EXHIBITIONS | RESIDENCIES | BURSARY & AWARDS | PUBLICATIONS | PRESS | WORKSHOPS | EDUCATION

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES

2023

Making New Worlds: Li Yuan-chia & Friends, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK (also part of the satellite display at West Court Gallery at Jesus College, Cambridge, UK)

ALTAR-NATIVE, Ugly Duck, London, UK

2022

Stateless Mind: Bodies of Knowledge, Pera+Flora+Fauna exhibition - a collateral event at the Venice Biennale, Italy

Nocturnal Creatures, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK

Sābrs Zine and Small Press Festival, Riga, Latvia

Flanders 2022 as part of the European Poetry Festival, National Poetry Library, London, UK

2021

The Sea Changes Into Words, part of Aspex (life begins) at 40 programme, a digital artwork/live art piece commissioned by Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, UK, supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England

Trees Talk, outdoor performance with Catherine Harrington, part of London Festival of Architecture 2021, UK

2020

Till We Meet Again IRL, Best Wishes, Asia-Art-Activism, online programme by Asia-Art-Activism, supported by Bagri Foundation and Arts Council England

Wake up & Smell the Tear Gas, online programme organised by Young Blood Initiative

Digital Dada Salon, organised by Decorating Dissidence (as part of Guest Projects Digital Residency)

2019

換屋計畫：高雄系列活動, The Pier-2 Art Centre, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Syllabus Presents..., Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK

until you became me performance evening, The House Mill, London, UK

Hungarian Lit Night: Tributes to Attila József, Hunagrian Cultural Centre, London, UK

Illuminations VI, Austrian Cultural Forum, London, UK

OUTWITH, a Syllabus IV exhibition, Guest Projects, London, UK

Performance x 4A, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, Australia at Art Central Hong Kong

Performance: what gets stuck in the eddy goes around and around, SEA Currents Festival; Raven Row, London, UK

Being Present: Performative reponses to Speech Acts; Manchester Art Gallery, UK

2018

FLOW Day3: Contract with the Skin, Asia-Art-Activism Research Network, Raven Row, London, UK

Imprints of Passing Time, Surface Gallery, Nottingham, UK (SOLO EXHIBITION)

Liminal Mass - Performance evening as part of First Thursdays late opening of Art for the Environment exhibition at Bow Arts, London UK

2017

Makers of the Multiverse by Juneau Projects, Spacex, Exeter, UK

Draw the Line, Surface Gallery, Nottingham, UK

Radical Love: Female Lust, Crypt Gallery, London, UK; On tour: Storyhouse, Chester, UK (as part of Women of the World Festival); Gallery X, Dublin, Ireland

‘La Collection Secrète #2’ performance art event, organised by Kubilai Khan Investigations in partnership with Théâtre des Salins in Martigues, France

2016

Un Festival Vrrr, Musée d'Art, Toulon, France

The Space between the Lines, 139 Artspace, London, UK (SOLO EXHIBITION)

COLOUR (part of Plymouth Art Weekender), Studio 102, Plymouth, UK

Draw to Perform3: International Symposium of Drawing Performance, Curated by Ram Samocha; Crows Nest Gallery, London, UK

Duration & Dialogue Performance Arts Festival, Curated by Natasha Bailey, Dario Del Daga and Johannes Zits; Katzman Contemporary, Toronto, Canada

2015

Toys (Are Us), Curated by Kosha Hussain, Crypt Gallery, London, UK

Draw to Perform 2: International Symposium for Drawing Performance, Curated by Ram Samocha, NUMBER3, London, UK

2014

Guerrilla Zoo's Modern Panic V, Curated by James Elphick, Apiary Studios, London, UK

RESIDENCIES

2023 Charlotte Sharman Primary School (organised by Drawing Room), London, UK

2020 Grrrl Zine Fair Mini-Residency, The Old Waterworks

Virtual Retreat, Arthouse Jersey (online)

2019 Artists Home Swap, 酸屋 Acid House, Taipei, Taiwan

2018 Asia-Art-Activism Research Network, Raven Row, London, UK

2017     Summer Lodge; Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK

2016     Play Ground; John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK

             Study Week devised by Jesse Darling; Wysing Arts Centre, UK

2012     ALAS Autumn Residency; Matt Roberts Arts, London, UK

BURSARY & AWARDS

2020    Artists Make Change Peer-Learning Bursary

2018     Arts Council England's Grants for the Arts award

2017     Winner of Draw the Line Open Exhibition at Surface Gallery, Nottingham, UK; Awarded solo show

2014     A-N Artist Company New Collaborations Bursary

PUBLICATIONS

2023

Teachers’ Assembly: Drawing As Play, published by Drawing Room as part of their teachers resource series, supported by Freelands Foundation

