Curriculum Vitae


EDUCATION

1993 - 94   School of Arts and Design, University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia 

1990 - 93   Studio Art - College of Arts & Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

 

AWARDS AND GRANTS

2023 - Arts & Science Council Inaugural Founders Grant, Charlotte, NC

2022 - Arts & Science Council Artist Support Grant, Charlotte, NC

2022 - Artfields Second Place Jury Prize Winner, Lake City SC

2020 - Arts & Science Council Creative Renewal Fellowship, Charlotte, NC

2020 - Arts & Science Council Regional Artist Project Grant, Charlotte, NC

2019 - Knight Foundation Celebrate Charlotte Arts Grant (awarded with Moving Poets)

2019 - Playing For Others 2019 Change Makers Honoree, Charlotte

2019 - Reemprise Fund (awarded with Moving Poets)

2018 - Arts & Science Council Cultural Vision Grant (awarded with Moving Poets)

2018 - Arts and Science Council Cultural Vision Grant - Charlotte, NC ( (awarded with Moving Poets Charlotte)

2016 - Community Impact Grant - Partnership for Democracy, Berlin (awarded with Moving Poets Berlin)

2016 - Arts & Science Council Regional Artist Project Grant, Charlotte, NC

2013 - Artist Grant - Department of Arts and Culture, Berlin Treptow-Köpenick

2012 - Artist Project Grant -  Department of Arts and Culture, Berlin Treptow-Köpenick

1993 - Jonathan E. Sharpe Art Award Scholarship - UNC Chapel Hill

 

SELECTED PROJECTS AND EXHIBITIONS

Solo exhibitions

Unsettled Provisions, Ogden Contemporary Arts, Ogden, Utah (forthcoming Nov 2023 - Jan 2024) 

Mixed Blessings, Elder Gallery of Contemporary Art, Charlotte, NC, 2022

Constellations, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, 2021

Fluid, Durham Arts Council, Durham, NC, 2017

Mother's Milk, MoBe - center for arts, Berlin, 2012

 

Group exhibitions

Recent/Forthcoming

Encounters, McColl Center for Art, Charlotte, NC (Feb 2024)

Stories from the Camp, Imago Mundi / Benetton Foundation, Fondazione Imago Mundi / Gallerie delle Prigioni, Treviso, Italy (March 8 - June, 2024)   

To Err is Human, a participatory apology installation & project, MoBe Novilla, Berlin, Germany (Aug-Sept 2024)

Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL (Oct 26, 2024 – March 16, 2025)

 

50 Years, Here and Now. Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA (March - Oct 2025)

 

2023

Encounters, Transatlantic Exhibition of Art in the SouthEast - Biennial, traveling exhibition, NC Zeitgeist Foundation, Plüschow - Rostock  - Berlin, Germany 

Ladies to the Front - group exhibition, Parlor Gallery, NJ

Present Moments: Contemporary Asian Artists Perspectives, invitational group exhibition, Berlin Literary Action & Capital Cultural Fund, Galerie in der Novilla, Berlin, Germany (Sept 15 - Oct 9) 

Southern Voices/Global Visions - invitational group exhibition, presented by ArtFields Collective and South Arts, TRAX Visual Arts Center, The ROB, Jones Carter Gallery, Crossroads Gallery (4 venues), Lake City, SC (Sept 23 - Dec 3)

NC Artists Exhibition - juried group exhibition, Contemporary Arts Museum, Raleigh, NC (Sept 24 - Oct 22)

 

2022

Assembly 2022: Time and Attention - Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, Washington DC 

Nature Morte, Rowe Art Gallery, University of North Carolina Charlotte, NC 

Not in Repose, Good Year Arts, Charlotte, NC, Aug 26 - Sept 16. 

