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
Work Experience
Freelance writer, multidisciplinary artist, photographer & cultural worker
collaborators: NorthStar Church of the Arts, WUNC Public Radio, Raleigh Arts...
2022-, Co-founder & Co-director, Chinese Artists and Organizers (CAO) Collective 离离草
2025-, Assistant Editor & Facilitator, The Seventh Wave
2021-2023 Editor-in-Chief, Margins
2020-2021 Editor, Translator, Proofreader, UnCoVer Initiative
Fellowships & Residencies
2026 Pedantic Arts Residency, Casey Droege Cultural Productions, Pittsburgh, PA
2025 Experimental Media Performance Lab (xMPL), Contemporary Arts Center, Irvine, CA
2025 Circuits of Correspondence, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)
2024-2025 Fellowship for Utopian Practice, CulturePush, NYC, NY
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
2023-2024 Resident, Duke Arts Studio, Durham, NC
2022-2023 Collaborator of Laura Li, Feminist Incubator residency, Project for Empty Space, NJ
Selected Grants/Awards
2025-26 Snapdragon Research & Development Grant, VAE Raleigh, NC
2025 Creative Engagement Grant, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NYC, NY
2025 Emerging Artist Grant, Durham Arts Council, Durham, NC
2025 SEEK Raleigh Public Art Grant, Raleigh Arts, NC
2024 President’s Discretionary Grant, New Breath Foundation
2024 Emergency Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, NYC
2024 Art Access Fund, Queens Art Fund, New York Foundation of Arts, NYC, NY
2024 Security & Well-Being Grant, UrgentActionFund for Asian Feminist Human Rights Defenders
2024 Paul Farmer Award for Justice and Social Responsibility in Cultural Anthropology
2024 Faculty Award, Duke Asian American & Diaspora Studies
2023 Kristina Troost Prize, Duke Asian Pacific Studies Institute
2023 Gender and Race Research Award, Duke Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
2023, 2024 John Hope Franklin Documentary Award, Duke Center for Documentary Studies
2023 What Can We Do? (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, China
Solo*/Two Person Exhibitions
2025 辫 (biān / 彼岸bǐ àn) — “for those of us who live at the shoreline”(Audre Lorde, A Litany for Survival) , Gallery One, Artspace, Raleigh, NC
2025 sojourning in lyric time*, The Art Gallery, High Point, NC
2025 bodies tender with grief, Durham Arts Council Semans Gallery, Durham, NC
2025 nostalgia is the ghost of care*, Golden Belt Gallery, Durham Art Guild, Durham, NC
2025 be-twined*, solo exhibition of CAO Collective at ROOMMATE Salon, Los Angeles, CA
2025 Intimate Encounters, Arcana Lounge & Bar, Durham, NC
2024 Intimate Encounters*, Center for Documentary Studies, Durham, NC
2024 幻象，幻想，还乡huan xiang: illusion, imagination, impossibility, of home* Center for Documentary Studies, Durham, NC
Performances
Ciba Punch 女拳手打糍粑
2025 Fall (TBD), Manhattan Chinatown, NYC, NY
2025.9.28 Dorothea Dix Park, Raleigh, NC
2024.9.21 Queens Botanical Garden, Queens, NYC
2024.9.18 opening reception of to hold a we, BRIC Brooklyn,NYC
2023.12 The Ciba Reading, International Human Rights Art Festival, The Tank, NYC
2023.5 Opening Reception, Expanded Ecologies, Beall Center for Art + Technology, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA
2022.9 Sara D. Roosevelt Park, Manhattan Chinatown, NYC, NY
Good Mourning 结哀顺变
2024 Burns Pinon Ridge Reserve, Joshua Tree National Park, CA
2023 Burns Pinon Ridge Reserve, Joshua Tree National Park, CA
Group Exhibitions
2025 Angry Asian Feminists Unite! Welcome to Chinatown, NYC, NY
2024 “Shroud” and “familiar chaos”, Durham Art Guild 70th Juried Exhibition, Truist Gallery, NC (juror: william cordova)
2024 The (Ruins of) Ciba Shrine, in to hold a we, BRIC Brooklyn, NYC
