Solo Exhibitions and Collaborations

2024Rose Window, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY.
2023Pieces of Sky (with Maro Kariya), MIX Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY.
My Own Rose-Tinted 3D Glasses, Br. Kenneth Chapman Gallery, Iona University, New Rochelle, NY.
2019Closed Systems, Aon, One Liberty Plaza, New York, NY.
2017Mapmaker's Dream, Azarian McCullough Art Gallery, St. Thomas Aquinas College, Sparkill, NY.
2012Sculpted Lines (with Jessica Warner), station923, Ithaca, NY.
Portraits of Randomness, CAP ArtSpace, Ithaca, NY.
2011A Visibility of Thought, station923, Ithaca, NY.
Fragments in Flight, The Gallery at FOUND, Ithaca, NY.
2010Art Behind the Scientist, Tompkins County Public Library, Ithaca, NY.
Suspension of [Dis]Color, Corners Gallery, Ithaca, NY.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024No Time To Be Tame, Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs, NY.
2023Contemporary Mapping: We're Still Here, Corners Gallery, Ithaca, NY.
2022Abstraction: Process, Practice, Perception, Atrium Gallery, Corning Community College, Corning, NY.
33rd Annual Juried Photography Show, State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY.
2021Ecological Calendars: Finding Hope in the Face of Climate Change, Cornell Botanic Gardens, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
Hidden Connections, The Soil Factory, Ithaca, NY.
Pattern, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH.
Patterns, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
Geometric Gestures, dōdōmu gallery.
15 Feet: Invitational Exhibition, State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY.
2019Southern Tier Biennial, Tri-County Arts Council Gallery, Olean, NY.
66th Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibition, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY.
The Freedom of Abstraction, Site:Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY.
Light vs. Dark, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA.
Annual Juried Show, Kehler Liddell Gallery, New Haven, CT.
Cut & Paste, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY.
10!, Exhibit A, Corning, NY.
Strange Attractors, Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ.
2018Geometrification, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH.
Small Works 2018, Catalyst Gallery, Beacon, NY.
smallWORKS 2½ Juried Exhibition, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY.
A Small Matter, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY.
De-Construct/Re-Construct, Corners Gallery, Ithaca, NY.
2018 Black and White Biennial, Exhibit A, Corning, NY.
2017Eclectic Geometric, Norchar and Haus, Rochester, NY.
2017 Bridges Conference, Nominees' Gallery, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Mystery and Enigma, National Juried Exhibiton, Kreft Center for the Arts, Concordia University Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI.
2016Small Works 2016, Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs, NY.
On Being Human, Tompkins County Public Library, Ithaca, NY.
Made in New York 2016, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY.
You Are Here: Contemporary Mapping, Corners Gallery, Ithaca, NY.
2015Regional Juried Show, State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY.
Compendium, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY.
Colliding Worlds, 3rd On 3rd Gallery, Reg Lenna Center for the Arts, Jamestown, NY.
Made in New York 2015, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY.
Annual Juried Photography Show, State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY.
2014Regional Juried Show, State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY.
Drawn, Community School of Music and Arts, Ithaca, NY.
Annual Juried Photography Show, State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY.
Stone Canoe Art Exhibition - VEIN 8, ArtRage Gallery, Syracuse, NY.
2013BANNED!, Tompkins County Public Library, Ithaca, NY.
Coburn Goes Small, National Juried Exhibition, Coburn Gallery, Ashland University, Ashland, OH.
36th Annual National Juried Small Works Exhibition, Harper College, Palatine, IL.
Microcosms, Community School of Music and Arts, Ithaca, NY.
Annual Juried Photography Show, State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY.
201217th Mini Print International Exhibition, The Ink Shop, Ithaca, NY.
Regional Juried Show, State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY.
Drawing on Democracy, Tompkins County Public Library, Ithaca, NY.
Annual Juried Photography Show, State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY.
2011Regional Juried Show, State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY.
Arcades Project, Spring (W)rites Literary Festival, Ithaca, NY.
2009Everything is a Map (with Alice Muhlback and Ben Marlan), The Upstairs Gallery, Ithaca, NY.

Awards

2022Honorable Mention, 33rd Annual Juried Photography Show, State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY.
2019Aon-CUE Artist Empowerment Award, CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY.
2017Specific Opportunity Stipend of Tompkins County, Community Arts Partnership, Ithaca, NY.
2015Juror’s Selection, Annual Juried Photography Show, State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY.
2014People’s Choice Award, Regional Juried Show, State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY.
2012Juror’s Selection (collaboration with Fernando Llosa), Juried Photography Show, State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY.

