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Education
2023-25 Master of Visual Studies Candidate (Curatorial Stream), University of Toronto, ON, Canada.
2016-20 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, MD, USA
Major: General Fine Arts; Studio Concentration: Photography
Selected Curatorial Experience
2024-25 Morphing Lands, Impalpable Currents, Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto, Canada.
2024 Memory Lane, The New Gallery, Calgary, AB, Canada.
2024 If a tree falls in a forest, SanSheng Art Space, Markham, ON, Canada.
2023 Borderless, Stateless, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, ON, Canada.
2023 Unstranded Archive (online archive curation), co-presented with 11565KM Project by Beichen Zhang
Unlearning by Nature, Curated by Nikita Yingqian Cai.
Durian-Durian: Southeast Asian Studies as a Methodology.
2022 Neverlands and the End of the World, Curatorial Awards for Photography and Moving Image
Jimei x Arles International Photography Festival, Xiamen, China
2022 Unstranded Archive (online archive curation), co-presented with 11565KM Project by Beichen Zhang
Singapore International Film Festival
2020 Burning Stone, Charles Theatre, Baltimore, MD, USA
2020 Collective Dreaming, Theatre Production, BBox, MICA, Baltimore, MD, USA
2019 Identity, Smashing Labels, Main Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, MD, USA
2019 We, the People, Main Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, MD, USA
Selected Professional Experience
2020- Director & Programmer, Tangent Collective
2020- Curator & Public Relations Manager, Cliff Banquet Artist Collective
2019 Teaching Assistant, for Professor Mitchell Akiyama, University of Toronto
2019-20 President & Internal Relations Manager, Chinese Student and Scholars Association, MICA
2019-20 International Programmer & Diversity Coordinator, Center for Identity & Inclusion, MICA
2019 Studio Assistant, Mikhael Subotzky Studio, Johannesburg, South Africa
2019 Design Assistant, Lindokule Sobekwa, Johannesburg, South Africa
2019 Teaching Assistant, for Professor Mina Cheon, MICA
Awards and Honours
2022 Finalist, Curatorial Award for Photography and Moving Image, Jimei Arles International Photography Festival
2020 Nominee, Extraordinary Achievement Award, MICA
2020 Nominee, Involvement and Recognition Award, MICA
2016-20 Presidential Scholarship, MICA
2018 Creative Vision Award, MICA
Residencies
2023 Artist-Researchers-in-Residence in collaboration with Beichen Zhang, AGOxRBC Emerging Artists Exchange, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
2023 Artist-in-Residence (Tangent Collective), Trinity Square Videos, Toronto, ON
Press
2022 Just Do It, The Stay Art Festival, Nanchang, China. Online
2022 The Instigation on Photography of Five Curators (Groups), Art-Ba-Ba, China. Online
2022 You Choose What You Choose to See, Right?, Digital Issue 002, Life and Arts. Online
2020 Radioactivity and Pursuit of Angelhood in “Burning Stone”, BmoreArt, Baltimore. Print
2020 “Collective Dreaming” in the Time of COVID-19, BmoreArt, Baltimore. Print
Selected Writings
2023 Bullets and Gush: After Cataclysm, Before the Storm, Peripheral Review. 18 August 2023.
2022 ComposingYou_Chinatown, C Mag Issue 153.
2022 Feedback#6: Marshal McLuhan and the Arts, Darling Foundry Exhibition Review
2022 Contested Terrains of Ambivalence: Interrogating the Notion of Chinatown, Review of Morris Lum’s Meeting Places at Blackwood Gallery
Selected Programmings (Tangent Collective)
2020-22 Seasonal Lecture Series, focuses on intersections between decolonial praxis, global infrastructure, geopolitics and photography.
Speakers: Adrian Melis, Sasha Huber, Shimrit Lee, Nikita Yingqian Cai, Cai Dongdong, aaajiao, Hongwei Bao & Shaonnan Xi, He Zike, Chen Baoyang, Cao Mengwen