from Taiwan
Roundtable Discussion: Writing Diaspora
2006 Art workshop:
• Palos Verdes Art Center:
Demonstration on an unique abstract painting: how mono-print mix with ink painting.
Collections (Partial List):
Corporation:
Saban Entertainment. / Secured Capital Corp / GCI Spindler /
Levine, Neal&Bender / United Daily News, Taiwan.
Private collection:
Mr. Edgar Regalado / Mrs. Joan Jones / Mr. David Neelin /
Dr. Harold Isenberg / Ms. Helen Kilbury / Mr. & Mrs. Don Johnson/
Dr. & Mrs. Nelman Lo / Dr. & Mrs. Arlan Millmen /
Dr. & Mrs. Yu-Fahn Yuen / Dr. & Mr. Chuie Yuen
Mr. Wilson Wong / Mrs. Su-Chao Ho / Mr. Y. K.
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