ABOUT
I am a Hong Kong-born, Oakland-based visual artist who creates site-responsive installations, sculptures, and drawings that emerge from intimate encounters with edge ecosystems disrupted by human activity. My practice explores how drawing close to, making strange, and engaging with the often overlooked impacts of humans on non-human lifeways might foster empathy and transform our perception of ecological responsibility. The unseen ocean and the coast as threshold consistently recur as potent spaces for this inquiry.
I employ repetitive accumulation of marks and objects alongside bold, selective use of color to draw the viewer into curious, unsettled, intimate seeing. Patterns emerge and retreat in continual transformation. I incorporate objects and materials foraged from specific ecosystems, leveraging the resonance of their material histories as tactile, analog indices of place. My process is guided by the question: What new ways of seeing might help us live with grace in these mongrel ruins of our own creation?
I have exhibited at venues including FOR-SITE Foundation, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Setouchi International Art Triennale, and Yamaguchi Institute for Contemporary Arts, as well as galleries in Iceland, Scotland, England, Hong Kong, and Japan. My residencies include Headlands Center for the Arts, Djerassi Resident Artist Program, and Blue Mountain Center. I have taught at University of California Berkeley and Willamette University. I hold a Master of Arts in Art Practice from University of California Berkeley, a Master of Resource Management in Coastal and Marine Management from the University of Akureyri, Iceland, and a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art from Yale University. I am based in Oakland, California.