EDUCATION:

2017
M.Arch, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.

Summer 2016
Smart Craft Design Studio
(IoT + Kumiki Joinery Studio), Loftworks Inc., Hida-Furukawa, Gifu Prefecture, Japan.

2012
B.FA (Fine Arts Major, Art History Minor), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.


COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT:

2024 - Present
Committee Member, Chinatown Society Heritage Buildings Association (CSHBA), Vancouver Chinatown, Vancouver, BC.

2020 - Present
Board of Directors, Chau Luen Kon Sol Society of Vancouver, Vancouver Chinatown, Vancouver, BC.

2025 - Present
Board of Directors, Shon Yee Benevolent Association of Canada, Vancouver Chinatown, Vancouver, BC.

2014 - 2015
Board of Directors, Gendai Gallery, Toronto, ON.


SOLO INSTALLATIONS:

2010-2015

Double Exposure
(Diptych photograph installation),
Translink - Canada Line Public Art Program, Marine Drive Skytrain Station, Vancouver, BC

2012

Reliquum
(48 foot long photo installation/exhibition),
The 18th Annual Word On The Street Vancouver Festival, Vancouver Public Library - Library Square, Vancouver, BC


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2012

Generation One
(Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society group exhibition), River Market and Fraser River Discovery Centre, New Westminster, BC 

Too Deep For You
(BA/BFA Visual Arts Graduation Exhibition), ceramic installation in collaboration with Diamond Zhou, Ruby Zheng and Cynthia Yuan, Dorothy Sommerset Studios, UBC, Vancouver, BC

2011

And Our Mothers Will Be Mothers
2011 Hapa Palooza Festival,
(public art collaboration),
Housed in Michael Tora Speier’s “Hapa Big Board” (III), UBC Robson Square, Vancouver, BC

explorASIAN Festival: Generation One Art Exhibition, (group exhibition),
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, UBC, Vancouver, BC

how do you sleep with yourself?,
(BA/BFA Visual Arts Graduation Exhibition),
AHVA Gallery, Dorothy Sommerset Studios, UBC, Vancouver, BC

Identiverse
(group exhibition),
UBC Asian Centre, Vancouver, BC

2010

we have something in common
(5-person print media exhibition),
AMS Art Gallery, UBC, Vancouver, BC

Push & Pull
(UBC Chinese Arts Student Society group exhibition), Irving K. Barber Gallery, UBC, Vancouver, BC

UBC Prints
(group exhibition),
Koerner Library Gallery, UBC Vancouver, BC


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:

2012

UBC Print Media Research Centre Permanent Collection,
UBC Vancouver Campus, Vancouver, BC


SELECTED PRESS:

2025

Burr, William. ”Le défilé du Nouvel An lunaire de Vancouver, une tradition dans un quartier en évolution.” CBC - ICI Radio-Canada , February, 2 2025.
http://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2137401/neige-defile-nouvel-an-chinois

2010

Kong, Tina. ”Invitation into the lives of Chinese Canadians (Gallery Review: Push & Pull).” Perspectives - Different voices. One paper, vol. 19 (issue 2), pp. 4. November 2010.


TEACHING + PUBLIC TALKS:

2025

Guest Critic, “Unfolded Seattle" - Design and Representation Exhibition”. UW ARCH 100 - Design and Representation Studio I, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. December 5-7, 2024.

2015

Guest Speaker, Kwantlen Polytechnic University - Cloverdale Campus, Surrey, B.C.
September 2015.



GRAPHIC DESIGN:

• Jan-Ken-Pon - Family Games Day!
  Japanese Canadian National Museum (Currently: Nikkei National Museum)

• Pirates?
  2011 Fringe Festival, The Quimera Theatre Collective