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Born 1993, Shanghai
Lives and works in Brooklyn
EDUCATION
MFA Rutgers University
BFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2024 ifa Artists’ Contacts, Institut fur Auslandsbeziehungen, Germany
Artist in Residence, Viborg Kunsthal, Denmark
Artist in Residence, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany
2023 Artist in Residence, Delfina Foundation, London, UK
Artist in Residence, RisoLab at School of Visual Arts, New York
2021 Artist in Residence, By Art Matters, Hangzhou, China
Jimei x Arles Discovery Award 2021 Nominee
Accent Poetry Residency, British Council China, Online
2020 Studio Grant, Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart
2019 Artist in Residence, Triangle Arts Association
Artist in Residence, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center
2018 Artist in Residence, ACRE
Silver Eye Fellowship 18 Honorable Mention, by Lucy Gallun
2017 PDN The Curator Award Winner
2015 Photographique Student Award Winner
Fred J. Forster Fellowship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Lauch Invitational Residency, Chicago Artist Collation
2014 133rd Royal Ulster Academy, Portrait Prize
Center 2014 Project Launch Award, Juror’s Choice by Fred & Laura Bidwell
Lucie Emerging Scholarship Finalist
2012 New Artist Society Fellowship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024
Weaving in Entanglement, Mending in Punctures, 69 Art campus, Beijing, China
Vacat page, Imaginary Z, Hangzhou, China (solo)
2023
(In)directions, Eli Klein Gallery, New York, NY
Voicings, Artspace New Haven, CT
2022
The reflection of the moon is the spine of the sea, TCCA, Xiamen, China
Some Kinds of Queery, cusp., Hangzhou, China
Behold: Works from Rutgers Print Collaborative, Zimmerli Art Museum, NJ
Ways of Eating, postpost, Beijing, China
capsule / straw, By Art Matters, Hangzhou, China (solo)
2021
The Dwelling Place of the Other in Me, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
Passaggio, Jimei x Arles Festival, Xiamen, China (solo)
Bubble Orchestra, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
Chiri Photography Festival, Enjoy-Art Museum, Beijing, China
Tabula Rasa Tablet, Tabula Rasa Gallery, Beijing, China
Passaggio, Pararailling, Shanghai, China (solo)
2020
Meditations in an Emergency, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
The Purpose of Disease, University of Georgia, Athens, GA (solo)
Photobook New Zealand Festival, Wellington, New Zealand
Dodd Faculty Show, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
2019
Act I: Play as Production, ACRE Project, Chicago, IL
Visual Narrative in Paper and Beyond, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
2018
Leap Century, Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY
Echo, Shadow, Translation, Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
2017
The Curator, Milk Gallery, New York, NY
Homework: Play, (co-curated with Beatrice Orlandi), Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
I Was Here, Belfast Photo Festival, Belfast, Ireland
FUAM Book Presentations, Istanbul Photobook Festival, Istanbul, Turkey
2016
Photography Now 2016, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
Cross-Cultural Dialogue, Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York, NY
2015
Foreboding, Thorvald Meyers Gate 51, Oslo, Norway
Photo Beijing 2014, Beijing World Art Museum, Beijing, China
2014
Aperture Summer Open, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY
OPEN14 Shortlisted Work, Brighton Photo Fringe 14, Hove, United Kingdom
133rd Annual Exhibition, Royal Ulster Academy of Art, Ulster Museum, Belfast, Ireland
This May Have Happened, Filter Photo Festival, Chicago, IL
Oranbeg NET 08: Contemporary Youth, LAST CALL @ Dossier Outpost, New York, NY
Photonic Moments, Month of Photography Festival, ZRC atrium, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2013
More Than One, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
C Psychology, Gallery X, Chicago, IL
2012
Youth Invasion, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
PUBLICATIONS
Maiden Voyage, Imageless, 2017
Before I Head Somewhere Else Again, Harbinger Books, 2017
Adbusters
Artforum
Ain’t Bad Magazine
American Chordata
American Photography
Esquire Russia
Juxtapoz
LEAP
Lens Magazine China
Mossless
New Yorker Photo
Precog
T Magazine
COLLECTIONS
Asia Art Archive
Franklin Furnace Artists' Book Collection
Fujifilm Korea Library
Lightbox Library
Yale University, Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library
