About


 

Artist Statement

One of my professors moved to the United States from China when he was a child. He had trouble learning the language and being in a place he didn't understand. He told us it was only after he took a visit to an art museum in his new country that he found that he did understand after all. As humans, we are all connected in our humanness. Visually we can understand some things that are inexpressible through words. Here is a feeble attempt to translate my work into words:

Resilience. Finding meaning in all things. Gradually, building the foundation that gets me through everything imaginable. That's what I am. It's what I was yesterday, but I didn't know it. I was afraid. It hurt. I thought I wouldn't get through. But then I did. That's what I am. And that's why I am what I am. It's the path and its intrinsic value that I didn't see before. But if I saw it then, it wouldn't be. And the hard that was yesterday's hard isn't the same as today's hard. It's the juxtapose of pain and joy culminating into what should be. I heard in a dream once that everything is as it should be–that life is to be enjoyed, not to be frustrated with. This is my house and work of resilience.

 

Summarized Artist CV

 

EXHIBITIONS (recent)

2024  37th Annual Sears Invitational, Sears Museum Gallery, Saint George, UT (February 17 - March 31 ) 

2023 Titania's Ball, Era Contemporary, Tyler Arboretum, Media, PA (In-person October 5, with online exhibition through December 31)

2023 Almenara Art Prize 2023 Online Exhibition (Figurative, Portrait, & Drawing Categories) (August 1 - October 31)

2023 36th Annual Sears Invitational, Sears Museum Gallery, Saint George, UT (February 19 - April 2) 

2022-2023 Legends of the Moon (in collaboration with the Lunar Codex), Era Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA (December 2 - January 15)

2022 12th Annual Inspirational Art Association Christmas Showcase and Sale, Joseph Smith Memorial Building, Salt Lake City, UT (November 30 - December 3)

2022 People Are My Favorite: Colorado and Utah Artists of the Portrait Society of America, Anthony's Antiques & Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UT (October 21 - December 1)

2022 Women Out West: Professional Artists of Utah, Sears Museum Gallery, Saint George, UT (September 16 - November 11)

2022 Business Card Art Show, JKR Gallery, Provo, UT (September 2 - 30)

2022 MFA Thesis Exhibition, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY (May 12 - 21)

2022 Tribeca Ball Exhibition, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY (April 19) 

2022 35th Annual Dixie Invitational, Sears Museum Gallery, Saint George, UT (February 19 - April 2) 

2022 Hiraeth, New York Academy of Art Student Curatorial Committee Exhibition, New York, NY (February 4 - March 5)

2021 Inside/Out, New York Academy of Art Student Curatorial Committee Exhibition, New York, NY (October 15 - December 17)

2021 11th Annual Inspirational Art Association Christmas Showcase and Sale, Joseph Smith Memorial Building, Salt Lake City, UT (December 1 - 4)

2021 Business Card Art Show, JKR Gallery, Provo, UT (July 30 - August 27)

2021 Rouge: Utah Women’s Voices, Sears Museum Gallery, Saint George, UT (June 11 - September 17)

2021 Return to Form, Six Summit Gallery, New York, NY (May 15 - June 30)

2021 Jumbo Print Exhibition, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY (April 21 - May 22)

2021 Tribeca Ball Exhibition, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY (April 5 - May 2) (Online due to COVID-19)

2021 Scholarship Auction, Early Light Institute (Instagram auction with @earlylightinsititute) (April 10 - April 17)

2021 Treading Lightly, New York Academy of Art Student Curatorial Committee Exhibition, New York, NY (January 29 - April 4)

2021 34th Annual Dixie Invitational, Sears Museum Gallery, Saint George, UT (February 13 - April 3) 

2020 Deck the Walls, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY (December 6 - 8)

2020 Fall Vision of the Arts Auction, Vision of the Arts Fund, Salt Lake City, UT

2020 Parallels, New York Academy of Art Student Curatorial Committee Exhibition, New York, NY (October 20 - December 18)  

2020 Business Card Art Show, JKR Gallery, Provo, UT (September 11 - 30)

2020 300 Plates Fundraiser and Exhibition, Art Access Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT (Online due to Covid-19) (May 14 - June 5)

2020 Spring Vision of the Arts Auction, Vision of the Arts Fund, Anthony’s Fine Art & Antiques, Salt Lake City, UT (Moved to online due to Covid-19) (April 8 - 18)

2020      33rd Annual Dixie Invitational, Sears Museum Gallery, Saint George, UT (February 15 - March 31)