2024 Good Mourning, Anything But Still, Block Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2024 “Memory Funeral”, State of the Nation: A BIPOC Artist Show, The Old Stone House, NYC
2024 “Mesh”, “Untitled”, and “Transformation”, in UPROOT: BIPOC Food Systems, NorthStar Church of Arts and Earthseed Land Collective, Durham, NC
2024 “Making an Unfamiliar Kitchen Our Home,” Haptic Happenings, Truist Gallery, Durham, NC
2024 “Memory Funeral”, Durham Art Guild Annual Members Show, Durham, NC
2024 “Intimate Encounters,” Anthropology of Motherhood: Kinship and Othermothering, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
2023 Ciba Punch, performance and single channel video installation (with Laura Li, CAO Collective), Expanded Ecologies, Beall Center for Art + Technology, CA, USA
Participatory Installation
2023.11 Care Dictionary (with CAO Collective & Yao Xiao), participatory wall installation, BRIClab: Contemporary Art Studio, 20 Jay St, Brooklyn NYC
2023.4-10 Passing the Knot, photography in print, polaroids, yarn, handwritten poems on rice paper, wall installation, Duke Center for Gender/Sexual Diversity, Durham NC
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 Publications
On Intimacies 缘份, The Seventh Wave Insights Column
On Mourning and Solidarities, positions: asia critique.
Intimate Encounters一期一会, The Seventh Wave
Rage, Struggle, Freedom: Politics of Hope and Love, Scholar & Feminist Online
Burning Language: New and Queer Chinese Voices, The Common: China Folio edited by Cleo Qian
Tupelo Quarterly issue 32.
Apogee Literary Journal issue 19.
Massachusetts Review, Special issue: WOMAN (poetry, translation)
“Chinese Queer Feminist Poetic Intimacies: A Translation Play.” Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. (poetry, translation) Photo series “Intimacies” in Sine Theta Magazine’s issue 27 朋FRIEND, front and back covers (photo, film)
Interactive zine and etching print, “Mycelia” in Sine Theta Mag’s issue 26 菌FUNGUS
Selected Public Talks/Conferences
2025-9-27 Artist Talk, Artspace, Raleigh, NC
2025-6-18 Diasporic Tea Station with CAO Collective and _ao_ao_ing, Plot 田, LA, CA
2025-5-20 May Town Hall: Art & Healing, Prime Produce, Asian American Arts Alliance, NYC, NY
2025-4-16 Artist Talk, Asian/American Arts and Activism Class, Pomona College/Claremont Colleges, online
2025-4-18 Artist Talk with Nori McDuffie, Durham Arts Council, Durham, CA
2025-3-15 Circuits of Correspondence Artist Panel, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
2024-12-4 Harnessing the power of art in community organizing, AWID Forum, Bangkok, Thailand
2024-11-06 Artist Talk, Anything But Still Exhibition, Block Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2024-9-29 Artist Panel, State of the Nation BIPOC Artist Show, Old Stone House, NYC
2024-8-6 Haptic Happenings Artist Talk, Durham Arts Council, Durham, NC
2024-7-20 Gaza Mutual Aid as Care Work, Queer Feminist Asian Mutual Aid for Gaza, online
2024-6-22 Artist Talk, On Queer Chinese Image-Making and Resistance, CathayPlay Global, online
2024-6-19 Artist Talk, OCA-NY Hate Crimes Prevention Art Project, ImmigrantSocialServices, NYC
2024-6-8 “Queer Feminist Solidarities with Palestine,” ChineseFeminism, online
2024-5-23 Artist Talk, Technologies of Intimacies, University of California, Irvine
2024-5-5 “Why Should Chinese International Students Support Palestine,” Veritas Academy, online
2024-2-26 CAO Collective Artist Talk, hosted by Hamilton College, hybrid
2024-2-22 “Citational Intimacies, Presence, and Play in Chinese Queer Feminist Collective Poetry-Writing”, “Translations” Panel, Global Asias Conference, University of California, Irvine
2023-11-17 Sustaining Social Movement: Feminist Reflections During Challenging Times, ChineseFeminism, online.
