Biography
I am a China-born Australian artist. My practice is mostly identified within the visual art discipline and drawn upon my self-reflection on my Chinese heritage and my social status as an Asian female immigrant. By producing predominantly installation works, I use permutation of multiple objects at exhibition spaces, and various media, such as video, photography, performance, drawings and text, to create a hybrid narrative and fictive space. In this space, I examine the Otherness of reality, and slippages of the conception of the reality through contrast and fragmentation. I obtained the Master of Fine Art, at the Victorian College of the Arts, the University of Melbourne in 2018. I am the recipient of Linden Art Prize 2019. My works have been exhibited in those, Buxton Contemporary Art (VIC), Newcastle Art Gallery (NSW), Ararat Art Gallery TAMA (VIC), Northern Centre for Contemporary Art (NT), and Meinblau Projektraum (Germany).
Grants/Awards
2019- Winner of Linden Art Prize. ($10,000).
2018 - City of Yarra, Community Grants, Small grants ($1,000). It is received to support the exhibition titled To Master You Mother Tongue at Pavement Projects and its associated public program
2017 - NGV Woman Association Award ($1, 500). It is awarded for the excellence of the works produced during MFA study at VCA.
2016 - John and Mary Kerley International Travel Scholarship ($8,000) and Faculty Small Grants Scheme ($1,500). VCA-MCM, Victorian College of the Arts, the University of Melbourne. These grants supported me to participate in Picture Berlin residency from June to August 2016.
2015 - NGV Woman Association Award ($1,500). This award was given for the excellent outcome of my study in Master of Contemporary Art course at VCA from 2013 to 2015.
- Queensland Centre for Photography Best Use of Natural Light (QCP Publication pack in the value of $145), Centre for Contemporary Photography. This award was given to my photographic work titled Bees or Flies in CCP Salon 2015.
2014 - The Australian Artists’ Grant Scheme May Round ($1,000), The National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA). This grant supported me to travel to Darwin and to install my solo exhibition titled The Comforting Promises, at Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin in 2014.
2013 - Team Leader position at Australian Pavilion in Venice Biennale 2013, Professional Development program offered by Australia Council for the Arts.
- The winner of The Balance exhibition ($1,000), Northern Centre for Contemporary Art 2013 Members Exhibition. This prize was awarded for my artwork title Sits on Wishes.
2012 - Artist Run Initiatives grant ($10,000), Australia Council for the Arts. This grant was applied through Darwin Visual Art Association Inc. (DVAA), to implement the public art project Art on Wheels. This project was the outcome of the public art development program that was funded by Arts NT. It was included in DVAA’s 2012 project program. The project turned a caravan into a mobile art gallery space and exhibited over 10 local and interstate artists throughout Darwin suburbs in September 2012.
2011 - Public Art Development Grant ($2,000), Arts NT, Northern Territory Government. This grant was given for researching and developing the idea for a public art project Art on Wheels.
2010 - Presentation and Promotion Grant, ($5,000), Arts NT, Northern Territory Government. This grant was for touring the group exhibition titled Territory Time, that I initially curated for NEXT WAVE festival 2010, to five ARI spaces in five different cities: Cairns, Sydney, Perth, Alice Springs and Darwin during the period from 2010 to 2011.
2009 - Regional Arts Fund Rapid Response Project ($1,000), Arts NT
Artist Residence
Ararat Art Gallery TAMA (2019); Australian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne (2018); Picture Berlin, Berlin, Germany (2016); Artist residency at Jiwar Community Centre Barcelona, Spain (2013).
Education
2018 Master of Fine Art, Victorian College of the Arts, the University of Melbourne
2015 Master of Contemporary Art, Victorian College of the Arts, the University of Melbourne
2005 Master of Multimedia Design, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney
2002 Bachelor of Visual Art, Nanjing Art Institute, China