Selected Reviews and Features

2024Taliesin Thomas, “10 Art Shows to See in Upstate New York This June”, Hyperallergic, May 29, 2024.
Suzie Wells, “Werner Sun: Bridging the Abstract and the Tangible in his Art”, Genesee Valley Pennysaver, September 5, 2024.
2021Shannon Dortch, “Art and exhibits illustrate hope for climate resilience”, Cornell Chronicle, November 29, 2021.
2020Social Distancing, Remote Visits Part IV, The Coastal Post, September 2020.
2019Kathy Leonard Czepiel, “Seers”, Daily Nutmeg, May 9, 2019.
2018Amber Donofrio, “Recognizing Abstraction”, Ithaca Times, May 9, 2018.
2016Quick View: Werner Sun, SciArt Magazine, June 2016.
2015Karen Lipson, “Islip Exhibition Explores How Science Influences Art”, The New York Times, October 22, 2015.
Compendium, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, exhibition catalog essay by Lisbeth Murray.
2014Warren Greenwood, “The Renderers: 54 pieces (!) Highlight Drawn Exhibit at Ithaca’s CSMA”, Ithaca Times, September 10, 2014.
2013Arthur Whitman, “Annual Photo Show Displays Both Technique and Exploration”, Ithaca Times, March 20, 2013.
2012Arthur Whitman, “The Art Trail in Space”, Ithaca Times, August 2, 2012.
2010Editorial Board, “The Year in Art”, The Ithaca Post, December 28, 2010.

Selected Lectures, Interviews, and Writings

2024Artist talk, Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs, NY.
Artist talk, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY.
Artist talk, Elmira Regional Art Society, Elmira, NY.
2021-24Guest lectures for Art + Science: Sustainability, Multiculturalism and Transdisciplinarity, Department of Human Centered Design, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
2023Environment and Sustainability Colloquium, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and College Arts and Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
2022Skelly, S. M., Fiorello, S., Potter, J., Sun, W., & Hull, S. (2022). Interpreting ecological calendars for the public through exhibits, art, and education. GeoHealth, 6, e2022GH000622. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GH000622.
Playing with Perspective, Creative Recovery Podcast, Coaching with Brenna.
2021Environment and Sustainability Colloquium, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and College Arts and Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
Panelist for Creative Concurrence: Artists in Dialogue on Continuity and Uncertainty, June Kelly Gallery, New York, NY.
Guest lecture for Images and Algorithms, Department of Art, College Architecture, Art, and Planning, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
2020Panelist for Thingly Affinities: Rethinking Aesthetic Form for a Posthumanist Future, organized by Taney Roniger.
Artist talk, AdaCore Art Program, AdaCore Technologies Inc., New York, NY.
YQI/Franke Program Nontechnical Talk Series, Yale Quantum Institute, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
2019Fine Arts Seminar, Houghton College, Houghton, NY.
Math + Art Panel, Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, RI.
2018Patterns: Not Math, Nor Science, Nor Art, Interalia Magazine, March 2018.
2017Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Ithaca College Department of Art, Ithaca, NY.
Two Branches, One Tree, The Brooklyn Rail, December 2017-January 2018.
Panelist for Strange Attractors: Art, Science, and the Question of Convergence, CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY.
2016Werner Sun: The Science Behind His Art, Conversations with Creatives, December 2016.
2014Visiting Artist Lecture Series, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.
On Art and Science, Caldaria, an online art and science forum.
Calder's Fractals, Caldaria, an online art and science forum.
Pathways for Wandering and Pathways for Wandering II, Stone Canoe, Issue #8.
The Wolf Fifth, Stone Canoe, Issue #8.
2013Sculpted Lines, Lucky 7 Lecture Series, North Country Arts Council, Waterloo, NY (with Jessica Warner).
All at Once, Lunch Ticket, Summer/Fall 2013.
2012Falling Paper, Flying Insects, and Kinetic Mobiles, Science Cabaret, Lot 10, Ithaca, NY (with Jane Wang).
Portraits of Randomness, CAP ArtSpace, Ithaca, NY.
2010Mobiles: Visibility of Thought, Science Cabaret, Delilah’s on Cayuga, Ithaca, NY.
Mobiles: Engineering Art, Tompkins County Public Library, Ithaca, NY.

Education

2012MARK Professional Development Program, New York Foundation for the Arts.
2003California Institute of Technology, Ph.D, Experimental Elementary Particle Physics.
1994Harvard University, A.B., cum laude, Physics.