B. 1991 Fuzhou, Fujian, China

Now Live in the Greater Hartford, Connecticut and Providence, Rhode Island

EDUCATION

2027-2025               2019 2016 MFA, Sculpture, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

2019                           BFA with Honors, Majors in Sculpture and Painting, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT

2016                           Associate of Art, Visual Fine Art, Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT

Exhibitions

Solo / Two-Person Shows

2025                           Sorry, We are Closed, Poon Gallery, Trinity College, Hartford, CT

2023                           Burn the Midnight Oil, Real Art Awards Solo Show, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT  

2023                           Slow Burn, Pegasus Gallery and the Niche, CT State Community College Middlesex, Middletown, CT 

2020                           Relics / Remants, Trae Brook and Ying Ye, Farmington Valley Arts Center Artist in Residence, Farmington Valley Arts Center, Avon, CT

Group Shows

2025                           Un-monument Public Art and Performance, Pao Arts Center, Boston, MA (Anticipated)

2024                           Forest Bathing, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT

2024                           How Did We Get Here?, Ely Center of Contemporary Art & Artport Kingston Midtown, Kingston, NY

2022                           Yale-China Association’s Brilliant Boba Project, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT

2021                           All Road, Five Point Annex, Torrington, CT

2021                           The Earth is Blue, The Alternative Art School, Global Online Exhibition, Online

2020                           Safe Spaces, Free Center, Middletown, CT

2020                           Small Works Juried Exhibition, Five Point Center for Visual Arts, Torrington, CT

2019                           Today Is A Work Day, 2019 Senior Sculpture Exhibition, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT

2019-2017               Alexander A. Goldfarb Juried Student Exhibition, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT

2018                           Northeast Regional Honors Council Art Show, Providence, RI

                                    CTW Undergraduate Symposium in the Art & Humanities, Trinity College, Hartford, CT

2018                           Collective Ground, 2018 Senior Painting Exhibition, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT

Residencies

2020-2019               Farmington Valley Arts Center Artist in Residence Program, Farmington Valley Arts Center, Avon, CT

2019                           The Mildred Complexity Artist in Residence, Mildred’s Lane, Beach Lake, PA

Fellowship, Awards, Scholarships

2027- 2025              RISD Fellowship, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

Sculpture Student Scholarship Fund, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

2025                           Fellow, The Artist of Color Accelerate Fellowship Cohort 3 Fellow, Working with The New Britain Museum of American Art, The 224 EcoSpace, Hartford, CT

2024                           Selective Artist, 2024 Pao Arts Center Un-Monument Public Art & Performance Programming, Present by Pao Art Center Funded by Mayor’s Office of Arts and

Culture, City of Boston with Support from the Mellon Foundation, Boston, MA

2024                           Fellow, Trinity Studio Art Fellowship 2024-2025, Trinity College, Hartford, CT

2022                          2022 Real Art Awards, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT

2021                           American Makes & Makerspace CT Industry Training in Mental 3D Printing Scholarship, Makerspace, Hartford, CT

2021                           Project Innovation Grant, Makerspace CT, Hartford, CT 

2020                          Makerspace CT Innovation Cohort Scholarship Grant, Makerspace, Hartford, CT 

2020                          Signs of Time 1st Prize Signs Design, Elicit Brewing Company Interior Mural, One of Painters from Artfx Signs Company, Manchester, CT

2019                           The Mildred Complexity Fellow, Mildred’s Lane, Beach Lake, PA

2019- 2016              Artistic Merit Scholarship, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT

2018                           Wolfgang Behl Prize in Sculpture, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT

2017                           Alexander A. Goldfarb Purchase Prize Award, Alexander A. Goldfarb Juried Student Exhibition, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT

2016                           Hans Weiss Award, Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT

2015                           Sanford Prismacolor Award, Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT

Invited Talks and Workshops

2024                         Visiting Artist Lecture and Critic, University of Saint Joseph, Hartford, CT  

                                  Visiting Artist Interview Talk, Trinity College, Hartford, CT

                 Visiting Artist Lecture, The Alternative Art School, Online

                Visiting Artist Lecture, CT State Community College Middlesex, Middletown, CT 

2023-2022               Workshop Leader, The Alternative Art School, Online

2020                         Visiting Artist Workshop, University of Hartford, Hartford Art School, West Hartford, CT  

2019                          Visiting Artist Lecture, Mildred’s Lane, Beach Lake, PA