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
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)
Stories from the Camp, invitational group exhibition, Imago Mundi / Benetton Foundation, Fondazione Imago Mundi / Gallerie delle Prigioni, Treviso, Italy (exact dates tba 2023 / 2024)
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
OUTREACH PROJECTS
1997 - present, co-founder Moving Poets, Charlotte l Berlin, multi-disciplinary arts organization
2016 - 2020, WE SEE HEAVEN UPSIDE DOWN, founder, Moving Poets international multi-disciplinary migration project
2021-22, Spiced Kinship, founder, creative platform and free resource to build understanding and respect of diverse communities through the sharing of food, art and culture
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- 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
2023 CONNECT, interactive gaming outdoor mural, Fifth Third Bank, Charlotte, NC
2023 Ballantyne Backyard staircase mural, 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 commission, 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
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.