2023-10.26-29 “Chinese Queer Feminist Solidarities in Transnational Social Movements” (Roundtable), National Women’s Studies Association 2023 Conference, Baltimore, MD.
2023-10-20, “The aesthetics and politics of affective intimacies in transnational Chinese queer feminist organizing”, Asia Pacific Forum, Duke Asian Pacific Studies Institute
2023-10-10 with CAO Collective, Intimate Convergence: An Artist Talk & Workshop, invited by Dr. Ping Zhu, University of Oklahoma, zoom.
2023-07-21 “Chinese Feminist Poetic Intimacies in Translation,” in Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics: A Cha Symposium, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, online.
2023-05-06 with CAO Collective, “I am with (HER) kind: Feminisms in Collective Practice”, a roundtable hosted by alpha nova & galerie future and moderated by Yang Li, online.
2023-03-04 “Reimagining Proximity and Intimacy in Chinese Queer Feminists Relational Organizing”, After Nora Walks Out: The Struggle and the Future of Chinese Feminism, The New School for Social Research, NYC.
2023-02-05 “Mycelia: A zine and etching print on decolonial aesthetics of fungal networks”, in Decay of Foundations: Sine Theta Magazine’s issue 26: FUNGUS菌.
2023-01-02 with CAO Collective,“The Prognosis: a collective dreaming on the past and futures of community building”, Robinson S.P.A.C.E. , LA, California.
Teaching/Facilitation Experience
2025 Fall Narrative Shifts Digital Residency Secondary Facilitator (with Avi Hegland-Fisher), The Seventh Wave, zoom
2025-09-20, Text/Image Workshop, Artspace, Raleigh NC
2025-08-03, Food, Memory, and Nostalgia Collective Writing Workshop, Dorothea Dix Park, Raleigh, NC
2025-07-18 Weaving Our Collective Dreamscape: Relational Practice for Resistance and Healing, Rad Arts, Queen Street Magic Boat, Durham NC
2025-06-18, with Laura Dudu, dreamscapes: weaving stories of rest and care, CulturePush Show Don’t Tell Symposium, Zoom
2024-12-07 with CAO Collective, Food, Memory, We: Virtual Writing Workshop, shall we go together? symposium, BRIC Brooklyn, Zoom
2024-06 with CAO Collective, Community Potluck & Sticky Rice Dumpling Making Workshop for Palestine, DUMBO & Chinatown, NYC
2024-03, Knitting Survival: 3-day Retreat with Survivors Anchoring Art Narrative Garden, Shenzhen, China
2023-11, born/again collective writing workshop, Survivors Anchoring Art Narrative Garden
2023-06, No/where, Now/Here: Home Again 我们与家的距离 collective writing workshop (3), zoom & Beijing
2023-05-19 with CAO Collective, “be-twined缝 | 逢”: 16mm film painting workshop, Visiting Artist Series, LGBT Resource Center, University of California, Irvine.
2023-05-06 with CAO Collective, “Language of Care” collective writing workshop. Cannoneer Dye Garden, Pratt Institute, NYC
2022-08 with CAO Collective, Ciba Punch collective writing workshops (2), Zoom
Judging
2025 Exhibitions Open Call, Durham Arts Council
2024 Spotlight Exhibition Series Selection Panel, NorthStar Church of the Arts
2024 BRIClab Contemporary Art Residency Reviewer, BRIC Brooklyn