Ruey Lin Syrop
Visual Artist
rueysyrop@gmail.com
The formal board member and the Curator of John O’Lague Galleria, Hayward Arts Council, CA. https://www.haywardartscouncil.org
Selected Exhibitions
Solo Shows
Hayward Arts Council Office, Hayward CA, May, 2023
Snappy Cafe, with quest artist, Elinor Cheung, Hayward CA, April, 2023
Hayward Library, Inviable—Unhoused, with guest artist, Ed Murphy, August 3—October 2, 2021
Snappy Cafe, Hayward CA, August, 2021
BayWood Senior Center, Castro Valley, January—February, 2021
Sun Gallery, Hayward CA, January – February, 2019
Hayward Senior Center, Hayward CA, March – April, 2017
Oakland Law Library, Oakland CA, January – February, 2016
B Street Bookshop, Hayward CA, June 2015
Group Shows
A.R.T., Inc. Summer Splash Members’ Exhibitions, Lindsay Dirkx Brown Gallery, San Ramon, July, 2023
Sun Gallery, Everything Goes Member Exhibition, Hayward CA, June—July, 2023
John O’Lague Galleria, Celebrate Women! National League of American Pen Women, NorCal Member Exhibition, Hayward CA, October, 2022
A.R.T., Inc. members’ exhibitions, John O’Lague Galleria, Hayward, and Adobe, Castro Valley, 2022
Sun Gallery, Climate Change Member Exhibition, Hayward CA, June—August, 2022
Performing Arts Center, Visions Of Spring, National League of American Pen Women, Doablo—Alameda Branch Member Exhibition, Livemore CA, March—May, 2022
John O’Lague Galleria, Go Abstract, Hayward Arts Council Members Exhibition, Hayward CA, November 2021—March, 2022
A.R.T., Inc. and Hayward Arts Council online members’ exhibitions, 2020
A.R.T., Inc. and Hayward Arts Council online members’ exhibitions, 2020—2021
John O’Lague Galleria, Celebrate Women!, National League of American Pen Women, NorCal Member Exhibition, Hayward CA, January, 2020
Sun Gallery, Climate Change, Hayward CA, May, 2019
Bothwell Arts Center, A Winter's Tale, Livermore CA, January, 2019
Adobe Art Gallery, Anything Goes - Almost, Castro Valley CA, January, 2018
John O’Lague Galleria, Asian Inspired Art, Hayward CA, February, 2018
Sun Gallery, Climate Change, Hayward CA, May, 2018
Community Gallery of Hayward Area Historical Society, Day of the Dead, Hayward CA, September, 2018
UC Berkeley Extension, Real + Unreal Revealed, San Francisco CA, August—September 2017
Selected Publication
The cover illustration: The Bestiary of American Politics: The inner beasts that spawn irrationality, 2020
The painting Burning October, is used as an image in Ursa Minor Magazine Volume 3: Fault/2018, UC Berkeley Extension’s Art & Literature Review.
Awards
2022 Alameda County Arts Leadership Award: Representing Supervisorial District 2
Honorable Mention
A.R.T. inc. Anything Goes - Almost, Adobe Art Gallery, 2018
41st Area Artist’s Annual Juried Exhibit, Adobe Art Gallery, 2018
38th Area Artist’s Annual Juried Exhibit, Adobe Art Gallery, 2015
Teaching Excellence Award
Association of Northern California Chinese Schools, 2015
Outstanding Teacher Award
Overseas Community Affairs Council, Republic of China, Taiwan, 2018
Teaching and Design Work Experience
Art Instructor / Chinese Language Teacher
Multicultural Education Research Center, Hayward CA, 2008 - 2018
Integrated Circuit Layout Designer
San Francisco Bay Area CA, 1996 - 2016
Fine Art / Fashion Design Art Teacher
Saint Bonaventure Girls’ High School, Taipei, Taiwan, 1984 – 1986 (The school closed in 2022)
Education
Post-Baccalaureate Certificate of Visual Arts, UC Berkeley Extension, 2018
Associate Degree: Electronics and Computer Technology, Chabot Community College, Hayward CA, 2007
Post Baccalaureate work at California State University, Hayward CA, 1991
Bachelor of Fine Art, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, 1984