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

My proposal was selected for the the SF Arts Commission’s Chinatown Him Mark Lai Branch Library Public Art Project. I gathered feedback at the SFAC’s A Day of Public Art in Chinatown, held in conjunction with CMAC’s Empress Reimagined open house in September, as well as at a focus group at the SFPL in Ocotber. Read more in KQED Arts.

8/13/2026–1/10/2027: A lantern and papercut from Bay Windows is on view in Help Wanted / Leave Now: “Operation Wetback” & The Revolving Door of Mass Deportation at the California Museum, Sacramento.

Out now: I contributed an essay to It Will Be More Beautiful Than You Could Ever Imagine: The Art of Susan O’Malley published by Chronicle Books, and launched at the SF Art Book Fair as well as at It Will Be More Beautiful Than You Could Ever Imagine: Susan O'Malley and Friends at SFMOMA.

Upcoming

10/28–11/1: Speaker, Moving Together, a conference on arts, culture, and wellbeing organized by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and Arts Council Tokyo at the Tokyo International Forum.

Recent

I’m proud to continue supporting emerging refugee, immigrant, diasporic, BIPOC, and LGBTQIA+ artists as a mentor with ARTogether’s Mentorship Hub. Visit their art exhibition, Untold Stories, from October 2026–January 2027.

At Brava Theater Center, I hand carved rubber stamps for a free art activty at the Brava Block Party! in October, and I led free papercutting workshops for the public in August.

I am a proud recipient of a 2026 Immigrant Leadership Award, presented by the San Francisco Immigrant Rights Commission and the San Francisco Office of Civic Engagement & Immigrant Affairs.

Ongoing

Contributing artist, Color Factory, Houston and Chicago.