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Artist Statement
I am an interdisciplinary artist and writer creating works across the registers of the analytic, theatric and literary. My large-scale immersive sculptures and enactments(including spoken word poetry and Chinese Kunqu opera) are theatrical spaces that envelope viewers and elicit their responses to trigger societal truths; my photo, video, words, sculptural objects and painting create disorienting narratives of corporeal movement through mystic realms.
With a wide range of sensitive materials that denote fragility, deconstruction and renewal, I question if things falling apart are preludes of unity, and whether healing the ruptures on personal and societal levels is transiently possible. I reenact otherworldly scenes and embody Chinese and Western mythical figures whose audacity and grief have propelled them to transcend not only the constraints of society, but even life and death. I explore the multifaceted truths of societal trauma and the destruction of culture, giving voice to individual testimonies of hunger and desire which often corrode upon the versions of history that justify power.
I am dedicated to global humanities dialogues, self-identifying as a culture-mechanic that mends the ruptures between the past and the present, the East and the West. I had multiple solo and group exhibitions in the US, China, UK, Italy and Greece. I’m a recipient of the prestigious Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and the Paris Photo Prize. Reviews of my work are in mainstream media and databases including the Smithsonian Institution, China Daily, and People’s Daily. I served as a guest juror for the 2025 Delaware Devision of the Arts Individual Artist Fellowships.
I love squirrels. Sending some warm squirrel thoughts to whoever reading this.