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

My proposal was selected for a permanent public artwork at the Chinatown Him Mark Lai Branch Library Public Art Project via the SF Arts Commission. On Saturday, 9/12, join me at the SFAC’s A Day of Public Art in Chinatown, held in conjunction with CMAC’s Empress Reimagined open house. Read about both events in KQED Arts.

8/13/2026–1/10/2027: A lantern and papercut from Bay Windows will be on view in Help Wanted / Leave Now: “Operation Wetback” & The Revolving Door of Mass Deportation at the California Museum, Sacramento.

Out now: I contributed an essay to It Will Be More Beautiful Than You Could Ever Imagine: The Art of Susan O’Malley published by Chronicle Books and launching at the SF Art Book Fair.

Upcoming

Thurs 10/8: It Will Be More Beautiful Than You Could Ever Imagine: Susan O'Malley and Friends @ SFMOMA

Sat 10/17: Free art activation at the Brava Block Party! @ Brava Theater Center, SF.

10/28–11/1: Speaker, Moving Together, a conference on arts, culture, and wellbeing organized by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and Arts Council Tokyo at the Tokyo International Forum.

Recent

I’m proud to continue supporting emerging refugee, immigrant, diasporic, BIPOC, and LGBTQIA+ artists as a mentor with ARTogether’s Mentorship Hub.

8/8 and 8/29: I led free papercutting workshops for the public at Brava! for Women in the Arts in San Francisco.

Ongoing

Contributing artist, Color Factory, Houston and Chicago.