Education
School of Visual Arts, NYC, NY, USA
Master of Fine Arts, Class of 2025
Awarded with Departmental scholarship
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, USA
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture, Class of 2021
Honors Student 2018 Fall and 2019 Spring
Master of Arts in Teaching Learning in Arts and Design, Class of 2022
Awarded with RISD Fellowship
Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Courses studied in East Asian Studies, Comparative Literature Department, Theater and Performance Arts Studies, and Contemplative Studies from 2018 Fall to 2022 Fall.
Exhibitions
Experimental Foundation Triennial, 2017, Woods Garry Gallery, Providence, USA
“Rococo rocks,” 2018, Old Library, Providence, USA
Sculpture Thesis Show, 2021, Woods Garry Gallery, Providence, USA
“shifting,” 2021, Granoff Center, Providence, RI
RISD Grad show, 2022, Providence Convention Center, Providence, USA
Experiences
穿越麦地 AcrossRye Art Education, Yunan, China
Fund-raiser, Organization development assistant, and Summer Art Teacher, March 2022- Current
穿越麦地 AcrossRye Art Education holds artist teaching residency in ethnic minority region, Yunan, China. It invites talented and humanitarian-minded young artists to live, teach, and learn together with local students. Yearly, I raise funds and write grants to help the organization pay the teachers and keep education free to the students. Each summer, I return to Yunnan and spend 3 weeks teaching courses, do field research, and hangout with kids.
Gong Press, NYC, NY, USA
Freelance Translator, February 2023-Current
Gong Press is a publishing project by Qianfan Gu, St. Jiu, and Yuki He. They produce art publications in collaboration with their artist friends. So far, I translated an article “流浪不停：On Jianghu and Diasporic Worldmaking” written by Xueli Wang on Artist Lu Zhang’s participatory Art project Wildman Clab (2018-21). This publication was previewed at Press Play, Pioneer works December 2023.
十日谈 The Decameron, Providence, RI, USA
Co-founder, March 2022- August 2023
十日谈 The Decameron is a Chinese-speaking community me and Helina He co-founded and co-organized at Providence. The name of this community, directly translated from Chinese is “ten days of conversations.” It is an organization dedicated to finding space for artists to connect and express using their mother tongue through workshops and panel discussions. We held events in collaboration with other communities like the Plot farm, RISD Museum, and 706 Newyork. We care and center our conversations around regenerative culture, embodied politics, free expression through art, humanity, and spirituality.
Trigger Art, online platform
Online publication director and Event manager, May 2018- October 2020
Trigger art originated at RISD as a place that gathers Chinese-speaking artists within the RISD community to meet emerging to mid-career Chinese artists through video chats. I lead the production of online publication, which included condensing 2-3 hrs of audio transcripts into 10-25 mins reading time articles, then further editing by filling in artist’s references and adjusting the article layout into publish-ready form. In the meantime, I also worked on translating English contemporary art theory essays into Chinese, arranged and assisted with online critique marathons, and was responsible for the financial administration.
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, USA
Teaching Assistant, September 2019- December 2019
Daniel Lefcourt, Design Foundation
Assisted the professor and clarified the assignment to students, facilitated the student’s critiques, provided demos and samples of photo-transfer techniques and color studies, and documented student works.
Sphinx international art education, Shanghai, China
Summer course instructor, July and August 2020
Design and Teach eight weeks of online courses for high school and college art school applicants. My syllabus included Intro to art history, Intro to fine art techniques and critical theories, Intro to contemporary art presentation, and artist writing workshops. I also held portfolio reviews and career advising meetings.
Skills
3D -- Sewing machine and fabric fabrication, Plaster sculpting and casting, Mold making, Woodworking, Performance, Projection mapping, Oxy-Acetylene Welding, MIG Welding, Soldering, Wax sculpting, Binaural sound design.
2D -- Photography and Documentation, Video editing, Painting (Trompe-l'œil, Alla Prima).
Languages -- Chinese (Native), English (Fluent), English to Chinese translation, Poetry writing, Creative writing, Editing, Publication layout design, Astrology chart reading.
Community building -- Somatic healing and teaching, Cooking, Workshop teaching and organizing, Interview and panel talk facilitation.