Now happening: Bay Windows / Ventanas en saliente / 窗花, a trilingual, cross-cultural project engaging 15 immigrant, working-class, Chinese and Latinx women to co-create papercuts and public artworks.

I am a visual artist and social practitioner exploring belonging, resilience, and mental well being. I use community engagement and hyperlocal research to gather grassroots perspectives, which I interpret and amplify by making as hand-crafted objects, such as flags, banners, comics, zines, letterpress prints, graphite diagrams, portraits, and soft sculptures.

Current

6/20–12/20: My set of 20 collaborative portraits from Recognitions / 认 • 知 is on view in Living Here @ Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, University of Nevada at Las Vegas.

7/26/2025–1/11/2026: Spirit House will be on view at the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington in Seattle.

10/11/2025–1/18/2026: Guiding Ethos @ Trout Museum of Art, Appleton, WI.

Upcoming

12/11/2025–3/11/2026: Bay Windows: Illuminating Immigrant Women’s Perspectives, various locations in San Francisco Chinatown & Mission District.
1/24/2026: Scavenger hunt.

Recent

I was a guest on You Can’t Eat Art, a podcast by Clara Kumunde, Marcus Curatorial Fellow, Lucas Artists Program, Montalvo Arts Center (October 17).

I spoke with Cecilia Lei of KQED for “At 60, the Chinese Culture Center Enters a ‘New Era of Courage’” (October 24).

2025 Creative Capital Awardee, Zellerbach Family Foundation Community Arts Grantee, A Blade of Grass Field Funds recipient.

5/10–6/7: Curatorial project: Twin Windows: Papercuts by Beatriz Vasquez and Xiaoqing Shi @ Kearny Street Workshop, San Francisco

Ongoing

Contributing artist, Color Factory, Houston and Chicago.