Headlands Center for the Arts

Artist Statement

I am an artist and cultural worker based in the Bay Area (and sometimes Milan). My work is shaped by anime, Internet culture, and memory. I am drawn to discomforting scenes
One of the ultimate goals of my work is to expand how femininity, especially Asiatic femininity, is seen and experienced.

I am an artist and cultural worker based between California and Italy. My work is shaped by growing up online and in Floridian suburbia, and by the strange forms of looking, wanting, and performing that came from both. I am drawn to uncomfortable scenes that implore humor and surreality to look at voyeurism, spectatorship, and alienation. Much of my work centers the female figure as I am interested in expanding how femininity, especially Asian and diasporic femininity, is seen and experienced. My work has been exhibited across the Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, and Europe.

While At Headlands

While at Headlands, I hope to make more work than I ever have in a single year. I plan to expand both vertically and horizontally: deepening my ongoing explorations of food, voyeurism, and alienation while also discovering more of the visual language that excites me. With fewer constraints on time and space, I want to become more physical and experimental as a painter, while also nurturing my emerging sculptural practice. I am interested in what might surface when I give myself permission to make many bad paintings, drawings, and objects, trusting that some of them may become good, strange, and challenging. More than anything, I hope to develop a more sustainable relationship to artmaking that allows me to fall back in love with the process again.