Continuing Conversations, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC  

ArtFields - Year Ten Art Festival, Lake City, SC

 

2021

Inspiration to Action: An Art Tribute to Muhammad Ali, group exhibition, Muhammad Ali Center, Louisville, KY

 

2020

Tarmac, McColl Center for Art + Innovation, Charlotte, NC 

Spring to Action, online benefit exihibition, Monica King Contemporary, NYC

H20/20: Elemental Retribution, curated by Janelle Dunlap, Gallery C3 at Alchemy, Charlotte, NC 

Thank you, No Thank you, curated by Catzie Vilayphonh, Asian Arts Initiative main gallery, Philadelphia, PA 

HEAVEN Upside Down, Migration 5, Novilla - Center for Arts, Berlin, Germany 

Black coal, red soil, yellow flames, Galerie in der Novilla, Berlin, Germany

 

2019

Santo Foundation 10th Anniversary Exhibition, curated by Gretchen Wagner, Arcade Contemporary Art Projects, St. Louis, Missouri

ABOLITION NOW!, Asian Arts Initiative main gallery, Philadelphia, PA 

50/50, kunst projekt, Novilla - Center for Arts, Berlin, Germany 

We See Heaven Upside Down, Elder Gallery of Contemporary Art, Charlotte, NC

  

2018

Feindbild, Novilla - Center for Arts, Berlin, Germany

The Art of Struggle, Elder Gallery of Contemporary Art, Charlotte, NC

 

2017

ELYSIUM - Art in the context of science & technology, curated by Lynn Battaglia & Bernd Vorjans, Novilla - Center for Arts, Berlin, Germany

We See Heaven Upside Down (Migration 3), Visual Arts headliner for Sensoria 2017, Ross Galleries 1&2, Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC 

  

2016

The Archimedes Principle, curated by Ianessa Norris, Zentralstation Schöneweide, Berlin, Germany

Public Dialog (temporary installation), project sponsored by the Partnership for Democracy, Kunst am Spreeknie Arts Festival, Berlin, Germany

We See Heaven Upside Down, Migration 1 & 2, Novilla - Center for Arts, Berlin, Germany

 

2015  

Generations: 40 Hues Between Black and White, curated by Stephen Anderson & Dinh Q. Le, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, California

Zentrale, Kunst am Spreeknie Arts Festival, Berlin

 

2014    

Small Things, VinGallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam      

Zentralstation, Zentrale Ausstellung zu Kunst am Spreeknie – Schöneweide Art Festival, curated by Dr. Peter Funken, Rathenau Hallen, Berlin 

Nachspiel, video installation, Novilla - Center for Arts, Berlin, Germany

Macht Geld, Schalterraum -– Projektgalerie für Kunst, Arbeit und Geld, Berlin, Germany 

Against the old spirit and new wars, The Urania - Center for Science and Humanities, Berlin

 

2013    

SHOWDOWN, Hart Witzen Gallery, Charlotte, NC 

Not a Drop, 47/49 Tanner Street, London, UK 

biotop chanta, guest artist, Stadtgalerie, Chur, Switzerland

humanity, legs, untitled, MoBe- center for arts, Berlin, Germany

UmspannZENTRALE,  curated by G11 Galerie Berlin for the Kunst am Spreeknie Arts Festival, Berlin, Germany 

Beyond the Curve: Celebrating Women’s Vision, Civic & Cultural Arts Center. Pineville, NC

 

2011 - 1993

Delicate, MoBe - center for arts, Berlin

Contact, textile and performance art piece, Context Arts Center, Charlotte, NC

Kiss My Art, Graduate exhibition, Long Gallery, Wollongong, Australia

Sharpe Art Scholarship Recipients Show, Glass Gallery - Hanes Art Center, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC

 

CURATORIAL PROJECTS:

2025   (forthcoming) The Unlikely Southerner, group exhibition, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC

2022    Seeing with the Heart, group exhibition, Booth Playhouse, Blumenthal Performing Arts Center

2021    Eyes Wide Open, group exhibition, Elder Gallery of Contemporary Art, Charlotte, NC

2015 – 2019 We See Heaven Upside Down, an international creative dialog, exhibitions and performance responding to the contemporary challenges of migration, displacement, identity and home. Produced by Moving Poets, Charlotte, Berlin

2018    Speakeasy, group exhibition, Hart-Witzen Gallery, Charlotte, NC

 

2004    Project Hometown, exhibition/project curator and mentoring/teaching artist, ASC McColl Award, Moving Poets multi-disciplinary year long program + multimedia exhibition working with 25 teen participants from underserved communities, Levine Museum of the New South, Charlotte, NC

  

SELECTED OUTREACH PROJECTS

1997 - present, co-founder Moving Poets, Charlotte l Berlin, multi-disciplinary arts organization

2023    Guest Speaker, Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery, Weber State University, Utah

2021    Founder of Spiced Kinship, creative platform and free resource to build understanding and respect of diverse communities through the sharing of       food, art and culture. Supported by the Arts and Science Council and the City of Charlotte. 

