EDUCATION
2023: Italian Wine Scholar, Wine Scholar Guild, IWEG, Toronto, ON
2022: Master of Visual Studies with Honors, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
2016: Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honors, Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, NYC
CURRENT GIGS
Italian Wine Consultant, Gruppo Terroni
Bartender/Mixologist, Marked Restaurant
Director, Chinatown Biennial: chinatownbiennial.com
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022-2023 No Place The Bradley Museum, Mississauga, ON
2019 Fortune Flavors the Bold, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto, ON
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND ART FAIRS
2022:
The Voices, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, ON
Rassembleur, PHI Foundation, Montreal, QC
MVS Studio Graduating Exhibition, The Art Museum, Toronto, ON
2021:
Precarious Joy, Hearth, Toronto, ON
Exchange Piece, DesignTO, Toronto, ON
2020:
Back In 5, Tea Base, Toronto, ON
Listerine, Earl Selkirk Gallery, Toronto, ON
All Hours, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
Tea Base is a Friend of Chinatown, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON
2019:
Feast in the East 74, Small Arms Inspection Building, Mississauga, ON
Third Thursday, Arts Letters and Numbers, Averill Park, NY
Second Annual Asian Zine Fair, Tranzac Club, Toronto, ON
Year of the Pig, Tea Base, Toronto, ON
Falling Stars/Stelle Cadenti, The Crypt Gallery, King’s Cross, London, UK
2018:
Lumen Group Show, Conveto di San Francesco, Atina, Italy
Lumen Residency Exhibition, The Crypt Gallery, King’s Cross, London, UK
2017:
Holiday Zine Fair, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto, ON
Cum as You Are, The Living Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016:
New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY
Portfolio Show, Art Director’s Club, New York, NY
Help! Is On The Way, Gramercy Gallery, New York, NY
LINKEDIN, School of Visual Arts Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY
One Plus One, Bronx Art Space, Bronx, NY
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2021: Open Door, Toronto Arts Council
2021: SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) Grant, CGS-M
RESIDENCIES
2019 Arts, Letters and Numbers, Averill Park. NY
2018 Lumen Residency, Atina, Italy
2017 Lumen Residency, Atina, Italy
PUBLICATIONS AND TELEVISION
2023: Artist Feature, Carnation Magazine, Volume 3, "Fire"
2021: "The Tyranny of Language", ASAP/Journal, Johns Hopkins University, Volume 6.3 Autotheory Special Issue
Article Feature, Studio Magazine, Volume 16. No. 2, Fall/Winter: "Please Help Yourself: Exchanging Memories with the Rice Water Collective"
Artist Feature, Carnation Magazine, Volume 2, "Pleasure"
Article Feature: The Globe and Mail Arts & Pursuits, “From IRL to URL” by Matthew Hague, Jan 16, 2021
2020:
Article Feature: Long Winter, torontolongwinter.com, “Tea Base looks back on a year of relationship building and neighborhood advocacy” by Tom Beedham
2019:
Exhibition Essay: Xpace Volume 10, Xpace Cultural Centre, “Fortune Flavors the Bold” by Abby Ho
Fairchild TV, Vancouver, BC, and Toronto, ON “Fortune Flavors the Bold: Lunar New Year Special”, Televised Interview
2016:
Channel 1 News, New York, NY, “Help! Is On The Way” Televised Interview
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2022 - Instructor, JAV130 Visual Strategies, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
2020 - Teacher’s Assistant, JAV200 Intro. to Critical Theory, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
2018-2020 - Studio Instructor, Living Arts Centre, Mississauga, ON
2016-2017 - Instructor, Brooklyn Robot Foundry, Brooklyn, NY
2015-2016 - Teacher’s Assistant, Foundation Sculpture, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY