Now happening: Bay Windows / Ventanas en saliente / 窗花, a trilingual, cross-cultural project engaging 16 immigrant, working-class, Chinese and Latinx women to co-create papercuts and public artworks.

I am a visual artist and social practitioner exploring belonging, resilience, and mental well being. I use community engagement and hyperlocal research to gather grassroots perspectives, which I interpret and amplify by making as hand-crafted objects, such as flags, banners, comics, zines, letterpress prints, graphite diagrams, portraits, and soft sculptures.

Current

6/20–12/20: My set of 20 collaborative portraits from Recognitions / 认 • 知 is on view in Living Here @ Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, University of Nevada at Las Vegas

7/26/2025–1/11/2026: Spirit House will be on view at the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Recent

Spring/Summer 2025: I’m proud to support emerging refugee, immigrant, diasporic, BIPOC, and APA artists in the Bay Area. I was a mentor with ARTogether’s Artist Mentorship Hub and a guest lecturer in Kearny Street Workshop’s AVA Lab for emerging APA visual artists.

2025 Creative Capital Awardee, Zellerbach Family Foundation Community Arts Grantee, A Blade of Grass Field Funds recipient.

5/10–6/7: Curatorial project: Twin Windows: Papercuts by Beatriz Vasquez and Xiaoqing Shi @ Kearny Street Workshop, San Francisco

Ongoing

Contributing artist, Color Factory, Houston, NYC, and Chicago.