2023    Blumenthal Artists in Theatres Fellow

2022    CIAF Charlotte International Arts Festival Fellow – Color Play performance installation at Blumenthal PAC

2022    Bridge Builder Conversations Podcast with David "Dae-Lee" Arrington

2021    Patchwork, public art community crosswalk street murals, Monroe Road Corridor, MoRA, ArtWalks CLT, City of Charlotte, Charlotte, NC

2020    The New Colossus, guest panelist, A Conversation with Director and Co-Writer Tim Robbins, Blumenthal Performing Arts Center

2019    CreativeMornings Charlotte, Global Theme: Inclusive, Guest Speaker

2018    Inseparable Stranger: Interactive Map Installation Workshop & Artist Talk

     Sponsored by Davidson Refugee Support and Davidson College

2018    DREAM America: Arts Advocacy Forum, Guest Speaker

             Sponsored by Queens University Stan Greenspon Center for Peace and Social Justice

 

2017    Sensoria Visual Arts headliner, Artist Talk, Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC

 

PROFESSIONAL SELECTED DANCE/THEATRE PROJECTS/STAGE WORKS

2006- 2000

Johannesburg Stories, Moving Poets (world premier), supported by the South African Department of Arts and Culture and the Knight Foundation, Spirit Square Arts Center, Charlotte, NC  

Seven Deadly Sins, Moving Poets (world premier) in collaboration with M.Z. Ribalow & New River Dramatists, Hart-Witzen Gallery, Charlotte, NC

Island of Light, Moving Poets (world premier) invited by the Echo Foundation honoring Dr. Bernard Kouchner, founder of Doctors Without Borders, Providence Day, Charlotte, NC

Without Borders, Moving Poets (world premier) & Impact Fund Grant, Queens College, Charlotte, NC 

The Echo, Moving Poets (world premier) invited by the Echo Foundation honoring Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, Spirit Square Arts Center, Charlotte, NC 

Gateway South, Moving Poets (world premier) for documentary film on Maud Gatewood in conjunction with the Empowerment Project, Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, Charlotte, NC

De Profundis, Moving Poets (world premier), Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, Charlotte, NC

Faust, Moving Poets (world premier), Carolina Theater, Charlotte, NC

 

RESIDENCIES

2024 (forthcoming) She Who Has No Master(s) Collective residency, MASS MoCA, Massachusetts

2019          McColl Center for Art + Innovation, Charlotte, NC

2011- 12    Artist in Residence, MoBe center for arts, Berlin

2000          Little Italy Peninsula Arts Center - Studio Residency (the Bechtler Arts Foundation), Mount Holly, NC

 

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS & COLLECTIVES

Asian American Women Artists Association (AAWAA)

She Who Has No Master(s) Collective

BBK, Professional Association of Visual Artists Berlin

 

PUBLIC ART

2024  Corner Oasis, Women's Art Initiative, City of Rock Hill, Rock Hill, SC

2023  Ballantyne Park staircase, Charlotte, NC

2023  CONNECT, interactive gaming outdoor mural, Fifth Third Bank, Charlotte, NC

2022  After Shocks, Community Building Initiative, Victoria Yards, Seventh Street, Charlotte, NC

2022 New Beginnings, The Relatives On Ramp Resource Center, ArtPop Inspiration Project, Charlotte, NC

2022 Uptown CycleLink Bike Lane panels, City of Charlotte Urban Planning, Charlotte, NC

2021 Patchwork, Monroe Road Corridor, MoRA, ArtWalks CLT, City of Charlotte, NC

2020 Collective History, Knight Theater, Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, Charlotte, NC

 

2020 ArtPop Street Gallery, Class of 2020, Charlotte, NC

 

 

COLLECTIONS

Muhammad Ali Museum and Center, Louisville, KY

The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC

Lake City Arts Alliance - Artfields, Lake City, SC

Imago Mundi / Benetton Foundation, Fondazione Imago Mundi, Treviso, Italy 

City of Eskişehir, City Hall, Turkey

Private collections in the United States and Europe including the Bechtler family collection and Princess Camilla of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Germany.