Education
2025 MFA, Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2017 AB, Literary Arts, Ethnic Studies (concentration in literature, history, critical theory), Brown University, Providence, RI
2016 Sculpture coursework, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Selected Exhibitions and Performances
2025 Even the Phrase Each Other, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2025 It’s not over when he comes, MFA thesis exhibition, Experimental Gallery, Ithaca, NY
2025 Soy Boy, solo exhibition, performance & screening, Soil Factory, Ithaca, NY
2025 Squiggle Wrestle, performance with Zachary Nicol, Co-Prosperity, Chicago, IL
2024-2025 FRUIT COCKTAIL CAKE, solo exhibition, Co-Prosperity, Chicago, IL
2024 Untitled performance, with composers Eliot Burk, Coral Douglas, Seare Farhat, Foundry, Ithaca, NY
2024 Will-o’-the-wisp, two-person exhibition with Hyunjin Park, Olive Tjaden Gallery, Ithaca, NY
2024 Into the Deep End, Olive Tjaden Gallery & Experimental Gallery, Ithaca, NY
2024 Dewey Decimal System, Hartell Gallery, Ithaca, NY
2024 /ˈrəp(t)SHər/, String Room Gallery, Wells College, Aurora, NY
2023 over and over, Olive Tjaden Gallery & Experimental Gallery, Ithaca, NY
2023 Age of Aquariums, Happy Gallery, Chicago, IL
2023 Masks, The WasteShed, Evanston, IL
2023 Reinvention, Recognition, Reincarnation, Lillstreet Art Center, Chicago, IL
2023 Loving with liquid swords, Chicago Public Library, Avalon Branch, Chicago, IL
2023 First Note, Project Gallery V, online
2022 Continuous Span, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2022 ENCOUNTER, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
2021 Art Fair, Marwen, Chicago, IL
2019 Talk Stories, Chinese American Museum of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2018 Eating Is Poking, Chicago Public Library, Chicago Lawn Branch, Chicago, IL
2018 Singapore Art Book Fair, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, Singapore
2018 Tokyo Zinester Gathering, Tokyo, Japan
2018 MELT Festival, Brisbane, Australia
2018 Midsumma Festival, Melbourne, Australia
2018 QueerTech.io, Melbourne, Australia
2017 An Elsewhere Within Here, ACRE Projects, Chicago, IL
2017 EXPO vol. IV, 155 George St, Providence, RI
2017 Proxies, AS220, Providence, RI
2016 TRQPITECA, Juniors, Chicago, IL
2016 Spring Arts Festival, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Providence, RI
2016 Fixed, Benson Hall Gallery, Providence, RI
2016 EXPO vol. III, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Providence, RI
Residencies
2025 Ox-Bow Summer Fellowship, Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists’ Residency, Saugatuck, MI
2024 Ragdale Residency, Lake Forest, IL
2024 Rural Humanities Film Practicum, Cornell University Society for the Humanities, Ithaca, NY
2023 Work Exchange, GnarWare Workshop, Chicago, IL
2023 Teachers’ Retreat, Ragdale Residency, Lake Forest, IL
2022 Bridge Program Residency, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2016 ACRE Residency, Steuben, WI
Awards
2024 Ox-Bow School of Art Scholarship, Saugatuck, MI
2024 Rural Humanities Award, supported by Mellon Foundation, Cornell University Society for the Humanities, Ithaca, NY
2024 New Wave Scholarship, A-B Projects, Portland, OR
2024 Mellon Collaborative Studies Award in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities, Cornell University Society for the Humanities, Ithaca, NY
2024 Department of Art Fellowship, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2022 Finalist, SPARK Grant, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL
2016 ACRE Diversity Scholarship, Steuben, WI
Curatorial Projects
2022 Moments of Identity, MAP Residency exhibition, Marwen, Chicago, IL
2022 Designing Collaboration, Alumni Apprenticeship exhibition, Marwen, Chicago, IL
2017 Semi-Homemade, 20 Young Orchard, Providence, RI
Teaching and Professional Experience
2025 Teaching Assistant, Media Arts, Performance, and Sound: Intersections with Paulina Velázquez Solís, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2024 Invited Studio Visit, Art Histories: An Introduction, Theme: Materiality, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2024 Teaching Assistant, Contemporary Art Practice Through Drawing with Xinan Helen Ran, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2024 Graduate Assistant, Advanced Practice with Carl Ostendarp, Dan Torop, and Julianne Hunter, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2023 Graduate Assistant, Intro to Print Media / The Poetics of Print with Oscar Rene Cornejo, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2023 Program Coordinator, Marwen Lab Residency, Marwen, Chicago, IL
2022 Program Curator, MAP Residency, Marwen, Chicago, IL
2022 Program Coordinator, Alumni Apprenticeship, Marwen, Chicago, IL
2021 Teaching Artist, Visual Writing Lab, Marwen, Chicago, IL
2021 Teaching Artist, Mural Project, Chicago Furniture Bank, Chicago, IL
2021 Program Coordinator, Lab Residency, Marwen, Chicago, IL
2021 Teaching Artist, Queer Homemade Crafts, Marwen, Chicago, IL
2020 Program Coordinator, Label Writing Project, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
2020 Teaching Artist, Science Fiction & Afro-Futurism: Drawing Our World Transformed, Marwen, Chicago, IL
2019 Teaching Artist, Visual Art Apprenticeship: Mixed Media, Chinese American Service League, Chicago, IL
2018 Teaching Artist, Visual Art Apprenticeship: Painting, Chinese American Service League, Chicago, IL
2018 Teaching Artist, Collaborative Storytelling, Coalition for a Better Chinese American Community, Chicago, IL
Presentations and Lectures
2025 Artist Lecture, Horse Gender, Milstein Auditorium, College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2024 Artist Lecture, What Can I Do?, MFA Artist Talk series, Tjaden Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2024 Invited Lecture, Dragon quest: 5 queer Asian artists, Intro to LGBT Studies with Naminata Diabate, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2023 Panelist, “How We Become Artists,” 21 Minus: What Was, What Is, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
2021 Panel Facilitator, “How to Sell Your Artwork,” Marwen, Chicago, IL
2021 Panel Facilitator, “Paving Paths in the Arts,” Marwen, Chicago, IL
2021 Panel Facilitator, “Interactive Brainstorm: Portfolio Workshop,” Marwen, Chicago, IL
2020 Panelist, “Summer Institute,” Communities In Schools, Chicago, IL
Publications and Press
2025 “Drawings from December,” invited publication by guest editor Derek Chan, Action, Spectacle, Winter 2025
2025 “and the knife used to feed us,” exhibition essay by Joelle Mercedes, Co-Prosperity Chicago
2023 Feature in New American Paintings, Midwest #167
2022 “Prologue to the Death of Julian,” short story, Notre Dame Review, Flotsam & Jetsam: Issue #53