Zimmerli Art Museum
Lives and works in Brooklyn
EDUCATION
MFA Rutgers University
BFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2024 ifa Artists’ Contacts, Institut fur Auslandsbeziehungen, Germany
Artist in Residence, Viborg Kunsthal, Denmark
Artist in Residence, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany
2023 Artist in Residence, Delfina Foundation, London, UK
Artist in Residence, RisoLab at School of Visual Arts, New York
2021 Artist in Residence, By Art Matters, Hangzhou, China
Jimei x Arles Discovery Award 2021 Nominee
Accent Poetry Residency, British Council China, Online
2020 Studio Grant, Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart
2019 Artist in Residence, Triangle Arts Association
Artist in Residence, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center
2018 Artist in Residence, ACRE
Silver Eye Fellowship 18 Honorable Mention, by Lucy Gallun
2017 PDN The Curator Award Winner
2015 Photographique Student Award Winner
Fred J. Forster Fellowship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Lauch Invitational Residency, Chicago Artist Collation
2014 133rd Royal Ulster Academy, Portrait Prize
Center 2014 Project Launch Award, Juror’s Choice by Fred & Laura Bidwell
Lucie Emerging Scholarship Finalist
2012 New Artist Society Fellowship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024
Weaving in Entanglement, Mending in Punctures, 69 Art campus, Beijing, China
Vacat page, Imaginary Z, Hangzhou, China (solo)
2023
(In)directions, Eli Klein Gallery, New York, NY
Voicings, Artspace New Haven, CT
2022
The reflection of the moon is the spine of the sea, TCCA, Xiamen, China
Some Kinds of Queery, cusp., Hangzhou, China
Behold: Works from Rutgers Print Collaborative, Zimmerli Art Museum, NJ
Ways of Eating, postpost, Beijing, China
capsule / straw, By Art Matters, Hangzhou, China (solo)
2021
The Dwelling Place of the Other in Me, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
Passaggio, Jimei x Arles Festival, Xiamen, China (solo)
Bubble Orchestra, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
Chiri Photography Festival, Enjoy-Art Museum, Beijing, China
Tabula Rasa Tablet, Tabula Rasa Gallery, Beijing, China
Passaggio, Pararailling, Shanghai, China (solo)
2020
Meditations in an Emergency, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
The Purpose of Disease, University of Georgia, Athens, GA (solo)
Photobook New Zealand Festival, Wellington, New Zealand
Dodd Faculty Show, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
2019
Act I: Play as Production, ACRE Project, Chicago, IL
Visual Narrative in Paper and Beyond, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
2018
Leap Century, Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY
Echo, Shadow, Translation, Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
2017
The Curator, Milk Gallery, New York, NY
Homework: Play, (co-curated with Beatrice Orlandi), Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
I Was Here, Belfast Photo Festival, Belfast, Ireland
FUAM Book Presentations, Istanbul Photobook Festival, Istanbul, Turkey
2016
Photography Now 2016, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
Cross-Cultural Dialogue, Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York, NY
2015
Foreboding, Thorvald Meyers Gate 51, Oslo, Norway
Photo Beijing 2014, Beijing World Art Museum, Beijing, China
2014
Aperture Summer Open, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY
OPEN14 Shortlisted Work, Brighton Photo Fringe 14, Hove, United Kingdom
133rd Annual Exhibition, Royal Ulster Academy of Art, Ulster Museum, Belfast, Ireland
This May Have Happened, Filter Photo Festival, Chicago, IL
Oranbeg NET 08: Contemporary Youth, LAST CALL @ Dossier Outpost, New York, NY
Photonic Moments, Month of Photography Festival, ZRC atrium, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2013
More Than One, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
C Psychology, Gallery X, Chicago, IL
2012
Youth Invasion, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
PUBLICATIONS
Maiden Voyage, Imageless, 2017
Before I Head Somewhere Else Again, Harbinger Books, 2017
Adbusters
Artforum
Ain’t Bad Magazine
American Chordata
American Photography
Esquire Russia
Juxtapoz
LEAP
Lens Magazine China
Mossless
New Yorker Photo
Precog
T Magazine
COLLECTIONS
Asia Art Archive
Franklin Furnace Artists' Book Collection
Fujifilm Korea Library
Lightbox Library
Yale University, Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library
Zimmerli Art Museum