1976 Born in Park Ridge, Illinois, USA
1998 Painting, Illustration, and Commercial Design, Parsons School of Design, Paris, France
1999 BFA, Painting and Printmaking, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA
BA, Sociology, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA
2005 Graduate Studies in Painting/New Genres, San Francisco Art Institute, SF, CA, USA
2007 MFA Stanford University, CA, USA
Currently Lives in San Francisco, CA, USA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
2022
2008
2006
Thank You... Have a Nice Day..., Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
2017
Detritus, San Jose ICA, San Jose, CA, USA
2012
SpaceBi: Taking Up Space, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA, USA
FAX, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
2010
Depth of Surface, San Francisco State University Fine Arts Gallery, CA, USA
2009
Present Tense Biennial: Chinese Character, Chinese Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
2008
Close Calls 2008, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, USA
In Pursuit of Beauty, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA, USA
Vital Signs, Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA
2007
Cream from the Top, Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA, USA
Paper Cuts 3, Fetterly Gallery, Vallejo, CA, USA
2006
Appropriately Yours, Transformer Gallery, Washington, DC, USA
4th International Symposium of Interactive Media, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey
Unbecoming, Stanford University, Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery, CA, USA
2005
Futurefemme, BRAVA Theatre Center for Women in the Arts, San Francisco, CA , USA
2004
Murphy Cadogan Award Winners Exhibition, San Francisco Arts Commission, CA, USA
8 Takes, San Francisco Art Institute, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
2002
Cinefemme, BRAVA Theatre Center for Women in the Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA
SELECTED AWARDS
2015 Public Art Commission, San Francisco Transbay Transit Center Grand Hall, San Francisco Arts Commission, CA, USA
2013 Public Art Commission for Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
2012 San Francisco Arts Commission Art on Market Street Kiosk Poster Series, San
Francisco, CA, USA
2010 Transforming Fictions, Kearny Street Workshop-de Young Artist Studio
Residency, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA, USA
2009 W Hotel Commission, Washington, DC, USA
2007 MFA Studio Award, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, USA
2004 Murphy Fine Arts Fellowship, San Francisco Arts Commission, CA, USA
Educator’s Incentive Grant, San Francisco Archdiocese, CA, USA
2003 Merit Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute, CA, USA
Surdna Fellowship, Maryland Institute of Arts, Baltimore, MD, USA