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

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

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

6/20–12/20: 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

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.

12/7/2024–1/25/2025: Truthtellers @ San Francisco Arts Education Project, 1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco.

New York Times writer Travis Diehl interviewed me and others about For Freedoms’ billboards for “Artists Tried to Activate Voters With Billboard Art. Did It Work?” (January 8, 2025).

Out now: Three of my billboard designs are among the 500+ in For Freedoms: Where Do We Go From Here? from Monacelli Press/Phaidon.

Ongoing

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