EDUCATION
1993 - 94 School of Arts and Design, Wollongong University, New South Wales, Australia
1990 - 93 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, studied with Prof. Marvin Saltzman and Prof. James Gadson
AWARDS AND GRANTS
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
RESIDENCIES
2019 McColl Center for Art + Innovation, Resident Residency, 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
Asian American Women Artists Association (AAWAA)
BBK, Professional Association of Visual Artists Berlin
PUBLIC ART
2022 New Beginnings, The Relatives On Ramp Resource Center, ArtPop Inspiration Project, Charlotte, NC
2021 Patchwork, public art crosswalk street murals, Monroe Road Corridor, ArtWalks CLT and MoRA commission, Charlotte, NC
2020 Collective History mural, Knight Theater, Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, Charlotte, NC
ArtPop Street Gallery, Class of 2020, Charlotte, NC
SELECTED PROJECTS AND EXHIBITIONS
2022
Continuing Conversations, group exhibition, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC , Dec 2021- May 2022
ArtFields Year Ten Art Festival, Lake City, SC, April 22-30 2022
Mixed Blessings, solo exhibition, Elder Gallery of Contemporary Art, Charlotte, NC, April 28 - June 18 2022
2021
Inspiration to Action: An Art Tribute to Muhammad Ali, group exhibition, Muhammad Ali Center, Louisville, KY, Sept 2021 - Feb 2022
Constellations, solo installations, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, May 2021
Frame to Focus: Vietnamese American Women Artists, anthology of visual, performance, interdisciplinary and multi-media art (Pomelo Press, 2021), curated and edited by Anh-Hoa Thi Nguyen and Anne Ngan Nguyen, sponsored by The Catherine G. Murphy Gallery
2020
Tarmac, group exhibition, McColl Center for Art + Innovation, Charlotte, NC
HEAVEN, Moving Poets world premeir stage production, Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, Charlotte, NC
Spring to Action, online benefit exihibition, Monica King Contemporary, NYC
H20/20: Elemental Retribution, group exhibition, curated by Janelle Dunlap, Gallery C3 at Alchemy, Charlotte, NC
Thank you, No Thank you, group exhibition, curated by Catzie Vilayphonh, Asian Arts Initiative main gallery, Philadelphia, PA
HEAVEN Upside Down, Migration 5, group exhibition, Novilla - Center for Arts, Berlin, Germany
Black coal, red soil, yellow flames, group exhibition, Galerie in der Novilla, Berlin, Germany
2019
Santo Foundation 10th Anniversary Exhibition, group exhibition, curated by Gretchen Wagner, Arcade Contemporary Art Projects, St. Louis, Missouri
ABOLITION NOW!, group exhibition, Asian Arts Initiative main gallery, Philadelphia, PA
50/50, kunst projekt, Novilla - Center for Arts, Berlin, Germany
We See Heaven Upside Down, group exhibition, Elder Gallery of Contemporary Art, Charlotte, NC
2018
Feindbild, group exhibition and kunst projekt, Novilla - Center for Arts, Berlin, Germany
The Art of Struggle, group exhibition, Elder Gallery of Contemporary Art, Charlotte, NC
2017
ELYSIUM - Art in the context of science & technology, group exhibition, curated by Lynn Battaglia & Bernd Vorjans, Novilla - Center for Arts, Berlin, Germany
Fluid, solo exhibition, Durham Arts Council - Durham Convention Center, Durham, NC
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, group exhibition, 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, group exhibition, curated by Stephen Anderson & Dinh Q. Le, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, California
Zentrale, group exhibition, Kunst am Spreeknie Arts Festival, Berlin
2014
Small Things, group exhibition, VinGallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Zentralstation, Zentrale Ausstellung zu Kunst am Spreeknie – Schöneweide Art Festival, group exhibition, curated by Dr. Peter Funken, Rathenau Hallen, Berlin
Nachspiel, group exhibition, video installation, Novilla - Center for Arts, Berlin, Germany
Macht Geld, group exhibition, Schalterraum -– Projektgalerie für Kunst, Arbeit und Geld, Berlin, Germany
Against the old spirit and new wars, group exhibition, The Urania - Center for Science and Humanities, Berlin
2013
SHOWDOWN, group exhibition, Hart Witzen Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Not a Drop, group exhibition, 47/49 Tanner Street, London, UK
biotop chanta, guest artist, Stadtgalerie, Chur, Switzerland
humanity, legs, untitled, group exhibition, MoBe- center for arts, Berlin, Germany
UmspannZENTRALE, group exhibition, curated by G11 Galerie Berlin for the Kunst am Spreeknie Arts Festival, Berlin, Germany
Beyond the Curve: Celebrating Women’s Vision, group exhibition, Civic & Cultural Arts Center. Pineville, NC
2012 Mother's Milk, solo exhibition, MoBe - center for arts, Berlin
2011 Delicate, group exhibition, MoBe - center for arts, Berlin
1996 Contact, textile and performance art piece, Context Arts Center, Charlotte, NC
1994 Kiss My Art, Graduate group exhibition, Long Gallery, Wollongong, Australia
1993 Sharpe Art Scholarship Recipients Show, group exhibition, Glass Gallery - Hanes Art Center, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC
COLLECTIONS
City of Eskişehir, City Hall, Turkey
Works held in private collections in the United States, Germany, and Switzerland including that of Princess Camilla of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Germany.
YOUTH PROJECT
2005
Project Hometown, ASC McColl Award, Moving Poets multi-disciplinary project and multimedia exhibition, exhibition/project curator and mentoring artist to 25 teen participants from underpriviledged backgrounds, Levine Museum of the New South, Charlotte, NC
PROFESSIONAL SELECTED DANCE/THEATRE PROJECTS/STAGE WORKS
2006
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
2004
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
2003
Without Borders, Moving Poets (world premier) & Impact Fund Grant, Queens College, Charlotte, NC
2002
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
2001 De Profundis, Moving Poets (world premier), Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, Charlotte, NC
2000 Faust, Moving Poets (world premier), Carolina Theater, Charlotte, NC