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.

The SF Arts Commission wants to hear from you!
I am thrilled to be one of three finalists for a permanant work of 2-D art in San Francisco Chinatown!

Check out the proposals and share your comments by July 21.

Also available: The proposals in Chinese & proposals for sculptures.

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

I’m proud to support emerging refugee, immigrant, diasporic, BIPOC, and APA artists in the Bay Area. This spring, I’ll be a mentor with ARTogether’s Artist Mentorship Hub and a guest lecturer in Kearny Street Workshop’s AVA Lab for emerging APA visual artists.

Upcoming

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

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

3/22-4/12: Stick ’Em Up! An Exhibition of Artists’ Posters @ The Birley, Preston, UK

9/4/2024–1/26/2025: I developed an interactive reflection space in conjunction with Spirit House @ Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University.

Ongoing

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