Current Position

  • 09/2018 - Present: Sessional Lecturer in Ceramic Art and Art Education Theory at the University of British Columbia

    *Promoted from Teaching Assistant to Sessional Lecturer in January 2022

Recent Exhibitions

  • 02/2025: “(Be)Coming Home” (community-based art installation) at Branscombe House

  • 10/2024: Group Exhibition Participation at the Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival

  • 09/2024 - 10/2024: “Home Coming” (community-based art installation) at Richmond Cultural Centre

  • 10/2023: "Lost and Found" (solo exhibition) at Richmond Cultural Centre

  • 09/2023: "Chasing Clouds" (painting), “Mind-scape” (ceramic), and “A Space to Belong” (installation) at Grunt Gallery

  • 09/2023 - 10/2023: "Run" (drawing) at the International Juried Digital Art Exhibition with the theme Fault Lines hosted by InSEA

  • 07/2022 - 12/2022: "What Have You Been Up To?" (painting) at the Group Exhibition of Sustaining Life on Earth: Arts-Based Responses to the Lived Experience of COVID-19

  • 07/2020 - 12/2020: "Recall a Day, Recall an Experience" (painting) at the 2020 National Art Education Association Exhibition

Art Residency

  • 2024 Branscombe House Artist-in-Residence

    Through this residency, I aim to develop a community-based art project named “(Be) Coming Home” to explore diverse meanings of home. The title has dual meanings: “Becoming Home” signifies my personal journey of finding belonging as a queer immigrant from China; “Coming Home” shows an invitation to the public to engage with the project as collaborators at the Branscombe House, finding a sense of home, through various art activities.

Art Festival and Events

  • 2024 Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival Artist

  • 2024 ExplorASIAN Festival Artist

  • 2023 BC Culture Days Artist Ambassador

Invited Talk and Presentations

  • 12/2023: Lecture on the Intersections and Collaborations Between Art Practice and Social Studies at Jiangsu Second Normal University

  • 09/2023: Invited Artist Talk at Richmond Art Gallery

  • 12/2021: Lecture on North American Art Education Approaches and Situations at Jiangsu Second Normal University

  • 11/2021: Art Research Presentation - "Urban Commute during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Arts-based Living Inquiry into Affects" at the International Exchange Seminar of Arts-based Research among the University of British Columbia, Tokyo Gakugei University and the Nagaoka Insititute of Design

Education

Current:

  • PhD in Curriculum Studies (Art Education) at the University of British Columbia

    Dissertation Topic: Artistic Inquiry into Affective Relationships in Everyday Urban Life

Achieved:

  • MSc in Cultural Materials (Experimental Archaeology) at the University of Sheffield

    Research Areas: Mundane Material Culture, Reconstruction of Ancient Art and Crafts in Contemporary Context

  • BA in Fine Arts at Nanjing Normal University

    *Awarded an overseas exchange scholarship to study Media, Culture, and Art at King’s College London

    Major Courses: Oil Painting, Traditional Chinese Painting, Calligraphy, Printmaking, Illustration, Photography, Art History, Art Education Theory.

Professional Development and Certifications

  • Curating and Exhibition Management at City, University of London

  • Service Design and Accessibility Technology at the Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC) Canada

  • Graphic Design at California Institute of the Arts