2022

ASIA-ART-ACTIVISM: Experiments in Care and Collective Disobedience, edited by Annie Jael Kwan and Joanna Wolfarth; contributed “Citing Sites - A walk through memories”; published by Asia Art Acivism with the support from the kickstarter campaign, Arts Council England and the Bagri Foundation

2020

WORKBOOK; digital zine that explores the relationship between art and activism, also in the collection of Asia Art Archive

2019

26 x 2=0; cover collaboration in the British Art Studies Journal Issue 13: London, Asia, Exhibitions, Histories, edited by Hammad Nasar and Sarah Victoria Turner, published by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, and the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, September 2019, UK

2018

A Dialogue Still In The Making 2002/2018; a collaboration with Erika Tan; published by Erika Tan, in the occasion of the book launch of ‘Contesting British Chinese Culture’ (2018) edited by Ashley Thorpe and Diana Yeh on 30 November 2018, UK

Footnotes; contributed “If you want to perfect dragon step, do it ten thousand times.”; published by Tate n Lyle, UK

PRESS

Young Artists in Conversation, Interview by Paul Harrison, May 2019

The Art Newspaper, “Brisk sales lift the mood at satellite fair Art Central Hong Kong” by Lisa Movius, 29 March 2019

Standnews, “【今年Art Central有乜睇】本土藝術家談「50年不變」問打工仔可否「唔撈」”, 4 February 2019

gal-dem, "‘Radical Love: Female Lust’: turning historic Arabic poetry into contemporary art" by Olamiju Fajemisin, 27 February 2017

i-D, "these artists are creatively inspired by arabic poetry of love and lust" by Matthew Whitehouse, 20 February 2017

Var-matin, "Tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur le Festival "Vrrrr" à Toulon", 20 September 2016

WORKSHOP FACILITATION & ART EDUCATION

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2023

Kakilang – Finding Our (CREATIVE) Voice, a 4 week course of creative sessions for 16+ in the ESEA community that culminated to a sharing event, co-facilitated with Daniel York Loh.

2021 - 2023

Drawing Room London - ROCK PAPER SCISSORS engagement programme, delivered an afterschool club, a teacher CPD session, a family studio session and took a 6 weeks in-school residency at Charlotte Sharman Primary School, which also resulted in the publication “Teachers’ Assembly: Drawing As Play”, published by Drawing Room as part of their teachers resource series, supported by Freelands Foundation.

2022 - 2023

The White House Dagenham - Summer Workshop for youth and families.

2022

FACT Liverpool - World Wide Wontons Tang Yuan workshop, led with Cuong Pham as part of Asia-Art-Activism; part of the public programme for the exhibition Future Ages Will Wonder, curated by Annie Jael Kwan.

Museum of the Home - At Home in a Cup, a paper cup making drop in workshop that explore the ideas and experiences of home through the cup of tea; part of Welcome Home Friend Chào mừng bạn về nhà half term activities for families programme.

2021

Chisenhale Studios Into the Wild - an alternative arts education programme, paper resource contribution

Royal Museums Greenwich - Mapping Worlds, Young Volunteers February Half-Term Project (facilitated workshops online using Padlet and created printed resources for young people exploring drawing through mapping and walking)

2020

Decorating Dissidence - Art Jam (a Dada themed online workshop that explored collaborative nonsense and sense making with improvisation, done entirely online using Google Docs); a part of the Take DADA seriously? programme with Young Creators UK.

2019

Draw to Perform – “Monotyping in performance drawing context” workshop for adults and “Experimental Drawing” workshop for resident artists at the Draw To Perform Residency Programme.

National Sun Yat Sen University – Experimental drawing workshop with university students at The Pier 2 Art Centre, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2018 - 2019

Bow Arts Learning – selection of projects includes: Canaan Project (Year 9) Collective Monotyping workshop; Phoenix School (SEND group aged 7-8) Mark making workshop; Swanlea School (Year7) Making through play workshop.

2018

Tate - Created L is for Living Cities paper self-led student resource for Tate Modern’s ASSEMBLY 2018

2017 - 2018

Bow Arts Artist Educator Trainee Programme - Facilitating art workshops within school settings. Worked with students from Yr3 to Yr6.

2017 - 2018

Cubitt Artists' Institute of Anything - Experimental & Performative Drawing workshops with young people (13-19 years old) as part of the 2017 & 2018 programme as well as shorter taster sessions.

2016

Goldsmiths Arts & Design Saturday Club - Take a line for a gif, performance drawing workshop for young people (13-16 years old), co-facilitated with Ram Samocha.

EDUCATION