LISA MEI LING FONG
PROPERTIES TECHNICIAN AND ARTIST RESUME
updated December 10, 2011
EXPERIENCE – Technical Theatre
2011
Properties Technician – Cirque du Soleil, Michael Jackson Immortal Arena Tour, Seattle, WA
Carpentry Technician – Cirque du Soleil, Ovo, Big Top Tour, Mexico City, Mexico
Inventory/Logistics – Cirque du Soleil, Zarkana, Radio City Music Hall, New York, NY
Wardrobe & Carpentry Technician – Cirque du Soleil, Dralion USA Tour
6 weeks assignment for costume maintenance, repair, laundry, set build and tear down,
ran show cues, supervised locals, trampoline set up
2010 Carpenter & Welder - I Never Sang For My Father, Keen Company, New York City, NY
2009 Properties Intern – Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Berkeley, CA. 2008 – 2009 season, 1 year
One of five person team building all hand and furniture props and some sets for four plays,
including 3 Tony Award Nominations for “In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play”
2008 Stage Manager – Upchuck Reunion Concert, Seattle, WA
Properties Supervisor (Weapons & Blood) - Edward the Second, Red Bull Theater, NYC
Properties Artisan – Fabrik, Wakka Wakka Productions, New York City, NY
Properties Master – The Maddening Truth, Keen Company, New York City, NY
Properties Artisan – Blue Bird, Urban Stages, New York City, NY
2007 Stagehand – Secret Order, 59e59 Theater for Merrimack Repertory Theatre, New York City, NY
Properties Master – The Dining Room, Keen Company, New York City, NY
Properties Master – Sleuth, Dorset Theatre Festival, Dorset, VT
Scenic & Properties Intern – Dorset Theatre Festival, summer stock theatre, Dorset, VT, 3 months
Spotlight Operator – A New Brain, Astoria Performing Arts Center, Astoria, NY
SKILLS
Properties Artisan, Fine Artist:
Hand and furniture props design and creation, maintenance and repair, set construction, set dressing, show cues, props runner, carpentry, woodworking, assemblage techniques, adhesives, wire-working, scenic painting (marbleizing, distressing, wood graining), linoleum block printing, sculpting, stenciling, bookbinding, plaster cast molding, fine arts acrylic painting, digital photography, exhibition set up and displays, band merchandise design and creation, upholstery, heavy lifting
Power Tools:
Mitre saw, radial arm saw, jigsaw, circular saw, table saw, band saw, pneumatics, screwgun, drill press, router, sander, grinder, Dremel, some MIG & TIG experience
Machinery:
World Certified driver for forklifts, skid steer loaders, zoom booms, boom lifts and scissor lifts.
Valid driver’s license, 20 foot box trucks, Thyssen Stearns Passenger Loading Bridges
Information Technology:
Type 50 WPM, 10-key-by-touch, Mac OS X, Windows, Microsoft Word & Excel, HTML, Adobe Photoshop,
7+ years Sabre, 2 years iFlyRes Virgin America Airline Reservation system
Proficient in written and verbal English, minimal written and verbal French, American Sign Language Alphabet
RELATED EXPERIENCE
2010-2011 Virgin America SFO Terminal 2 Advisory Team
Design and development of new Terminal 2 at San Francisco International Airport for Virgin America
2003-Present Eerie Art – Solo Business Company; creating, selling and exhibiting Introversion Boxes,
Mini Introversion Boxes, Paintings, Photographic Prints and Cards in galleries,
cafes, boutiques and online worldwide
1996-2008 Fan Club President – Sky Cries Mary
Design and development of merchandise and fan membership kits. Live concert photography
printed for promotional postcards sent to 2500 subscribers. Mail order and accounts manager.
Editor-In-Chief of quarterly fanzine Lotus Blossom Journal
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Strychnin Gallery – Berlin/London/New York www.strychnin.com.
Assemblage Artist, exhibiting signature Introversion Boxes in the United States and Europe
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Introversions – Articulated Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 1 month
2010 Too Close to Home – 63 Bluxome Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 1 month
2009 Sorrows & Blessings – Strychnin Gallery Vault, Berlin Germany. 1 month
Introversion Boxes – Virtual Tart Online Gallery, New Zealand. 1 month
Encompass – Gallery Three, San Francisco, CA. 1 month
2006 End and Begin – Gargoyles Statuary, Seattle, WA. 1 month
Memory: Capturing Our Fleeting Existence – Richard Hugo House, Seattle, WA. 1 month
Introversion Boxes and Travel Stories –InfoHazard Gallery, Seattle, WA. 1 month
2005 The Parlour of Remembrance Wingnut Galleries, South Wing Room, Seattle, WA. 1 month
2004 Stories Born from a Life of Adventures –Richard Hugo House, Seattle, WA. 1 month
Eerie Travel –Sureshot Café, Seattle, WA. 1 month
2003 Eerie Places Travel Discovery –Aurafice Café, Seattle, WA. 1 month
Eerie Art – The Mercury, Seattle, WA. 1 month
2000 Sky Cries Mary – Displayed fine art paintings on-stage for live performances in concert halls
and live television broadcasts, nationwide 1995-2000
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Whaleless – Fabrica Fluxus Art Gallery, Bari, Italy. 1 month
Enchanted Forest – sponsored by Strychnin Gallery and WWF, Musei Civici, Reggio Emilia, Italy 1 month.
