I wasn’t as close to my family growing up due to the generational trauma and disconnection from the cultural gap. Verbal communication had its limits, nothing was shared, so I left. It has been seven years since I’ve come back and now I realized that I prematurely detached myself from my own roots. As a way of exploring my own identity, drawing has become a surrogate for verbal communication towards my family. I start from the observational and include the unseen energies that animate the room. I use drawing as a way to ground myself in a present situation. The act slows me down, allowing for my eyes to appreciate and get to know the small details within my surroundings. Before I know it, I’m deeply invested in the moment and drawing becomes a way for me to understand and access my feelings within the setting in front of me.
My body through photography is a somatic marker for work-related depletion, daily fatigue, and landscape curiosity while performing identity in response to interiors, semi-interiors, and landscapes as a reaction to overstimulation.
Along with my personal work, I do commissions. I am open to expanding my practice and translating my own work into other forms.
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2014 B.A. University of California, San Diego, Visual Arts (Studio), San Diego, CA
group exhibitions
2021 - RedBull Skate Art Show (Benefit for Black Girls Skate), AbHab, Oakland, CA
2020 - overmydeadbody, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2019 - Art Shop 2019 Exhibit, Adobe Books, San Francisco, CA
2019 - sluice over the braids sweet forming, Eastside International, Los Angeles, CA
2019 - The Spoils Vol 2 Pop Up 006, Galallery, San Francisco, CA
2019 - The Spoils Vol 2 Pop Up 002, Good Friday Gallery, San Diego, CA
2018 - VIVID, 1090 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017 - WAKE, Ship In The Woods, San Diego, CA
2017 - Peintures et dessins par, À l’Abbaye de Bassac, France
2017 - If You Stay Busy, You Have No Time to be Unhappy, MOCA, Tucson, AZ
2016 - Drawings, Paintings, and Maybe a Sculpture, Everybody, Tucson, AZ
2016 - Nothing So Abject, Minotaur Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2015 - DUCKS, Minotaur Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2014 - Better Off Now, San Diego Mesa College Art Gallery, San Diego, CA
2013 - UAS@UAG, University Art Gallery, San Diego, CA
solo exhibitions
2019 - Everything: One Year Anniversary, Double Dutch, San Francisco, CA
2017 - Hung By Intimacy, Tiny Town Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2016 - All I See Is Space, 근현대디자인박물관 (Modern Design Museum), Hongdae
District, Seoul, Korea
2014 - VACANT, Disclosed unLocation, San Diego, CA
2012 - Solo Exhibition, GOON, UC San Diego Mandeville Annex Gallery, San Diego, CA
events
2021 - SIMMER, The Racket Reading Series, San Francisco, CA
2021 - virtual literary mixtape, Quiet Lightning, San Francisco Bay Area, CA
2019 - Adobe Art Shop, Adobe Books, San Francisco, CA
2019 - Easy Bay Print Sale, Max's Garage, Berkeley, CA
2019 - SF Bay Area Korean Harvest "Chuseok" Festival
2019 - SF Zine Fest, San Francisco, CA
2018 - East Bay Alternative Book & Zine Fest, Oakland, CA
2018 - Independent Art Book Fair, Los Angeles, CA
publications
2021 - sPARKLE & bLINK 109, Quiet Lightning, San Francisco Bay Area, CA
