Education
B.A. Duke University, Durham, NC
Graduation with Distinction in Cultural Anthropology Major; Asian American & Diaspora Studies minor, Documentary Studies certificate; summa cum laude & phi beta kappa
Residencies
2025 Circuits of Correspondence, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)
2024 Narrative Shifts Digital Resident, The Seventh Wave
2024-2025 Artist in Residence, Durham Art Guild, Durham, NC
2023-2024 Co-leading artist (CAO Collective), BRICLab Contemporary Art Residency, BRIC, NYC, USA
2023 Resident, Duke Arts Studio, Durham, NC,USA
2022 Collaborator of Laura Li, Feminist Incubator, Project for Empty Space, NJ
Exhibitions & Performances
2025.3.17-5.5 bodies tender with grief (co-organizer), Durham Arts Council Semans Gallery, Durham, NC
2025.3.3-26, nostalgia is the ghost of care (solo exhibition), Golden Belt Gallery, Durham Art Guild, Durham, NC
2024.11.26-2025.1.26, “Shroud” and “familiar chaos”, Durham Art Guild 70th Juried Exhibition, Truist Gallery, Durham, NC (juror: william cordova)
2024.9.21 The Ciba Punch, Queens Botanical Garden, Flushing, Queens
2024.9.18 The Ciba Punch, opening reception of to hold a we, BRIC Brooklyn
2024.9.19-12.22 The (Ruins of) Ciba Shrine, in to hold a we, BRIC Brooklyn, NYC
2024.9.11-11.23 Good Mourning, Anything But Still, Block Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2024.8.18-2024.10.6 “Memory Funeral”, State of the Nation: A BIPOC Artist Show, The Old Stone House, NYC 2024.7.13-8.31“Mesh”, “Untitled”, and “Transformation”, in UPROOT: BIPOC Food Systems, NorthStar Church of Arts and Earthseed Land Collective, Durham, NC
2024.8.6-9.30 “Making an Unfamiliar Kitchen Our Home,” Haptic Happenings, Truist Gallery, Durham, NC
2024.6.21-7.29 “Memory Funeral”, Durham Art Guild Annual Members Show, Durham, NC
2024.5.31-6.9 “Intimate Encounters,” Anthropology of Motherhood: Kinship and Othermothering, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
2024.4.25-9.30 “Intimate Encounters”, Center for Documentary Studies, Durham, NC
2024.4.25-9.30 “huan xiang: illusion, imagination, impossibility, of home”, Center for Documentary Studies, Durham, NC
2023.12 The Ciba Reading, International Human Rights Art Festival, The Tank, NYC
2023.11 Care Dictionary (with CAO Collective & Yao Xiao), participatory wall installation, BRIClab: Contemporary Art Studio, DUMBO NYC
2023.5 Ciba Punch, performance and single channel video installation (with Laura Li, CAO Collective), Expanded Ecologies, Beall Center for Art + Technology, CA, USA
2023.4-2023.10 Passing the Knot, photography in print, polaroids, yarn, handwritten poems on rice paper, wall installation, Duke Center for Gender/Sexual Diversity, Durham NC, USA
2023.3 Stitching Radical Friendships, sticky rice, photography in print, yarn, Wesleyan University, Center for the Arts Ezra and Cecile Zilkha (South) Gallery, Middletown CT
2022.11 Ciba Collaborative Open Studio, polaroid, handwritten poetry, paper, video, photography. Multichannel Projection and Wall Installation, Project for Empty Space, NJ
Selected Grants/Awards
Art
2024 Emergency Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts
2024-2025 SEEK Raleigh, Raleigh Arts
2024 Art Access Fund, Queens Art Fund, New York Foundation of Arts
2023, 2024 John Hope Franklin Documentary Award, Center for Documentary Studies, Durham, NC
2023 What Can We Do? Micro Grant Award (with CAO Collective), Asian American Arts Alliance (A4), NYC
2023, 2024 Benenson Award in the Arts, Durham, NC
2023 Janet B. Chiang Grant, Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
2021 Ten Best Books in Shenzhen’s Reading Month for prose collection 北极时间
2019 “Budding Writer”文学新苗, Guangdong Writers’ Association
Scholarship/Research
2024 Paul Farmer Award for Justice and Social Responsibility in Cultural Anthropology
2024 Faculty Award, Asian American & Diaspora Studies
2023 Kristina Troost Prize for Best Project in East Asian Studies, Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
2023 Gender and Race Research Award, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (GSF), Duke University
2023 Dean’s Summer Research Fellowship, Duke University
2022 Kenan Ethics Summer Fellowship, Kenan Institute for Ethics, Durham, NC
2021, 22 Story+ Humanities Research Fellowship, Franklin Humanities Institute, Durham, NC
Community Service/Organizing
2024 Security & Well-Being Grant, UrgentActionFund for Asian Feminist Human Rights Defenders
2023 Dora Anne Little Service Award, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (GSF), Duke University
2021, 22, 23 Sirena WuDunn Memorial Scholarship, Asian Pacific Studies Institute
2022 Dongguan Entrepreneur Scholarship, World Dongguan Entrepreneurs Federation, USA