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EDUCATION:

UC Berkeley, MFA Candidate 2026

Wake Forest University, BA with Honors 2015

RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS:

2025:

ACRE Residency, Steuben, WI

Monterey Biennial, Jurors Choice Acquisition Award, Monterey, CA 

SFAC, Chinatown RFQ Shortlist, San Francisco, CA

2024:

Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO

Center for SE Asian Studies Research Grant, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

ARC LIFT Grant, UC Berkeley Arts and Research Center, Berkeley CA

2023:

StudioWorks Residency, Tides Institute and Museum of Art, Eastport, ME

2022: 

Stelo Arts Papermaking Residency, Portland, CA

Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship, Santa Cruz, CA

2020: 

Mutual Stores A.I.R., Oakland, CA

2019-2020: 

CTRL+SHFT Collective Member, Oakland, CA

2019: 

The Growlery, San Francisco, CA

 NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program, San Francisco, CA

2018: 

A Place of Her Own (Asian American Women’s Artist Association), San Francisco, CA

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2020: START Gallery, “Bodies of Water,” Winston-Salem, NC

2019: The Growlery, “Bodies of Water,” San Francisco, CA

2015: START Gallery, “One Nation,” Winston-Salem, NC

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2025:

Palo Alto Art Museum, “Pushing Boundaries: Clay and Identity”, Palo Alto, CA (forthcoming)

The Fowler Gallery at the Hudgens Center for Art, “The Color Network Presents: Merge(d),” Duluth, GA (forthcoming)

Monterey Art Museum, “Monterey Biennial,” Monterey, CA (forthcoming)

Worth Ryder Art Gallery, “Revolt Against the Sun,” Berkeley, CA

Root Division @ Levi’s Plaza, “KARL,” San Francisco, CA

2024: 

Root Division, “Introductions 2024”, San Francisco, CA

Berkeley Art Center, “Letter from the Network,” Berkeley, CA

Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, “Rydell Visual Arts Fellows”, Santa Cruz, CA

2023: 

Asian Art Museum, “Bernice Bing: Open Call,” San Francisco, CA

David Brower Center, “All on the Table,” Berkeley, CA

Stelo Arts, “Tender Paths” Portland, OR

2021:

SOMArts, “Dreams Emerging, Beyond Resilience,” San Francisco, CA

Thacher Gallery at University of San Francisco, “Elemental Exposures, Revisions of the American Landscape”, San Francisco, CA

SOMArts, “Sowing Seeds of Agency,” San Francisco, CA

Vessel Gallery, “Excuse Me, Can.I See Your ID, II,” Oakland, CA

2020:

SFMOMA, “Museum From Home,” San Francisco, CA

ProArts, “Opalescent II,” Oakland, CA

CTRL+SHFT, 5 Year Anniversary Members Show, Oakland CA

2019:

SOMArts, “City of Souls,” San Francisco, CA

Root Divison, “Wander Woman,” San Francisco, CA

2018:

Kearny Street Workshop, APAture’s “RE:Place,” San Francisco, CA

SOMArts, “Honoring Our Ancestors While Fighting for the Future,” San Francisco, CA

1090 Gallery, “Dreams,” San Francisco, CA

TEACHING:

2025:

UC Berkeley: Senior Projects Graduate Student Instructor

2024:

UC Berkeley: Advanced Studio Critique Program Fellow

2019-Present:

Performing Arts Workshop, Teaching Artist and Mentor

2016-2018:

Presidio Hill School, Middle School Art Teacher

GUEST LECTURES:

2024: Santa Cruz Museum of Art

2022: University of California, Berkeley

2021: University of San Francisco 

CURATORIAL:

2019-2020:

California Institute for Integral Studies, Assistant Curator of the Arts, San Francisco, CA

2018

Kearny Street Workshop, APAture Visual Arts Curatorial Committee

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

2025:

Dart Magzine

2022:

SF Examiner

2021:

Lenscratch Magazine