Enchanted Forest – sponsored by Strychnin Gallery and WWF, Berlin, Germany, 1 month.
Benefit for Cait against Drunk Driving – Vermiliion Gallery, Seattle, WA. 1 day.
2010 Miniature Art Extravaganza – Ghost Gallery, Seattle, WA. 1 month
The Affordable Art Show 2 – 63 Bluxome Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 1 month
2048 Brainstorming – art installation at Ex Carcere Le Murate for Festival della Creativita
Florence, Italy, 4 days
Ketos 2.1 – Civic Aquarium, Milan, Italy. 1 month
Rise and Shine – Rise Gallery, Seattle Design Center, WA. 6 months
Quadrant Fantasies - Claus Brusen & Strychnin Gallery, Saeby, Denmark. 1 month
Artist Trust Art Benefit Auction - Five Centerpieces, Seattle, WA. 1 day
7 Year Itch – Strychnin Gallery, Berlin, Germany. 1 month
Putting-It-Together – Climate Gallery, Long Island, NY. 1 month
2009 The Affordable Art Show – 63 Bluxome Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 2 days
Ketos 2.0 – Civic Museum, Reggio Emilia, Italy. 2 months
kunStart Art Fair – Bolzano, Italy. 4 days
Whaleless – Strychnin Gallery, Berlin, Germany. 3 weeks
2008 Allegorical – Co-Curator & artist, Group Exhibition, 108 Occidental Gallery, Seattle, WA. 1 month
Black & White – Strychnin Gallery, London, England. 1 month
Invasion – T40 Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany. 1 month
De Ghesellen van der Lylien – Diest, Belgium. 1 month
Dances of Vice Festival – New York City, NY. 1 day
2007 Lof der Zotheid – Artikel 27, Heusden-Zolder, Belgium. 1 month
Kings and Queens and Childhood Dreams - Strychnin Gallery, London, England. 1 month
Some Assembly Required – Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL. 1 month
Convergence 13 - Convergence 13 Music and Arts Festival, Portland, OR. 3 days
Dark Hearts and Broken Vows - Strychnin Gallery, New York City, NY. 1 month
2006 Arcanum - Strychnin Gallery, New York City, NY. 1 month
International Assemblage Artist Exhibition - Gallery 24, Berlin, Germany. 1 month
Netherworld – Trio Exhibition, Christoff Gallery, Seattle, WA. 1 month
Seattle Erotic Arts Festival – Seattle, WA. 2 days
Major Arcana – The Art of the Tarot – Wingnut Galleries, Seattle, WA. 1 month
2004 Fremont Fine Arts Foundry – Gallery 154, Seattle, WA. 1 month
EDUCATION and AWARDS
2011 Fall Protection and Hazardous Materials Training – Cirque du Soleil program
Construction Safety and Health Certificate – OSHA 10 Hour Outreach Training Program,
Occupational Safety & Health Administration
2003 EDGE Graduate - Seattle, WA. Certificate of Completion. Invited participant for Artist Trust’s
EDGE Professional Development Training Program for Visual Artists. Pilot year.
1996-1997 University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Fine arts courses.
1995 Seattle Central Community College – Associate of Arts Degree, Seattle, WA
1992 Bank of America – Certificate Winner in Art. Oakland, CA
ARTICLES & PUBLICATIONS
Sky Cries Mary – Photography for CD cover “Taking the Stage, Live 1997-2005. Released 2011
Quadrant Fantasy – Artist Catalog, Fantasmus Productions and Strychnin Gallery, 2010
Eerie Art: Lisa Mei Ling Fong’s “Encompass”, online article, Juxtapoz Magazine, February 18, 2009
Art Attacks – Strychnin Gallery Catalogs, Volume 1, 2006 & Volume 2, 2008
Eerie Artist of the Month, Erin Black Dove, featured article, Erotic Underground Magazine, Issue 2.03, Nov. 2006
International Assemblage Artist Exhibition – Catalog by Gallery Twenty-Four, 2006
Introversion Boxes and Travel Stories by Lisa Mei Ling Fong, Chuck Foster, front cover artwork and
featured article, The Seattle Sinner, Vol. 4 Issue 42, June 2006
The DaVinci Code – Decoded, Martin Lunn, The Disinformation Company Ltd, Copyright 2004.
Photograph of the Apprentice Pillar in Rosslyn Chapel
Articles and announcements included in: Juxtapoz Magazine, Happenstand.com, Art Access, Seattle Weekly,
The Stranger, Richard Hugo House Newsletter, Artist Trust, Shooting Gallery press releases & blogs
